Performer started off the new year with a determined victory in Saturday’s $125,000 Fred W. Hooper S. (G3) at Gulfstream Park, holding off a stiff challenge from Eye of a Jedi to win the one-mile contest by a neck. The 5-year-old son of Speightstown is is the second graded stakes winner of the week for […]
[ Read More ]The first two foals by Take Charge Indy have been born since he returned home to stand the 2020 breeding season at WinStar Farm. The first foal born was a colt out of the multiple stakes-placed mare Northern Smile foaled in Kentucky on Jan. 4 and bred by Jim Ballinger. The second foal was born […]
[ Read More ]When the 2020 Eclipse Award finalists were announced Saturday on TVG, multiple Grade 1 winner Improbable was nominated in both the Horse of the Year and Older Dirt Male categories. Improbable, who campaigned for the partnership of WinStar Farm, CHC Inc. and SF Racing, was retired at the end of last year and will begin […]
[ Read More ]Multiple Grade 1 winner Tiz the Law was named a finalist for the 2020 3-year-old male Eclipse Award when the year-end award nominees were announced Saturday on TVG. Constitution was the leading Second-Crop sire of 2020 by stakes horses, with 19. Tiz the Law, his leading earners, was one of Constitution’s eight stakes winners. After […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm’s Audible, the 2018 Florida Derby (G1) winner by Into Mischief, sired his first reported foal when a filly was born at Waldorf Farm in North Chatham, New York, on Sunday night, Jan. 10. Bred by Fred Hertrich III and John Fielding, the filly is out of the Malibu Moon mare Turning Tide and […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm’s Yoshida (JPN), a Grade 1 winner on dirt and turf, sired his first reported foal when a colt was born at WinStar on Saturday night, Jan. 9. Bred by Anastasie Astrid Christiansen-Croy, the bay colt, who arrived at 10:58 p.m., is out of the Monsun (GER) mare Gravata (GER) and hails from a […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm has announced the hiring of Gareth Wigley as the newest member of its Stallion Season Sales team. Originally from Birmingham, England, Wigley grew up on the southern coast of England where he developed a passion for horseracing at an early age and spent most weekends and school holidays working for local trainers. After […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm and CHC Inc’s Life Is Good kept his record intact with a victory in Saturday’s $100,000 Sham S. (G3) at Santa Anita Park. The 3-year-old colt was making his stakes and two-turn debut after a dominating Nov. 22 maiden win at first asking at Del Mar. As he did in the maiden win, […]
[ Read More ]Paynter tallied a pair of stakes winners Saturday at Laurel Park, with Miss Leslie winning her stakes debut in the $100,000 Anne Arundel County, while Harper’s First Ride made it four stakes wins in 2020 with his victory in the $100,000 Native Dancer S. Paynter, the sire of 2020 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) winner […]
[ Read More ]Keepmeninmind got a breakthrough win in Saturday’s $200,000 Kentucky Jockey Club (G2) at Churchill Downs, breaking his maiden in the 1 1/16-mile race after placing in both the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) and Keeneland’s Breeders’ Futurity (G1) this fall. The bay 2-year-old is Laoban’s third stakes winner and his tenth overall winner. Laoban, who is […]
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