Volatile, a Grade 1-winning son of Violence, will stand the 2027 breeding season for $17,500 S&N, it was announced following a landmark Breeders’ Cup. Volatile enjoyed exceptional Breeders’ Cup results with his son and global superstar T O Elvis winning the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint and Foe Gras finishing second in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1).
Grade 1 winner Volatile will stand the 2027 breeding season for $17,500 S&N, it was announced on the heels of a landmark Breeders’ Cup performance by his progeny. Volatile was featured prominently on the Breeders’ Cup world stage, anchored by his son and global superstar T O Elvis, impressive winner of the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) and a game runner-up effort from Foie Gras in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1).
T O Elvis displayed an incredible turn of foot inside the final furlong to run down multiple Grade 1 winner Englishman to win the six-furlong Sprint in the fast time of 1:08.20, less than a half-second off the track record. The globe-trotting son of Volatile is now an earner of $2,189,212 and has hit the board in all 10 lifetime starts with a pair of Grade 1 wins in the United States. In addition to winning this year’s Breeders’ Cup Sprint, he also captured the Churchill Downs Stakes (G1) on Kentucky Derby Day in his only other 2026 outing. Bred in Kentucky by Jeff and Melissa Prunzik, T O Elvis is campaigned by Tomoyo Ozasa.
Foie Gras, a three-time stakes winner and multiple graded stakes-placed daughter of Volatile, finished a determined second to Ways and Means in the Filly and Mare Sprint. Bred in Kentucky by E.H. Beau Lane and owned by Paradise Farms Corp., P. Shooter Stable, Medallion Racing, and Emcee Stable LLC, Foie Gras has amassed earnings of $867,176.
Volatile has also been well represented in the auction ring this year. His 2-year-olds in training have sold for up to $650,000 and his yearlings have commanded up to $525,000. He is represented by eight stakes winners thus far in 2026, including Three Chimneys homebred Igniter, a romping winner of the Ellis Park Derby.
