Multiple Graded Stakes Winner Yorkton to Crestwood
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Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt
Yorkton wins his second Bold Venture Stakes in 2019 at Woodbine
Yorkton , a multiple graded stakes winner by prominent sire Speightstown , will enter stud at Pope McLean's Crestwood Farm in 2021. He will stand his first year at $5,000.
Chiefswood Stables owner Robert Krembil, who bred and raced the 6-year-old said, "Yorkton comes from an elite family of grade 1 winners, champions, and sires. Yorkton showed superior athleticism and brilliant speed during his racing career, winning at distances from three-quarters to a mile. Chiefswood Stables is committing a significant number of our well-bred broodmares to Yorkton and look forward to giving him every chance to succeed."
Yorkton displayed precocity, front-running speed, durability, and class. He broke his maiden at 2 and won stakes races at 3, 4, and 5 with those stakes wins at 6 1/2 furlongs up to a mile. Yorkton won consecutive runnings of the Bold Venture Stakes (G3) at Woodbine in 2018-19, with his second victory producing a career top Beyer Speed Figure of 103. He retires with a 7-4-3 record out of 30 starts and earned $546,332.
"Yorkton was a classy and versatile horse to train. He possessed brilliant speed which carried him to graded stakes wins and placings on three different surfaces," said trainer Stuart Simon.
Out of the A.P. Indy daughter Sunday Affair, Yorkton is a half brother to multiple stakes-placed winner Nipigon (Niigon). The mare's second dam is multiple grade 1 winner Maplejinsky, the dam of multiple grade 1 winner and champion Sky Beauty. The family also produced grade 1 winners and sires Violence and Tale of Ekati .
"In addition to being an impressive racehorse from a top female family, Yorkton is an outstanding and correct physical with great muscling and size," said Crestwood's Marc McLean. "We are also excited to offer a quality son of Speightstown, who continues to prove himself as a respected sire of sires. Chiefswood Stables is a top quality organization and they are deeply committed to maximizing Yorkton's opportunities to succeed in the breeding shed and on the racetrack."
Breeders will be offered a $1 million incentive program, about which more details are to come.