Englishman to Stud at Lane's End After Racing

Grade 1 winner Englishman, a 3-year-old son of Maxfield, will retire to stud at Lane's End at the conclusion of his racing career, the farm announced July 7. Campaigned by Lee and Susan Searing's CRK Stables, Englishman most recently captured the Woody Stephens Stakes (G1) by 5 3/4 lengths June 6 at Saratoga Race Course. He earned a 115 Beyer Speed Figure—the highest of 2026 to date—and a 120 Equibase Speed Figure, also the highest among 3-year-old males and the co-highest of the year. He stopped the clock at 1:20.40, equaling the track record for 7 furlongs set in 1978. "I am thrilled to add Englishman to our roster of future stallions," said Lane's End's Bill Farish. "He has impressed us since his stunning debut, and we have been watching him closely ever since. He combines brilliant speed with exceptional good looks and is by the very promising young Darley stallion Maxfield." Never off the board in his career, the Cherie DeVaux trainee won his 2-year-old debut at Churchill Downs in September of last year by 7 1/4 lengths. In his 3-year-old debut, he put in another stellar performance winning in an allowance level race at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots by 7 1/2 lengths. Englishman made his graded stakes debut in the Pat Day Mile Stakes (G2), where he was a respectable second behind Crude Velocity, who he then defeated in the Woody Stephens Stakes. Englishman is expected to continue racing into 2027. "Englishman has wowed us from his first start to the grade 1 Woody Stephens, and we are excited to see where he takes us next," Lee Searing said. "We look forward to his future career as a stallion at Lane's End and plan to support him with our mares." Bred in Kentucky by Fifth Avenue Bloodstock, Englishman later sold at the 2024 Keeneland September Yearling Sale for $400,000 to Mayberry Farm out of the Betz Thoroughbreds consignment. Englishman is out of the winning Speightstown mare In It for the Gold, who is out of All Due Respect, a multiple grade 1-placed stakes winner by Value Plus. All Due Respect would place in nine graded stakes on her way to earning $468,880 that includes a second in the Santa Anita Oaks (G1) and a third in the Ballerina Stakes (G1). Maxfield is a multiple grade 1-winning son of Street Sense, who won seven career black-type stakes on his way to earning more than $2 million. The second-crop sire currently ranks fourth in his sire class by progeny earnings and is the only stallion in his class to sire a grade 1 winner so far this year.