Sir Winston, a classic winning millionaire by Awesome Again has been retired from racing and will stand stud next year at Pope McLean's Crestwood Farm.
A Tracy Farmer homebred, Sir Winston, is out of the Grade-3 winning and Grade-1 placed mare La Gran Bailadora. Tracy Farmer said, “Sir Winston showed us incredible talent right from the start and we think his progeny will do the same. We will be supporting him both with mares in the breeding shed as well as in the sales ring down the road.”
Sir Winston was a precocious stakes winner as a 2-year-old, and at the age of three, Sir Winston won the Belmont Stakes defeating Preakness States winner, War of Will, multiple Grade 2-winning Tacitus, and Grade 2 winner Tax. Prior to the Belmont victory, Sir Winston was second in the Grade 3 Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont Park to eventual Grade 1 winner Global Campaign.
At the ages of four and five, Sir Winston went on to either win or place in four stakes, including a victory in the G3 Valedictory Stakes. Sir Winston retires sound as a Grade 1 winner with six wins from 20 starts with earnings of $1,277,623.
Sir Winston was campaigned his entire career by noted conditioner Mark Casse. Casse said, “Sir Winston was pure class. He had as good a mind of any horse I have ever trained. He showed a lot of talent right from the start, which is why he was a stakes winner at two, classic winner at three, and trained on to win graded stakes as an older horse.”
Pope McLean said, “we are thrilled to add Belmont winner Sir Winston to our stallion roster. Sir Winston is a phenomenal physical; he's 16.2, correct and a classic-type, with a lot of length and scope. He is also by elite sire Awesome Again, sire of Ghostzapper, 15 Grade 1 winners, and multiple champions. We think breeders will be impressed with his physical, his classic race record and his pedigree.”
His fee will be $7,500 Live Foal Stands and Nurse. Share the Upside will be available.
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