Angels - Page 21

my miss storm cat · #**401** 06-01-2008, 06:22 PM

Malaika, today at Suffolk Downs.

http://www.pedigreequery.com/malaika6

my miss storm cat · #**402** 06-03-2008, 10:58 AM

I wasn't sure where to put this...

From BH.

Eight Belles will be buried at the Kentucky Derby Museum.

from Churchill Downs

Eight Belles, who finished second in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) but suffered a catastrophic injury moments after the race, will be honored by Churchill Downs Inc. through a series of charitable contributions and initiatives, including the interment of her remains at the Kentucky Derby Museum.

The announcement was made June 3 in conjunction with the filly’s owner, Rick Porter of Fox Hill Farm, and the Kentucky Derby Museum.

“Churchill Downs and the entire Kentucky Derby family were devastated by the fatal injury to Eight Belles, and the shock of her tragic loss continues to resonate through our company and our industry as a whole,” CDI executive vice president Steve Sexton said. “Since her death, we have been exploring ways to pay tribute to her memory while supporting positive changes that will improve the health, safety, and overall welfare of all racehorses.”

The Churchill Downs Foundation and Porter will each contribute $25,000 to the Eight Belles Memorial Fund, established by Thoroughbred Charities of America, for continued research into racehorse injuries and toward the retraining of retired Thoroughbreds for second careers.

Churchill Downs also announced it is renaming the $150,000 La Troienne Stakes (gr. III) in honor of Eight Belles. The race for 3-year-old fillies will continue to be run on the Kentucky Derby day undercard in 2009. The racetrack also plans to conduct an “eight bells” ceremony on Kentucky Derby day in 2009 in the filly’s memory, with details to be announced at a later date.

“The past month has been a time of indescribable highs and crushing lows for me and my family,” Porter said. “We watched Eight Belles run the race of her life in the Kentucky Derby, and that should have been our proudest moment as well as hers. Instead, it all changed in an instant. We’re still grieving and struggling to accept her loss, but even in the midst of our sorrow, we are determined to see something positive come from her death.”

The Kentucky Derby Museum will inter Eight Belles’ remains at the base of a tree to be planted in the filly’s honor. The memorial, located within the museum’s courtyard near the gravesites of four Kentucky Derby winners, will include a bronze plaque dedicating the tree to Eight Belles’ memory.

“The amazing performance by Eight Belles in Kentucky Derby 134 won’t soon be forgotten, and we are privileged to honor her efforts and her sacrifice,” said Lynn Ashton, executive director of the Kentucky Derby Museum. In“We hope our memorial will serve as a lasting tribute to this great filly, and remind every visitor who walks through our doors of her very special courage.”

An interment date has not yet been determined.

my miss storm cat · #**403** 06-04-2008, 12:00 AM

Confirmed on another board...

Skipaslew and Big Bad John, both in the 5th race at Canterbury on June 1st.

Run in peace.

my miss storm cat · #**404** 06-08-2008, 03:38 PM

Catmosphere.

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Racing Post...

Pursuit Of Love put down after fetlock injury

by Amy Bennett

PURSUIT OF LOVE, broodmare sire of Attraction and Antonius Pius, was put down on Thursday after fracturing a fetlock at Throckmorton Court Stud, his home since 2005. The son of Groom Dancer was 19.

Among his best progeny as a stallion were the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks heroine Catchascatchcan, the Dewhurst runner-up Musical Pursuit, smart sprinter Palace Affair, and the Group 3 winners Cupid's Glory, Love Everlasting, and Tartouche.

Pursuit Of Love began his stud career at Plantation Stud, owned by his owner-breeder Lord Howard de Walden, and was leading first season sire in Britain and Ireland in 1996.

In later years he began to make his mark as a broodmare sire with the dual 1,000 Guineas heroine Attraction and mercurial miler Antonius Pius among the best progeny produced by his daughters. Others of note include the Italian 1,000 Guineas winner Windhuk and the Nell Gwyn winner Silca's Gift.

Trained by Henry Cecil, Pursuit Of Love was himself a high-class performer at three. Winner of the European Free Handicap, he next finished thirdto Roderigo de Triano in the 2,000 Guineas, before dropping back in trip to just be short headed by Mr Brooks in the July Cup. Successful in the Group 2 Prix Maurice de Gheest, he also landed the Group 3 Park Stakes.

Out of the Green Dancer mare Dance Quest, he was a half-brother to Divine Danse, winner of the Prix du Gros Chene, and placed in the Cheveley Park Stakes at two. Divine Danse later produced Valentino who was runner-up in the St James's Palace Stakes to Giant's Causeway.

Kasept · #**405** 06-09-2008, 09:03 AM

She was some kind of nice racehorse.. Saw her a bunch of times.

Yanks Music, champion filly, euthanized
By GLENYE CAIN OAKFORD

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Yanks Music, 1996's champion 3-year-old filly, was euthanized on May 15 because of complications after colicking, the manager of Adena Springs, Steven Nicholson, confirmed Friday.

Yanks Music was 15 and was carrying a Thunder Gulch foal who was not saved. Her 2008 Smart Strike colt is doing well.

Adena's owner, Frank Stronach, purchased Yanks Music in foal to Storm Cat for $1 million at Keeneland's November mixed sale in 1997.

Yanks Music, an Air Forbes Won mare, had an inauspicious career as a broodmare, producing just two starters and one winner - the Touch Gold colt Yanks Gold - from seven foals. But she was justifiably famous for her racing exploits for her owner and breeder, Michael Fennessy, and his partner Audrey H. Cooper.

Fennessy, who bred the filly in the name of his Irish American Bloodhorse Agency, had tried twice to sell Yanks Music at auction, turning down $6,500 for her at the 1994 Keeneland September yearling sale and $20,000 at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s spring juvenile sale the following year. In the end, he kept her and put her in training with Leo O'Brien, where his belief in her was borne out. Yanks Music won four Grade 1 races for a total of seven victories in nine lifetime starts, and she earned $787,600.

Yanks Music won all four of her Grade 1 races in 1996 and was beaten only twice that year, when she finished second in the Acorn and the Monmouth Breeders' Cup Oaks. She won the Mother Goose over future champion Escena and later took the Alabama, Ruffian, and Beldame, defeating such fillies as the 1995 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner, My Flag, 1995's champion 3-year-old, Serena's Song, and Grade 1 winner Clear Mandate.

Her owners flirted with the possibility of taking on Cigar in the 1996 Breeders' Cup Classic, but an ankle injury forced Yanks Music to the sidelines. While claiming her championship several months later at the Eclipse Awards banquet, Fennessy announced that Yanks Music would retire. Initial plans called for her to be bred to Cigar, who had retired after finishing third in the 1996 Classic, but that was upset by the horse's infertility. Mated to Storm Cat, Yanks Music was put in the sale where Stronach purchased her.

my miss storm cat · #**406** 06-09-2008, 03:12 PM

Silver Hawk...

http://breeding.bloodhorse.com/article/45662.htm

... and Kid Lemonade (Race 7 at Philly yesterday).

Kasept · #**407** 06-09-2008, 05:34 PM

Original version of an obit I did for Blood-Horse...

Infirmities claim Nerud’s Clabber Girl, 25
By Steve Byk

John A. Nerud’s Clabber Girl, a frequent rival of Personal Ensign, winner of the 1988 Top Flight Handicap (G1), and second to Sacahuista in the 1987 Breeders’ Cup Distaff, was euthanized June 7 due to the infirmities of old age at Sugar Maple Farm in Poughquag, NY. She was 25.

“She was a real hard-hitting mare,” said owner-breeder Nerud. “And she was my original frequent flyer. (Trainer) Wayne (Lukas) never hesitated to fly her somewhere to run.” And run she did. A Florida-bred chestnut by Alydar out of Jedina (What a Pleasure), Clabber Girl amassed $1,006,261 from 39 career starts that featured 8 wins, 12 seconds and 6 thirds.

