Game Winner officially retired; will stand at Lane's End

Eclipse Award champion juvenile Game Winner, who last raced in July 2019, has officially been retired from racing and will enter stud next year at Lane’s End Farm. The Farish family’s operation, which had previously acquired his rights, also stands his sire, Candy Ride, and was the home of his late broodmare sire, the legendary A.P. Indy.

Game Winner, who raced for Gary and Mary West, retires with five wins from eight starts and two runner-up efforts for earnings of more than $2 million. The colt, trained by Bob Baffert, won all four of his starts as a juvenile, with successive Grade 1 triumphs in the Del Mar Futurity, American Pharoah Stakes, and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile to lock up his divisional title.

At 3, Game Winner was second in the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes and Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby. He was officially fifth in the Kentucky Derby - moved up to that position on the disqualification of Maximum Security, also owned by the Wests. He returned to win the Grade 3 Los Alamitos Derby in his final start.

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“Champion 2-year-olds make great sires,” Bill Farish said in a release. “Street Sense, Uncle Mo, American Pharoah, and now Nyquist looks very promising. All were the very best of their generation and now are among the elite stallions in America.

“Game Winner dominated in his championship year and was a graded stakes winner at 3. He is a champion from the immediate family of [champion Fleet Indian], so we are honored that Gary and Mary West have entrusted Lane’s End with his stallion career.”