By My Standards moves to Louisiana to boost stallion roster

By My Standards has been sold by Spendthrift Farm and will stand in Louisiana for the 2027 breeding season, giving the state’s stallion roster a horse with graded-class credibility and a live early record at stud. A group of Louisiana horsemen operating as the By My Standards Syndicate bought the 2016 bay son of Goldencents out of A Jealous Woman, by Muqtarib, and they are betting that his race profile can strengthen the regional breeding market from top to bottom.

That profile still carries real weight. By My Standards earned $2,294,430 on the track and won four Grade 2 stakes: the 2019 Louisiana Derby, the 2020 Oaklawn Handicap, the 2020 New Orleans Classic and the 2020 Alysheba. His Louisiana Derby win matters in a state that sells itself on its own racing identity, and he did it over eventual Kentucky Derby winner Country House and Preakness winner War of Will, a reminder that he was not just collecting black type in softer spots. He was beating horses that mattered.

The commercial case is starting to match the racing one. Spendthrift had listed him as entering stud in 2022 at $5,000 in Kentucky, and his first crop was productive enough to put him 12th among first-crop sires in 2025 by offspring earnings, with $611,383, and ninth by individual winners. BloodHorse also placed him among the Top 15 first-crop sires in North America in 2025, while Spendthrift said he had already sired a half-dozen maiden special weight winners and multiple stakes-placed 2-year-olds.

That is the kind of early data Louisiana breeders pay attention to. The state does not need another stallion whose appeal rests only on a logo pedigree or a name people remember. It needs horses that can move the program forward by getting runners into allowance and stakes company, keeping better mares in state, and giving local owners a more marketable product. By My Standards already has black-type runners in A Million Dreams and Kid Charlemagne, and that gives the move a firmer racing basis than a simple change of address.

The market has already flashed some confidence in his foals. A By My Standards colt brought $200,000 at Fasig-Tipton’s July sale in 2024, a sale ring signal that fits the broader picture: Louisiana connections did not buy a novelty, they bought a stallion with enough dirt class, distance ability and early sire traction to matter in the breed shed and in the purses his offspring will chase.