Category: Featured Winstar News

Dalmore, a sharp allowance winner on May 29, upped his game on Saturday to score a half-length victory over Grade 2 winner Danzing Candy in the $100,000 Affirmed S. (G3) at Santa Anita Park. The win was the first stakes victory for the 3-year-old son of Colonel John, the leading Fourth-Crop sire who has now […]

WinStar Farm and Woodford Thoroughbreds have partnered to acquire the breeding rights to Repole Stable’s leading 3-year-old colt Outwork, winner of this year’s Wood Memorial (G1) from the first crop of sire sensation Uncle Mo. “We are thrilled to work with John (Sykes) and Matt (Lyons) of Woodford Thoroughbreds and Mike (Repole) on such an […]

WinStar Farm and Bobby Flay’s Creator weaved his way between horses in the Belmont Park stretch to catch and pass Destin in the final strides of the $1.5 million Belmont S. (G1) to capture the third leg of the Triple Crown by a nose. The finish was one of the closest in the 148 year […]

Tom’s Ready became More Than Ready’s second stakes winner in two days with his incredible last-to-first run to capture the $500,000 Woody Stephens S. (G2) Saturday at Belmont Park. Along with Zindaya’s win in the Intercontinental S. at Belmont on Friday, More Than Ready now has accounted for 160 black type winners and 69 graded […]

Already a two-time black type winner, Cash Control got her first graded stakes win Saturday when the 5-year-old daughter of Pioneerof the Nile took the Mint Julep S. (G3) at Churchill Downs by a neck over stablemate Sweet Acclaim (IRE). Defending race champ Kiss Moon set the pace with a first quarter-mile in :23.57, a […]

Joking’s fantastic stretch run in the $250,000 True North S. (G2) Friday at Belmont Park gave perennial top sire Distorted Humor his 55th lifetime graded stakes winner.  Joking’s victory looked somewhat improbable with a furlong to run in the six furlong contest. Dads Caps was strong on the lead, with a two-length lead in mid-stretch, […]

Bodemeister’s first winner became his first stakes winner on Thursday at Belmont Park with a stellar 2 3/4-length victory in the $200,000 Astoria S.  The gray or roan filly streaked to a front-running victory in a sparkling 1:03.66 for the 5 1/2-furlongs on the fast main track, after carving out swift fractions of :22.13, :45.56 and […]

With contrasting racing styles, Creator and Gettysburg loom as solid chances to capture the 148th running of the Belmont S. (G1) on Saturday. With no Triple Crown on the line this year, the 1 1/2-mile Belmont drew a big field of 13 trying to take the lion’s share of the $1.5 million purse. Gettysburg, who […]

Preakness S. (G1) hero Exaggerator was assigned post 11 of 13 in Saturday’s $1.5 million Belmont S. (G1) as the future WinStar stallion looks to capture the final two legs of the Triple Crown following his gallant second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby (G1). With Derby winner Nyquist sidelined by a fever, Exaggerator was made […]

Pioneerof the Nile’s multiple graded stakes winner reached a new high on Saturday with his gutsy half-length score over Tourist in the $400,000 Shoemaker Mile (G1) at Santa Anita Park. Midnight Storm is one of five graded stakes winners by Pioneerof the Nile, led of course by 2015 Triple Crown winner and Horse of the […]