The recently retired Haynesfield, winner of the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup
in 2010, will take up residence at Brereton and Elizabeth Jones’s Airdrie Stud,
near Midway, Kentucky, for the 2012 breeding season as an Airdrie Stud-WinStar
Farm venture. A stakes winner in each of the four years he competed, and a
winner of 10 of 19 lifetime starts, Haynesfield retires with lifetime earnings
of over $1.3 million.
The eight-time stakes winner recorded his biggest victory in last year’s
Jockey Club Gold Cup, where he easily bested champion Blame by four
lengths in the 1 1/4-mile event under equal weights. The loss would prove to be
the only defeat incurred by Blame during his championship season.
Haynesfield also took the Grade 2 Suburban Handicap in 2010 and was beaten
just a nose in that season’s Grade 1 Cigar Mile Handicap.
A son of 2004 champion sprinter Speightstown, Haynesfield is out of the Grade
2-placed stakes winner Nothing Special. His immediate female family includes two
Broodmares of the Year in Shy Spirit and Passing Mood, the latter the dam of Grade
1 sires With Approval and Touch Gold. Haynesfield raced in the colors of Harvey
Weinstein’s Turtle Bird Stable and was bred in New York by Barry Weisbord and
Margaret Santulli.
“We are thrilled to have the opportunity to stand Haynesfield and we couldn’t
be happier to be joining up with the team at WinStar,” Brereton Jones said.
“This horse gave us so many reasons to pursue him, perhaps none bigger than the
fact that he was the only horse to beat Blame last year and did it at equal
weights on a stage as big as the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup.”
Haynesfield will stand the 2012 breeding season for a $10,000 fee. In
addition to the pay early and multiple mare discounts that Airdrie already has
in place, first-season breeders to Haynesfield are eligible for the farm’s new
Breeder’s Reward Program. Any first season breeding that produces a two- or
three-year-old winner of a graded stakes race in the United States or Canada
will reward the breeder of record with a $50,000 check and a lifetime breeding
right in Haynesfield. In addition, if the mare is booked through the farm by an
agent, that agent will receive a $20,000 check.
“We believe this horse has a big future and we want to really reward the
people that are helping us get there,” Jones said.