Category: General News

For the second straight year, WinStar Farm will hold drawings to give away 13 free 2014 stallion seasons through the farm’s “Breed To Win” promotion. This year’s drawings will be held on Saturday, Feb. 8th, and breeders who have signed and returned a 2014 live foal contract to one of WinStar’s participating 13 stallions by […]

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 […]

Distorted Humor’s Fire With Fire found the Turf Paradise grass course to his liking on Saturday, scoring a game neck victory in a three-way photo in the $75,000 Cotton Fitzsimmons Mile H., the third stakes win for the newly turned 5-year-old. Trained by Neil Drysdale for long-time client David Heerensperger, Fire With Fire is a […]

WinStar Farm announced Friday the addition of Kyle Wilson to the farm’s Sales and Nominations team. “I’ve been impressed with Kyle’s professionalism, energy, and expertise, all of which will serve him well when working with breeders and our shareholders,” said WinStar President & CEO Elliott Walden. “He will be a fine representative of our stallions […]

WinStar Farm’s Bodemeister, the brilliant Grade 1-winning millionaire by Empire Maker, recently sired three bay fillies as his first reported foals to arrive from his introductory crop at stud. One of the bay fillies is out of the multiple stakes-winning Speightstown mare Mother Ruth and was born at Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, KY. Another […]

WinStar Farm’s Bodemeister, the brilliant Grade 1-winning millionaire by Empire Maker, recently sired three bay fillies as his first reported foals to arrive from his introductory crop at stud. One of the bay fillies is out of the multiple stakes-winning Speightstown mare Mother Ruth and was born at Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, KY. Another […]

When Interpret crossed the finish line in track record time in the $136,000 Jebel Ali S. Jan. 10 at the racetrack of the same name in the UAE, the recently turned 6-year-old also became the 120th stakes winner for his sire Distorted Humor. Interpret, who is a half-brother to multiple champion and Horse of the […]

A colt by More Than Ready took the top seller honors during day four of the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale in Australia on Jan. 11, selling for $600,000 at the countries most prestigious yearling auction. Trainer Bryce Heys was the winning bidder on the youngster from Newhaven Park, as agent for Twin Palms […]

Ponche de Leona, in foal to Distorted Humor, was the highest-priced lot through the first three days of the Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale, which runs Jan. 6-9. The 15-year-old mare, the dam of 2013 Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner Mucho Macho Man, sold for $775,000 to Eaton Sales’s Reiley McDonald on behalf […]

The Australian Magic Millions 2014 Gold Coast Yearling Sale highlighted international champion sire More Than Ready’s appeal no matter the occasion, as the WinStar stallion had a yearling colt bring $450,000 on day one of the Jan. 8-14 sale. The price was the co-highest of the day, and also the number paid for a colt. […]