Echo Town , winner of the 2020 H. Allen Jerkens Stakes (G1), has been purchased by Tyree Wolesensky and has relocated to her Leadem Farm near Leola, Ark., for the 2026 breeding season.
An 8-year-old son of Speightstown—considered a sire of sires—Echo Town previously stood at Ashford Stud in Kentucky. He entered stud there in 2021. Based on progeny earnings, he was the 13th leading first-crop sire in North America of 2024 and is currently 20th in 2025 among second-crop sires.
Echo Town was retired in 2020 with a 4-2-2 record from 10 career starts for trainer Steve Asmussen and owner L and N Racing. He made $410,020, leaving his mark as an elite racehorse with his H. Allen Jerkens win, where he defeated six graded stakes winners, including grade 1 winners Mischievous Alex, No Parole, and Eight Rings . Before that top-level win, Echo Town ran second to No Parole in the Woody Stephens Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park.
Following the H. Allen Jerken Stakes, his final three starts of 2020 were a fifth in the Pat Day Mile (G2), a third in the Phoenix Stakes (G2), and a 13th-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1).
Echo Sound, a filly from Echo Town’s first crop, started off her career 3-for-3 with a stakes win, followed by back-to-back grade 3 wins in the Miss Preakness Stakes and the Victory Ride (G3) at Saratoga Race Course. Also from Echo Town's first crop is the stakes-winning filly Elegant Echo, who started off her career 2-for-2 with a win in the Oklahoma Classic Stakes and Three Echoes, who broke his maiden as a 2-year-old at Churchill Downs, and went on to four consecutive placings, which included the Sanford Stakes (G3) at Saratoga.
Echo Town hails from a strong female family that has produced his half sister, Echo Zulu, a four-time grade 1 winner and 2021 Eclipse Award champion 2-year-old filly. He is out of the graded stakes-winning Menifee mare Letgomyecho.
The deal was brokered by Vinery Sales’ Jay Goodwin. Echo Town is ready for inspections at Leadem Farm. He will stand the 2026 season for $3,500.
He stood for $5,000 in 2025 at Ashford and was scheduled to have the same fee there in 2026 before this announced move to Leadem Farm.
"Just really excited for Arkansas breeders to have a grade 1-winning sprinter with that pedigree, who has already proven the ability to sire precocious graded stakes winners," Goodwin said. "He is exactly what Arkansas needs. I would’ve bred to him in Kentucky this year, so I will definitely support him with my mares in Arkansas.”
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