Grade 1 winner Majestic Warrior has been retired and will stand his first year in 2009 at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Versailles, Kentucky.

The three-year-old A.P. Indy colt out of the multiple Grade 1-winning Seeking the Gold mare Dream Supreme won two of seven starts, including the 2007 Hopeful Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course, and earned $239,229.

Majestic Warrior injured a foot in the 2007 Champagne Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park and never regained his impressive form following a five-month layoff. He returned in March and was unplaced in four starts this season for Racing Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott.

“He was always very professional, a perfect student,” Mott said. “You couldn’t ask for a nicer horse to train. It was just sheer bad luck that he suffered his hoof injury. But for that setback, I am confident he would have been a major player in this year’s Triple Crown events.

“I’m also sure he’ll pass on his tremendous talent. He could hardly be better qualified. He’s a winner of one of America’s most prestigious juvenile prizes. He’s by a Horse of the Year with two sires’ championships to his credit and his first two dams were both Grade 1 winners.”

Dream Supreme and his second dam, Spinning Round, both were winners of the Ballerina Stakes (G1) and won ten graded stakes between them.

No stud fee was immediately announced.