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WinStar Farm has set 2023 stud fees for its stallion roster, headed by Constitution, who will stand for $110,000 S&N, and Speightstown, who will stand for $80,000 S&N for the upcoming breeding season.

The roster will be bolstered further by new arrivals Life Is Good, a multiple Grade 1 winner who will stand for $100,000 S&N and Nashville, the track-record-setting son of Speightstown who will stand for $15,000 S&N.

Stallions will be available for showings at WinStar's Open House, Nov. 7-15, during the Keeneland November Sale.

“We are excited about our roster for 2023, and feel we offer a range of quality horses and value to all breeders,” said Elliott Walden, president, CEO, and racing manager for WinStar Farm. “We will also be offering a limited number of seasons to Life Is Good before the Breeders' Cup Classic.”

Constitution, sire of Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Tiz the Law from his first crop, is among this year's leading sires once again with progeny earnings of more than $9 million. The sire of eight individual runners who have earned 100+ Beyers in 2022—no stallion has more—Constitution is represented by We the People, a romping 10 ¼-length winner of the Peter Pan (G3) with a 103 Beyer; Glass Ceiling, winner of the Distaff Handicap (G3) and Barbara Fritchie (G3); Ridin With Biden, victorious in the Greenwood Cup (G3); and Breakpoint (CHI), winner of the San Juan Capistrano S. (G3).

In addition to the success of his progeny on the racetrack, Constitution has also been well represented in the auction arena this year with in-demand yearlings selling for $1,800,000 and $1,300,000 at the Keeneland September Sale and $1,250,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. Of the Top 12 yearling colts sold in North America in 2022, three of them are by Constitution.

Perennial leading stallion Speightstown is the sire of 25 Grade 1 winners on every surface from six furlongs to 1 ¼ miles all around the globe—with nine Grade 1 winners in the last three years. He is once again a Top 10 General Sire in 2022 with progeny earnings approaching $10 million and is represented on the racetrack by five-time Graded stakes winner Olympiad, and additional Grade 1 winners Shirl's Speight, winner of the Maker's Mark Mile (G1), and Switzerland, winner of the Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1).

Life Is Good, a four-time Grade 1 winner thus far in his career and among the leading contenders for the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1), will stand his first season at stud in 2023. Life Is Good's highly anticipated arrival at stud follows a sensational racing career that has seen him rattle off Grade 1 victories in the 2021 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1), the $3,000,000 Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) over Horse of the Year Knicks Go, the Whitney (G1) and most recently the Woodward (G1).

Into Mischief's fastest son, Life Is Good has earned eight consecutive triple-digit Beyers in America, topped by a career-best 112—the co-second highest Beyer up to one mile on the main track this year—in winning the John A. Nerud (G2) at Belmont Park in July. Life Is Good tipped his hand early, winning a Del Mar maiden special weight by 9 ½ lengths in his career debut at two, registering a 91 Beyer and earning a TDN Rising Star designation. A winner in nine of 11 starts, Life Is Good has amassed earnings of $4,361,700 for CHC Inc. and WinStar Farm and trainer Todd Pletcher.

Nashville, a track record-setting son of Speightstown, will stand alongside his esteemed sire at WinStar Farm in 2023. Nashville set a new track record at Keeneland over six furlongs on Breeders' Cup Day in 2020—1:07.89. The final clocking was nearly a second faster than subsequent Eclipse Champion Sprinter Whitmore's time of 1:08.61 in winning the Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) that same day.

Improbable, an undefeated Grade 1-winning two-year-old and Eclipse Champion Older Male of 2020 with the consecutive Grade 1 wins in the Awesome Again S. (G1) with a 108 Beyer, the Whitney (G1) with a 106 Beyer, and the Hollywood Gold Cup (G1) with a 105 Beyer, will stand the upcoming season for $25,000 S&N. Improbable, a son of City Zip, welcomed first foals in 2022 and will be represented by first weanlings this fall.

