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.
03:55Don't forget to hold the
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