Category: General News

For the second straight year Speightstown’s Canadian sprint star Essence Hit Man was named the Sovereign Award winner in male sprint division at the awards ceremony held April 19 at Woodbine Racecourse. Essence Hit Man was his usual stellar self last season, winning three of six starts and earning $379,357. All three of his stakes […]

Pure Prize’s latest stakes winner Pure Soul set a track record of 1:08 4/5 for 1,200 meters in the April 21 San Luis Classic at the Hippodrome La Punta in Argentina. Pure Prize, a leading son of Storm Cat at stud, stands this year at WinStar for $7,500 LFS&N. Pure Soul, a two and a […]

Fearsome’s three-length win in the $50,000 Charles Town Dash H. on Saturday night kicked off a stakes daily double for his sire Speightstown. Dance to Bristol came home an easy winner about a half hour later in the $200,000 Sugar Maple S. at the West Virginia oval. Four-year-old Fearsome wasted little time asserting himself in […]

WinStar President & CEO Elliott Walden sits down with WinStar GM Chris Baker and WinStar Director of Bloodstock David Hanley for a round-table discussion on first foals from WinStar’s young stallions Drosselmeyer and Sidney’s Candy. The guys have seen a large sample size of foals by each of the aforementioned Grade 1-winning stallions, and they […]

A More Than Ready colt for the highest price of 320,000 guineas (US$516,129) at the first session of the Tattersalls Craven breeze-up sale April 17 at Park Paddocks in Newmarket, England. John Egan’s Friarstown Bloodstock sold the session-topping juvenile, who was bought by Anthony Stroud Bloodstock for an undisclosed client. “He is a very nice […]

WinStar Farm has once again partnered with jockey Calvin Borel in the Kentucky Derby. On Monday, Borel committed to ride Louisiana Derby winner Revolutionary in this year’s Run for the Roses on May 4th. Borel has won the Kentucky Derby three times in the last six runnings of the storied race, including aboard WinStar’s Super […]

Rontos Racing Stable Corp.’s Street Girl won the first stakes race of her career in thrilling fashion with a nose victory in the off-the-turf, $100,000 Calder Oaks on April 13 at the south Florida oval. The 3-year-old daughter of WinStar sophomore stallion Street Hero is the leading earner of 2013 for her sire, who is […]

WinStar Farm’s More Than Ready appeal on the international realm was on display at Australia’s prestigious Inglis Bloodstock Easter Yearling sale, with 12 lots selling for more than $250,000, led by a $700,000 colt. The southern hemisphere yearling, born in Sept. 2011, was consigned by Widden Stud and purchased by Shadwell Australia. The royally-bred bay […]

A colt from the first crop of multiple Grade 1 winner Kodiak Kowboy brought $140,000 at the April Keeneland 2-year-olds in Training sale, more than 21 times his 2013 stud fee of $6,500. Consigned by Kirkwood Stables, agent, and cataloged as hip No. 117, the dark bay or brown colt caught the attention of plenty […]

A colt from the first crop of WinStar Farm stallion Pioneerof the Nile brought the highest price of any freshman stallion at the Keeneland April 2-year-old sale, with impressive winning bid of $340,000. This was one of the top 10 prices paid at the one-day event on April 8. Pioneerof the Nile, who stands this […]