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Champion Straight No Chaser leads WinStar's sprint trio

Champion Straight No Chaser leads WinStar's sprint trio

There are multiple 2023 and 2024 Eclipse Award champions retiring to stud for the coming season in Kentucky. Along with a trio at Ashford Stud, Straight No Chaser is joining the 2026 stallion ranks. Straight No Chaser, the 2024 Eclipse champion male sprinter who earned more than $2.6 million, is by Speightster, a WinStar homebred who is a son of the operation’s perennial leading sire Speightstown, also a champion sprinter.

Nicole RussoDec 05, 2025
Godolphin in the game with homebreds

Godolphin in the game with homebreds

Whether dual classic winner Sovereignty races on or retires for 2026, Godolphin will still bring two homebreds to the Kentucky stallion ranks this season under its Darley banner, with Grade 1 winner Highland Falls and Grade 2 winner First Mission, both millionaires, having retired this fall.

Nicole RussoDec 05, 2025
New Stallions notebook: Gun Runner-Tapit cross prominent in incoming class

New Stallions notebook: Gun Runner-Tapit cross prominent in incoming class

Six sons of champion Gun Runner enter stud around the country this year. Three of these have another particular pedigree distinction, as Il Miracolo at Crestwood Farm in Kentucky, Disarm at Hidden Lake Farm in New York, and Red Run at Milky Way Farm in California were all produced by the magical cross of Gun Runner over a Tapit mare.

Nicole RussoDec 05, 2025
Mystik Dan joins fellow Kentucky Derby winner Mage at Airdrie Stud

Mystik Dan joins fellow Kentucky Derby winner Mage at Airdrie Stud

Airdrie Stud, which has plenty of promise in the pipeline, is adding a second Kentucky Derby winner to its young roster in Mystik Dan.

Nicole RussoDec 05, 2025
Raging Torrent, Carl Spackler get strong support for debuts at Lane's End

Raging Torrent, Carl Spackler get strong support for debuts at Lane's End

Broodmare support is key for young stallions to get off on the right foot, and there are few Kentucky newcomers who might get better backing than Grade 1 winners Raging Torrent and Carl Spackler, both debuting at Lane's End Farm in 2026.

Nicole RussoDec 05, 2025
Ashford has three of a kind in Sierra Leone, Fierceness, and Citizen Bull

Ashford has three of a kind in Sierra Leone, Fierceness, and Citizen Bull

Several farms in Kentucky will debut multiple Grade 1-winning stallion prospects in 2026. Some are Eclipse Award champions, or may be finalists in various divisions. But only one farm will be bringing in three new stallions who are already champions. Coolmore's Ashford Stud holds that trio of aces, with Sierra Leone, Fierceness, and Citizen Bull all entering stud in 2026.

Nicole RussoDec 05, 2025
Mindframe takes over coveted first stall at Claiborne

Mindframe takes over coveted first stall at Claiborne

Claiborne Farm representative and bloodstock agent Jacob West has had confidence in Mindframe throughout the horse's life, first as a racing prospect and now as a stallion prospect at Claiborne. The standout is one of two Grade 1 winners new to Claiborne for 2026. The other is turf star Johannes.

Nicole RussoDec 05, 2025

Taylor Made Stallions launches statebred initiative for breeders

Taylor Made Stallions has launched a statebred initiative program that will support and incentivize clients who breed an out-of-state mare to a selection of the farm's Kentucky stallions, all at crucial points in their careers, and return the mares to their respective states to foal.

Nicole RussoNov 21, 2025
Leinster moves to New York for debuting Mountain View Farm

Leinster moves to New York for debuting Mountain View Farm

Current top 10 freshman sire Leinster and Grade 1 winner Fire At Will will lead the 2026 roster for the debuting Mountain View Farm in Gansevoort, N.Y., north of Saratoga Springs.

Nicole RussoNov 21, 2025
Bango to begin stallion duty at Breakway Farm in Indiana

Bango to begin stallion duty at Breakway Farm in Indiana

Bango, the winningest horse in recorded Churchill Downs history, will begin his stud career less than two hours north in Indiana.

Nicole RussoNov 21, 2025
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