Get to Know Maximum Security. Sire: New Year's Day (Street Cry (IRE)) Dam: Lil Indy (Anasheed) Date of Birth: May 14, 2016 Breeder: Gary & Mary West Stables, Inc. Starts: 4 Wins: 4 Seconds: 0 Thirds: 0 Earnings: $649,400 Copyright Blenheim Publishing LLC. While Maximum Security regained his momentum and finished first, he was disqualified to 17th place after 20 minutes of deliberation by the stewards. He was given an extensive exam that revealed some minor lameness but no serious long-term damage.Maximum Security was specifically named as one of the horses that had been administered Because of the charges, some industry leaders questioned whether Maximum Security should be stripped of the Eclipse Award he won as a three-year-old, especially if subsequent testing revealed previously undetected drug positives. Maximum Security’s dam, Lil Indy, was a low-level claimer who’d sold for a mere $2,200 as a yearling at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic October. As a four-year-old in 2020, he won the inaugural running of the Maximum Security is a bay colt who was bred in Kentucky by Gary and Maximum Security had "unspecified physical issues" as a two-year-old and did not make his first start until December 20, 2018 in a maiden claiming race.Maximum Security began his three-year-old campaign by winning two starter optional claiming races at In the Kentucky Derby, Maximum Security set the pace of the race. Coolmore purchased 50% of the colt in …

PaulickReport.com is published by Blenheim Publishing LLC, 3070 Lakecrest Circle, Suite 400-292, Lexington, KY 40513. Maximum Security is a bay colt who was bred in Kentucky by Gary and Mary West, for whom he races as a homebred. Jockey On May 14, 2019, the owners of Maximum Security sued in Maximum Security's owners chose not to enter him in the The win moved Maximum Security back into contention for champion three-year-old honors.His connections gave him time to recover, and ruled out his participation in the Maximum Security finished his three-year-old campaign by winning the Cigar Mile Handicap on December 7 at Maximum Security was shipped to Saudi Arabia in February 2020 for the $20 million After Servis was indicted in March for doping allegations, Maximum Security was transferred to the barn of Bob Baffert. Maximum Security's dam Lil Andy, by Anasheed, is a half-sister to multiple Grade I winner Flat Out. He was sired by New Year's Day, who won the 2014 Breeders' Cup Juvenile for the Wests.

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Away alertly, Maximum Security “drew well clear being hand-urged … and was wrapped up with 70 yards to remaining” to win by 9 ¾ lengths in 1:16.84 for six and a half furlongs.The bay colt won his next two races, optional allowances, by 6 ½ lengths in 1:09.93 and by 18 ¼ in 1:21.72.Now Maximum Security is unbeaten in four starts, is a G1 winner, has earnings of $649,400, and is one of the great stories of the 2019 Triple Crown trail. Hopefully, decadent styles and norms of the past are gone to be forever replaced by a new era of accord. From these, 65 were reported in foal, and 60 produced live foals of 2016.The Florida Derby winner is from his sire's second crop, born in May of 2016.The commercial market, however, was already in the process of making up its collective mind on inspection of the stallion's first crop, and the answer to New Year's Day was “no.” Buyers and advisers did not especially like the stallion's first-crop yearlings, and that meant breeders could not afford to support the horse with continuing large books.Then, due to the expense of maintaining a stallion, especially at a top-level stallion farm in Kentucky, a horse that is not commercially appealing is essentially an economic liability that needs to find a new home.One bloodstock adviser that I spoke to about stallion costs and maintenance said the “economics of standing a stallion are debilitating unless the horse gets immediate traction with buyers, especially at the first-crop yearling sales, and then can count on season sales for a couple more years as the foals prove themselves on the racetrack.”At Stud Eternamente Rio, the costs associated with New Year's Day will be a small fraction of that, and partly as a result of that difference, most stallions in South America are not treated as commercial propositions to the same degree they are here in the States.Nor are the benefits of owning a top stallion or selling top yearlings anything like as substantial as they are in the Kentucky market and its subsidiaries.Maximum Security was not a sales yearling, but he did make his debut on Dec. 20 at Gulfstream in a maiden claiming race for a $16,000 tag.

Second-place The disqualification was controversial, especially in the Derby which is often a roughly run race due to the large field. Maximum Security is owned by his breeders, Gary and Mary West, along with Coolmore Stud-affiliated Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor, and Derrick Smith. Maximum Security – Three year-old Champion’s speed revealed. Her sire, Anasheed, did not live up to his royal bloodlines as a son of A.P. As a sire New Year's Day was considered a disappointment and was sold in late 2018 to a Brazilian syndicate for a reported $5 million: Maximum Security subsequently became his first graded stakes winner. As the year 2019 fades into the rearview of history, the American racing industry breathes a sigh of relief and welcomes a new decade full of promise. Going around the far turn, Maximum Security swerved out from the rail while still on the lead, impeding the progress of several other horses. A larger book of 98 mares visited the young stallion in 2015. Nearly three months after the announcement that the young stallion New Year's Day (by Street Cry) was sold to Luis Felipe Brandão dos Santos and sent to stand in Brazil at his Stud Eternamente Rio, the stallion's 3-year-old colt Maximum Security won the Grade 1 Florida Derby at Gulfstream on March 30.Raced and bred by Gary and Mary West, who also own and race last season's champion juvenile colt Bred in Kentucky by Clearsky Farm, New Year's Day sold for $425,000 at 2012 Keeneland September to Ben Glass, agent for Gary and Mary West. From his first book of 77 mares, 56 were reported back in foal, and 52 produced live foals in 2015. A little more than a year later, the tidy bay son of Street Cry won the G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile and was narrowly defeated by Shared Belief in voting for champion 2-year-old male.Unfortunately, New Year's Day never raced again after his Breeders' Cup win and retired to stud in 2014 at Hill 'n' Dale Farm outside Lexington. Now Maximum Security is unbeaten in four starts, is a G1 winner, has earnings of $649,400, and is one of the great stories of the 2019 Triple Crown trail.