In a key addition to the California breeding industry, grade 1 winner and prominent young sire Collected will relocate from Airdrie Stud in Kentucky to stand at Rancho San Miguel in California for the 2026 breeding season.
His introductory West Coast fee is $7,500, with a live foal stands and nurse guarantee. He stood at Airdrie for $10,000 in 2025, and before the latest announcement, he had been scheduled to stand at the Kentucky farm for $7,500 next year.
Eight Rings , a grade 1 winner by Empire Maker out of Purely Hot by Pure Prize, will also join Collected at Rancho San Miguel in 2026, the farm further announced. His move was initiated by Harris Farms' dispersal of its stallion roster. Uptown Rythem also joins Rancho San Miguel near San Miguel, Calif., a move that was previously announced.
Eight Rings' first foals are yearlings in 2025.
Collected, a 12-year-old chestnut son of City Zip enters the state as one of North America's leading fourth-crop sires, and with his transfer to California, he becomes the state's top sire by 2025 progeny earnings with $6,312,727 in purse money amassed through Nov. 7.
Collected will be featured during Rancho San Miguel's 2025 open house and stallion show at its San Luis Obispo County farm on Dec. 6. Breeders are invited to attend this free event.
The unique partnership formed to relocate the stallion includes Thoroughbred owner and breeder Marsha Naify, a highly respected businesswoman, philanthropist, and former chair of Thoroughbred Owners of California.
Saddled by Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert for owner Speedway Stables, Collected won eight of 15 starts on dirt and turf from ages 2 through 5, earning $2,975,500. His seven stakes victories at four racetracks include five graded scores in California and Kentucky.
His signature win came in Del Mar's $1 million Pacific Classic Stakes (G1) in 2017, in which he capped a four-race win streak by defeating reigning champion 3-year-old male Arrogate. Next, he was runner-up to Horse of the Year Gun Runner in the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1), meriting a spot as one of three finalists for the Eclipse Award as champion older dirt male of 2017.
Collected was retired to Airdrie Stud prior to the 2019 breeding season. From four crops to race, he has sired 20 black-type stakes winners and the collective earners of more than $18 million.
His seven graded stakes winners include his first-crop filly Taxed, a grade 2 winner and $1,173,919 earner who sold for $750,000 as a racing and/or broodmare prospect during The November Sale recently at Fasig-Tipton. Also among this elite group is 2025 King's Plate Stakes winner Mansetti ($773,503), one of the leading sophomore runners in Canada.
His progeny have been effective over dirt, turf, and synthetic tracks. Buoyed by the success of Mansetti over Woodbine's synthetic Tapeta track, Collected is currently the sixth leading all-weather sire of 2025.
Collected is one of six winners out of Helena Bay, a winning daughter of Johannesburg whose 3-year-old Uncle Mo colt Jude—a $2 million Keeneland September Yearling Sale graduate—had a striking debut for Baffert at Santa Anita Park on Oct. 10. Among his extended family is the European champion and leading sire Blushing Groom.
"Collected has been an absolutely rock-solid Kentucky sire, and he now has the opportunity to stand as California's premier stallion," Airdrie Stud president Bret Jones said. "His California training roots and the great success his progeny have enjoyed in the state should guarantee his popularity. We are thrilled to give California breeders access to a stallion that can truly help their programs."
Collected's move to California extends the recent outreach that Airdrie has already made to the state. Two of his top runners—the multiple graded stakes winners Conclude ($570,100) and Thought Process ($380,200)— were bred by late Airdrie founder and former Kentucky Gov. Brereton C. Jones, and have been campaigned in partnership by his estate exclusively at Del Mar and Santa Anita.
"California's success is so critical to our overall industry," Bret Jones explained. "This is a great deal for both our syndicate members and the California breeding and racing communities."
In addition to supporting Collected with her band of broodmares boarded at Rancho San Miguel, Naify plans to purchase additional mares this fall to fit the incoming stallion specifically.
"Partnering with Airdrie and Rancho San Miguel is a natural extension of the strong commitment I have made to the California breeding and racing industry over the past 25 years," Naify said.
Collected's move was brokered by California-based bloodstock agent Lisa Groothedde.
"We are overjoyed and extremely honored to have been entrusted by Airdrie to take the reins of Collected's breeding career," Rancho San Miguel owner Tom Clark said. "In addition to being a familiar runner to our target audience from his years of competing at the highest levels here in California, he is in peak form as a stallion thanks to Airdrie's expert management. We are proud to now do our part, along with our longtime friend and client Marsha Naify, to help cement Collected's legacy.
"With his proven credentials, we are confident that Collected will make a big splash in our regional market. He is coming in as the state's leading sire by a towering margin, which should make him a top choice for mare owners in 2026."
