Haynesfield to Stand at Rancho San Miguel

Grade I-winning millionaire Haynesfield   has been acquired by Climax Stallions, a new venture of Bob and Sean Feld, and will be relocated to Rancho San Miguel for the 2017 breeding season. 

"We are very excited to offer Haynesfield, a leading son of Speightstown  , to California breeders," Sean Feld said. "Speightstown is quickly becoming a sire of sires, allowing Haynesfield and the Speightstown line a chance to really thrive on the West Coast."

Haynesfield will stand for $5,000 as the property of Climax Stallions and will be available next week in California for inspection. 

 

Racing for Turtle Bird Stable, Haynesfield won the 2010 Jockey Club Gold Cup (gr. I) and that season was honored as New York-bred Horse of the Year a second year in a row. A stakes winner as a juvenile, he won 10 races in 19 starts and earned more than $1.3 million.

Haynesfield is out of grade II-placed stakes winner Nothing Special, by Tejabo.

"Haynesfield gave us a lot of thrills and memories over the last four seasons, but the race that will always stand out was his decisive win in the Jockey Club Gold Cup over Blame  , handing Blame his only loss that year. Beating Blame in a grade I at equal weights in his championship season was a tremendous accomplishment by a gifted horse." said Toby Sheets, assistant to trainer Steve Asmussen.

 

A second-crop sire this season, ranked 12th on that list through Nov. 8, Haynesfield will be the only stakes-winning son of Speightstown standing in California. In 2016, Haynesfield is the sire of three stakes winners, including stakes-winning juvenile Gifted Justice, winner of the  $100,000 Hillsdale Stakes, and He'll Pay, winner of the $100,000 Rushaway Stakes.

 

Haynesfield stood the 2016 season for $10,000 at Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky. At auction in his first crop, foals of 2013, there were 75 offered for sale and 53 sold, for an average of $55,965. His crop of 2015 numbers 76 foals to begin racing in 2017.