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Yanks Music
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. |
Silver Hawk...
http://breeding.bloodhorse.com/article/45662.htm ... and Kid Lemonade (Race 7 at Philly yesterday). |
Nerud's Clabber Girl passes at 25
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.” |
 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. |
His name was Brass Punch and he died trying.
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarp...7-d0d6737479b5 * * * Our Mitzy... http://www.drf.com/news/article/95433.html |
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I saw that race, horrible spill. :( Hope the jockeys involved have a fast recovery, and RIP Stella Joy.
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Ed....are you a licensed funeral director? If not-----shut up. |
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 |
Ka Ching
Died after an injury in a race at Ruakaka, where he had all 4 of his wins. |
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A Man Without a heart is not a Man at all just a Mouse maybe Mort you might want to reconcider this comment |
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Yer breakin' my heart. Shut up. |
Tears of a Clown, during the Ascot Stakes yesterday.
He was 5 years old. RIP |
Charlotta, in Race 2 at HP...
Rest in peace. |
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I shut Ed and NyTol up for ya.
I am... ...at your service. |
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