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 Carson City © Emily Hufford 2004 |
Carson City Dead Carson City had a big year in 2004, siring such stakes winners as Molto Vita and Pollard's Vision. He would have stood the 2005 season with a $35,000 stud fee and was booked full. As a racehorse, Carson City won the Sapling Stakes and Fall Highweight Handicap for earnings of $306,240. He went on to sire such horses as City Band, City Zip, and Lord Carson. Carson City died with seventy-two stakes winners to his credit. Carson City was out of the Blushing Groom mare Blushing Promise. Overbrook Farm is still represented with the best stallion in North America, Storm Cat, and his sons Cat Thief and Tactical Cat. |
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Road Wins, Spanish Empire, a four-year-old half-brother to Forest Camp, died on the racetrack Saturday in the Tenacious Handicap at the Fair Grounds. He appeared to suffer a heart attack during the race and was pulled up in distress. He was trained by Steve Asmussen. Midway Road won the race, contested over 1 1/16 miles. A nose behind him was Pie N Burger, and second choice Fantasticat finished fifth. Midway Road is a four-year-old son of Jade Hunter. Shaky Town and Intelligent Male were scratched. |
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Flying Continental
Dead Multiple grade-one winner Flying Continental died on Monday at Harris Farms in California. He was eighteen. A son of Flying Paster, Flying Continental won the Jockey Club Gold Cup and Strub Stakes as a racehorse and became one of California's leading sires. He is the sire of Continental Red, Irisheyesareflying, Radar Contact, and the popular Dirty Diana. Flying Continental ran 51 times and sired 76% winners from starters. |
Kipper Kelly Dies
by Amanda Saunders
17-year-old Kipper Kelly has died at Jerry Meaux' Indian Ridge Farm near
Duson, La on the morning of September 11th after suffering a heart attack.
The son of Valid Appeal out of the winning Tentam mare Plum Ten, won three
out of 11 starts with four seconds and two thirds and earnings equalling
$94,619. Graded stakes placed, Kipper Kelly first stood in Illinois and
Florida before residing in Louisiana where he sired Kelly Kip, a multiple
graded stakes winner of over $1.15 million.
Kipper Kelly has sired one other graded stakes winner in Miss Inquisitive, ten stakes winners including the ill-fated Kipperscope, C Flex, and Kippers Kitten, and seventeen stakes-placed runners with progeny earnings of over $11.5 million.
Top Sire Deputy Minister Dies
by Laura Ferguson
Deputy Minister has died at age 25. To read more about him, click here.
 Atswhatimtalknbout © Amelia Baldree 2003 |
Atswhatimtalknbout
Euthanized The horse that "could have been" was euthanized on September 1st. Atswhatimtalknbout, a fan favorite, never made it back to the races after the 2003 Kentucky Derby, where he put in a monster performance to close to fourth. He was sidelined for over a year with foot problems and attempted a comeback several times before an internal rupture claimed his life. Atswhatimtalknbout was trained by Ron Ellis and owned by B. Wayne Hughes and Biscuit Partners LLC, which included Gary Ross and Steven Speilberg. |
Sky Beauty Dead
by Emily Hufford
Sky Beauty, a champion who captured the Filly Triple Crown, died in Kentucky this month due to founder. The fourteen-year-old daughter of Blushing Groom is survived by seven foals, three of which are winners. She won fifteen races in a four-year career, including eight grade-one stakes races. She was named the Champion Older Mare of 1994, and in 1993 she won the Alabama Stakes (gr. I) in addition to her Triple Crown. She earned $1,336,000 for trainer Allen Jerkins.
