His sire, Havana Gold, was bay and won five races over 6 furlongs to a mile, including the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat.
Havana Grey was from his sire's first crop and sold to Global Racing Club & Mrs E. Burke for €70,000 at Arqana's August Yearling Sale.
Competing against older horses for the first time, he led until the final furlong and came fifth, one and three quarters lengths behind winner Mabs Cross.
[1] Ridden by Richard Kingscote as his regular jockey was sidelined with an injury, Havana Grey achieved his first and only Group 1 success in the Flying Five Stakes at the Curragh in September.
[1] His retirement was planned for the end of the season but first he had a trip to Churchill Downs in the US, where, reunited with McDonald, he was beaten 19 lengths by Stormy Liberal in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint.
In 2022, his first progeny appeared as two-year-olds on the racecourse and 34 winners with earnings of more than £1 million secured him the title of leading first-season sire in Great Britain and Ireland.
[9] Havana Grey's fee rose to £55,000 in 2024 and his book included three Group 1 winning mares, Glass Slippers, Sky Lantern and his racecourse rival Mabs Cross.
[2] In November 2024, Whitsbury Manor Stud announced that his fee would be private in 2025 and that he would only cover mares of 16 hands high or smaller as he did not like using a ramp.