WinStar Farm announced today that it has secured an NIL deal with University of Kentucky basketball player Reed Sheppard to promote WinStar stallion Life Is Good. A freshman guard for John Calipari’s Wildcats, Sheppard was Mr. Kentucky Basketball in 2023 and a McDonald’s All-American. Also honored as the 2022 Kentucky Gatorade Player of the Year, […]
[ Read More ]My Mane Squeeze made it three stakes wins in a row Sunday at Aqueduct with a dominating performance in the $100,000 Maddie May S., romping by 4 ¾-lengths. The 3-year-old Audible filly won the Franklin Square S. over the same track a month ago, and closed out her 2-year-old campaign on Oct. 29 with a […]
[ Read More ]Life’s an Audible unleashed a powerful stretch run to win a three-horse photo in Saturday’s $175,000 Sweetest Chant S. (G3) at Gulfstream Park. The victory marked the first stakes win for the 3-year-old Audible filly, who previously had finished second in both last month’s Ginger Brew S. at Gulfstream and the Miss Grillo S. (G2) […]
[ Read More ]Stakes veteran Promise Keeper and Neat both tallied black type wins on Saturday, giving Constitution his second and third stakes winners of the new year. Promise Keeper, a 6-year-old in the care of trainer Robertino Diodoro, was a front-running winner of the $150,000 Fifth Season S. at Oaklawn Park. He was pressed through six furlongs […]
[ Read More ]Always Dreaming will have his first starter in next month’s $20 million Saudi Cup (G1) at King Abdulaziz Racecourse in Riyadh after Saudi Crown dominated the Louisiana S. (G3) Saturday at Fair Grounds. The newly-turned 4-year-old, who won last year’s $1 million Pennsylvania Derby (G1), dominated his competition from the outset of Saturday’s 1 1/16-mile […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm’s Life Is Good, winner of the 2021 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1), sired his first reported foal when a filly out of the graded stakes-placed Verrazano mare Shesa Mystery was foaled at Brookstone Farm in Paris, Ky, on Saturday night, Jan. 13. The filly, whose dam finished second in the 2021 Iowa Oaks […]
[ Read More ]My Mane Squeeze rallied to win the $100,000 Franklin Square S. Sunday at Aqueduct to begin her 2024 campaign where she left off last year – with a stakes victory. After winning the $200,000 Maid of the Mist S. on Oct. 29, My Mane Squeeze got a brief freshening before her return on Sunday. She […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm’s Nashville, a brilliantly fast son of Speightstown, sired his first reported foal when a filly was born on Monday morning, Jan. 8 at Murmur Farm in Maryland, it was announced today. The precocious filly is produced from the stakes-winning Tapiture mare Why Not Tonight, who is out of a half-sister to stakes-placed Tomica’s […]
[ Read More ]Always Dreaming got 2024 off to a strong with three winners in the first week of the year, topped by Tocayo’s front-running score in the Dania Beach S. Jan. 6 at Gulfstream Park. Tocayo, who was making just his second stakes start on Saturday, asserted himself from the start of the one-mile turf race and […]
[ Read More ]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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