Maximum Security retired to Ashford Stud
World Champion and Eclipse Award-winning 3-year-old Maximum Security has been retired from racing and is now available for inspection at Ashford Stud, where he will stand for 2021.
Winner of his only start as a juvenile by 9 3/4 lengths for owner/breeders Gary and Mary West, Maximum Security was first past the post in all of his four Grade 1 starts as a sophomore winning the Haskell, the Cigar Mile and the Florida Derby and was arguably unlucky to have lost the Kentucky Derby despite having run out an easy winner.
As a 4-year-old, Maximum Security won the lucrative Saudi Cup, defeating eight Grade 1 winners, before transferring to Bob Baffert, for whom he won the San Diego Handicap (G2) and the Pacific Classic Stakes (G1).
The best son of Street Cry’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner New Year’s Day, Maximum Security is a three-parts brother to triple Grade 1 winner Flat Out, so he has the pedigree to match his race record and looks.
“Maximum Security was an exceptional racehorse and I have no doubt that he will prove very popular with breeders once they see him,” said Ashford’s Director of Sales Charlie O’Connor. “He’s an extremely impressive-looking individual.”
Maximum Security’s fee has been set at $20,000.