Audible, WinStar's most popular first year-sire ever, having bred more than 400 mares in his first two years at stud, will stand for $25,000 S&N in 2023. The son of Into Mischief was one of the most consistent 3-year-olds of his crop, winning the Florida Derby (G1) and the Holy Bull S. (G2) and finishing third in the Kentucky Derby (G1) to undefeated Triple Crown winner Justify. The No. 2 Freshman Yearling Sire by average, Audible saw his first yearlings light up the board this year, selling for up to $725,000, $675,000, $575,000, etc.

Notably absent from WinStar's roster for the upcoming season is world renowned stallion More Than Ready, who was euthanized in August due to the cumulative effects of old age. His passing marked the end of one of the most remarkable stallion careers in history. The breed-shaping stallion enjoyed record-breaking success and was a Champion Sire in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. He is the No. 1 Sire of Breeders' Cup winners in history with seven wins in the marquee event, accomplished with six different winners of four different races at both sprint and route distances, and he is the only sire to have an Eclipse Award Champion each year from 2017 to 2020.

For more information on WinStar's stallions, please visit the website at WinStarFarm.com. The 2023 roster of stallions and fees for WinStar Farm are as follows:

Stallion	S&N Fee
Constitution	$110,000
Life Is Good-New	$100,000*
Speightstown	$80,000
Audible	$25,000
Improbable	$25,000
Nashville-New	$15,000
Always Dreaming	$10,000
Global Campaign	$10,000
Independence Hall	$10,000
Outwork	$10,000
Take Charge Indy	$10,000
Tom's d'Etat	$10,000
Yoshida (JPN)	$10,000
Good Samaritan	$7,500
Paynter	$7,500
Promises Fulfilled	$5,000
Tourist	TBD

*Stud fee subject to change pending Breeders' Cup results.

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Woodslane Farm's homebred Hail To will pursue her first graded stakes victory in Saturday's Grade 2, $200,000 Sands Point for sophomore fillies going nine furlongs at Belmont at the Big A.

Trained by Tom Albertrani, the twice-winning Hail To enters off her first triumph against winners when traveling 1 3/16 miles over Saratoga's Mellon turf on Sept. 2. But if she is anything like her family, Hail To will do her best running going well past the Sands Point distance.

Hail To, by Kitten's Joy, comes from a family rich in stamina with her full-brother being Grade 1-winning multimillionaire Sadler's Joy. Both horses are out of the unraced Dynaformer mare Dynaire, who was bought by Woodslane Farm's Rene and Lauren Woolcott at the 2009 Keeneland September Yearling Sale for $360,000. Dynaire's dam Binya was a graded stakes winner at 11 furlongs when capturing the Grade 3 The Very One in 2004, and her half-sister was Grade 1-winning turf staying mare Sabin.

“She was bought with the idea of being a runner,” said Lauren Woolcott. “I wouldn't say we were knowledgeable enough at that time to know distance. But clearly, Dynaformer was a key influence in her pedigree. She went to a pre-trainer in Florida and came up with a soft tissue issue that at that time, the procedures for dealing with it were not 100 percent, so we simply decided to leave her unraced and have her as a broodmare.”

Dynaire has made up for her absence on the racetrack with a highly prosperous broodmare career. In addition to Hail To and Sadler's Joy, she has produced the graded stakes-placed Lemon Drop Kid mare Dyna Passer and stakes-winner Wolfie's Dynaghost.

“We're so fortunate to have Dynaire,” Woolcott said. “She's had Sadler's Joy, Hail To, Wolfie's Dynaghost, and now she has a weanling on the farm by Ghostzapper, which is exciting because he's a broodmare sire so we're all excited to have her jkioin the farm. She also had a 2-year-old colt by Ghostzapper who we put through the Keeneland sale. He sold and the buyer asked if we would retain a share, just to test how much we liked the horse. So, we said, 'Sure we'd be happy to stay in.'”

