Leinster

Leinster (KY)

Majestic Warrior – Vassar, by Royal Academy | 2015 Bay | Fee: $5,000 S&N

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• Leinster is a four-time graded stakes winner with a 6-6-5 record from 24 starts. Leinster won the Gr.3 Troy Stakes where he set a track record – 5½ furlongs on the Mellon Turf in 1:00.23. He went on to set a Keeneland course record – 5½ furlongs in 1:00.86 in the $150,000 Gr.2 Shakertown Stakes. At 5, Leinster added to his impressive resume by winning the $150,000 Gr.2 Woodford Stakes and, in his final campaign, won the $100,000 Gr.3 Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint Stakes.
• Out of the Royal Academy champion-producing mare Vassar, Leinster is a half-brother to two-time Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint winner Stormy Liberal – the champion turf male of 2018.  In 2019, Leinster beat Stormy Liberal in the 6-furlong $700,000 Gr.3 Runhappy Turf Sprint at Kentucky Downs.
• Leinster’s sire, Majestic Warrior (A.P. Indy / Dream Supreme, by Seeking the Gold) immediately excelled for the late owner, breeder, and New York Yankees kingpin, George M. Steinbrenner III. Majestic Warrior, a son of A.P. Indy, emerged in the competitive 2-year-old world of Saratoga in 2007 to win his 61/2-furlong debut by 3½ lengths; in his subsequent start, he rallied to take the Gr.1 Hopeful Stakes by 2¼ lengths.
• Leinster’s dam, Vassar (Royal Academy / Dixie Fine, by L’Emigrant) has produced seven winners out of eight runners as a broodmare with $3.8 million in progeny earnings to date. She has produced exceptional athletes including a champion, 2 graded black-type winners, one black-type winner, one graded black-type placed, and one black-type placed.*

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