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New to WinStar: Independence Hall
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3/19/2025
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This year, Windstar Farm welcomed Independence Hall, a son of their successful young sire
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Constitution to their stud barn.
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We spoke with Liam O'Rourke on the multiple graded stakes winner and the strong backing
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he'll be receiving by breeders in his first year.
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We're super excited to have Independence Hall come home to Windstar Farm to begin his stud
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career.
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We've been so fortunate over the last few seasons to have Constitution here.
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He's had such an electric start.
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We're very excited and very bullish on his future.
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So to add the next step and to have one of his sons retire to Windstar is very, very
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rewarding.
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Independence Hall came on our radar very early on.
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He broke his maiden extremely impressively up at Parks in a field that included a couple
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future graded stake winners.
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Coming back to the Nashua to win by 12 and a half, to run a one-on-one buyer, the fastest
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two-year-old performance of the year, we started to realize that he was going to be
00:59
a special horse.
01:00
A little later on when he won the Jerome, we were able to get involved in his career
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right around that time.
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As an older horse, he started out with a bang running a 104 buyer in the Pegasus, just beaten
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by Super Horse in Nick's Go.
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And the season was culminated by one of the talking performances of the Keeneland Meet.
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There goes Code of Honor along with Independence Hall.
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Militarist is there toward the end.
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He came out and won the Fayette.
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He beat some really outstanding horses in that race and really showed what a brilliant
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horse he was.
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Independence Hall, Javier Castellano moving by the 16th pole, Independence Hall wins the
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Hagyard Fayette.
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Well, I think he's a really great race horse because of that high cruising speed.
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He can get out there, he can run on the pace, he was tactical.
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We love that two-year-old form, that brilliance as a two-year-old, and when they can come
01:51
back and be an elite older horse and knock heads with the best of the best in the country,
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that's something that we find really strong.
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Physically, he's a very impressive horse.
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He has great size, great scope.
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He gets over a lot of ground.
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He's a big, beautiful, smooth walker.
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He's balanced, but he's masculine.
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Putting it all together and the way he can move and get over the ground, it kind of relates
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to that high cruising speed that he had.
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That seems to be something that all breeders kind of land on.
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One of the best parts of Independence Hall is the support that we've built in.
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We've got a great group of shareholders and syndicate members with him.
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Along with that, we offered Independence Hall in the Dream Big program, which we sold out
02:39
on virtually overnight.
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We've got some really good folks in there supporting the horse, and we'll send some
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really nice mares in his first couple of years.
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It's huge to have a son of one of our sires come home and retire here and join our stallion
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roster.
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The Constitution really represents the next generation of what Windstar is going to be,
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and we hope one of the most elite stallions in the country.
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It's a great step to be able to bring in one of his sons.
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I think where we have him priced, he's very attractive to breeders.
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We've had a huge response so far to him, and I think we just ticked all the boxes with
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where we put him.
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