Stud fees set for Essential Quality, Maxfield

Edited press release
Photo: Evers/Eclipse Sportswire

Champion 2-year-old and Belmont Stakes winner Essential Quality will stand the 2022 season at a fee of $75,000 while Breeders’ Futurity (G1) winner Maxfield’s fee will be set at $40,000.

Both will stand at Darley America's Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Ky.

After Essential Quality finished third in his final career start, the Breeders’ Cup Classic, Darley sales manager Darren Fox said of the Belmont and Travers Stakes (G1) winner, “His body of work is just tremendous: an Eclipse champion at 2, a Classic winner at 3, a son of Tapit with a fantastic female family. He’s already generated quite a lot of interest and we couldn’t be more excited about him retiring to Jonabell Farm.”

Maxfield, a 4-year-old son of Darley stallion Street Sense, will make his final appearance on the track in the Clark (G1) at Churchill Downs on Nov. 26 and will then head to Jonabell to begin his next career.

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