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WinStar Farm’s Speightstown, Eclipse Award-winning Champion Sprinter of 2004 and one of North America’s most prolific and most versatile sires, had to be euthanized on Friday, Dec. 8, due to foot issues from old age, the farm announced today. Speightstown, a Taylor Made/WinStar stallion, was 25 years old. “Speightstown was a foundational sire for WinStar […]

Four WinStar stallions will be represented on Friday’s Breeders’ Cup card at Santa Anita, from a trio of runners by stalwart Speightstown to the first Breeders’ Cup runner by top-10 First-Crop sire Audible. That quartet is joined by Outwork’s multiple graded winner Brightwork and Good Samaritan’s well-regarded Can Group. Speightstown, himself a Breeders’ Cup winner […]

Speightstown’s undefeated colt Prince of Monaco kept his perfect record unblemished in three starts with a victory in the $300,000 Del Mar Futurity (G1) on Sunday, Sept. 10. It was the second straight graded stakes win for Prince of Monaco, who captured the Best Pal S. (G3) by 4 ¾ lengths in his previous start. […]

Speightstown’s Prince of Monaco stamped himself as the early leader of the west coast 2-year-old division with an authoritative victory in Sunday’s $200,000 Best Pal S. (G3) at Del Mar. The dark bay juvenile is the 65th lifetime graded stakes winner and 138th black type earner overall for Speightstown. Prince of Monaco, trained by Bob […]

Speightstown added two new stakes winners to his prolific stats in recent days, with Ultimate pulling off a shocker in the $100,000 Iowa Sprint S. on July 7 at Prairie Meadows and Chiseler winning the $100,000 Dade Park Dash S. a day later at Ellis Park. Ultimate was well off the early pace on Friday […]

Gold Sweep, making just his second lifetime start, broke his maiden in emphatic style in the $150,000 Tremont S. on June 11 at Belmont Park, drawing off with complete authority in the final furlong to score by nine lengths. After getting beat just a neck in his May 18 debut at Churchill Downs, Gold Sweep […]

Speightstown’s top-tier filly Lady Speightspeare took home both Champion Turf Female and Champion Older Main Track Female honors at the 48th Annual Sovereign Awards ceremony hosted by the Jockey Club of Canada on May 14. Her 4-year-old campaign of 2022 included graded wins in the Nassau S. (G2), Seaway S. (G3) and Trillium S. (G3), […]

Speightstown chalked up a pair of stakes winners on the final Sunday of March to give the perennial leading sire a total of 10 stakes horses to date in 2023. And on Saturday’s Dubai World Cup card the venerable Switzerland was second by a nose in the $2 million Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1), a race […]

Speightstown, already the sire of a pair of Breeders’ Cup winners, has four chances to add to that tally with his quartet of entries going postward during Saturday’s championship card. Leading the way is Olympiad with post 7 the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1), race 11 at 5:40 p.m. ET.  The bay colt, owned […]

Heywoods Beach prevailed in Sunday’s Tokyo City Cup (G3) at Santa Anita Park to give the 5-year-old son of Speightstown his second graded stakes win in his last three starts. The dark bay has seemingly found a fondness for dirt marathon events, winning both Sunday and the July 24 Cougar II (G3) at 12 furlongs […]