WinStar, Airdrie Buy Caracortado's Dam

One day after Caracortado captured the Daytona Stakes (gr. IIIT) at Santa Anita Park against some of the best sprinters in the country, his dam, Mons Venus, commanded $250,000 from Kenny Troutt’s WinStar Farm and Brereton Jones’ Airdrie Stud at the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale Jan. 9.

“She’s a very nice, young mare and she’s got a hot horse in Caracortado,” said WinStar’s Elliott Walden of the unraced 11-year-old daughter of Maria's Mon, who was consigned by VanMeter Sales, agent as Hip No. 61.

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