General Quarters, a three-time graded stakes-winner, arrived at Stonewall Farm this week to stand the 2012 season. His fee will be $8,500.

General Quarters raced in the colors of owner/trainer Tom McCarthy, who was 75 when his big, gray horse made headlines in 2009. General Quarters won the Gr. III Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs, and, after encountering traffic problems in the Gr. III Tampa Bay Derby and checking in fifth, he won the Gr. I Toyota Blue Grass at Keeneland. In the Kentucky Derby, General Quarters was in trouble twice, and finished off the board.

Before his career ended, he won the Gr. I Woodford Reserve Turf Classic at Churchill Downs, was second in the Gr. II New Orleans Handicap, Gr. III Mineshaft Handicap, and Louisiana Handicap, all at Fair Grounds, and third in the Gr. I Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs. He retires with a record of four victories, nine seconds and two thirds and earnings of $1,226,655.