Engage to Stud at Northview Stallion Station

Multiple graded stakes-winning sprinter Engage   has been retired to Northview Stallion Station in Chesapeake City, Md., for the 2022 season. He will stand for $5,000.

A son of champion sire Into Mischief  , Engage began his career with trainer Chad Brown before joining Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen. During his 4-year-old season in 2019, he notched his signature victory in the Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix Stakes (G2) at Keeneland, defeating Whitmore , Lexitonian  , Hog Creek Hustle , and Promises Fulfilled  . The win earned a Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) berth that fall, where he finished fourth behind Mitole   at Santa Anita Park.

He hit the board three times this year in allowance optional claiming races and retires with a 5-5-2 record from 19 starts, earning $802,780 for Woodford Racing.

"This horse is pure speed," said Northview general manager David Wade. "He is the first true sprinter we've retired to Northview in years." 

Besides his achievements as an older horse, Engage won the Futurity (G3) in 2017 as a juvenile at Belmont Park. The next year at 3, he won the Gold Fever Stakes and placed in three graded stakes.

Engage represents the successful pedigree cross of Into Mischief with Speightstown   mares, a combination that has yielded such top performers as grade 1 winners Mia Mischief  and Mischevious Alex . Engage's dam, the stakes-placed Nefertiti , is out of three-time graded winner Clearly a Queen .