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With two colts and three fillies listed from his first crop, WinStar stallion Colonel John tied for the top spot with number of horses on The Jockey Club’s 2013 Experimental Free Handicap, released Jan. 29 by The Jockey Club. The Free Handicap, published annually since 1935, is a weight-based assessment of the previous year’s leading […]

Colonel John’s Here’s Johnny won a three-way stretch battle to collar the top prize in Tuesday’s $100,000 OBS Championship S.  for 3-year-old colts and geldings, prevailing by a nose and neck in the tight finish. Colonel John finished 2013 in the third spot on the Freshman Sire list, with Grade 2 Sorrento S. winner Concave […]

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 […]

Top-five Freshman sire Colonel John will have two Breeders’ Cup starters from his first crop in this weekend’s year-end championships at Santa Anita Park. The improving Colonel Joan drew post 3 for the $1 million Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) on Friday. The bay filly, trained by Eoin Harty for Kathy Harty and Mark DeDomenico, showed […]

Here’s Johnny made the best of opening weekend at Keeneland on Oct. 10 when he won a $58,000 Allowance at the racetrack. It was the second win for Here’s Johnny, who also placed second in the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Stakes in his last start. Here’s Johnny was bred by Rick Sutherland and is out of […]

Colonel John’s first-crop 2-year-old Here’s Johnny made the best of opening weekend at Keeneland on Oct. 10 when he won a $58,000 Allowance at the racetrack. It was the second win for Here’s Johnny, who also placed second in the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Stakes in his last start. Here’s Johnny, an impressive maiden winner earlier […]

With five winners, four stakes horses, and $368,172 in progeny earnings, Colonel John is Kentucky’s leading freshman sire of 2013. His latest winner came Sept. 14 at Golden Gate Fields, as the filly Time and Tides won her debut in sharp fashion by 2 1/4-lengths (VIDEO). Time and Tides, a Paul and Karen Eggert homebred, […]

Colonel John’s 2-year-old filly Concave moved to the head of her class with a half-length victory in the $150,500 Sorrento S. (G2) to become the initial stakes winner for the first-crop WinStar stallion. The victory moved Colonel John to the top of the Kentucky Freshman Sire list. Colonel John, who stood the 2013 at WinStar […]

Colonel John scored his third winner from five starters on Thursday as Sweetsoutherndame pulled clear in the stretch en route to an easy 5 3/4-length win at Presque Isle Downs. Colonel John’s three winners is tops among all first-crop sires and he is also ranked third in Kentucky by progeny earnings. Bred and owned (in […]

Colonel John sired another impressive maiden special winner, when his son Here’s Johnny won his career debut at Churchill Downs today. A $220,000 OBS sale-topping yearling, Here’s Johnny is among the arsenal of famed juvenile trainer Wesley Ward, who had him primed and ready for combat. Breaking from post 5, Here’s Johnny laid close to […]