Category: General News

WinStar Farm announced 2014 stud fees for its expanded 23-stallion roster, led again by leading sire Distorted Humor who stands for $100,000 S&N, and emerging top sire Speightstown, whose fee will be $80,000 S&N following another stellar year that saw the son of Gone West move towards the top of the General Sires list again […]

Stallion Stands & Nurses Fee Artie Schiller $15,000 Bellamy Road $17,500 Bodemeister $30,000 Colonel John $17,500 Congrats $35,000 Distorted Humor $100,000 Drosselmeyer $15,000 Gemologist $15,000 Hold Me Back $6,000 Kodiak Kowboy $5,000 Maimonides $2,500 More Than Ready $50,000 Overanalyze – NEW $10,000 Paynter – NEW $25,000 Pioneerof the Nile $20,000 Sidney’s Candy $15,000 Speightstown $80,000 Spring At […]

Millionaire Careless Jewel, one of the first in-foal mares offered at auction by brilliant Grade 1 winner Bodemeister, brought a winning bid of $1.85 million at the Fasig-Tipton November sale on Monday evening. Bodemeister, who entered stud at WinStar Farm in 2013, stood the 2013 season for $30,000 LFS&N, when he was bred to 173 […]

Grade I winner Love and Pride, in foal to Distorted Humor, brought $4.9 million at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November sale on Monday. The sale price was the second highest of the prestigious one-day auction. Consigned by Three Chimneys Sales, agent, the 5-year-old daughter of A.P. Indy was bought by Borges Torrealba Holdings. Love and Pride […]

Spring Venture, the multiple graded stakes-winning daughter of Spring At Last, sold for $625,000 as a racing/broodmare prospect in Monday’s Fasig-Tipton November sale. The 3-year-old filly, consigned as hip No. 156 by Bluewater Sales, agent, was purchased by Greg James Perry. Spring Venture, winner of the 2012 Natalma S. (G2) and Mazarine S. (G3), continued […]

Making just his second career start, Cairo Prince dominated Sunday’s Grade 2 Nashua S. at Aqueduct to give WinStar freshman sire Pioneerof the Nile his first stakes winner. The Nashua win pushed Pioneerof the Nile’s progeny earnings to $572,765, putting him in the second spot on the Freshman Sire list. Cairo Prince, coming off a […]

Fullfaithandcredit cruised to a 2 1/2-length maiden special weight victory in his debut on Friday to give Colonel John his sixth winner from his first crop of runners. Colonel John, who stood at WinStar Farm this year for $15,000 LFS&N, is in the top 5 on the First Year Sire list in both earnings and […]

WinStar Farm’s Harlan’s Holiday, North America’s reigning champion juvenile sire, had to be euthanized late Friday at Haras Firmamento Farm in Mar de Plata, Argentina, where he was standing for the Southern Hemisphere breeding season. He was 14. After a normal day and an uneventful cover this afternoon, Harlan’s Holiday suddenly collapsed when returning to […]

Ready to Act and Verrazano give their sire More Than Ready his two chances at this year’s Nov. 1-2 Breeders’ Cup championships at Santa Anita Park. The brilliant 3-year-old Verrazano, More Than Ready’s lifetime leading North American earner, will go postward from stall 10 in the $1 million Dirt Mile (G1). Undefeated in six lifetime […]

With five starters in this year’s Breeders’ Cup championship, Speightstown, the nation’s second leading sire, is poised to take over the top spot after the Nov. 1-2 races at Santa Anita Park. Speightstown’s hand is particularly strong in the $1.5 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) on Saturday, with a trio of starters in the 12-horse […]