Multiple Grade 1 winner Life Is Good introduced at $100,000 to WinStar Farm

WinStar Farm has set the 2023 stud fees for its stallion roster, headed by Constitution, who will stand for $110,000 S&N, and Speightstown, who will stand for $80,000 for the upcoming breeding season.

The roster will be bolstered further by new arrivals Life Is Good, a multiple Grade 1 winner who will stand for $100,000, and Nashville, the track record-setting son of Speightstown who will stand for $15,000.

Stallions will be available for showings at WinStar's open house from November 7-15, during the Keeneland November Sale.

"We are excited about our roster for 2023, and feel we offer a range of quality horses and value to all breeders," said Elliott Walden, president, CEO, and racing manager for WinStar Farm. "We will also be offering a limited number of seasons to Life Is Good before the Breeders' Cup Classic."

Constitution, sire of Belmont Stakes presented by winner Tiz The Law from his first crop, is among this year's leading sires, once again with progeny earnings of more than $9 million.

Constitution is represented by We The People, a romping ten and a quarter-length winner of the Peter Pan Stakes with a 103 Beyer; Glass Ceiling, winner of the Distaff Handicap and Barbara Fritchie Stakes; Ridin With Biden, victorious in the Greenwood Cup Stakes; and Breakpoint, winner of the San Juan Capistrano Stakes.

In addition to the success of his progeny on the racetrack, Constitution has also been well represented in the auction arena this year, with in-demand yearlings selling for $1,800,000 and $1,300,000 at the Keeneland September Sale and for $1,250,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. Of the top 12 yearling colts sold in North America in 2022, three of them are by Constitution.

Perennial leading stallion Speightstown is the sire of 25 Grade 1 winners on every surface from six furlongs to a mile and a quarter all around the globe - with nine Grade 1 winners in the last three years.

He is once again a top ten general sire in 2022 with progeny earnings approaching $10 million and is represented on the racetrack by five-time Graded winner Olympiad, recent victor of the Jockey Club Gold Cup, and additional Grade 1 winners Shirl's Speight, winner of the Maker's Mark Mile Stakes, and Switzerland, winner of the Dubai Golden Shaheen Stakes.

Life Is Good, a four-time Grade 1 winner and among the leading contenders for the Breeders' Cup Classic, will stand his first season at stud in 2023.

The colt's highly anticipated arrival at stud follows a sensational career that has seen him rattle off Grade 1 victories in the 2021 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes over Horse of the Year Knicks Go, the Whitney Stakes, and most recently the Woodward Stakes.

Into Mischief's fastest son, Life Is Good, has earned eight consecutive triple-digit Beyers in North America, topped by a career-best 112 - the co-second highest Beyer up to one mile on the main track this year - in winning the John A. Nerud Stakes at Belmont Park in July. A winner in nine of 11 starts, Life Is Good has amassed earnings of $4,361,700 for China Horse Club and WinStar Farm. He is trained by Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher.

Nashville, a son of Speightstown, will stand alongside his esteemed sire at WinStar Farm in 2023. Nashville set a six-furlong course record of 1:07.89 at Keeneland on Breeders' Cup Day in 2020. The race was nearly a second faster than subsequent champion sprinter Whitmore 's time of 1:08.61 in winning the Breeders' Cup Sprint that same day.

Improbable, an undefeated Grade 1-winning two-year-old and champion older male of 2020 with consecutive Grade 1 wins in the Awesome Again Stakes, the Whitney Stakes, and the Hollywood Gold Cup, will stand the upcoming season for $25,000 S&N. Improbable, a son of City Zip, welcomed first foals in 2022 and will be represented by first weanlings this fall.

Audible: covered more than 400 mares in his first two seasons at studCredit: Edward Whitaker

Audible, WinStar's most popular first year-sire ever, having bred more than 400 mares in his first two years at stud, will stand for $25,000 S&N in 2023.

The son of Into Mischief was one of the most consistent three-year-olds of his crop, winning the Florida Derby and the Holy Bull Stakes and finishing third in the Kentucky Derby to undefeated Triple Crown winner Justify. The number two freshman yearling sire by average, Audible saw his first yearlings light up the board this year, selling for up to $725,000.

Notably absent from WinStar's roster for the upcoming season is world renowned stallion More Than Ready, who was euthanised in August due to the cumulative effects of old age. His passing marked the end of one of the most remarkable stallion careers in history.

The breed-shaping stallion enjoyed record-breaking success and was a champion sire in both the northern and southern hemispheres. He is the leading sire of Breeders' Cup winners in history, with seven wins in the marquee event, accomplished with six different winners of four different races at both sprint and route distances, and he is the only sire to have an Eclipse Award champion each year from 2017 to 2020.

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