 Dollar Bill © Susie Raisher |
Dollar Bill Euthanized Grade II winner and millionaire Dollar Bill was
humanely euthanized at Houstondale Farm near Paris, Kentucky after
foundering. |
 Boomzeeboom Before the Affirmed Handicap © Emily Hufford 2004 |
Boomzeeboom Euthanized By Emily Hufford From An Airport In Las Vegas On Her Way to Seattle... That's Dedication Affirmed Handicap winner Boomzeeboom was euthanized on Saturday at Del Mar Racetrack in San Diego, California, after suffering a severe injury. The three-year-old son of Explosive Red was training for the Haskell Invitational Handicap (gr. I) when the injury occurred. Trained by Vladimir Cerin, Boomzeeboom was a top three-year-old over the winter, winning two races at Santa Anita, then was taken off the Triple Crown trail after a poor showing in the Lexington Stakes at Keeneland. He won the Affirmed at Hollywood Park in June under Victor Espinoza for owners John Karubian, Alan Landsburg and Larry Postaer. Boomzeeboom was out of the Unreal Zeal mare Zeal Lady. |
Free House Dies in
Accident The extremely popular California-bred and young sire Free House died on Monday in a freak accident where the young stallion reared up and went over backwards and could not be saved. The ten-year-old son of Smokester won the Santa Anita Handicap (gr. I) and Pacific Classic (gr. I) in a brilliant four-year career that also saw him to a second place finish in the 1997 Preakness Stakes (gr. I) and third place finish in the Kentucky Derby (gr. I). He is represented this year by stakes winner House of Fortune, who is from his first crop. |
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Multiplication Euthanized James McIngvale's Multiplication, a three-year-old New York bred son of Subordination, died after a workout at Belmont Park on June 26, due to a heart attack. He was being pointed for the New York Derby after winning the Mike Lee Stakes at Belmont. Multiplication had completed his workout, six furlongs in 1:11.56. He was trained by Bob Baffert but in the care of one of Baffert's assistants with the New York string. |
 Puzzlement's Last Win © Rae Parodi 2004 |
Puzzlement
Euthanized Puzzlement developed an infection in a front tendon after the Donn Handicap (gr. I) at Gulfstream Park, an injury that he battled for over three months before his death. The bay son of Pine Bluff won six of twenty-two career starts for trainer Allen Jerkins. The highlight of his career was a win in the Saratoga Breeders' Cup Handicap (gr. II) in 2003. He won $717,590 for owner Joseph Shields, Jr. |
Precious Beauty, Dam of Patchen Beauty,
Dies
By Amanda Saunders
Precious Beauty, a rare white Thoroughbred mare and the dam of the winning
white Thoroughbred mare Patchen Beauty, was euthanized on the morning
of May 21st at age 23 at her home in Patchen Wilkes Farm in Lexington.
The mare was reported to have fallen two years ago on a patch of ice and
developed muscle atrophy on one side of her body, making it difficult
for her to stand. She also had only one good eye, which was cancerous.
The unraced daughter of Jatullah was a gift to Patchen Wilkes Farm from her breeder Herman Goodpaster, who managed for it's previous owner Mrs. Joseph Goodwin. Her granddam is the famous white mare White Beauty, also bred by Goodpaster.
Patchen Beauty, sired by Hatchet Man, was Precious Beauty's only white foal and her only winner out of seven foals, winning two of twenty-three starts and earning $54, 268 in four years. Patchen Beauty has since given birth to The White Fox, a rare white colt by Pioneering. She also has since produced another white foal, a filly, in Feburary by Skip Away.
Precious Beauty was buried at Patchen Wilkes Farm in a special area that, according to Farm Manager Barry Erzine, will not be disturbed if the farm is developed.
 Wavering Monarch © Emily Hufford 2004 |
Wavering Monarch Euthanized By Emily Hufford Glencrest Farm took another blow on Thursday when their homebred sire Wavering Monarch had to be euthanized due to infirmities of old age. A multiple grade 1 winner, Wavering Monarch is the sire of champion Maria's Mon and 38 other stakes winners. He sired 356 winners total. Wavering Monarch, a son of Majestic Light, also made a mark as a broodmare sire, siring the dams of Petionville, Tejano Run, and Preakness Stakes (gr. I) winner Prarie Bayou. He was twenty-five at the time of his death. This spring, Glencrest Farm also lost the young sire Booklet and the pensioned Clever Trick. Last fall they sold a young stalllion, Anet, who died shortly after the transaction. |
 Clever Trick © Emily Hufford 2004 |
Clever Trick Euthanized By Emily Hufford Twenty-eight-year-old Clever Trick was euthanized on June 5th due to massive kidney failure. The son of Icecapade was standing at Glencrest Farm, where he had stood throughout his entire stud career. Clever Trick won eighteen of twenty-nine races, including eight stakes races. He sired the earners of over $43 million and 622 winners in twenty-three years at stud. Clever Trick's two best offspring include Anet, a millionare who won the Del Mar Derby (gr. II), and Phone Trick, who went on to sire Favorite Trick, the 1997 Horse of the Year. Clever Trick was pensioned earlier this year when he failed to impregnate any mares. |
Wynn Dot Comma Euthanized
Wynn Dot Comma After the Swale Stakes
© 2004 Rae Parodi
Wynn Dot Comma, winner of the 2004 Swale Stakes just a few weeks before, was euthanized on Tuesday after breaking down in his daily gallop. The chestnut son of Struggler had also won the Spectacular Bid Stakes in January. He was trained by Marty Wolfson. The colt had nearly completed the workout before he took a bad step and broke his ankle. He will be buried at Wolfson's farm in Florida.
