Category: General News

MdSpWt daily double for Super Saver

Leading First-crop sire Super Saver upped his total of winners this year to 10 with a pair of maiden special weight winners on Thursday.  Super Saver is the only freshman sire with more than $1 million in progeny earnings. WinStar recently announced Super Saver’s 2015 stud fee would be $35,000 S&N. Thursday at Belmont Park, […]

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WinStar Farm sets 2015 stud fees

WinStar Farm announced 2015 stud fees for most of its 22-stallion roster, which is headed again by leading sire Distorted Humor at $100,000 S&N, and includes a new fee for leading freshman sire Super Saver. Super Saver will stand 2015 for $35,000 stands and nurses fresh off a stellar first crop of 2-year-olds in 2014 […]

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Tiznow, More Than Ready shine at Fasig

Tiznow and More Than Ready added to the luster of WinStar’s sales results at the Oct. 20-22 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings sale with two of the top five-selling colts during the three-day auction. Hip No. 652, by Tiznow, brought a winning bid of $320,000 from Pegasus Bridge LLC. Consigned by Lanes End, agent, the colt […]

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Super Saver colt tops Day 1 at F-T Oct. sale

Super Saver, who has one of his generation’s best yearling sale averages, at $94,190, had the session-topper during day 1 of the Oct. 20-22 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings sale with a $370,000 colt purchased by Fred Seitz’s Brookdale Farm on behalf of International Equities. Consigned by Pope McLean’s Crestwood Farm agency, the colt is the […]

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WinStar Farm sets 2015 stud fees

WinStar Farm announced 2015 stud fees for most of its 22-stallion roster, led again by leading sire Distorted Humor who stands for $100,000 S&N, and emerging top sire Speightstown, whose fee will again be $80,000 S&N following another year with the son of Gone West firmly placed in the top 10 on the 2014 General […]

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Super Saver gets 4th SW from first crop

Lil Super Bear became Super Saver’s fourth stakes winner from his stellar first crop of runners on Oct. 14 with a handy 5 ½-length score in the $55,000 Permian Basin S. at Zia Park (VIDEO). The WinStar-bred 2-year-old filly is now 2-for-3 lifetime and has helped push Super Saver’s progeny earnings over the $1 million […]

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Speightstown gets 16th SW of 2014

Passion for Action’s authoritative win in Sunday’s $250,000 Cup and Saucer S. made the 2-year-old colt the 16th stakes winner of the year for Speightstown. Speightstown’s runners have earned more than $7.2 million this year, putting the WinStar stallion once again in the top 10 on the General Sire list. After being a fairly close […]

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Lawn Ranger tastes success in Bourbon (G3)

U S Ranger’s newest stakes winner Lawn Ranger earned his way into the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) on Oct. 31 with a well-deserved victory in the $250,000 Bourbon S. (G3) Sunday at Keeneland. The Bourbon was a Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” race. After a promising year with his first crop […]

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Grade Two 1-2 for Artie Schiller

Artie Schiller registered a rare feat in the $200,000 City of Hope S. (G2) on Saturday when his offspring finished first and second in the one mile turf contest at Santa Anita, with Big Bane Theory besting Mr. Commons by a length and one half. The City of Hope marked Big Bane Theory’s first graded […]

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Tiznow filly makes grade in G2 Indiana Oaks

Tiz Windy powered to a 2 ¾-length victory in the $200,000 Indiana Oaks (G2) on Saturday evening, the tenth stakes winner of 2014 for Tiznow. A perennial leading sire, Tiznow’s progeny have topped the $6.3 million in earnings this year. Tiz Windy was in the back half of the 11-horse field for the first half-mile, […]

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