Category: General News

Freshman sire Kodiak Kowboy, a three-time G1 winner and Eclipse Champion, sired his first winner from his first starter when his 2-year-old filly Bear Facts captured her debut in a Trial race at Turf Paradise on April 19. Bear Facts broke sharply in the 4 1/2-furlong heat and turned back challenges in the stretch to […]

A juvenile from the first crop by Colonel John was the top-selling colt during the first day of the April 22-25 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s 2013 Spring Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training in central Florida. Hip No. 26, consigned by de Meric Sales, Agent, went to Steven W. Young, Agent, for $290,000. The bay colt, […]

Dance to Bristol was in top form Saturday night at Charles Town Races, running away to a facile nine length victory in the $200,000 Sugar Maple S. (VIDEO). The 4-year-old filly was the second stakes winner of the night for her sire Speightstown, coming just one race after Fearsome took the $50,000 Charles Town Dash. […]

Spring at Last’s Grade 1 winning 2-year-old filly Spring in the Air was named the 2012 Canadian Sovereign Award winner in her division at the April 19 awards ceremony at Woodbine Racecourse. Spring in the Air’s stablemate Spring Venture, also by Spring at Last, finished second in the voting to give the WinStar stallion a […]

For the second straight year Speightstown’s Canadian sprint star Essence Hit Man was named the Sovereign Award winner in male sprint division at the awards ceremony held April 19 at Woodbine Racecourse. Essence Hit Man was his usual stellar self last season, winning three of six starts and earning $379,357. All three of his stakes […]

Pure Prize’s latest stakes winner Pure Soul set a track record of 1:08 4/5 for 1,200 meters in the April 21 San Luis Classic at the Hippodrome La Punta in Argentina. Pure Prize, a leading son of Storm Cat at stud, stands this year at WinStar for $7,500 LFS&N. Pure Soul, a two and a […]

Fearsome’s three-length win in the $50,000 Charles Town Dash H. on Saturday night kicked off a stakes daily double for his sire Speightstown. Dance to Bristol came home an easy winner about a half hour later in the $200,000 Sugar Maple S. at the West Virginia oval. Four-year-old Fearsome wasted little time asserting himself in […]

WinStar President & CEO Elliott Walden sits down with WinStar GM Chris Baker and WinStar Director of Bloodstock David Hanley for a round-table discussion on first foals from WinStar’s young stallions Drosselmeyer and Sidney’s Candy. The guys have seen a large sample size of foals by each of the aforementioned Grade 1-winning stallions, and they […]

A More Than Ready colt for the highest price of 320,000 guineas (US$516,129) at the first session of the Tattersalls Craven breeze-up sale April 17 at Park Paddocks in Newmarket, England. John Egan’s Friarstown Bloodstock sold the session-topping juvenile, who was bought by Anthony Stroud Bloodstock for an undisclosed client. “He is a very nice […]

WinStar Farm has once again partnered with jockey Calvin Borel in the Kentucky Derby. On Monday, Borel committed to ride Louisiana Derby winner Revolutionary in this year’s Run for the Roses on May 4th. Borel has won the Kentucky Derby three times in the last six runnings of the storied race, including aboard WinStar’s Super […]