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Special, dam of Nureyev, dead at 30
Posted: 1/3/2000 ET
Special, who produced three stakes winners, including champion sire Nureyev, was euthanized due to infirmities of
old age on December 28 at Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky. She was 30.
The bay daughter of *Forli out of the Nantallah mare Thong had not been bred since 1992 and was a pensioner at the
farm. “She was a great mare and a lovely mare to be around,” said Gus Koch, assistant manager at Claiborne.
Her influence was significant as a broodmare and producer of broodmares, but she is best known as the dam of Nureyev,
who raced just three times, but won twice and was champion miler of 1980 in France. Now standing at Walmac International,
Nureyev has topped the French sire list twice and has ranked among the leaders on general sires lists in England and the United
States.
Special also produced stakes winners Number and Bound, who have both gone on to produce stakes winners themselves. The
best broodmare Special produced, however, was Fairy Bridge. Highweighted filly at two on the Irish Free Handicap in 1977 despite
not starting in stakes company, Fairy Bridge was retired after her two-year-old season and produced classic winner and champion
sire Sadler’s Wells and three other stakes winners. Another son, Fairy King, was unplaced in one start but developed
into France’s leading sire in 1996 and also ranked among the leading sires in Ireland and England.—John Harrell
Lady Winborne Dead
by Blood-Horse Staff
Date Posted: 6/27/2000 9:01:42 AM
Last Updated: 6/27/2000 9:01:42 AM
Diane Perkins of Wimborne Farm near Paris, Ky., announced that her prominent producer Lady Winborne was euthanized on
June 24 because of the infirmities of old age.
The 24-year-old mare, who traced in female family to La Troienne, produced 15 foals, including a dozen starters, all
of which won. Her two best runners were grade I winners Al Mamoon and La Gueriere, but she also was represented by grade III
winner Lost Soldier and other added-money winners Lord of Warriors and Born Wild. Lord of Warriors was a group winner in Hong
Kong, and Born Wild was a champion in Austria. Lady Winborne (Secretariat—Priceless Gem, by Hail to Reason) also produced
three stakes-placed runners.
Her youngest offspring is an unraced Lord At War 2-year-old colt, Lasting Tribute, a full brother to La Gueriere.
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Grade I Winner Imaginary Lady Dead
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-Date Posted: 7/22/2004 12:20:12 PMLast Updated: 7/22/2004 12:20:12 PM
Grade I winner Imaginary Lady, an 18-year-old daughter of Marfa, was euthanized July
16 after being found in the field at Spendthrift Farm near Lexington with a fractured leg.
Bred by Joe and Marion Conrad-Stillmeadow Farm, Imaginary Lady was a four-time graded stakes winner for owners L.R. French
Jr. and D. Wayne Lukas while trained by the latter in her only year of racing. Purchased by Lukas for $100,000 at the 1988
California Thoroughbred Sales March sale of 2-year-olds in training, Imaginary Lady won the 1989 Santa Anita Oaks (gr. I),
Black-Eyed Susan (gr. II, in track-record time), Princess (gr. II), Railbird (gr. II), and Honeybee Stakes. Her two stakes-placings
came in the Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) and Fantasy Stakes (gr. I).
Imaginary Lady retired with seven wins from a dozen starts and earnings of $574,720. She was sold in foal to Forty Niner
for $150,000 at the 1995 Keeneland November breeding stock sale to John Mulholland.
Produced from the Hard Work mare Dream Harder, Imaginary Lady produced six named foals, none of which won. She went the
last five years without producing an offspring.
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Adored Euthanized After Founder Problems
Date Posted:
10/17/2002 2:28:27 PMLast Updated: 10/17/2002 2:28:27 PM
Lou and Patrice Wolfson's Adored, a grade I winner from the first crop by Seattle
Slew, was euthanized in July due to problems associated with chronic founder.
Twenty-two-year-old Adored was buried at John Williams' Elmwood Farm near Versailles, Ky. Williams has cared for the Wolfson's
bloodstock matters for many years.
Adored (Seattle Slew--Desiree, by Raise a Native) was bred by the Wolfsons and Patrice Wolfson's mother, Ethel Jacobs.
She raced in Jacobs' name and was trained by Laz Barrera.
In three seasons, Adored won 12 of 23 starts and earned $879,977. She won seven graded stakes including the Santa Margarita
Invitational Handicap (gr. I) at Santa Anita and the Delaware Handicap (gr. I) at Saratoga in 1984.
Adored did not have as much success in her second career, producing one stakes winner from just six foals. She has been
pensioned for a year prior to being euthanized.
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Danehill's Dam, Razyana, Dies
Date Posted: 2/17/2004 9:00:05 AMLast Updated: 2/20/2004 8:16:51 AM
Juddmonte Farms' blue hen mare Razyana, whose son Danehill ranks as the most successful
shuttle stallion of all time, died the night of Feb. 14 from complications from hemorrhaging. The 23-year-old mare delivered
a Distant View colt the previous night.
"The colt is doing great," said Garrett O'Rourke, who manages the Lexington Juddmonte operation for owner Khalid Abdullah.
"He's nice and correct."
Razyana's death came the same night that one of her daughters, 9-year-old Gombeen, foaled a Distant View filly. Distant
View stands at Juddmonte.
