Grade 1-winning sprinter Drain The Clock retires to stand at Gainesway for 2023

Grade 1-winning sprinter Drain The Clock will enter stud for a $10,000 fee at Gainesway for the 2023 breeding season, the farm announced on Friday.

The four-year-old son of Maclean's Music showed precocity to break his maiden by a wire-to-wire six lengths as a juvenile in 2020 at Gulfstream Park. He won four of his first five starts going into his three-year-old season, culminating with a six and a quarter length score in the 2021 Claiborne Farm Swale Stakes.

Two starts later, Drain The Clock added another front-running score in the Bay Shore Stakes at Aqueduct before earning his crowning achievement by defeating eventual champion Jackie's Warrior in the Woody Stephens Stakes at Belmont Park.

After four losses this year, Drain The Clock retires from racing with seven wins in 15 starts, including three victories in Graded races, for earnings of $698,000.

He competed for owners Slam Dunk Racing, Madaket Stables, Wonder Stables, and Michael Nentwig and trainer Saffie Joseph, Jr.

Slam Dunk Racing managing partner Nick Cosato bred the colt, who is out of the Arch mare Manki.

"Drain The Clock is an imposing physical with tremendous speed who fits the mold of what breeders are looking for," said Gainesway's newly appointed stallion director Ryan Norton. "That is why we are excited to offer Share The Upside breeding rights in this exciting new stallion."

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