Bettors Wish On The Move
Multiple Grand Circuit stakes winner and double millionaire Bettors Wish will have a new home for the 2025 breeding season.
The Bettors Wish Syndicate and Southwind Farms have announced that eight-year-old stallion Bettors Wish (1:47.3, $2,781,240) will relocate to Southwind Farms in Pennington, New Jersey commencing the 2025 season standing for a stud fee of $7,500 USD.
Bettors Wish, son of the great Bettors Delight, has already produced millionaire Better Is Nice p, 3, 1:48, 1,211,485, Adios elimination winner Wish You Well p, 3, 1:49.1, $571,892, and New Jersey Sire Stakes champions from his first small crop of 39 foals. In 2024, his offspring have included a string of stakes winners in multiple states and champions in the New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Kentucky Sires Stakes. His foals have earned $4,680,152 to date.
The stallion's syndicate has stated that Bettors Wish New Jersey eligible foals will benefit from the strong New Jersey program, including the NJ Sires Stakes, NJ Classic Series with $240,000 USD and $150,000 USD finals, respectively, NJSS Maturity, Renaissance Pace, Development Fund races and Home Grown Pace. The NJ Racing Commission has allocated $1.2 million USD in 2025 for NJ Sired Awards and NJ Breeders Awards. NJ currently offers 12 per cent Breeders Awards and 25 per cent NJ Sired Bonus awards in selected NJ sponsored stakes races.
Impeccably bred, Bettors Wish hails from the immediate family of American Ideal and Life Sign and the highly sought after and prolific Three Diamonds, which has also produced Twin B Joe Fresh and Seven Colors.
Bettors Wish earned $2.7 million on the track and was named Dan Patch Three-Year-Old Pacer of the Year and Aged Pacer of the Year at four. His first two crops have put Bettors Wish at the top of the siring ranks. Bettors Wish was the leading first-crop pacing sire in 2023 and is the leading pacing sire of three-year-olds by average earnings in 2024.
For a breeding application, contact Southwind Farms at 609-737-9067 or visit southwindfarms.net/bettors-wish.
(With files from Bettors Wish Syndicate)