Category: General News

WinStar Farm is pleased to announce the launch of the first annual WinStar StableMates Saratoga Challenge contest. The Saratoga Challenge is free for racing fans, easy to play, and offers unique prizes. Part of WinStar’s StableMates initiative for fans, the Saratoga Challenge allows each participant to pick who he or she thinks will be the […]

Colonel John scored his third winner from five starters on Thursday as Sweetsoutherndame pulled clear in the stretch en route to an easy 5 3/4-length win at Presque Isle Downs. Colonel John’s three winners is tops among all first-crop sires and he is also ranked third in Kentucky by progeny earnings. Bred and owned (in […]

Joy’s one length victory in the $50,000 Christiana S. Wednesday at Delaware Park gave her sire Pure Prize his 22nd stakes horse of 2013. His runners have eclipsed the $2 million earnings mark this year and have won three graded stakes in Argentina. Joy was making her 2013 stakes debut in the Christiana, run at […]

WinStar freshman sire Pioneerof the Nile is off to a white-hot start with his first foals. Just five days after River Dancer gave his sire his first winner at Belmont Park, Ari the Adventurer rolled to a 6 3/4-length maiden special weight victory over the same track. Pioneerof the Nile, whose offspring have been a […]

Go Blue Or Go Home wired his rivals in Sunday’s $200,000 Highlander S. (G3) at Woodbine to give the 3-year-old son of Bluegrass Cat his first graded stakes victory and fifth win in seven lifetime starts. Originally carded for the grass at six furlongs, the race was moved to the Polytrack because of heavy rains […]

First-crop sire Kodiak Kowboy got his second winner on Saturday when the 2-year-old filly I Will Be Free strode to a 2 1/2-length maiden special weight victory at Calder Race Course. Second in her first outing on three weeks ago, I Will Be Free picked up $21,100 for her owner Champion Equine LLC. Champion purchase […]

Multiple Grade 1 winner Pioneerof the Nile got his first North American winner in thrilling style on July 5 when River Dancer debuted a one-length victor on the inner turf course at Belmont Park. The 2-year-old colt was last after a quarter mile, some ten lengths off the lead. Rajiv Maragh got River Dancer into […]

Regally bred Villanesca joined the ranks of 2013 stakes winners for her sire Distorted Humor with a come-from-behind, half-length triumph in Friday’s $100,000 Magnolia Jackson S. at Belmont Park. Distorted Humor now has 17 stakes horses, 7 stakes winners, and over $3 million in progeny earnings this year. His 2013 graded stakes winners include Boisterous […]

Leading for the majority of the five furlongs, 2-year-old colt All in Blue signaled the official beginning of juvenile season for More Than Ready with a 6 1/4-length romp at Belmont Park in a $70,000 maiden special weight contest on Independence Day. All in Blue battled with post-time favorite Patent for the first furlong and […]

She’s Happy (ARG), a 4-year-old Speightstown filly, showed tremendous heart in the late stages of the Group 1 Estrellas Sprint Grand Prix at San Isidro Racetrack in Argentina on Saturday evening, forging clear in the final 100 yards to win the prestigious race by about two lengths. The Carreras de las Estrellas card at San […]