SPEIGHTSTOWN
Gone West—Silken Cat by Storm Cat
A TAYLOR MADE/WINSTAR VENTURE
Standing at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Kentucky
Speightstown was the 2004 Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) and Eclipse Award winner who retired with 10 victories, 2 seconds and 2 thirds from sixteen lifetime starts. In 2004, Speightstown also won the A.G. Vanderbilt H. (G2), True North Breeders’ Cup H. (G2), Churchill Downs H. (G2), and the Artax H
While still thoroughly enjoying the game as a six year old, Speightstown on three occasions (including a 32-year-old track record equaling performance at Saratoga) stopped the clock in 1:08 flat, making the seldom-accomplished feat seem merely routine is the sire of 8 G1 winners from his first seven crops to race
Speightstown is by sire of sires Gone West, he’s cast in the same mold of leading sires Elusive Quality, Grand Slam and Mr. Greeley. The strikingly handsome chestnut out of a Champion Two-Year-Old by Storm Cat, sold for $ 2,000,000 at the Keeneland July sale of 1999.
The 2004 Eclipse Award winner was declared “the best sprinter in America” by his trainer Todd Pletcher after leaving six Grade 1 winners in his wake while winning the $1,000,000 Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1). The Eclipse voters later made it unanimous