Category: General News

China Horse Club and WinStar Farm’s Equator made his first two-turn start a winning one on Nov. 10 when the 2-year-old Bodemeister colt tallied a three-length maiden special weight score at Remington Park. The bay colt is the ninth winner for his sire, who currently ranks sixth on the 2016 First-Crop Sire list with progeny […]

Hip 346, a weanling filly from the first crop of Fed Biz, brought a final bid of $160,000 from buyer Clear Ridge on Day 2 of the Keeneland November sale Wednesday. Bred in Kentucky by Alpha Delta Stables, the popular filly is out of the Unbridled’s Song mare Wild Summer. On the racetrack, Fed Biz […]

Gemologist is enjoying a sensational year with his first crop of 2-year-olds on the track, and on Day 1 at Keeneland November his popularity showed with a weanling colt selling for $260,000 to Cavalier Bloodstock. The handsome gray weanling, ringed as Hip 199, is out of the Grade 2-winning mare Frolic’s Dream, whose 2-year-old filly […]

Hip 174, a striking weanling colt by Pioneerof the Nile, fetched $600,000 from buyer R.C. Thoroughbreds on Day 1 of the annual Keeneland November sale in Lexington, KY, making him the highest-priced weanling of the session. “The sire doesn’t hurt, and all the things you want to see are there physically: his scope, presence, athleticism, […]

First-year sire Gemologist racked up his 12th winner of 2016 on Nov. 7 when first-time starter Tighten Up broke his maiden by 1 1/4-lengths at Parx. Gemologist’s dozen winners include Yellow Agate, winner of the Frizette S. (G1) and Futurity S. (G3) winner Theory. Gemologist will stand at WinStar Farm in 2017 for $25,000 stands […]

Zindaya added herself to More Than Ready’s illustrious list of Graded Stakes Winners on Nov. 6 with a half-length score in the $200,000 Goldikova S. (G2) at Santa Anita Park.   The 5-year-old mare is the 74th graded winner for More Than Ready, whose progeny have racked up more than 20 stakes wins and $6.6 […]

Tiznow’s incomparable turf specialist Tourist blazed the way in the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) to set a new stakes record of 1:31.71, breaking Wise Dan’s record of 1:31.78 set over the same track in 2013. Tourist is Tiznow’s second Breeders’ Cup winner, joining Juvenile Fillies (G1) winner Folklore. With his second Grade 1 win on […]

A total of 13 runners by current WinStar stallions will contest this year’s Breeders’ Cup over the next two days. Tiznow will be represented by Tourist in the Mile (G1) and Term of Art in the Juvenile (G1). Tourist, bred by WinStar Farm and campaigned by WinStar in partnership with Wachtel Stable and Gary Barber, […]

WinStar Farm announced the launch of the WinStar Incentive Network – or WIN for short, a new rewards program for breeders of WinStar-sired racehorses that immediately goes into effect in time for this week’s Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita. “Quality and customer satisfaction. Those are the single biggest drivers for everything we do at WinStar, […]