LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Starlight Stable's multiple Grade 1 winner Harlan's Holiday, who injured a right hind suspensory ligament in last month's Saratoga Breeders' Cup, will stand in 2004 at Mr. and Mrs. Brereton Jones Jr.'s Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky.

The Harlan colt, now 4, will make his stud debut at a $17,500 fee.

Starlight Stable owners Jack and Laurie Wolf bought Harlan's Holiday from Claire and Billy Murphy's Rockwell agency for $97,000 at the 2000 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July yearling sale. The colt bloomed into a good juvenile the following year, winning the one-mile Iroquois (in stakes-record time of 1:35.01) and three other stakes, and finishing second in the Lane's End Breeders' Futurity.

His owners and then-trainer Ken McPeek entertained Kentucky Derby dreams the following season, when Harlan's Holiday won the Florida Derby and Blue Grass Stakes, but the colt finished seventh in the Derby. He followed up with a fourth-place finish in the Preakness. In June, the Wolfs moved him from McPeek's barn to Todd Pletcher's, saying they wanted to have the horse based in New York. Harlan's Holiday skipped the Belmont and came back to win the Philadelphia Derby.

At 4, Harlan's Holiday returned to Grade 1-winning form in the Donn Handicap, but that also marked his last victory. Harlan's Holiday retired with a career record of 22-9-6-1 and earnings of $3,632,664. Almost a third of that, $1.2 million, came from his runner-up finish in the 2003 Dubai World Cup.

Harlan's Holiday was bred in Ohio by Double D Farm Corp. and is the first stakes winner for his dam, the 11-year-old Affirmed mare Christmas in Aiken. She also has produced stakes-placed runners Dr. Holiday and Boxcar Cat.