Collected Relocates to Rancho San Miguel in California

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Grade I winner Collected (City Zip) will relocate from Airdrie Stud in Kentucky to stand at Rancho San Miguel in California for the 2026 breeding season, it was announced Friday.

With an introductory West Coast fee of $7,500, with a live foal stand and nurse guarantee, the 12-year-old son of City Zip enters California as one of North America's leading fourth-crop sires, and as the clear-cut, #1 California sire by 2025 progeny earnings with $6,307,233 in purse money amassed through Nov. 5. From four crops to race, he has sired 20 black-type stakes winners and the collective earners of more than $18-million.

His seven graded stakes winners include first-crop Taxed, a Grade II winner who was Grade I-placed in 2025 and earned $1,173,919 in her career. She sold for $750,000 as a racing / broodmare prospect during the 2025 Fasig-Tipton November Sale last Monday. He also claims MGSW & GISP Thought Process; GSW & GISP Iron Man Cal; and SW & MGSP Northern Invader, among other black-type winners and runners. Collected is also the sire of 2025 King's Plate Stakes winner Mansetti, one of the leading sophomore runners in Canada.

Collected is out of Helena Bay (GB) (Johannesburg), making him a half-brother to recent 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' Jude (Uncle Mo)–who earned his rosette Oct. 10 at Santa Anita Park. He hails from the extended female family of European champion and leading sire Blushing Groom (Fr).

“Collected has been an absolutely rock-solid Kentucky sire, and he now has the opportunity to stand as California's premier stallion,” said Airdrie Stud president Bret Jones. “His California training roots and the great success his progeny have enjoyed in the state should guarantee his popularity. We are thrilled to give California breeders access to a stallion that can truly help their programs.”

Airdrie Stud boasts two of the stallion's graded winners–Conclude and Thought Process–that were not only bred by their late founder Brereton C. Jones, but also have been campaigned in partnership by his estate exclusively at Del Mar and Santa Anita.

“California's success is so critical to our overall industry,” Bret Jones explained. “This is a great deal for both our syndicate members and the California breeding and racing communities.”

Collected will be featured during Rancho San Miguel's 2025 Open House and Stallion Show at its San Luis Obispo County farm Dec. 6. Breeders are invited to attend this free event. The partnership formed to relocate the stallion includes Thoroughbred owner and breeder Marsha Naify–businesswoman, philanthropist and former chair of Thoroughbred Owners of California. In addition to supporting Collected with her band of broodmares boarded at Rancho San Miguel, Naify plans to purchase additional mares this fall to specifically fit the incoming stallion.

“Partnering with Airdrie and Rancho San Miguel is a natural extension of the strong commitment I have made to the California breeding and racing industry over the past 25 years,” Naify said.

“We are overjoyed and extremely honored to have been entrusted by Airdrie to take the reins of Collected's breeding career,” said Rancho San Miguel owner Tom Clark. “In addition to being a familiar runner to our target audience from his years of competing at the highest levels here in California, he is in peak form as a stallion thanks to Airdrie's expert management. We are proud to now do our part along with our longtime friend and client Marsha Naify to help cement Collected's legacy.”

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