Officials with Winbak Farm have announced the passing of pacing stallion Three Wizzards, p, 2, 1:54; 3, 1:52.2f ($815,154).
Three Wizzards was bred by Whitehorse Farms. Whitehorse Farms was the farm Joe and JoAnn Thomson co-owned with Ed Gold before they sold the farm and formed Winbak Farm. Three Wizzards had been named after the farm’s owners, Joe and JoAnn Thomson and Ed Gold.
Three Wizzards will always have a special place in the making of Winbak Farm because he was the first stallion that Winbak Farm stood.
As a racehorse, Three Wizzards won the Abe Lincoln Stakes, Garden State Stakes division, Sheppard Pace elimination, Woodrow Wilson elimination and Hopeful Stakes elimination. He was also second in the Nassagaweya and a Windsor Riverfront Stakes division. Three Wizzards won the Breeders Crown at age three, beating both Artsplace and Die Laughing. He also won an elimination for the Adios.
As a stallion, Three Wizzards was successful in Delaware, New York and Maryland. He was the sire of 14 $100,000+ winners. His offspring includes New York Sire Stakes Winner, Stock Market Wiz, p, 1:49.3 ($739,282), Maryland Sire Stakes Winner, The Wiz, p, 3, 1:53.2 ($682,071) and Delaware Breeders Fund Winner, Get Jazzed, p, 1:53.2f ($321,594).
Three Wizzards had been retired from breeding in 2013, but was living a good life of retirement and enjoying spending his days grazing in the green fields of Winbak Farm of Delaware. He is buried at Winbak Farm of Maryland.
Please join Standardbred Canada in offering condolences to the connections of Three Wizzards.
(Winbak Farm)
