New to WinStar: Independence Hall

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00:00This year, Windstar Farm welcomed Independence Hall, a son of their successful young sire

00:06Constitution to their stud barn.

00:09We spoke with Liam O'Rourke on the multiple graded stakes winner and the strong backing

00:13he'll be receiving by breeders in his first year.

00:17We're super excited to have Independence Hall come home to Windstar Farm to begin his stud

00:21career.

00:23We've been so fortunate over the last few seasons to have Constitution here.

00:27He's had such an electric start.

00:29We're very excited and very bullish on his future.

00:32So to add the next step and to have one of his sons retire to Windstar is very, very

00:37rewarding.

00:39Independence Hall came on our radar very early on.

00:42He broke his maiden extremely impressively up at Parks in a field that included a couple

00:48future graded stake winners.

00:51Coming back to the Nashua to win by 12 and a half, to run a one-on-one buyer, the fastest

00:55two-year-old performance of the year, we started to realize that he was going to be

00:59a special horse.

01:00A little later on when he won the Jerome, we were able to get involved in his career

01:06right around that time.

01:08As an older horse, he started out with a bang running a 104 buyer in the Pegasus, just beaten

01:14by Super Horse in Nick's Go.

01:17And the season was culminated by one of the talking performances of the Keeneland Meet.

01:21There goes Code of Honor along with Independence Hall.

01:23Militarist is there toward the end.

01:24He came out and won the Fayette.

01:26He beat some really outstanding horses in that race and really showed what a brilliant

01:31horse he was.

01:32Independence Hall, Javier Castellano moving by the 16th pole, Independence Hall wins the

01:39Hagyard Fayette.

01:40Well, I think he's a really great race horse because of that high cruising speed.

01:43He can get out there, he can run on the pace, he was tactical.

01:47We love that two-year-old form, that brilliance as a two-year-old, and when they can come

01:51back and be an elite older horse and knock heads with the best of the best in the country,

01:57that's something that we find really strong.

02:01Physically, he's a very impressive horse.

02:04He has great size, great scope.

02:05He gets over a lot of ground.

02:07He's a big, beautiful, smooth walker.

02:10He's balanced, but he's masculine.

02:12Putting it all together and the way he can move and get over the ground, it kind of relates

02:16to that high cruising speed that he had.

02:19That seems to be something that all breeders kind of land on.

02:24One of the best parts of Independence Hall is the support that we've built in.

02:28We've got a great group of shareholders and syndicate members with him.

02:33Along with that, we offered Independence Hall in the Dream Big program, which we sold out

02:39on virtually overnight.

02:41We've got some really good folks in there supporting the horse, and we'll send some

02:45really nice mares in his first couple of years.

02:48It's huge to have a son of one of our sires come home and retire here and join our stallion

02:55roster.

02:56The Constitution really represents the next generation of what Windstar is going to be,

03:01and we hope one of the most elite stallions in the country.

03:05It's a great step to be able to bring in one of his sons.

03:08I think where we have him priced, he's very attractive to breeders.

03:11We've had a huge response so far to him, and I think we just ticked all the boxes with

03:16where we put him.

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