Category: General News

WinStar launches 2011 Fantasy Derby contest

*WinStar Farm’s Fantasy Derby Back by Popular Demand*   It’s time to play Fantasy Derby again! Get your Fantasy Thoroughbred Stable up and running again now – Fantasy Derby 2011 starts now!   WinStar Farm’s much anticipated and highly popular Fantasy Derby contest is back! Fantasy Derby 2011 is free for racing fans, easy to […]

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Bellamy Road’s Position Limit weighted at 116 on Experimental Handicap

The brilliant filly Position Limit was weighted at 116 pounds on the 2010 Experimental Free Handicap, just seven pounds off the top weight of 2-year-old champion Awesome Feather. Position Limit was the leading earner of 2010 for her sire Bellamy Road, who finished his first year as a sire with four stakes horses and ranked […]

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Hold Me Back Dream Big Program

Click here to read about the WinStar Farm “Dream Big” Program. Download PDF

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Two-time champion U S Ranger sires first foal

U S Ranger, a two-time Irish champion by Danzig, sired his first foal on Jan. 20 when a bay filly was born at Glendalough Farm in Lexington, Ky. Bred by Chip Muth, the newborn filly is out of the Slew o’Gold mare No More Ironing, dam of multiple stakes winners Sneaky Quiet and Ironman Dehere. […]

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DRF’s Brad Free: Here come the Artie Schillers

Brad Free, California racing analyst for the Daily Racing Form, tabbed Artie Schiller as ‘Hot’ in his “Who’s Hot, Who’s Not” write-up in the Saturday, Jan. 22 edition of the Form: “Here come the Artie Schillers. Members of the first crop sired by the 2005 Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) winner are now 3-year-olds, and they […]

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WinStar wins Eclipse for Outstanding Owner

WinStar Farm, which triumphed in two of the three legs of the 2010 Triple Crown, was rewarded with the Eclipse Award for outstanding owner of the year when they were announced Jan. 17. Then owned by longtime partners Kenny Troutt and Bill Casner, WinStar became the first owner to win two Triple Crown events in […]

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Drosselmeyer back in training

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Drosselmeyer, unraced since winning the Belmont Stakes last June, has had two easy three-furlong breezes at Payson Park and could make his return to racing within a couple of months, said trainer Bill Mott. Drosselmeyer has recovered from an ankle injury that led Mott to announce in early July that the […]

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WinStar Stallions Have Great Year

WinStar stallions had a great 2010. Distorted Humor finished second in the General Sire standings with earnings of $8,719,841 losing to Giant’s Causeway by less than $90,000.  This is his second year in a row finishing 2nd and has finished in the top five, six years in a row.  He continues to prove himself year […]

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Harlan’s Holiday comes to WinStar

WinStar Farm has acquired a significant interest in prominent sire Harlan’s Holiday, and the Versailles, Kentucky farm will stand the 11-year-old stallion during 2011 breeding season for an advertised fee of $25,000. “Harlan’s Holiday is a stallion we’ve always thought a lot of, and we’re excited about the opportunity to build on the early success […]

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Brethren looking to follow brother’s footsteps

Uncle Mo stated his case as the top two-year-old male in the country with an emphatic 4¼-length win in the Grey Goose Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) on November 6 at Churchill Downs, but another colt from Todd Pletcher’s barn showed a glimpse of tremendous potential three weeks later at the historic Louisville track. Brethren closed […]

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