Meet WinStar's Three New Grade I-Winning Stallions

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Throughout its history, WinStar Farm's stallion program has been anchored by raw speed, with champion Speightstown and fellow sprinting specialist Distorted Humor among some of the first sires to define the farm's identity. As WinStar wraps up its 25th anniversary this year, the blueprint is much the same. Patch Adams, Mullikin and Straight No Chaser are the latest Grade I-winning sprinters set to join the roster.

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00:01Windstar Farm has historically seen success with speed on their stallion roster,

00:05and this year they're adding three Grade 1 winning sprinters.

00:08Liam O'Rourke tells us more about the new trio.

00:22At Windstar it's no secret we love fast horses.

00:25We've had great success in our history with horses like Distorted Humor,

00:29with horses like Spikestown, with horses like More Than Ready.

00:32Very, very fast horses, and we're really excited to have three very fast horses coming to us in 2026.

00:40Patch Adams is a horse that's been so exciting for the farm,

00:43so rewarding for everyone here at Windstar, being a third generation homebred.

00:48So many people in the Windstar family have had a hand on this horse's success,

00:52and then to return home and retire to our stallion barn is really coming full circle.

00:58When he went to Churchill and broke his maiden 120.77, which is a third of a second off Groupie Doll's track record,

01:07under wraps as a two year old, it was like a wow performance.

01:11Going to Saratoga, the Woody Stevens was the fastest seven furlongs run at Saratoga by a Colt this summer.

01:18This Grade 1 Allen Trick, it's a historic race.

01:21An incredible performance, 121.61, faster than Bookham Dano in the forego that day,

01:27faster than Hope Road in the Ballerina.

01:29Patch Adams prevails!

01:31You know, so he had a minor injury leading into the Breeders' Cup, and while it was disappointing,

01:36it gave us the opportunity to bring him to stud in 2026.

01:39The response was incredible.

01:42He's a great moving horse. He's got a beautiful action to him.

01:45He's got strength. He's got balance. He stands over a lot of ground.

01:49And he's got a lot of those qualities of both distorted humor and into mischief.

01:54So many different kinds of mares that he's very useful.

02:00I remember traveling to California, to Santa Anita, to see Straight No Chaser for the first time,

02:05and was just blown away with his physique.

02:08What's really impressive is the way he carried his race with him wherever he went,

02:13whether it was Del Mar, Santa Anita, Oak Lawn Park, shipping back east on Maryland's biggest day of racing,

02:21and firing, especially with the sprinter, to come back year after year after year.

02:26Straight No Chaser in the Breeders' Cup!

02:28And to go up to Saudi and dominate in their sprint race,

02:33just to carry his quality and his speed and his talent wherever he went.

02:38We love the parallels with Spightstown, being an Eclipse champion sprinter,

02:43a Breeders' Cup champion, and from that beautiful Gone West sire line,

02:47makes us really excited about Straight No Chaser.

02:50Malkin is a horse that we bought at Keeneland September.

02:56He was a $500,000 yearling, just an absolute specimen, 10 out of 10 physical.

03:02He really came to hand in 2024 over the course of that summer, went on that four-race win streak.

03:07The Nerud was an especially important performance.

03:11Go as fast as he did, 120.54, just a half-second off of our Tax's track record.

03:17The four-go was just a dominant performance to win by five and three-quarters lengths.

03:23You know, the quality of the field that ran behind him that day.

03:26Malkin outclasses them in the four-go, wins it by almost...

03:30Coming off that great summer in New York, going and running an excellent third in the Breeders' Cup.

03:36Came back, was narrowly beaten by Locked in the Cigar Mile.

03:39But to have the speed that he had coming off of that sire line, I think is really critical and really appealing to breeders.

03:45We love that he's out of a congrats mare, a stallion that we've stood successfully for many years.

03:50I think he's well-priced and he's been extremely well-received to this point.

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