Category: General News

Runhappy rolled to a five-length victory Tuesday evening at Indiana Downs in a very quick 1:09.82 for six furlongs, earning a 100 Beyer Speed Figure in just the third lifetime start for the 3-year-old son of Super Saver. Super Saver’s 25 winners this year, led by multiple stakes winner Competitive Edge, ranks in the top […]

Gemologist’s first yearlings at the July 9 Fasig-Tipton July yearling sale in central Kentucky included a pair of six-figure colts. With a total of five lots sold, the WinStar stallion averaged $78,000, more than five times his stud fee of $15,000.  Gary Broad secured hip No. 288 with a winning bid of $112,000 from the […]

A quintet of yearlings from the first crop of Bodemeister, led by a $250,000 colt, sold for an average of $150,000 at the July 9 Fasig-Tipton July yearling sale in central Kentucky.  Grade 1 winner Bodemeister, who stood the 2015 season at WinStar for $30,000 live foal and is available this year for $15,000 for […]

Hold for More raced to an effortless 6 ½-length victory in the $60,000 Victor Myers S. Friday at Canterbury Park, the second black-type win for the 3-year-old son of Hold Me Back. With more than $900,000 in progeny earnings to date this season, Hold Me Back is a top-15 Second Crop sire. Winner of the […]

Force the Pass’ win in the $1.25 million Belmont Invitational Derby (G1), coupled with Speightster’s stellar victory in the $500,000 Dwyer S. (G3), vaulted Speightstown’s 2015 progeny earnings past the $5.5 million mark, sixth on this year’s General Sire list. Speightstown’s nine stakes winners have also racked up a second-best 14 stakes victories for the […]

Kyle Wilson has been promoted to Stallion Seasons Director to oversee that department at WinStar Farm, and he has brought on Caroline Walsh to join the Nominations team. “We are thrilled to be able to promote Kyle Wilson from within the WinStar family to head up our stallion-season sales, and excited about the opportunity to […]

Donworth drew off to a devastating 11-length victory in Saturday’s $50,000 Stanton S. at Delaware Park to become Tiznow’s 63rd lifetime stakes winner while making just his fourth career start.  Three-year-old Donworth, who was finished second in the Lexington S. (G3) at Keeneland, was the class of the Stanton field, taking over the lead half-way […]

A son of Super Saver consigned by Bobby Dodd, Agent, went to The Three Amigos for $575,000 to top the third session of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s 2015 June Sale of Two-Year-Olds and Horses of Racing Age, which runs June 16-19. The price tied the highest ever paid at the June sale. The bay […]

Grade 1 winner Gemologist will shuttle to Haras Santa Olga Farm in Santiago, Chile for the Southern Hemisphere breeding season, and the regally-bred Grade 1 winner is set to enter quarantine next Monday, with his last mares to be covered from his American book this Sunday. Gemologist, who stands at WinStar Farm, will be shuttling […]

Zayat Stables’ homebred superstar American Pharoah made history on Saturday, winning the Belmont S. (G1) to become racing’s 12th Triple Crown winner. The 5 ½-length victory was the third-largest Triple Crown winning margin. Pioneerof the Nile, who Zayat also campaigned to a runner-up finish in the 2009 Kentucky Derby (G1), has developed into the most […]