Category: General News

WinStar’s 2010 Belmont S. (G1) champion Drosselmeyer returned to the scene of his greatest triumph  to win the $60,000 One Count S. on May 15, a little less than a year since the son of Distorted Humor took the third leg of the Triple Crown. The Bill Mott trainee was making his third start of […]

Alternation gave his sire Distorted Humor his second stakes winner at Belmont Park in two days with a thrilling come-from-behind win in the $200,000 Peter Pan S. (G2) on May 14. And like Much Rejoicing, who won the Glia S. the previous day, the Peter Pan marked the first stakes win for 3-year-old dark bay […]

Too Shy Shy, a 3-year-old daughter of Distorted Humor, galloped home a 12 1/2-length winner May 9 at Delaware Park to break her maiden in her second career start, covering the six furlongs in 1:10.61 with plenty left in reserve. The chestnut filly is a half-sister to Eclipse champion older horse Lawyer Ron, who won […]

Bellamy Road’s Victoria’s Wildcat ran down dueling leaders to win the $118,800 Eight Belles S. (G3) for 3-year-old fillies by 2-1/4 lengths on Friday, May 6 at Churchill Downs. The winner’s share of the purse moved Bellamy Road into the top spot among second crop sires. Besides Victoria’s Wildcat, Bellamy Road is also represented by […]

Twinspired, the aptly-named son of Harlan’s Holiday, will make his run at history in Kentucky Derby 137 (G1) from post position 10, right in the middle of the 20 horse field. The gray or roan colt will try to become the second straight Derby winner to have connections to WinStar, following last year’s victory by […]

Bluegrass Cat’s Kathmanblu has been favored in her last four starts, and could be once again when post time comes Friday for the $1 million Kentucky Oaks (G1) at Churchill Downs. The 3-year-old bay filly drew post 4 for the historic race, which will be run for the 137th time. Kathmanblu has won three of […]

Distorted Humor’s Machen got up in the final strides to edge Dominus by a neck to win the $231,400 Derby Trial (G3) for 3-year-olds on April 30th, opening night of the Churchill Downs spring/summer meet. The Derby Trial, run at one mile, starts at the far end of the long Churchill Downs backstretch chute. Machen […]

A three-quarter brother to Grade 1 multimillionaire Well Armed was born at WinStar Farm on April 14th. The bay colt is from the first crop of multiple Grade 1 winner Colonel John – Tiznow’s top performer at stud. The colt is out of Well Dressed, a stakes-winning Notebook mare who has already produced graded stakes […]

Twinspired ran a flawless race in the G1 Toyota Blue Grass April 16 at Keeneland, only to be nipped by the narrowest of margin in the final stride of the nine furlongs.[watch race] It took the placing judges several minutes to determine the official winner, Brilliant Speed, who came very wide down the stretch, out […]

For the second consecutive year, Speightstown’s Grade I millionaire Haynesfield has been voted New York-bred Horse of the Year. This is just the third time in history a horse has won the top honor in back-to-back years, following WinStar-bred Eclipse Champion Funny Cide in 2003/2004, and Say Florida Sandy in 2000/2001. A 4-year-old from the […]