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Yorkton Represented by First Foal

Crestwood Farm's freshman stallion Yorkton (Speightstown) was represented by his first foal in Indiana Feb. 3. A strapping colt out of Bayerly Seen (Bayern) was born at Arrowhead Thoroughbred Center in Fairland. Bayerly Seen is a half-sister to GI Kentucky Derby contender and GIII Lecomte S. winner Call Me Midnight (Midnight Lute).

“This colt is very correct, and has been the best foal to be the first one born on our farm,” says farm co-owner Brandi Steele. “Momma is a wonderful maiden and handles his feisty attitude very well.”

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Stallion Spotlight Presented By Kentucky Equine Research: Crestwood Farm’s Robert Keck On Yorkton

Stallion Spotlight offers stud farm representatives a chance to address breeders and answer questions as they finalize their mating decisions for the 2021 breeding season.

In this edition, Robert Keck of Crestwood Farm discusses Yorkton, a multiple Grade 3 winner who entered stud in 2021.

Yorkton
B. h., 2014, Speightstown x Sunday Affair, by A.P. Indy
Race Record: 30-7-4-3; $546,332
Advertised Fee: $5,000

What is Yorkton's strongest selling point as a stallion?

Robert Keck: It's hard to list just one. He was durable, making 30 starts, and fast, winning five stakes. He is a son Speightstown, a great physical with an elite pedigree.

If I've got a mare that needs help from a stallion physically, what do you foresee Yorkton best being able to contribute to that equation?

Keck: Yorkton is an exceptional physical. He has extremely good bone, you rarely see cannons that strong. He is very correct, has great muscling, and coupling. He is 16.1 hands with scope, a great top-line, and a good hind leg. Any mare will benefit from his physical attributes.

Speightstown is rapidly emerging as a sire of sires. What about Yorkton separates him within that group?

Keck: Being the only Speightstown, out of an A.P. Indy mare; additionally being from a super-elite female family gives him a great advantage. His half-brother Weyburn just won the G3 Gotham Stakes, earning 50 points for the Kentucky Derby.

Yorkton's third dam is the mighty Maplejinsky. How much does having a strong female family under a stallion affect his appeal, and his ability to sire runners?

Keck: Very rarely do you see a successful stallion that doesn't have a strong female family, that foundation forecasts a stallion that has a future. Yorkton has 11 Grade 1 winners, including six millionaires, and two champions from his immediate female family.

What else should someone considering Yorkton know before making the call?

Keck: Chiefswood Stables is supporting this stallion by breeding some extremely nice mares. The $1-million Breeders' Incentive Program gives you an idea of how committed they are to seeing Yorkton succeed.

The Breeders' Incentive Program will award $10,000 to the breeders of Yorkton's first 20 juveniles in his debut crop to win a North American maiden special weight at or above the $25,000 purse level.

Breeders of the first six debut-crop foals to win a listed black type stakes race in North America with a purse of $75,000 or more will receive a $100,000 bonus, if it's done before the end of their 3-year-old season.

A $200,000 bonus will go to the breeder of Yorkton's first Grade 1 winner before the end of their 3-year-old campaign, as well.

Anyone with questions can contact us directly at Crestwood Farm.

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PR Special OBS March: Making Mischief In Central Florida

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The juvenile auction season kicks off this week at the OBS March 2-Year-Olds In Training Sale, and the Paulick Report has the reading material you need in the PR Special newsletter.

The PR Special offers exclusive, in-depth bloodstock content not yet seen on the rest of the website in a pdf format that's easy to read and print. Here's what's inside the latest issue:

Front Page: Spendthrift Farm's Into Mischief holds an astonishing lead among sires with the most :10-flat and under workers at OBS under tack shows since 2015. Bloodstock editor Joe Nevills dives into the numbers to see why the record-setting stallion excels in this category to such a degree.
Stallion Spotlight: Robert Keck of Crestwood Farm on first-year sire Yorkton.
Pennsylvania Leaderboard: Top Pennsylvania sires by stallion awards earned in 2020.
Ask Your Veterinarian: Dr. Ashton Broman of Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital on spring skin ailments.
Honor Roll: Mr. Monomoy's globetrotting trek to the Kentucky Derby trail.
American Graded Stakes Standings: Godolphin sets the pace among breeders.

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Weyburn ‘Bred To Have The Stamina And Built To Handle The Distance’ Of U.S., Canadian Classics

Rob Landry, Hall of fame jockey and Chiefswood Stables General Manager, shares his thoughts on Gotham Stakes upsetter Weyburn:

Horse: Weyburn
Sire: Pioneerof the Nile
Dam: Sunday Affair
Trainer: Jimmy Jerkens
Owner & Breeder: Chiefswood Stables
Record: 2-1-0 from 4 starts

On Weyburn's Gotham score…

“It's nice to start the year with a win like that. We've always had high hopes for this guy. The plan wasn't really to run in him there – we were going to run him in an allowance race – but as it turned out, it worked out really well. This is what you hope to achieve, to win races like this with good horses. Winning a race like this just solidifies what we're trying to achieve.”

On the dark bay's grit down the lane…

“No, I wasn't surprised. That whole family, Yorkton [a multiple graded stakes winning son of Speightstown-Sunday Affair] was a gutsy-running horse and the same thing with his other half-brother Nipigon [a multiple graded stakes placed son of Niigon-Sunday Affair], who always fought hard. Obviously, seasoning-wise, he's still a big kid, and it was a big step up for him, going from a maiden win to a graded stakes race. It wasn't the plan, but good horses overcome those kinds of things. Jimmy [trainer, Jerkens] was really happy with the way he was training and it all worked out.”

On showing his talent early on…

“He trained really well as a young horse when we had him down in Ocala. He was training well and we were really happy with him. Every foal out of that mare [Sunday Affair] has been a runner. That's always telling too. He was a big, good-looking horse, very athletic and he was showing the signs early. He actually wanted to do more than he was ready to do as a young horse. I'm just happy with our whole team, from our broodmare farm, to our training centre, to our people in Ocala, to Jimmy – it's a team effort. Everyone has done a tremendous job with this horse. I'm just very happy for everyone and the owners.”

On upcoming plans for Weyburn…

“Obviously, I didn't nominate him to the U.S. Triple Crown with the way we were going. We had a couple of minor setbacks with a foot bruise and some other little things that caused us to miss a race. I don't like to force horses somewhere they're not ready to go. He stepped up and we have a little time to make the supplemental payment for the U.S. Triple Crown. I'll talk to Jimmy and Mark and Bob Krembil [Chiefswood] as well.”

“We don't know if that [Queen's Plate] is the direction we'll go with him. If we think he's good enough to compete in the U.S. Triple Crown, being a different schedule, we still do have a shot at being in the Plate. We've nominated him for the Plate, but we do have some others that could potentially run in there as well.”

On similarities between Weyburn and Niigon, the Chiefswood horse Landry won the 2004 Queen's Plate with…

“He does remind me of Niigon. Weyburn is also bred to have the stamina and is built to handle the [1 ¼ mile] distance. This is a really nice horse we have here now.”

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