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WinStar Farm has set 2021 stud fees for its 22-stallion roster, headed by Speightstown who will stand for $90,000 S&N and leading Second-Crop Sire Constitution who will stand for $85,000 S&N. WinStar will further bolster its roster for the upcoming breeding season by welcoming new stallions Improbable, Laoban, Tom’s d’Etat, Global Campaign, and Promises Fulfilled. […]

WinStar Farm’s Good Samaritan, a versatile millionaire son of Harlan’s Holiday and a Graded stakes winner on dirt and turf, sired his first reported foal on Jan. 15 when a filly was born at Windmill Farm in Versailles. Bred by Ellen Kill Kelley, the filly is produced from the Graded stakes-placed and stakes-producing Vicar mare […]

WinStar Farm has set 2020 stud fees for its 21-stallion roster, headed by perennial leading sire More Than Ready who will stand for an unchanged fee of $80,000 S&N this upcoming breeding season. WinStar also welcomes new stallions to its roster in Florida Derby (G1) winner Audible who will stand his initial season at stud […]

Good Samaritan, a versatile millionaire son of Harlan’s Holiday and a Grade 2 winner at two, three, and four, has been retired and will stand the 2019 breeding season at WinStar Farm. He is currently available for inspection and will stand for $12,500 S&N. “He is the last great son of Harlan’s Holiday, one of […]

WinStar Farm announced 2019 stud fees for its 22-stallion roster today, again headed by Pioneerof the Nile who will stand for a fee of $110,000 S&N this upcoming breeding season. WinStar also welcomes two new stallions to its roster in Always Dreaming, winner of the 2017 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Florida Derby (G1), and Jim […]

Good Samaritan made a triumphant return to the races in Saturday’s $400,000 New Orleans H. (G2), rallying from far off the pace to score by 2 1/4-lengths. Owned by WinStar Farm along with China Horse Club, SF Racing LLC and Head of Plains Partners, Good Samaritan picked up $240,000 and upped his lifetime earnings to […]

Good Samaritan rolled down the Saratoga stretch, passing both Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Always Dreaming and Preakness S. (G1) champ Cloud Computing to take Saturday’s $600,000 Jim Dandy S. (G2) at Saratoga. Owned by the partnership of WinStar Farm, Head of Plains Partners, China Horse Club and SF Racing Group, Good Samaritan had never started […]

Bodemeister’s Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Always Dreaming will make his first start since the May 20 Preakness S. (G1) in the $600,000 Jim Dandy S. (G2) Saturday at Saratoga Race Course. Always Dreaming’s meteoric rise in the first half of the year culminated with his historic Derby victory. After breaking his maiden by a dozen […]

The following article by Eric Mitchell is courtesy of the Blood-Horse  Six years ago Kenny Troutt’s WinStar Farm began implementing a plan to purposefully increase the scope and quality of both its broodmare band and its stallion roster. The 2,400-acre farm near Versailles, Ky., grew its stallion roster from seven to 22 and expanded the […]

WinStar Farm announced the launch of the WinStar Incentive Network – or WIN for short, a new rewards program for breeders of WinStar-sired racehorses that immediately goes into effect in time for this week’s Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita. “Quality and customer satisfaction. Those are the single biggest drivers for everything we do at WinStar, […]