Retirements.....

[Who Doctor Who]

Is this Uncle Denny, Bellamy Road, Bluegrass Cat, Buddy Gill stuff funny anymore. Let it rest..

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

Bellamy Road.....

From BH...

Bellamy Road to Stand at Hurricane Hall


Bellamy Road, record-setting winner of the 2005 Wood Memorial Stakes (gr. I) at Aqueduct, will enter stud at Hurricane Hall near Lexington for a fee of $10,000. The 4-year-old son of Concerto won four of seven races and earned $811,400.

He will be the first stallion to start at Hurricane Hall, owned by Ben P. Walden Jr., Patrick Madden, Brad M. Kelley, and David Hanley.

"Few horses enter stud that were as athletically gifted as Bellamy Road," said Walden. "His New York track record was accomplished in a hand ride by over 17 lengths."

Campaigned by George Steinbrenner III's Kinsman Stable, Bellamy Road won the Wood Memorial by 171<$k-10>/2<$> lengths in stakes-record time of 1:47.16, which equaled Riva Ridge's track record of 1:47 flat set in 1973. Bellamy Road went into the Kentucky Derby (gr. I) the clear cut 5-2 favorite, but finished unplaced. He was sidelined for several weeks because of an injury to his right front leg that was discovered after the race.

Bellamy Road, who was trained by Nick Zito, finished a game second to Flower Alley in the Travers Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga in his first start back. He was taken out of training after the race and sent to Kinsman near Ocala, Fla, to rest. Plans were to run him this year, but he never started.

Bred in Florida by Dianne D. Cotter, Bellamy Road was bought by Kinsman for $87,000 at the 2004 Ocala Breeders' Sales Company April sale of 2-year-olds in training from Ocala Stud Farms, agent. He won his first start that year by 71<$k-10>/2<$> lengths at Delaware Park, then took the Miller Genuine Draft Cradle Stakes (gr. III) at River Downs.

Bellamy Road, who is out of the Deputed Testamony mare Hurry Home Hillary, is being syndicated.

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by Who Doctor Who

Is this Uncle Denny, Bellamy Road, Bluegrass Cat, Buddy Gill stuff funny anymore. Let it rest..

I'm sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about.....

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Feel better, good boy.

Hope he goes to a nice home..... I always liked this guy.

Excerpt, DRF.....

* Rapid Proof, a multiple stakes winner and earner of $506,338, has been retired due to an ankle injury, trainer Lon Wiggins said Tuesday. The 7-year-old gelding won of the Hopemont and John B. Connally Breeders' Cup for owner-breeder Dolphus Morrison. "We're going to try to find a good home for him," Wiggins said.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

Feel better, good boy.

Hope he goes to a nice home..... I always liked this guy.

Excerpt, DRF.....

* Rapid Proof, a multiple stakes winner and earner of $506,338, has been retired due to an ankle injury, trainer Lon Wiggins said Tuesday. The 7-year-old gelding won of the Hopemont and John B. Connally Breeders' Cup for owner-breeder Dolphus Morrison. "We're going to try to find a good home for him," Wiggins said.

Oh, that sucks. I liked him a bunch -- I was glad I got to see him in person in the Chicago area a few times over the past couple years. He ran a couple of big ones here. He was fun to see.

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

Oh, that sucks. I liked him a bunch -- I was glad I got to see him in person in the Chicago area a few times over the past couple years. He ran a couple of big ones here. He was fun to see.

Oh lucky!

Gotta love the older guys with the big hearts.

[my miss storm cat]

Wanderin Boy and My Typhoon.....

[Danzig]

goodbye miss typhoon. my fave turf filly since megahertz left us. but at least we got an extra year from her, and i enjoyed her this year.

[miraja2]

miraja2 retired from handicapping today.
He certainly had NOT done enough, and frankly it has been pretty obvious that he should have retired a long time ago, but he really looked up against it today.
The sad part is that I don't know what the hell he will do now because I really can't see him having much of a stud career.