Category: Featured Winstar News

WinStar Farm Open Houses set for Jan. 7-11

WinStar Farm will host an Open House for breeders each day from Jan. 7-11, between 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The open houses will be held at the farm’s stallion complex on Paynes Mill Road in Versailles. Visitors are welcome without an appointment to view the WinStar roster for the 2024 season, led by Constitution […]

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Constitution colt earns first Kentucky Derby points of 2023 with Smarty Jones S. victory

Catching Freedom garnered the first points 10 of the year in the Road to the Kentucky Derby with his powerful score in the $300,000 Smarty Jones S. on New Year’s Day at Oaklawn Park. A 3-year-old son of Constitution, Catching Freedom was making his stakes debut in the 1 1/16-mile Smarty Jones. He got shuffled […]

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Constitution colt debuts with a TDN Rising Star victory at Gulfstream Park

Born Noble turned in a stellar first-out performance Dec. 30 at Gulfstream, rolling to a 5 ½-length maiden special weight victory to earn the coveted TDN Rising Star tag. The bay colt is the ninth lifetime Rising Star for Constitution. The WinStar stallion’s progeny have had an excellent 2023 on the track. Constitution is the […]

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Constitution colt much the best in $100,000 Sugar Bowl S.

Legalize made his stakes debut a winning one on Dec. 23 at Fair Grounds with a 2 ¾-length victory in the $100,000 Sugar Bowl S. for 2-year-olds. The chestnut juvenile is one of Constitution’s four 2-year-old stakes winners this year. The WinStar stallion is in the top 15 on the 2023 General Sire list and […]

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Audible colt debuts with sharp maiden special weight score

Top-10 First-Crop sire Audible tallied his 20th winner of the year on Dec. 23 at Fair Grounds when Autie registered a 2 ¾-length maiden special weight win in his career debut. Autie, trained by Steve Asmussen, broke on top in the six-furlong contest before backing off to chased Achromedoutcat through the first quarter-mile. He moved […]

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Nice Neighbor the newest stakes winner for Good Samaritan

Nice Neighbor held off a challenge in deep stretch to earn her first black type win in the Dec. 15 Useeit S. at Remington Park. The 3-year-old filly is the six stakes winner of the year for Good Samaritan, who has more than a dozen stakes horses worldwide in 2023. A top-10 Second-Crop sire this […]

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WinStar Farm’s Speightstown euthanized

WinStar Farm’s Speightstown, Eclipse Award-winning Champion Sprinter of 2004 and one of North America’s most prolific and most versatile sires, had to be euthanized on Friday, Dec. 8, due to foot issues from old age, the farm announced today. Speightstown, a Taylor Made/WinStar stallion, was 25 years old. “Speightstown was a foundational sire for WinStar […]

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Audible filly shines in scoring second straight stakes win

Chi Chi came through an opening between horses on her way to a dominating win in the $60,000 Juvenile Fillies Sprint S. Saturday at Gulfstream Park to give the 2-year-old Audible filly her second consecutive added-money win. Chi Chi, who broke her maiden on Sept. 24 in the E. L. Gaylord S. at Remington Park, […]

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Always Dreaming’s Saudi Crown primed for Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1)

Leading Second-Crop sire Always Dreaming will have his first Breeders’ Cup starter Saturday at Santa Anita Park with Saudi Crown in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1). The 3-year-old colt has climbed to the top of his class with a trio of top-class efforts over the past few months. After losing both the Dwyer […]

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Quartet of WinStar stallions with entries on 2YO spotlight day at Breeders’ Cup

Four WinStar stallions will be represented on Friday’s Breeders’ Cup card at Santa Anita, from a trio of runners by stalwart Speightstown to the first Breeders’ Cup runner by top-10 First-Crop sire Audible. That quartet is joined by Outwork’s multiple graded winner Brightwork and Good Samaritan’s well-regarded Can Group. Speightstown, himself a Breeders’ Cup winner […]

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