Funny Duck earned his first graded stakes win over a sloppy Churchill Downs race track in the $300,000 Pat Day Mile (G3) on Kentucky Derby day. Coming from almost last in the field of 14 after a quarter-mile, Funny Duck forged to the lead in mid-stretch and pulled away impressively to win by nearly five […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm, along with several partners, will have three chances as owners to win Saturday’s $2 million Kentucky Derby (G1). Audible, Justify and Noble Indy are all colts with graded stakes wins in their last start prior to the Derby. And adding in the top-class colt Bolt d’Oro, who WinStar bred and sold, and the […]
[ Read More ]China Horse Club, Head of Plains Partners LLC, Starlight Racing and WinStar Farm’s dynamic 3-year-old colt Justify had his final pre-Kentucky Derby (G1) workout on April 27 for trainer Bob Baffert, getting seven furlongs in 1:25.20 at Santa Anita Park. The undefeated Santa Anita Derby (G1) winner is scheduled to arrive at Churchill Downs on […]
[ Read More ]Speightstown’s $700,000 colt marked yet another highlight in the long career of the WinStar stallion during the second session of the April 24-27 OBS 2-year-old sale. The colt’s sale price was the third-most to date of the four-day auction. Niall Brennan, agent, consigned the colt, hip No. 403, with Narvick International, agent for Katsumi Yoshida, […]
[ Read More ]More Than Ready’s Rushing Fall made a successful 2018 debut in Sunday’s $200,000 Appalachian S. (G2) at Keeneland, winning the one-mile turf contest for 3-year-old fillies by a length as the odds-on favorite. Trained by Chad Brown for e Five Racing Thoroughbreds, Rushing Fall was three-for-three as a 2-year-old winning the Jessamine County S. (G3) […]
[ Read More ]Justify’s victory in Saturday’s $1 million Santa Anita Derby (G1) gave the 3-year-old colt his first stakes win, but more importantly also assured him of a spot in the starting gate for the May 5 Kentucky Derby (G1). Justifly, who is undefeated in three starts, is owned by China Horse Club, Head of Plains Partners […]
[ Read More ]Speightstown’s newest stakes winner National Flag closed with a rush in the stretch to capture Aqueduct’s Bay Shore S. (G3) by four lengths. National Flag’s chances didn’t look good after he was squeezed back soon after the start, putting him some six lengths off the lead in the first sixteenth of a mile. As the […]
[ Read More ]China Horse Club, Head of Plains Partners, Starlight Racing and WinStar Farm’s brilliant 3-year-old colt is on his way to the Kentucky Derby (G1) following his rousing performance in the $1 million Florida Derby (G1) on the final day of March at Gulfstream Park. Audible left little doubt as to who is the best colt […]
[ Read More ]Pioneerof the Nile’s $825,000 colt at the March 28th Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale marked the second time this year that a 2-year-old by the WinStar stallion brought a winning bid of at least three-quarters of a million dollars. Wednesday’s results also raised Pioneerof the Nile’s 2-year-old auction average of 2018 to $422,500, second-best for all North […]
[ Read More ]Fed Biz had the top-priced lot for any First-Crop sire at the March 28th Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale of 2-year-olds when Linda Rice, agent, went to $725,000 for a colt by the WinStar stallion. Wavertree Stables, agent, consigned the colt, hip No. 62. The dark bay is the second foal out of the Congrats mare Virtuously, […]
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