by Greg Schuler

Lexington, KY — Encore Encore 2,1:55.3f; 3,1:53.3f, a winner of more than $360,000 in his 2-year-old season and current 3-year-old track record holder at The Meadows, will enter stud for 2011 at Lindwood Farm in Greensburg, Pa. His fee has been set at $6,000. He joins another Winning Key Farms’ stallion at Lindwood in champion sire American Winner.

Encore Encore reeled off four straight wins in his first five starts at two, with scores in the Tompkins-Geers, Reynolds and an elim of the Peter Haughton Memorial. After scratching sick from the $500,000 Haughton Final, he went on to win the Bluegrass Stakes in Lexington plus elims of the biggest stakes north of the border, the C$718,000 Valley Victory and C$514,000 William Wellwood, which he won going away. He finished second and third, respectively, in the rich finals of those events.

In his only start during his injury-shortened sophomore season, he won a Pennsylvania Sire Stakes at the Meadows, setting the track record of 1:53.3f — a mark that still stands today.

Encore Encore is the second-richest son of Broadway Hall, sire of 2009 Breeders Crown 2-year-old champion Pilgrims Taj. His dam, Key’s La Nina 3,1:56.3, is a stakes and open winner and multiple 1:55 producer. She in turn is by BJ’s Mac, he from the maternal line of Hall of Fame broodmare BJ’s Pleasure.

Booking inquiries may be directed to Winning Key Farms at 800.245.3600 or 724.295.5111 (e-mail info@winningkeyfarms.com) or to Lindwood Farm at 724.836.1802 (ext. 26), e-mail equine@westol.com.