The aforementioned Dyna Passer, who ran third in the Jockey Club Oaks in 2019, finished fifth in the 2019 Sands Point and became the Woolcott's newest addition to their small broodmare band when retiring the following year. In addition to Dynaire and Dyna Passer, the Woolcotts also own mares Cat Myth – a half-sister to Grade 1-winner and producer Johannesberg – as well as Prospector's Moon.

“Dyna Passer is a beautiful, beautiful mare,” Woolcott said. “She is currently in foal to Munnings, as is Dynaire, which is sort of cool. Dyna Passer also has a lovely Speightstown weanling filly, her first progeny.”

Woolcott said the one major difference between Hail To and Sadler's Joy is the fact that the former was campaigned for a juvenile season. Sadler's Joy did not make his first lifetime start until spring of his 3-year-old season.

“It was fun to have her run as a 2-year-old. We've had a lot of time to watch her, and her preference clearly is for more distance,” Woolcott said. “She ran a beautiful race in that allowance at Saratoga this summer going 1 3/16 miles. Now, we're cutting back a little bit for the Sands Point, but we wanted to run here to give her that chance to run against straight 3-year-olds. The allowance at Saratoga was against 3-year-olds and up, which was exciting. We have longer distances in mind, but you take what you can get.”

Hail To will have her work cut out for her, facing talented fillies like Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Pizza Bianca and stakes-winners Eminent Victor and Vergara.

“She will need to step up and run a nice race like she did last time. She'll have to do even better being up against the likes of her competition, but it's exciting,” Woolcott said. “It's one step at a time and we'll see how she does Saturday. We're hopeful and a little nervous because she's up against some nice ones. It's a nice set up for next year and some longer distance races.”

Although Woolcott's broodmare band is modest in size, she expressed hope for the future and even said she is getting a small glimpse of what generational breeding programs have been able to experience.

“It just makes you excited and proud of the family. It'll be so cool to see,” Woolcott said. “Some of these farms like Claiborne have been around forever and have been able to see brilliant minds on these horses and foal out these babies generation after generation. There's a majesty about knowing a family so well because you've been involved with their product for so many years and generations. That, to me, is so exciting and our little piece of it is to be excited about having our great mare Dynaire produce such a lovely foal that she did in Dyna Passer and then have her in our broodmare band.”

Albertrani, who has trained Hail To's other prominent siblings, said he is excited for his owners.

“The mare has produced a few nice horses and I think they look forward to seeing another good horse, especially being that she's a full sister to Sadler. I think they're really excited to get another win,” Albertrani said. “She's a lot like her brother, where the further the better. We're cutting back a little bit this time but we're with 3-year-old fillies so that might help us a little bit. She'll definitely get better later on with more distance under her belt.”

Looking ahead to next year, Hail To could be a candidate for long distance turf races like the Grade 1 New York at Belmont Park and the Grade 2 Glens Falls at Saratoga.

“Hopefully that will be the plan for next year. We'll see how we get on this weekend and go from there,” Albertrani said.

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Idol, winner of the 2021 Santa Anita Handicap (G1) for trainer Richard Baltas and a full brother to multiple Grade 1 winner Nest, has been retired and will stand the upcoming breeding season at Taylor Made Stallions, the farm announced on Friday. The son of two-time Horse of the Year Curlin out of the stakes-winning A.P. Indy mare Marion Ravenwood was a $375,000 Keeneland September Sale graduate and he retires having hit the board in six of eight starts for owner Calvin Nguyen.

Idol will stand the 2023 season for $10,000 S&N as a Repole Stable/Taylor Made Stallions Venture.

“Idol fits the profile of what we are looking for,” said Taylor Made's Ben Taylor. “He's by a world-class sire and out of a world-class producer. He's got the looks and he's a G1 talent. It's the same ingredients Not This Time possessed when he arrived at Taylor Made.”

In his biggest victory in the historic Santa Anita Handicap (G1), Idol defeated a contentious field that included Grade 1 winners Maxfield—who was previously unbeaten—and Express Train, as well as graded stakes winners Independence Hall and Tizamagician. With Joel Rosario aboard, Idol traveled five-wide around the far turn, collared the leaders in the stretch following a powerful rally and won by a half-length, recording a career-best Beyer Speed Figure of 102.

