Veteran Sire Congrats Dies At Age 25
Congrats, a Grade 2 winner and a mainstay in the stud barn at WinStar Farm, died Monday of natural causes at the former Woodford Thoroughbreds property in Reddick, Fla., now known as Persaud Legacy Farms, Thoroughbred Daily News and BloodHorse report. He was 25.The son of A.P. Indy had resided on the Woodford Thoroughbreds property since his pensioning at stud in 2021.Congrats was bred in Kentucky by the partnership of Claiborne Farm & Adele Dilschneider, and he raced for Florida-based owner Cloverleaf Farm II Inc. and trainer Kathleen O'Connell. He won seven of 26 starts over five seasons of racing, earning just shy of $1 million.Though he earned his first graded stakes placing in the Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes, and he competed in the G1 Travers Stakes in the start that followed, Congrats didn't earn his first stakes victory until age four, when he took the listed Alysheba Stakes at Churchill Downs. He earned his first and only graded stakes victory during his 5-year-old debut, when he won the G2 San Pasqual Handicap at Santa Anita Park.
Congrats initially retired to stud at Cloverleaf Farms in Florida - the property that would become Woodford Thoroughbreds - for the 2007 breeding season. A year later, he moved to Vinery Stud in Florida before relocating to the operation's Kentucky branch and making shuttle trips to Australia for Southern Hemisphere breeding seasons. Congrats was moved to WinStar Farm ahead of the 2013 breeding season, and he remained there for the rest of his stud career.Throughout all the moving, Congrats became an increasingly popular sire, springboarded by earning North America's leading freshman sire title in 2012.Congrats has sired 905 global winners from 15 crops, with combined progeny earnings in excess of $87.2 million.
Leading the way among his runners are Grade/Group 1 winners Turbulent Descent, Jupiter Gold, Haveyougoneaway, Wickedly Perfect, and Emma's Encore. He is also the sire of Bango, who became the winningest horse in Churchill Downs history last September when he notched his 12th victory at the track.Read more at Thoroughbred Daily News.Read more at BloodHorse.
This story was originally reported by Paulick Report on Jul 29, 2025, where it first appeared.
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