Classic winner and successful sire Summer Squall was euthanized Tuesday, Sept. 22, at William S. Farish’s Lane’s End Farm near Versailles, Ky., because of complications from the infirmities of old age. He was 22 years old.

“He was an important part of one of Lane’s End’s great families,” Farish said about the half-brother to two-time leading sire and current Lane’s End stallion A.P. Indy.

A son of Storm Bird, Summer Squall was produced from 1992 Broodmare of the Year Weekend Surprise (by Secretariat). Summer Squall stood at Lane’s End his entire career before being pensioned because of fertility issues in 2004.

Summer Squall is represented by 37 stakes winners, including 1999 Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old male Charismatic, who won that year’s Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes and ran third in the Belmont Stakes