Category: General News

First-crop sire Sharp Humor got his first black-type winner Sept. 15 when his son Glint  won the $100,000 Fitz Dixon Jr. Memorial Juvenile Stakes at Presque Isle Downs. Glint is a homebred of WinStar Farm, which also stands Sharp Humor. The colt is also the first stakes winner for his dam Glimmer, an unraced daughter […]

A strapping son of Distorted Humor was hammered down for $2,050,000 during the Sept. 13 session of the Keeneland September yearling sale. Bought by agent Mike Ryan on behalf of a new, undisclosed client based overseas, the colt was consigned by Lane’s End, agent. Ryan said it was undecided whether the colt, who is the […]

Pathfork (by Distorted Humor) kept his unblemished record intact with a hard-fought victory over Casamento in the boylesports.com Vincent O’Brien National Stakes (Ire-I) at the Curragh Sept. 11. The highly-regarded Casamento, who was making just his second career start, broke alertly under Declan McDonogh and went straight to the front. They were followed by High […]

When WinStar Farm’s Blue Laser crossed the finish line a comfortable length in front of seven other MdSpWt juveniles at Toronto’s Woodbine Racetrack this past weekend, it marked the 13th winner for freshman sire Bluegrass Cat. Bluegrass Cat leads all freshman sires in this category and is also 2nd on the list with progeny earnings […]

WinStar Farm is very pleased to announce the “homecoming” of Hedge Fund, the full brother to the 2010 Kentucky Derby winner, Super Saver. Here is a touching video showing the arrival of Hedge Fund at WinStar Farm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVga4bFbnbI According to Bill Casner, Chairman and Co-Owner of WinStar Farm: “We made arrangements to have Hedge Fund […]

Talk about a catalogue update. Hysterical Cat, a full-brother to a colt who sells tonight in the second and final session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga NY Bred Preferred Yearling sale, ran away to an impressive debut victory over New York-breds in the second race today at Saratoga Race Course. Hysterical Cat joins the New York […]

“They don’t come much better looking than this fellow,” said Fasig-Tipton announcer Terence Collier of a Street Cry colt that brought $800,000 just before the midway point of the Saratoga select yearling sale Aug. 2 in upstate New York. Sheikh Mohammed’s bloodstock manager, John Ferguson, signed the sale ticket for the handsome dark bay or […]

Super Saver – the Kentucky Derby winner who finished fourth in yesterday’s Grade 1 Haskell Invitational, missing third by just a nose – will make his next appearance in the 141st running of the Grade 1, $1 million Travers at Saratoga .   “I thought it was a pretty good performance, but he did get […]

Led by Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner Super Saver and Preakness Stakes (gr. I) winner Lookin At Lucky, one of the deepest fields in the 43-year history of the IZOD Haskell Invitational (gr. I) was drawn July 29 at Monmouth Park. A field of eight 3-year-olds was entered for the $1 […]

A stallion halter from 2010 Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver is being auctioned to benefit the Halo House Foundation. Included with the halter is a wonderful 8″ x 10″ photo of Super Saver racing to a Derby victory signed by Doug Cauthen and Elliott Walden of WinStar Farm, Trainer Todd Pletcher and Jockey Calvin Borel. […]