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Cairo Prince, Collected Headline Airdrie Stud’s 2022 Roster

Brereton C. Jones's Airdrie Stud has announced the farm stud fees for the 2022 breeding season.

Cairo Prince, the leading sire of 2-year-old winners in America, will stand the season at a fee of $15,000. Amongst his 23 2-year-old winners is the undefeated stakes-winner Cairo Memories, who will enter as one of the race favorites in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. The leading sire of his stallion crop by both stakes winners and graded stakes winners, Cairo Prince is approaching $6 million in 2021 earnings.

Also standing for a fee of $15,000 is the farm's popular young stallion, Collected. A Grade 1-winning son of leading sire City Zip, Collected has been represented by no fewer than 20 individual six-figure sales horses from his first crop of yearlings in 2021. An earner of nearly $3 million on the racetrack, Collected has bred books of 156, 155 and 103 mares during his first three seasons at stud.

Exceedingly popular Grade 1 Champagne Stakes winner Complexity will stand his second season in 2022 at his introductory fee of $12,500. Booked full at 158 mares in his initial season, the striking son of the hot young sire Maclean's Music ran one of the highest speed figures of 2020 when taking the Grade 2 Kelso H in 1:33 4/5 , earning a 110 Beyer. The $375,000 Mike Ryan yearling purchase was bred by the perennially successful Stonestreet Farm.

Airdrie's young roster is rounded out by the Grade 1-winning duo of Preservationist and Divisidero – both set to be represented by their first weanlings this November – as well as the talented and precocious McCraken, and a mixture of proven and ascending sires in Upstart, Include, Summer Front, Creative Cause and American Freedom.

“I believe Airdrie has earned the reputation as a stallion farm that will stand behind our product and put our breeders in position to profit in the sales ring or on the race track,” said Airdrie's Bret Jones. “As always, we will be supporting our young and exciting roster with the full force of our broodmare band and take great pride in making the same investment in our stallions that we ask of our customers. The commercial breeder knows that we will not flood the market with excessively high booking numbers and racehorse owners know that our stallions throw runners. We are extremely bullish on this year's roster and look forward to working with the incredible breeders that have long supported Airdrie.”

Following is the complete list of advertised fees for Airdrie Stud's 2022 stallion roster.

American Freedom – $6,000
Cairo Prince – $15,000
Collected – $15,000
Complexity – $12,500
Creative Cause – $7,500
Divisidero – $5,000
Include – $5,000
McCraken – $5,000
Preservationist – $10,000
Summer Front – $7,500
Upstart – $10,000

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Cairo Prince & Collected Top Airdrie’s 2022 Roster

Cairo Prince (Pioneerof the Nile) and Collected (City Zip) top Airdrie's 2022 roster, each standing for $15,000. Cairo Prince, who stood for the same price last year, has the most 2-year-old winners of any stallion this year and has a Breeders' Cup contender in Cairo Memories. Offered for a fee of $17,500 last term, Collected was represented by his first yearlings this season with several six-figure sellers.

GI Champagne S. winner Complexity (Maclean's Music) remains at $12,500 for his second season at stud. Divisidero (Kitten's Joy) and Preservationist (Arch) are also entering the second year at stud with the former at $5,000 and the latter at $10,000.

The complete roster is as follows:

American Freedom – $6,000
Cairo Prince – $15,000
Collected – $15,000
Complexity – $12,500
Creative Cause – $7,500
Divisidero– $5,000
Include – $5,000
McCraken – $5,000
Preservationist – $10,000
Summer Front – $7,500
Upstart – $10,000

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Keeneland Names Four New Members To Board Of Directors

Keeneland today announced four new additions to its Advisory Board of Directors: prominent horsewoman Julie Cauthen, Three Chimneys Farm Chief Commercial Officer Case Clay, Airdrie Stud Vice President Bret Jones, and LNJ Foxwoods' Jaime Roth.

Longtime Directors Seth Hancock of Claiborne Farm and Will Farish of Lane's End will move to Emeritus roles on the Advisory Board.

All four new Directors will began their service at the Advisory Board meeting in October.

“Each of our new directors – Julie, Case, Bret and Jaime – bring a wealth of experience and a fresh perspective on the industry from different vantage points that will be instrumental in guiding Keeneland as we meet the opportunities and challenges of the future,” Keeneland President and CEO Shannon Arvin said. “We thank them for their service and loyalty to Keeneland.”

Julie Cauthen

Julie Cauthen has served in a variety of positions in the Thoroughbred industry, among them Chief Operating Officer for Donegal Racing, Senior Analyst for EQUIX Biomechanics, Director of Two-Year-Olds in Training Sales for Reynolds Bell Thoroughbred Services and currently as owner of Julia O. Cauthen Bloodstock, specializing in sales selection and purchases, matings and appraisals. At Keeneland, she was Director of Owner and Client Development and is now a member of the September Yearling Sale inspection team. She also serves on the board of Blue Grass Farms Charities. Cauthen grew up in Midway, Kentucky close to Nuckols Farm, which belonged to her grandparents, including former Keeneland Trustee Charlie Nuckols.

Case Clay

Case Clay is Chief Commercial Officer for Three Chimneys Farm, where he works to identify new opportunities for the farm and its customers, and helps to grow its network of relationships and ownership opportunities via joint ventures and partnerships with current and new clients and friends – some for whom he serves as a consultant as well. Clay also worked at both the Irish National Stud and Arrowfield Stud in Australia, and in Chicago at Arlington Park. He currently serves as Board Chairman of KEEP and is a member of the Breeders' Cup.

Bret Jones

Bret Jones is Vice President of Airdrie Stud, and works daily with Airdrie's managerial team and staff to help ensure that Airdrie's legacy will always be that of a farm that does right by its people, horses and clients – a reputation earned by his parents, Brereton and Libby Jones, over the past 50 years. Airdrie is a consignor to the Keeneland sales and stands such stallions as Cairo Prince, Collected and Complexity. A Breeders' Cup Board Director since 2011, Jones served on the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission from 2016-2020 and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Markey Cancer Foundation.

Jaime Roth

Jaime Roth races horses under her family's LNJ Foxwoods, which was founded in 2012 after years of her following racing as a fan. Along with her parents, Larry and Nanci Roth, she has campaigned two-time champion Covfefe, 2019 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Country House and Grade 1 winners Nickname and Constellation. Roth is a Member of the Breeders' Cup and The Jockey Club and serves on the Board of Directors for Thoroughbred Charities of America. Because advocacy for horse welfare is integral to the stable, LNJ Foxwoods established the Horses First Fund through the TCA and received the Allaire du Pont Leadership Award in 2019.

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Keeneland Adds to Advisory Board

Keeneland has four new additions to its Advisory Board of Directors: prominent horsewoman Julie Cauthen, Three Chimneys Farm Chief Commercial Officer Case Clay, Airdrie Stud Vice President Bret Jones and LNJ Foxwoods' Jaime Roth. Longtime Directors Seth Hancock of Claiborne Farm and Will Farish of Lane's End will move to Emeritus roles on the Advisory Board. All four new Directors will begin their service at the Advisory Board meeting in October.

“Each of our new directors–Julie, Case, Bret and Jaime–bring a wealth of experience and a fresh perspective on the industry from different vantage points that will be instrumental in guiding Keeneland as we meet the opportunities and challenges of the future,” Keeneland President and CEO Shannon Arvin said. “We thank them for their service and loyalty to Keeneland.”

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