“They don’t come much better looking than this fellow,” said Fasig-Tipton announcer Terence Collier of a Street Cry colt that brought $800,000 just before the midway point of the Saratoga select yearling sale Aug. 2 in upstate New York. Sheikh Mohammed’s bloodstock manager, John Ferguson, signed the sale ticket for the handsome dark bay or […]
[ Read More ]Super Saver – the Kentucky Derby winner who finished fourth in yesterday’s Grade 1 Haskell Invitational, missing third by just a nose – will make his next appearance in the 141st running of the Grade 1, $1 million Travers at Saratoga . “I thought it was a pretty good performance, but he did get […]
[ Read More ]Led by Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner Super Saver and Preakness Stakes (gr. I) winner Lookin At Lucky, one of the deepest fields in the 43-year history of the IZOD Haskell Invitational (gr. I) was drawn July 29 at Monmouth Park. A field of eight 3-year-olds was entered for the $1 […]
[ Read More ]A stallion halter from 2010 Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver is being auctioned to benefit the Halo House Foundation. Included with the halter is a wonderful 8″ x 10″ photo of Super Saver racing to a Derby victory signed by Doug Cauthen and Elliott Walden of WinStar Farm, Trainer Todd Pletcher and Jockey Calvin Borel. […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm is pleased to announce the winner of its unique “Shoes Contest” in honor of 2010 Belmont Stakes Winner and WinStar Farm’s DROSSELMEYER. The winning contestant was randomly selected out of the thousands of thoroughbred fans who entered the contest. The winning fan, Kim Magan of Orofino, Idaho not only gets the distinction of […]
[ Read More ]The grade I-winning Bluegrass Cat is off and running with his first crop of 2-year-olds in 2010. He is the leading first-crop sire with more than $220,000 in progeny earnings and seven winners so far (through July 11). He is the product of crossing a sire and damsire that have a common broodmare sire as […]
[ Read More ]Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum made WinStar Farm and partners an offer they could not refuse when he bought Grade 1 winner Any Given Saturday from them for stud duty. On Tuesday during the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July sale of selected yearlings, WinStar and partners threw a little of that money back at their former […]
[ Read More ]ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The Bill Mott-trained Hold Me Back ($9.20) turned back a stern challenge from 11-1 shot Pool Play to take the Grade 3, $216,400 Dominion Day Stakes at Woodbine Thursday. Hold Me Back raced in mid-pack on the outside in the 1 1/4-mile route, as Mast Track set honest fractions of 24.42. 48.12, […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm’s Super Saver, winner of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), will make his next start in the Izod Haskell Invitational (gr. I) at Monmouth Park Aug. 1, trainer Todd Pletcher confirmed June 27. Pletcher made the decision after Super Saver worked five furlongs in 1:01.82 at Belmont Park earlier in […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm’s Super Name Game Contest Winner, Carroll Mayfield, visited the farm today to meet Kentucky Derby Winner Super Saver’s half brother, Superfection, and their dam Supercharger. “I feel as if I’m a part owner of him” Carroll said after taking photos with the pair and watch them being turned out. Her personal tour gave […]
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