Saturday, Oct 9 from 10am-1pm, WinStar Farm will be having a Derby Trophy Tailgate at Keeneland near the Keene Barn – find the WinStar Farm horse van & tent. Get your photo with the 2010 KY Derby trophy! We want to share the trophy w our fans – a great way for us to share […]
[ Read More ]Distorted Humor’s son Sharp Humor has figured prominently among the First-Crop Sire leaders all season long. Currently, the WinStar stallion sits in 3rd place with 13 winners and nearly $570,000 in progeny earnings to date. A colt named Brickyard Fast will be looking to add to those totals this weekend at Keeneland when he takes […]
[ Read More ]ELMONT, N.Y. – The connections of Haynesfield (Speightstown) found out Saturday what they were hoping to learn eight months earlier – that their New York-bred colt is indeed Grade 1 material. Haynesfield’s four-length, gate-to-wire victory in Saturday’s $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park may have been the product of a quality speed horse […]
[ Read More ]On Nov. 4, 2000, a 3-year-old who was only five months removed from his first career victory won the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs. A decade later, a son of Tiznow will attempt to pull off a similar feat. Morning Line, who didn’t win his first race until June 27 at Monmouth Park, won […]
[ Read More ]First-crop sire Sharp Humor got his first black-type winner Sept. 15 when his son Glint won the $100,000 Fitz Dixon Jr. Memorial Juvenile Stakes at Presque Isle Downs. Glint is a homebred of WinStar Farm, which also stands Sharp Humor. The colt is also the first stakes winner for his dam Glimmer, an unraced daughter […]
[ Read More ]A strapping son of Distorted Humor was hammered down for $2,050,000 during the Sept. 13 session of the Keeneland September yearling sale. Bought by agent Mike Ryan on behalf of a new, undisclosed client based overseas, the colt was consigned by Lane’s End, agent. Ryan said it was undecided whether the colt, who is the […]
[ Read More ]Pathfork (by Distorted Humor) kept his unblemished record intact with a hard-fought victory over Casamento in the boylesports.com Vincent O’Brien National Stakes (Ire-I) at the Curragh Sept. 11. The highly-regarded Casamento, who was making just his second career start, broke alertly under Declan McDonogh and went straight to the front. They were followed by High […]
[ Read More ]When WinStar Farm’s Blue Laser crossed the finish line a comfortable length in front of seven other MdSpWt juveniles at Toronto’s Woodbine Racetrack this past weekend, it marked the 13th winner for freshman sire Bluegrass Cat. Bluegrass Cat leads all freshman sires in this category and is also 2nd on the list with progeny earnings […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm is very pleased to announce the “homecoming” of Hedge Fund, the full brother to the 2010 Kentucky Derby winner, Super Saver. Here is a touching video showing the arrival of Hedge Fund at WinStar Farm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVga4bFbnbI According to Bill Casner, Chairman and Co-Owner of WinStar Farm: “We made arrangements to have Hedge Fund […]
[ Read More ]Talk about a catalogue update. Hysterical Cat, a full-brother to a colt who sells tonight in the second and final session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga NY Bred Preferred Yearling sale, ran away to an impressive debut victory over New York-breds in the second race today at Saratoga Race Course. Hysterical Cat joins the New York […]
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