Classic sire Distorted Humor, a flagship stallion for WinStar Farm, has been pensioned from stallion duty and will live out his retirement at his longtime home. WinStar announced the retirement of the 28-year-old stallion on Monday evening, along with that of 21-year-old Congrats, also a successful sire. Distorted Humor has been instrumental in the entire history of WinStar, now one of the nation's leading owners and breeders. The stallion began his stud career in 1999 at the former Prestonwood Farm in Kentucky. In 2000, Kenny Troutt and Bill Casner purchased Prestonwood, renaming it WinStar. Distorted Humor was among the stallions included in the purchase. “We all owe Distorted Humor a debt of gratitude for all he has done for WinStar Farm, my family, and the many breeders who supported him from his humble beginnings,” Distorted Humor's former trainer Elliott Walden, now WinStar’s president, CEO, and racing manager, said in a press release. “He will be missed in the breeding shed this year, but we are so grateful that we can continue to see him at WinStar for the foreseeable future. What a horse!” Distorted Humor, a son of Forty Niner, was a four-time graded stakes winner before retiring to stud. He was a leading freshman sire of 2002 and made an even stronger impression with his first crop when Funny Cide emerged from that group to win the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes and earn an Eclipse Award championship. Funny Cide eventually retired with nine career stakes wins and $3,529,412 in earnings. Distorted Humor sired a second classic winner in 2010, when his son Drosselmeyer captured the Belmont Stakes. Drosselmeyer went on to win the 2011 Breeders' Cup Classic, propelling his sire to the leading sire title that year. Distorted Humor has finished among the nation's leading sires five other times. Distorted Humor's Grade 1 winner Flower Alley went on to become a classic sire in his own right, represented by 2012 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner and champion I'll Have Another. Distorted Humor's Grade 1 winner Jimmy Creed is now a successful Kentucky sire, while another son, Grade 2 winner Alternation, is the sire of Kentucky Oaks winner Serengeti Empress. Distorted Humor's 173 career stakes winners also include Grade 1 winners Any Given Saturday, Awesome Humor, Bit of Whimsy, Boisterous, Commentator, Fourty Niners Son, Hystericalady, Joking, Restless Rider, and Varda; Canadian champion Hillaby; European Group 1 winners Aesop's Fables, Cursory Glance, and Pathfork; and Australian Group 1 winner Rinky Dink. Overall, his progeny have earned more than $152.6 million to date, a total that will continue to grow as his final crops race. Distorted Humor covered 65 mares in 2020, according to The Jockey Club's Report of Mares Bred; the 2021 figures have yet to be released. Distorted Humor also has emerged as a leading broodmare sire over the last decade. His daughters have produced Eclipse Award champion and leading moneywinner Arrogate; multiple Grade 1 winner and young classic sire Constitution; multiple Grade 1 winner and prominent freshman sire Practical Joke; and additional Grade 1 winners Art Collector, Book Review, Carrick, Elate, Guarana, Happy Saver, Molly Morgan, New Money Honey, and Takaful. Grade 2 winner Congrats, a son of the legendary A.P. Indy, also was a leading freshman sire and continued to develop into a consistent stallion. His 50 career stakes winners are led by Grade 1 winners Emma's Encore, Haveyougoneaway, Turbulent Descent, and Wickedly Perfect. Congrats began his stallion career at Vinery in Florida for majority owner John Sykes. His freshman-season success prompted a move to Kentucky, first to Vinery, and then to WinStar when it welcomed that farm's stallions. Congrats will retire to Sykes’s Woodford Thoroughbreds in Florida. “Congrats helped me get started in this business and has meant so much to Woodford Thoroughbreds,” Sykes said in a press release. “We are happy to be bringing him home for his retirement.”