Tiznow retired from stud duty

WinStar Farm said Wednesday that Tiznow, a multiple champion on the racetrack and an influential stallion who has made an indelible mark on the breed, will be retired from stud duty. Still the only two-time winner of the Breeders’ Cup Classic, Tiznow was a champion on the racetrack and in the breeding shed, siring numerous elite runners.

Known as “The Big Horse Sire,” Tiznow is the sire of 15 Grade 1 winners that have won many of the world’s most prestigious events. He is the sire of Dubai World Cup (G1) winner Well Armed, Travers Stakes (G1) winner Colonel John and Breeders’ Cup winners Folklore, winner of the 2005 Juvenile Fillies (G1), and Tourist, winner of the 2016 Mile (G1). He has made his mark as an emerging broodmare sire of 34 stakes winners, including multiple Grade 1 winner Tiz the Law.

Meanwhile, WinStar Farm has set 2021 stud fees for its 22-stallion roster, led by  Speightstown, who will stand for $90,000 S&N, and leading Second-Crop Sire Constitution, who will stand for $85,000 S&N.

WinStar will bolster its roster for the upcoming breeding season with new stallions Improbable, Laoban, Tom’s d’Etat, Global Campaign, and Promises Fulfilled. WinStar also said that, considering the current circumstances facing the industry, fees for most of the stallions on its roster will be reduced.

"During these times we felt it appropriate to drop 75 percent of our fees,” said Elliott Walden, WinStar’s president, CEO, and racing manager. “We gave two horses a bump — Speightstown, the Co-Leading Sire this year with three Grade 1 winners and fourth General Leading Sire, and Constitution who has over-delivered at every point of his career."

Walden noted that Improbable, Tom's d'Etat and Global Campaign are expected to compete in the Breeders' Cup at Keeneland on Nov. 6-7.

Improbable, City Zip’s only four-time Grade 1 winner, has rattled off three consecutive Grade 1 scores in 2020 and is the early favorite for next month’s $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic. He was a runaway winner of the Hollywood Gold Cup (G1) at Santa Anita, earning a 105 Beyer, and then shipped to Saratoga and dominated the Whitney Stakes (G1), earning a 106 Beyer. Most recently, he romped by 4 1/2 lengths in the Awesome Again S. (G1) at Santa Anita, defeating champion Maximum Security and earning a 108 Beyer.

Tom’s d’Etat, by sire of sires Smart Strike, is also a top contender for the Breeders’ Cup Classic for G M B Racing. He registered a brilliant 4 1/4-length victory in this year’s Stephen Foster Stakes (G2), running a career-best 109 Beyer. Tom’s d’Etat covered 1 1/8 miles in an eye-catching 1:47.30, geared down in the late stages. The final time came within a whisker of Victory Gallop’s track and stakes record of 1:47.28 set in 1999.

The Al Stall trainee has recorded 10 triple-digit Beyers, including nine in a row in an illustrious career. Tom’s d’Etat is out of the stakes-winning and multiple stakes-placed Giant’s Causeway mare Julia Tuttle, who is out of a full sister to Pacific Classic (G1) winner and leading sire Candy Ride (ARG).

Global Campaign, a son of two-time Horse of the Year Curlin, heads to the Breeders’ Cup Classic following back-to-back Graded stakes scores and is a winner in three of four starts in 2020 for WinStar Farm and Sagamore Farm. He emulated his sire by capturing the Woodward Handicap (G1) in his most recent start, earning a career-best 104 Beyer for trainer Stanley Hough. The Woodward was his second straight Graded win following a victory in the Monmouth Cup Stakes (G3) in his prior outing.

Promises Fulfilled won five Graded stakes at distances from six furlongs to 1 1/16 miles — winning the H. Allen Jerkens Stakes (G1), Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2), John A. Nerud Stakes (G2), Phoenix Stakes (G2), and Amsterdam Stakes (G3), competing exclusively in Graded stakes company following his first two victories at 2. In front in 15 of 17 starts no matter the distance, Promises Fulfilled competed in 15 graded stakes, including eight Grade 1s, banking $1,455,530 in a stellar career for trainer Dale Romans.

Fees with an asterisk are good through Breeders' Cup and are subject to change pending results. For Tom's d'Etat and Global Campaign, fees will be announced after the Breeders' Cup.

Winstar Farm 2021 stallion roster and fees: