Catching Up with 2021 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile Winner Life Is Good

To celebrate the 40th running of the Breeders' Cup, the TDN will share a photo and catch up with a past winner in each of the 40 days
leading up to the event. Today, we have 2021 Dirt Mile winner Life Is Good, now a stallion at WinStar. | Sarah Andrew

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When Life Is Good was good, he was really, really good. A sight to behold in full flight, the 2021 Dirt Mile winner inspired breeders to send him a first book containing 25 Grade I winners and/or producers, as well as 70 graded winners and/or producers. Life Is Good's first foals will arrive in 2024.

“We are extremely excited for Life Is Good's foals coming next year,” said Elliott Walden, WinStar Farm's president/CEO and racing manager. “We have never had a stallion that was so well received.”

Life Is Good (2018 bay horse, Into Mischief–Beach Walk, by Distorted Humor)

Lifetime record: MGISW, 12-9-1-0, $4,541,700

Breeders' Cup connections: B-Gary and Mary West Stable, Inc.; O-CHC Inc. and WinStar Farm LLC; T-Todd Pletcher; J-Irad Ortiz, Jr.

Current location: WinStar Farm, Versailles, Ky.

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