Kyle Wilson has been promoted to Stallion Seasons Director to oversee that department at WinStar Farm, and he has brought on Caroline Walsh to join the Nominations team. “We are thrilled to be able to promote Kyle Wilson from within the WinStar family to head up our stallion-season sales, and excited about the opportunity to […]
[ Read More ]Donworth drew off to a devastating 11-length victory in Saturday’s $50,000 Stanton S. at Delaware Park to become Tiznow’s 63rd lifetime stakes winner while making just his fourth career start. Three-year-old Donworth, who was finished second in the Lexington S. (G3) at Keeneland, was the class of the Stanton field, taking over the lead half-way […]
[ Read More ]A son of Super Saver consigned by Bobby Dodd, Agent, went to The Three Amigos for $575,000 to top the third session of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s 2015 June Sale of Two-Year-Olds and Horses of Racing Age, which runs June 16-19. The price tied the highest ever paid at the June sale. The bay […]
[ Read More ]Grade 1 winner Gemologist will shuttle to Haras Santa Olga Farm in Santiago, Chile for the Southern Hemisphere breeding season, and the regally-bred Grade 1 winner is set to enter quarantine next Monday, with his last mares to be covered from his American book this Sunday. Gemologist, who stands at WinStar Farm, will be shuttling […]
[ Read More ]Zayat Stables’ homebred superstar American Pharoah made history on Saturday, winning the Belmont S. (G1) to become racing’s 12th Triple Crown winner. The 5 ½-length victory was the third-largest Triple Crown winning margin. Pioneerof the Nile, who Zayat also campaigned to a runner-up finish in the 2009 Kentucky Derby (G1), has developed into the most […]
[ Read More ]Rock Fall earned his fifth straight victory and first graded stakes win June 5, taking the $250,000 True North S. (G2) at Belmont Park by 3 ¾-lengths. He is Speightstown’s fifth graded stakes winner of 2015 and pushed the Top-10 sire over the $4 million mark in progeny earnings for the year. After an early […]
[ Read More ]Zindaya pulled away in the Belmont Park turf course stretch to score by 2 ½-lengths in Thursday’s $150,000 Intercontinental S., the second consecutive stakes victory for the 4-year-old daughter of More Than Ready. More Than Ready’s double-digit tally of 2015 stakes winners includes graded winners in South Africa, Australia, and the United States. In the […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm’s freshman sire Drosselmeyer, the Belmont S. (G1) and Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner by Distorted Humor, was represented by his first winner Thursday when 2-year-old filly Find Joy debuted with an impressive 4 ½-length victory in a $40,000 Maiden Special Weight at Pimlico. Find Joy stopped the clock in 53.22 seconds for the […]
[ Read More ]Crittenden rallied at just the right moment to take the first running of the $75,000-added PDJF Stakes Saturday, May 30 at Indiana Grand, giving the 3-year-old son of Distorted Humor his first stakes win and third win in seven lifetime starts. The sire of more than 130 lifetime stakes winners, perennial top-10 sire Distorted Humor […]
[ Read More ]With big money on the line, Speightstown’s Force the Pass came through win the tightest of photos in the $500,000 Penn Mile Saturday night at Penn National. Never worse than second in five starts, Saturday’s win was the second stakes, and first graded, for the 3-year-old colt. Speightstown entered Saturday ranked sixth on the 2015 […]
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