Clabber Girl broke her maiden November 11, 1985 at Aqueduct under Mike Venezia and had built a solid record of 11/3-2-2 ($86,784) while helmed by Nerud as a juvenile and sophomore. Sent to California and Lukas to start her four year old season, she blossomed during a 16 start campaign that included placements in 6 Graded Stakes ranging in distance from 6.5 to 9f and culminated with her finishing 2 lengths behind Sacahuista under Laffit Pincay Jr. in the Breeders’ Cup IV at Hollywood. Earlier that year at the Inglewood, CA oval she set a new 6.5f track record of 1:15.60.

“She wasn’t a great 2 year old,” Nerud recalled, “But by the time Wayne got her she was on her way to becoming a good horse. She was a model of how a good racemare should look. The feminine head.. shoulder.. hip. She personified soundness.”

In her final year on the track in 1988, Clabber Girl broke through three times in graded stakes annexing the 9f Top Flight H. (G1) with Jose Santos at Aqueduct before scores in the 6.5f Rancho Bernardo H. (G3) with Pincay and the Chula Vista H. (G2) with Chris McCarron. She faced Personal Ensign three times as a 5 year old getting as close as 2nd by 1.75 lengths to the undefeated legend in the Shuvee.

After her racing career, she was bred by her owner to the likes of Seattle Slew, but her best runners came from matings with Nerud’s own A.P. Jet including top earner Wing Man ($313,825). Of her 14 foals, 9 raced and 8 have won, including NYB-stakes placed Running Dog ($209,382). Clabber Girl has a 3 year old filly named Curtains (A.P. Jet) in training, and a yearling colt named Artifice (Performing Magic) at Sugar Maple.

Clabber Girl became increasingly arthritic in recent years, and her condition deteriorated markedly over the winter according to Sugar Maple Farm Manager Dan Hayden. “It was getting harder and harder for her,” Hayden said. “And she was such a sweetheart of a mare that no one wanted to see her suffer.” Clabber Girl laid down in her paddock June 7, and when apparent that she would not get up, she was put to sleep by Sugar Maple veterinarian Dr. Jim Mort.

“Mr. Nerud always used her as a reference for the conformation of a great horse.” said Hayden. “She was pure class in every way too. Delightful to be around, a super mother.” And while Nerud, Hayden and the Sugar Maple staff are sad to see Clabber Girl go, they are all intrigued by the yearling colt she leaves behind. “Everybody that sees him, loves him,” Hayden says. “It would be just like her to save her best for last.”

Kasept · #**408** 06-10-2008, 08:01 AM

Clabber Girl in 2005 with second to last foal, an A.P. Jet filly that Nerud named Curtains in anticipation of it being the dam's final product. However, Clabber Girl surprised Nerud and the Sugar Maple staff when she produced a final colt in 2007, Artifice, from a mating with Performing Magic.

my miss storm cat · #**409** 06-12-2008, 04:57 PM

His name was Brass Punch and he died trying.

http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarp...7-d0d6737479b5

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Our Mitzy...

http://www.drf.com/news/article/95433.html

my miss storm cat · #**410** 06-15-2008, 01:48 AM

Stella Joy, in a 4-horse spill...

http://www.virtualformguide.com/cgi-...614ipswich.txt

RIP.

_ed_ · #**411** 06-15-2008, 06:05 AM

I saw that race, horrible spill.

Hope the jockeys involved have a fast recovery, and RIP Stella Joy.

Mortimer · #**412** 06-15-2008, 11:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by _ed_

I saw that race, horrible spill.

Hope the jockeys involved have a fast recovery, and RIP Stella Joy.

Ed....are you a licensed funeral director?

If not-----shut up.

my miss storm cat · #**413** 06-17-2008, 06:30 PM

Praise the Lord.....

He was an 8YO gelding who hadn't won in about 2 years.

He died trying.

Jump in peace.

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/1846853