Breeders' Cup contender Complexity to stand at Airdrie Stud
Klaravich Stables Inc.’s Complexity, the Daily Racing Form’s morning line favorite for both the upcoming Breeders’ Cup Sprint and Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, will stand stud at Brereton and Elizabeth Jones’s Airdrie Stud upon his retirement from racing.
Trained throughout his career by leading conditioner Chad Brown, Complexity earned TDN Rising Star status in his six-furlong 2-year-old debut at Saratoga when drawing off to win by 4 1/4 lengths in 1:09 3/5. Made the favorite for the historic Grade 1 Champagne Stakes in his second start, Complexity led every step of the way through fractions of 22; 2/5, 45 1/5 and 1:09 2/5 en route to a dominant three-length victory.
A quarter crack partially derailed his sophomore campaign, but Complexity still managed to run one of the fastest Ragozin numbers of his 3-year-old crop when earning a 3 in a dominant 7 1/4-length win against older horses at Aqueduct. As a 4-year-old in 2020, Complexity has once again returned to top form. Following an impressive allowance victory over the talented Win Win Win at Belmont, Complexity set blistering fractions of 44 3/5 and 1:08 4/5 amid a blinding rainstorm in Saratoga’s Forego Stakes (G1). While he put away his rival pacesetters, it was Win Win Win that caught him in the final jumps after coming from last in the field.
In his most recent start, Complexity stamped himself as a Breeders’ Cup favorite with a sensational two-length win over multiple Grade 1 winner Code of Honor in the Kelso Handicap (G2). His time of 1:33 4/5 was good for a 110 Beyer Speed Figure, marking the highest number earned by any horse at a mile or longer in 2020.
Bred in Kentucky by Stonestreet Holdings LLC, Complexity is sired by the hot young stallion Maclean’s Music. His dam, Goldfield, counts three black-type horses from five to race including Valadorna, winner of the Doubledogdare Stakes (G3) and a narrow second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. A $375,000 September yearling purchase by leading buyer Mike Ryan, Complexity was the most expensive yearling from any of the early crops of Maclean’s Music.
Said trainer Chad Brown: “Complexity is a very rare horse that has been No. 1 at every stage of his life. He was the most expensive yearling by his sire, the most highly regarded 2-year-old at Stonestreet and, by far, our stable’s best colt of his crop. He’s an exceptional talent.”
Added Airdrie’s Bret Jones: “We are extremely grateful to Seth Klarman and Chad Brown for the opportunity to stand Complexity. His resume is that of a sensational stallion prospect. He was a brilliantly precocious Champagne winner that has trained on to run the highest speed figure of any horse in America at a mile or more. He’s by a truly ascendant sire that looks to have every chance to be important, he’s from a top class Stonestreet female family, he was purchased by one of the all-time great judges in Mike Ryan and his talents are revered by one of the all-time great trainers in Chad Brown.”
Complexity will stand for $12,500 S&N for any contract signed and returned before this year’s Breeders’ Cup.
Airdrie also announced the entirety of its 2021 fees (all fees on Stands & Nurses terms):
• American Freedom — $6,000
• Cairo Prince — $15,000
• Collected — $17,500
• Complexity — $12,500
• Creative Cause — $7,500
• Divisidero — $5,000
• Include — $5,000
• McCraken — $6,000
• Preservationist — $10,000
• Summer Front — $10,000
• Upstsart — $10,000