In 1892 Candlemas was sold to stand at stud in the United States for the renowned Elmendorf Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, owned at the time by Cornelius Enright.

[1] Biggonet, an 1883 foal of Tennessee's Belle Meade Stud, had raced successfully for owner/trainer William P. Burch with notable wins at New York tracks.

[5] The result was the Chestnut colt Martimas that would be sold as a yearling for $750 to Torontonian William Hendrie who brought him to Canada to be race-conditioned by trainer Edward Whyte.

[8] Based on these performances, his handlers decided to try him against some of the best two-year-olds in the United States and sent him to compete in the Saratoga, New York race meet in August.

[12] Still competing in New York state, Martimas would win the October 8 Rancho Del Paso Stakes at Morris Park Racecourse.

[13] In a December 22, 1916 retrospective referencing The Canadian Sportsman magazine, the Daily Racing Form reported that "His greatest performance as a two-year-old was probably in the Rancho Del Paso Stakes in which he ran three-quarters of a mile in the mud the heavy weight up, in 1:12 and a fraction.