It didn't take long for Idol to announce his arrival on the scene. He broke his maiden in his second career start at three, winning a seven-furlong maiden special weight event in 1:22 flat at Churchill Downs, running a 94 Beyer. Next up, he set a Churchill Downs track record in just his third lifetime start, winning a 1 3/16-mile allowance race by 5 ¾ lengths in 1:55.97 and earning a 98 Beyer.

Bred in Kentucky by Leonard Riggio's My Meadowview LLC, Idol hails from a strong and active family replete with black-type. His full sister Nest has banked more than $1.8 million thus far in her sensational racing career and on Sunday she crushed her opposition by 9 ¾ lengths in the Beldame Stakes (G2) to add to her already impressive resume. In addition to her facile win in the Beldame, Nest has captured the Alabama Stakes (G1), the Coaching Club American Oaks (G1), and the Ashland Stakes (G1). She also finished second to males in the Belmont Stakes (G1) and was runner-up in this year's Kentucky Oaks (G1). Idol's 2-year-old half-brother, Lost Ark, won his first two career starts, including the Sapling Stakes at Monmouth Park in August by 7 ½ lengths.

Nest is co-owned by Repole Stables.

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Avie's Flatter, 2018 champion 2-year-old, and earner of over $1 million in his career, is retiring from racing to stand stud at Colebrook Farms in Ontario, Canada.

The Tall Oaks Farm homebred won the Cup and Saucer and Coronation Futurity at Woodbine Racetrack, two of Canada's most prestigious juvenile races, during his 2018 Sovereign Award winning 2-year-old season.

He continued to succeed at three, winning the Gr. 3 Kentucky Utilities Transylvania Stakes at Keeneland, and finishing in the top-three of each leg of the Canadian Triple Crown.

During his 4-year-old season the Josie Carroll trainee was placed in the G2 Eclipse. At five he won the G2 Neartic and G2 Connaught Cup, and he was placed in his final start at six, the G3 Bold Venture. His career record from 20 starts is 7-3-3.

“Avie's Flatter will be greatly missed in our barn,” said Carroll. “He has been not only one of our most talented horses but also a great personality. A top horse for almost five years, he never failed to give 100 per cent. I can't wait to be part of his legacy.”

He showed great versatility throughout his racing career and won or was placed in stakes ranging from six furlongs to 1 1/2 miles, on all surfaces: Tapeta, turf and dirt.

Avie's Flatter is by A.P. Indy stallion Flatter, and his maternal side features plenty of black type.

His first dam Avie's Empire, by Empire Maker, produced stakes winning Avie's Mineshaft, and graded stakes placed Avie's Mesa. His second dam Fly for Avie produced stakes winners Avie's Tale and Avie's Quality, and graded stakes placed Avie's Sense. His third dam Fly for Baby produced Gr. 1 winner Fly for Avie, and his fourth dam produced stakes winner Senor Tippy.

“With a racing career where he won on multiple surfaces at different distances, and a page rich with black type, Avie's Flatter has the on-track success and pedigree to become a great stallion,” said Tall Oaks Farm director Colleen Dalos. “We look forward to standing Avie's Flatter in Ontario in partnership with Colebrook Farms, where he is well suited to sire runners that will succeed on the world-class synthetic and turf racing at Woodbine.”

Avie's Flatter joins a Tall Oaks Farm Ontario stallion lineup that includes Gamble's Exchange, Amis Gizmo, and Ami's Holiday.

“Tall Oaks Farm is committed to supporting the Ontario breeding market by standing a fourth stallion in the province,” said Dalos. “We believe strongly in breeding and racing opportunities in Ontario and will be participating in Ontario Racing's Thoroughbred Improvement Program Mare Purchase Program to support our freshman stallion.”

For more information on Avie's Flatter please email cdalos@talloaksfarm.com or Colebrook Farms stallionstation@colebrookfarms.com.

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