There appears to be room in the mare population for new stallions to become popular in Indiana – and Breakway Farm, which has increased its ranks this year, could be ready to pick up the activity. The busiest stallion in Indiana in 2025, according to The Jockey Club’s Report of Mares Bred, was Grade 1 winner Mor Spirit, who covered 43 mares at Swifty Farms. The stallion, whose first Indiana-sired foals don’t race until next year, has since been sold to Korean interests to continue his career, leaving mares at large for the coming season as a popular horse is removed from the pool. The next-busiest stallion in the state, according to Jockey Club statistics, was stakes winner Harry’s Holiday, from the family of national leader Into Mischief, who bred 32 mares. He is part of a growing roster of 10 stallions at Breakway, along with fellow stalwart and perennial state leader Unbridled Express. One of the biggest recent acquisitions for Breakway – a Dillsboro farm operated by the mother and daughter team of Janice Jordan and Tara Mathias – was champion Maximum Security, who spent his first five seasons at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky. His earnings with Kentucky-sired progeny make him Indiana's top for 2025, regardless of conception area, with $2,946,860, over $2,171,060 for Belmont Stakes winner Tapwrit. The latter also does not yet have Indiana-sired runners; he moved to Indiana Stallion Station in 2025. Checking in third on the overall earnings list at $1,204,200 is Indiana Stallion Station stablemate Qurbaan, who moved to the state in 2022 and thus does have state-sired runners. However, his top earner on the season was Texas-bred Charlene’s Dream, a multiple graded stakes winner. Harry’s Holiday and Unbridled Express were fourth and fifth, respectively, on the earnings list. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. The move to Indiana is the latest step in the journey of Maximum Security, who was voted the Eclipse Award champion 3-year-old male of 2019, but is best known for becoming entangled in a number of controversies during his racing career. The first of those came when the winner of the Grade 1 Florida Derby, sent away the post-time second choice in the 2019 Kentucky Derby, crossed the line first in that race. However, he was disqualified to 17th for interference after veering out near the five-sixteenths pole – the first such disqualification of a Derby first-place finisher for an in-race infraction.  Maximum Security went on to win the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational and Grade 1 Cigar Mile later that season, as well as the Grade 3 Bold Ruler. The colt, who crossed the line first in seven of his eight outings in 2019, earned the divisional Eclipse.  Maximum Security opened 2020 by crossing the line first in the inaugural $20 million Saudi Cup, the world’s richest race. Less than two weeks later, trainer Jason Servis was among the many individuals in Thoroughbred and Standardbred racing arrested in a wide-ranging federal crackdown on the use and distribution of drugs in racing. In indictments, prosecutors said that Servis was caught on wiretaps admitting to administering illegal substances to nearly all of his horses, specifically mentioning Maximum Security, although no specific date was identified. Servis pleaded guilty to two charges of drug misbranding and adulteration in December 2022. He was sentenced to four years in prison on those charges in the summer of 2023. And in 2024, The Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia finally recommended the disqualification of Maximum Security from his win, saying that Servis committed “substantial breaches of the rules” for the race related to his arrest and conviction.  Meanwhile, Maximum Security was transferred to Bob Baffert by owners Gary and Mary West – who had continued to appeal the Derby disqualification, to no avail – after Servis’s arrest. Maximum Security won the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap, added another Grade 1 in the Pacific Classic, and was second in the Grade 1 Awesome Again to champion Improbable. He finished fifth in the 2020 Breeders’ Cup Classic in his career finale – the only time he ever crossed the line worse than second. His official record stood at 14-9-2-0, with earnings of $2,431,900  As a stallion at Ashford, Maximum Security, whose first foals are 4-year-olds, is the sire of 56 career winners from 111 starters, through Jan. 16. His runners are led by three-time stakes winner Instant Replay, and by Rosa Salvaje, a Group 3 winner in France.  Maximum Security is now the only newcomer Breakway has added in recent years, joining established stallions Harry’s Holiday, Unbridled Express, Charming Kitten, and Forever d’Oro. Boptrot and Necker Island came to the farm in 2025 and were popular, covering 21 and 23 mares, respectively. This year, the farm introduces Bolzy, a graded-stakes-placed son of Gun Runner who becomes the first son of that stallion to stand in Indiana; and Bango, the winningest horse in recorded Churchill Downs history. In addition to Maximum Security, graded stakes winner Title Ready moves to Indiana from Darby Dan Farm in Kentucky; his first crop races this year. Ohio: Partnership flies the ‘Flag’ Kentucky-based WinStar Farm and Ohio-based trainer and breeder Tim Hamm’s Blazing Meadows Farm of North Jackson have teamed up with a number of prominent runners in the Buckeye State. In recent years, the partnership has been fueled by runners by their National Flag, Ohio’s leading sire of 2025. Graded stakes winner National Flag, by WinStar’s late Speightstown, had a strong strike rate of 32 winners from 39 starters in 2025, for progeny earnings of $1,801,545. Dominus, who stands at Duncan Farms, was second on the earnings list at $1,412,888. National Flag’s top runner in 2025 was Villian, bred in the name of the “WinBlaze” partnership and now racing for the Hamm family. The gelding ended his 4-year-old season approaching half a million in career earnings, with four stakes wins on the season – a repeat victory in the Catlaunch, plus scored in the Ruff/Kirchberg Memorial, Buckeye Native, and George Lewis Memorial. Illinois: Ghaaleb continues run Ghaaleb continues to reign at Wildwood Farm in Illinois, leading the state’s general sire list for the fifth consecutive year, with 20 winners from 28 runners on the year and earnings of $904,378 – more than three times the bankroll of his next-closest competitor. Ghaaleb was the leading freshman sire in Illinois in 2017 and has been a top 10 general sire in the state each year of his career. Iowa: University stallions remain prominent Despite shifts in the Hawkeye State’s stallion roster, the Iowa State University stallions are atop the list. Grade 1 winner Free Drop Billy came to Iowa for 2024 after standing in Kentucky. His first state-sired progeny will not race until 2027, but he leads all stallions who stood in Iowa in 2025 by progeny earnings, regardless of conception area, at $877,036. Next is another Grade 1 winner, Stroll, who has resided in Iowa since 2016, with earnings of $726,066. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? 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