Sir Winston, 2019 Belmont winner, retires to Crestwood Farm

Belmont Stakes winner Sir Winston has been retired and will enter stud at Crestwood Farm in Lexington, Ky., in the coming season. He will stand for an introductory fee of $7,500, and breeder incentives will be available.

Sir Winston, a son of Awesome Again raced as a homebred by Tracy Farmer, won 6 of 20 career starts for earnings of more than $1.2 million. A stakes winner in Canada as a juvenile, and Grade 3-placed in the spring of his 3-year-old season, he scored his breakthrough victory in the 2019 Belmont Stakes. He rallied from seventh with a half-mile remaining to win by a length.

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Sir Winston, trained throughout this career by Hall of Famer Mark Casse, went on to race with distinction as an older horse, winning the Grade 3 Valedictory Stakes in late 2021 at Woodbine after two other graded stakes placings at the track that fall. He made his final start in January 2022, finishing fifth in the Pegasus World Cup. He had been breezing this fall at Woodbine prior to his retirement announcement.

"We are thrilled to add Belmont winner Sir Winston to our stallion roster," Crestwood's Pope McLean said in a release. "Sir Winston is a phenomenal physical; he’s 16.2 [hands], correct, and a classic type, with a lot of length and scope. He is also by elite sire Awesome Again, sire of [successful stallion] Ghostzapper. ... We think breeders will be impressed with his physical, his classic race record, and his pedigree.”

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