New York Stakes Winner Weekend Hideaway Retired to Stud

Grade 1-placed stakes winner Weekend Hideaway  has been retired from racing and enters stud under the management of Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions near Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The son of Speightstown  will stand for $2,500.

Racing for Michael Hoffman's Red and Black Stable and trained by Phil Serpe and Lisa Bartkowski, Weekend Hideaway won black-type stakes in New York seven years in a row, primarily on dirt but also on turf.

"The recent great news that the New York Stallion Stakes Series purse values have doubled for New York-based sires' progeny makes a precocious sire like Weekend Hideaway especially attractive," said Michael Lischin with Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions. "His 2-year-olds will be eligible for purses of up to $500,000 per race and millions of dollars of enriched restricted purses thereafter."

Weekend Hideway won three of his five starts at 2 and did not finish off the board during his freshman season. He raced from 2 to 8 and claimed victories in nine black-type stakes, with his top performances enhanced by third-place finishes in the Vosburgh Stakes (G1) and Futurity Stakes (G2). He was retired with a 13-7-10 record from 49 starts and career earnings of $1,144,922.

Flying Zee Stables bred Weekend Hideaway in New York out of the Wiseman's Ferry mare Apocalyptical. Weekend Hideaway is from the family of grade 1-placed, graded stakes winner and one-time New York sire Crafty C.T.