The Good Life's Hopeful Win Doubles His Sire's Price

Life Is Good will stand the 2027 season as the most expensive stallion at WinStar, with his fee set at $125,000. That is more than twice what breeders paid for him this year, when he stood for $60,000. The jump follows a Grade I score by his son The Good Life, who took the Hopeful Stakes, the first top-level test for two-year-olds on the American calendar. A sire's early runners are the clearest verdict on his future, and this one has drawn a strong return from the farm that stands him. For breeders weighing the spring, the number now attached to Life Is Good places him among the seriously priced horses of his generation.

With reporting from Thoroughbred Daily News.