WinStar Farm hopes to see a lot of business coming out of its stallion division in the near future. In 2025, the standard bearer of the farm Constitutioncurrently ranked among the top five overall sires, will represent a fee of $110,000 while his son and fellow WinStar resident Independence Hall will see its first 2-year-old children enter the racecourse. Also this coming year, Life is beautiful And Nashville will be represented by their first generation of yearlings while Grammar of the country And Two Phil awaiting their first foals.

Meanwhile, three new sires have been added to the farm’s roster for 2025 with record turf sprinter Cogburn (Not this time), Timberlake (Into Mischief), winner of the 2023 GI Champagne Stakes, and Heartland “TDN Rising Star” (Justify).

Fletcher Mauk of Small Batch Thoroughbreds was among the breeders who stopped by to check out the new arrivals during the past few weeks of open houses at WinStar.

“These are promising stallions,” Mauk said after inspecting the trio. “All three have good bones and beautiful feet. They were all accomplished at age 2, which I think is important for a lot of breeders to know that you have the ability to get something out of a mare. They also all three come from very good sire lines.

Cogburn, a four-time graded stakes winner, is leading the charge for new signings at WinStar with a stud fee of $30,000. He is one of six first-year winners for Not this time (featured in Saturday Sires here) and will be the first son of the fast-starting father to appear at WinStar.

WinStar’s Liam O’Rourke reported that the multi-millionaire arrived at WinStar shortly after the Breeders’ Cup and settled in immediately.

“It’s rare to see a stallion arrive with as much composure and as much presence as he has had since the first day he arrived,” he said. “He got up there, put his head down, walked like he’d been doing this for 10 years, stood perfectly straight and didn’t move a hair. He has been incredibly well received, a beautiful horse who is very popular with the breeding public.

Although Cogburn’s greatest achievements came this year as a 5-year-old, including a record GI Jaipur victory where he covered 5 ½ furlongs in 59:80 and another memorable victory in the GII Turf Sprint Stakes at Kentucky Downs where he completed six furlongs in 1:07.68, O’Rourke said breeders were also taking note of his previous resume. The Steve Asmussen trainee beat his maiden by more than four lengths on dirt as a juvenile and was runner-up in the GIII Chick Lang Stakes on the main track the following year before finally switching to turf.

“He really excelled as a 2-year-old and showed a lot of skill on the field,” O’Rourke said. “When Steve moved him to grass, he definitely reached another level. Speed ​​is speed. This is something that has always attracted us here at WinStar. We had a lot of success with horses like Distorted Humor, Speightstown and More Than Ready who had that really elite speed.

Fletcher Mauk said he plans to send a American Pharaoh Cogburn mare who was twice placed over a mile on turf.

“For me, the most important thing is to integrate speed into this pedigree,” he said. “It’s more than likely we’ll end up with a turf horse with its feminine side, but we don’t know and that’s what’s exciting about a horse that has been able to run on all surfaces. Anything is possible and I don’t even necessarily think he’s going to throw just speed given his father. I think you could also run any distance.

A “TDN Rising Star” in his 9 1/4 maiden win for WinStar and Siena Farm, Timberlake finished second in the GI Hopeful Stakes before solidly winning the GI Champagne over a field that included the eventual champion 2-year-old. Ferocity (City of Light).

“Champagne places him as the only Grade I winning 2-year-old by Into Mischief other than Practical joke in Kentucky,” O’Rourke said. “We have received a great response from breeders on this. He was talented, very precocious, and he was just a big, strong, beautiful horse that people really fall in love with when they come here.

Timberlake, winner of this year’s GII Rebel Stakes as a 3-year-old, will represent 20,000.

After taking a look at the newcomer, Mauk said he thought the son of Into Mischief showed the potential to become a versatile father.

“I don’t think he’s necessarily the typical Graded Stakes-type 2-year-old winner,” he explained. “To me, he has a little more range in his body, a longer shoulder and maybe a more angled hip. The fact that he won a very important race in Champagne as a 2-year-old, and then went on to win the Rebel, is, I think, a good indication that you are not limited in your scope. action of being exclusively a sprinter or a 2-year-old horse.

Rounding out the trio is Heartland who has only made one career start, but the team at WinStar believes he has the resume to succeed in this next chapter. Home bred for WinStar and a half-brother to juvenile champion Classic Empire (Pioneerof the Nile), Heartland sold for $575,000 at Keeneland’s September sale, going to China Horse Club and Siena Farm, WinStar remaining for one piece.

“He was at the top of the class among our 2-year-olds that year,” O’Rourke reported. “David Hanley, Elliott Walden and (trainer) Neil McLaughlin were delighted with this horse. This was our first 2 year old that we sent.

Making his debut for Bob Baffert at Del Mar last July, Heartland slowed the pace before eliminating his rivals on the turn, then opening up on eventual stakes winner Slider (Jimmy Creed) by two lengths, going 1 400 meters in 1:03.20 and earning a Beyer speed figure of 90.

Even though Heartland never made it back initially, the WinStar team hopes he can make his mark as a father. Worth $10,000, Heartland will be the second son of Justify to run at Kentucky after Spendthrift’s Arabian Lion retired last year.

“It’s very intentional that he’s here at WinStar,” O’Rourke said. “We are going to support him very strongly during his early years at stud and we have some creative incentives for our breeders which we believe make him a very good value proposition. Justify he’s obviously doing amazing things as a stud and I think he’s a great entry point to Justify at that $10,000 level. He has the pedigree that confirms him as a half-brother to Classic Empire and one of the most elite sires in the world, so we think he has a great chance and we are getting good support from breeders at its subject.