Hill 'n' Dale Farms announced the farm's 2023 stallion roster and fees.
Army Mule – $12,500
Charlatan – $50,000
Curlin – $225,000
Ghostzapper – $75,000
Good Magic – TBD
Kantharos – $20,000
Lost Treasure – $3,500
Maclean's Music – $50,000
Midnight Lute – $12,500
Mucho Macho Man – $7,500
Violence – $40,000
World of Trouble – $5,000
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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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The Hancock family's Claiborne Farm has announced 2023 stud fees for their stallion roster at the Paris, Ky.-based farm.
The roster is led once again by the internationally-regarded War Front. This son of Danzig continues to be an elite source for success on the racetrack and in the sales ring, led by 11 stakes winners in 2022, including Annapolis, recent winner of the Grade 1 Coolmore Turf Mile Stakes at Keeneland. War Front's consistency at the sport's highest levels has few rivals, boasting 11 percent lifetime stakes winners. His 2023 stud fee has been set at $100,000.
War Front's reputation as a sire of sires continues to grow, and that legacy expands at Claiborne Farm with Preakness Stakes winner War of Will, whose first weanlings will be on offer at this year's fall breeding stock sales. The multiple Grade 1 winner will stand his third year at stud for $25,000.
Champion racehorse Blame has emerged as one of North America's premier broodmare sires, highlighted by this year's G1 Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland, where winner Forte and runner-up Loggins were both out of Blame mares. Blame leads all broodmare sires by percentage of black type winners, black type horses, and graded stakes horses. On his own accord, Blame is responsible for 42 lifetime stakes winners, including five Grade 1 winners. He will stand the upcoming season for $25,000.
Silver State will stand his second season at stud for $20,000. The grandson of Claiborne sire Danzig won six consecutive races spanning 2020 and 2021, culminating with the G1 Metropolitan Handicap while defeating 2021 Horse of the Year, Knicks Go. He retired with more than $1.9 million in earnings.
Champion sprinter Runhappy will stand for $15,000 after a season that saw him send Grade 1-placed Smile Happy to the Kentucky Derby from his debut crop of runners. His five black type winners in 2022 is among the highest of this year's third-crop sires.
Dual-surface Grade 1 winner, Catholic Boy, will stand for $15,000, while the regally-bred son of Dubawi (IRE), Demarchelier (GB), will stand for $5,000. Both stallions will have first-crop 2-year-olds running in 2023.
Mastery, the sire of recent G2 Zenyatta Stakes winner Midnight Memories, will stand for $7,500. Lea, who sired G3 Futurity Stakes winner Nagirroc and multiple stakes-winner Poppy Flower, will stand for $5,000.
Claiborne Farm will also stand Grade 1 winner Art Collector upon the conclusion of his racing career. A fee is yet to be announced for the G1 Woodward Stakes winner, who has earned over $2.3 million on the racetrack. A consistent performer throughout his racing career, Art Collector boasts 10 wins from 20 lifetime starts, and has earned seven 100+ Beyer Speed Figures, including a 107 in his Woodward victory.
See Claiborne's full stallion roster and 2023 stud fees below:
Art Collector
Bernardini – Distorted Legacy, by Distorted Humor
Fee: TBD
Blame
Arch—Liable, by Seeking the Gold
Fee: $25,000
Catholic Boy
More Than Ready – Song of Bernadette, by Bernardini
Fee: $15,000
Demarchelier (GB)
Dubawi (GB) – Loveisallyouneed (IRE), by Sadler's Wells
Fee: $5,000
First Samurai
Giant's Causeway—Freddie Frisson, by Dixieland Band
Fee: $7,500
Lea
First Samurai—Greenery, by Galileo (IRE)
Fee: $5,000
Mastery
Candy Ride (ARG)—Steady Course, by Old Trieste
Fee: $7,500
Runhappy
Super Saver—Bella Jolie, by Broken Vow
Fee: $15,000
Silver State
Hard Spun – Supreme, by Empire Maker
Fee: $20,000
War Front
Danzig—Starry Dreamer, by Rubiano
Fee: $100,000
War of Will
War Front – Visions of Clarity (IRE), by Sadler's Wells
Fee: $25,000
(All stud fees payable Live Foal Stands & Nurses)
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The 2022 Wanamaker's October Sale catalog is now available for viewing, with 22 hips on offer. The sale presents a wide range of horses, with horses of racing age, mares in-foal, yearlings, and weanlings all comprising the catalog.
Bidding will open on Thursday, Oct. 27 at 8 a.m. ET, with the first listing set to close at 5 p.m. ET. Subsequent listings will close in three-minute increments. Detailed information on the buying process can be found at wanamakers.com/buy.
Highlighting the catalog is Bubble Pop, a daughter of Smart Strike being offered in-foal to Caravaggio. She has produced four winners from as many starters, including a multiple graded stakes-winner in Argentina, Valentina Pop. Caravaggio is one of the world's top young stallions with graded and group performers across multiple countries.
Big Oak Farm is set to sell a pair of yearlings. This includes a filly by Union Rags and out of the multiple graded stakes winning turf sprinter and track record holder Ageless. The other yearling is a colt by perennial all-world stallion More Than Ready and out of the 2011 Grade 1 Alcibiades Stakes runner up, Heart of Destiny.
A yearling filly out of the Political Force mare, Agustina de Aragon, boasts a strong recent update. Her full-sister, Atomic Girl, was a first-time out winner on Sept. 5 at Saratoga when winning a New York-bred maiden special weight. She has since made a start in the G3 Matron Stakes at Belmont at the Big A.
For more information on those being offered in the 2022 Wanamaker's October Sale, see wanamakers.com. Prospective buyers may browse the website to view pedigrees, pictures, and videos of each hip offered. In-person inspections may be scheduled by contacting sellers with the information provided in the catalog.
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