Faversham , a multiple winner and full brother to two-time Horse of the Year California Chrome , has been retired from racing to stand at Daehling Ranch in Northern California.
His 2021 fee is $2,000, live foal guarantee. Lifetime breeding rights are available for $4,500.
A 5-year-old ridgling by the late Lucky Pulpit, California's leading sire by progeny earnings in 2014 and 2016, Faversham was campaigned by his co-breeders, Perry and Denise Martin of Martin Racing. A California-bred, he won races on two different surfaces, turf and synthetic. He wrapped up his racing career after going unplaced in a pair of Turfway Park nonwinners-of-three allowance races, retiring with earnings of $81,086 and with a 2-2-1 record from 19 starts. He was trained by Mike Maker and Art and Steve Sherman.
California Chrome won the 2014 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (G1), the 2016 Dubai World Cup Sponsored by Emirates Airline (G1), and five additional grade 1 races on dirt or turf before he retired to the breeding shed in 2017 with Eclipse Awards as Horse of the Year for 2014 and 2016, and a career bankroll of $14,752,650. After standing his first three breeding seasons in Kentucky, with two additional Southern Hemisphere stints in Chile, California Chrome was purchased privately in late 2019 by Japan-based connections and stood at Arrow Stud in that country this year.
The 9-year-old stallion is represented by seven Northern Hemisphere winners from his first crop of 2-year-olds in 2020, led by his grade 1-placed filly, Cilla. She was third in the Frizette Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park Oct. 10.
Faversham and California Chrome were produced by two-time California Broodmare of the Year Love the Chase, a winning daughter of 13-time leading Maryland sire Not For Love.
"Faversham overcame several obstacles, including a torn tendon, to win races in California and Kentucky for us," Perry Martin said of the Santa Anita Park and Turfway Park winner. "He always tried his best and managed to carve his own identity from the immense shadow cast by his big brother, who was the rarest of all Thoroughbreds—the horse of a lifetime.
"We are thrilled to bring him home to California, where the legendary story of California Chrome started, and to offer his proven bloodlines at an affordable price for breeders on a budget."
Faversham successfully covered a small group of test mares privately late last spring and will be available to outside mare owners in 2021 as a registered California stallion nominated to Breeders' Cup.
For more information about Faversham, contact booking manager Lisa Groothedde at (626) 340-8695 or at lisa@thoroughbredinfo.com. Nicking reports are available at www.daehlingranch.com.
