World Champion and Eclipse Award-winning three-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 9¾ lengths for owner/breeders Gary & Mary West, Maximum Security was first past the post in all of his four Gr1 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.
Maximum Security with Bob Baffert
As a four-year-old, Maximum Security won the lucrative Saudi Cup, defeating eight individual Grade 1 winners, before transferring to Bob Baffert for whom he won the Gr2 San Diego Handicap and the Gr1 Pacific Classic Stakes.
The best son of Street Cry’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner New Year’s Day, Maximum Security is a three-parts brother to triple Gr1 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.
