Report: Grade 1-Winning Millionaire Flagstaff Retired

Flagstaff , a grade 1 winner and millionaire, will not race in the Nov. 6 Qatar Racing Breeders Cup Sprint (G1) at Del Mar and has been retired, trainer John Sadler told broadcaster Michelle Yu on TVG's Breakfast at the Breeders' Cup television program. Breeders' Cup officials also confirmed his withdrawal from the race.

A 7-year-old gelding by Speightstown   owned by Lane's End Racing and Hronis Racing, Flagstaff had been one of 12 horses pre-entered last week to the $2 million, six-furlong Sprint, a race in which 3-year-old Jackie's Warrior  is expected to be favored. 

Winner of the Churchill Downs Stakes Presented by Ford (G1) on Derby Day May 1, Flagstaff had subsequently hit the board in three consecutive graded stakes. He was second in the Oct. 2 Santa Anita Sprint Championship (G2) in what proved to be his final start.

Bred in Kentucky by Summer Wind Farm and out of the A.P. Indy mare Indyan Giving , the gelding is a half brother to the champion 2-year-old male of 2018, Game Winner  . 

Mayberry Farm purchased Flagstaff for $475,000 in 2015 at The Saratoga Sale, Fasig-Tipton's select yearling sale in New York, from the Lane's End consignment. He retires with a 7-7-4 record from 22 starts and earnings of $1,075,585.

Sadler and the owners of Flagstaff could not be reached for comment on retirement plans for the gelding. Sadler previously told BloodHorse that Flagstaff would not race as an 8-year-old.