Danehill, a son of Danzig and the top-weighted sprinter on the 1989 European Free Handicap, has sired 240 stakes winners.
He died last May at Coolmore Stud in Ireland.
Razyana, who was scheduled to be pensioned this year, produced four other stakes winners: graded winners Eagle Eyed, Harpia,
and Shibboleth, all by Danzig, and Euphonic (by The Minstrel). Harpia also is a member of the Juddmonte broodmare band. She
is in foal to Forest Wildcat and is booked to farm stallion Empire Maker.
Razyana (His Majesty--Spring Adieu, by Buckpasser) was foaled in Kentucky and raced in England, where she failed to win.
She was returned to the U.S. in 1984. She produced 13 named foals in addition to her newborn.
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Grenzen, dam of Grade 1 winner Twilight Agenda, dies at 29
Posted: 7/13/2004
12:37:00 PM ET
Moyglare Stud’s pensioned broodmare Grenzen, a multiple Grade 2 winner who produced Grade
1 winner Twilight Agenda and was the grandam of 1990 Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Go and Go (Ire), 2002 Melbourne Cup (Aus-G1)
winner Media Puzzle, and '03 Two Thousand Guineas (Eng-G1) winner Refuse To Bend (Ire), died recently at Eaton Farms near
Lexington.
Grenzen won eight of 24 starts over three seasons, including six stakes, and earned $346,490 for a
partnership headed by Jack Woolsey, who purchased the filly as a yearling for $11,000. Grenzen raced primarily in Southern
California and she won all six of her stakes at Santa Anita Park, including the 1978 Santa Susana Stakes (G2), ’79 Santa
Monica (G2), and Santa Maria (G2) Handicaps. In 1978, she set a track record at Santa Anita for six furlongs in 1:07.80.
Grenzen retired at the end of the 1979 season and her first foal was the Alleged filly Irish Edition, dam of two stakes
winners including, Go and Go.
Twilight Agenda, a son of Devil’s Bag who was Grenzen’s sixth foal, won 13 of 32 career starts and earned
$2,174,529 racing for Moyglare Stud. A two-time stakes winner in Ireland before being sent to the U.S. in 1991, Twilight Agenda
counted the ’91 Meadowlands Cup Handicap (G1) among his seven American stakes victories. He also finished second to
Black Tie Affair (Ire) in the 1991 Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) at Churchill Downs.
Grenzen is also the dam of the stakes-placed Gulch mare Market Slide, Ireland’s broodmare of the year in 2002 and
the dam of Refuse To Bend and Media Puzzle.
William Walker & Fayette Farm bred Grenzen in Kentucky. She was from the first crop of Grenfall out of the winning
Cyclotron mare My Poly, and of her 13 foals, nine of ten starters won with progeny earnings of $2,376,110. Grenzen’s
female descendents make up nearly 25% of Moyglare Stud’s broodmare band.
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| Inchmurrin, dam of Inchinor, euthanized at
19
Posted: 7/28/2004 12:01:00 PM ET |
| Inchmurrin, a Group 2 winner and the dam of English-based sire
Inchinor (GB), was euthanized on Monday at Hascombe Stud near Newmarket after a bout with cancer in her head and neck.
"It's a sad day at Hascombe Stud," stud manager Walter Cowe told Racing Post. "We were very attached to her. She was no
beauty, but she had some engine in her and she had the heart of a lion."
The 19-year-old daughter of Lomond out of On Show, by Welsh Pageant, won the 1988 Child Stakes (Eng-G2) at Newmarket and
finished second to Magic of Life in the Coronation Stakes (Eng-G1) at Royal Ascot. She was highweighted that year on the Italian
Free Handicap.
Inchmurrin produced seven winners from seven starters, including Group 3 winner Inchinor, a son of Ahonoora who was her
first foal. Inchinor has sired multiple European highweight Golden Silca (GB), 2004 Prix de Diane (Fr-G1) (French Oaks) winner
Latice, and ‘01 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (Eng-G1) winner Summoner. Inchinor stands at Woodland Stud near Newmarket.
Two other offspring of Inchmurrin also won stakes: Ingozi, a daughter of Warning (GB), and Incheni, a daughter of Nashwan
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| New Zealand broodmare Field Nymph dies
Posted: 7/24/2004 5:34:00 PM ET |
| Two-time Group 1 producer Field Nymph, one of New Zealand’s
most heralded broodmares, was euthanized on July 16 at age 28 due to the infirmities of old age at Windsor Park Stud in Cambridge,
New Zealand.
Field Nymph, an unraced twin daughter of Northfields, produced dual Group 1-winning full brothers Just a Dancer and Field
Dancer, by Star Way. Just a Dancer scored in the 1991 Sydney Cup (Aus-G1) and Brisbane Cup (Aus-G1). Field Dancer won the
1987 Easter Handicap (Aus-G1) and Television New Zealand Stakes (Aus-G1).
Field Nymph also produced Group 3 winner Blanchard and three other winners from ten foals to race.
"She brought a tremendous amount of good will to the stud through the success of her progeny both on the racetrack and
in the sales ring," said Windsor Park general manager Steve Till.
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Classic producer Rose of Jericho dead at 16
Posted: 2/17/2000 ET
Rose of Jericho, the dam of 1992 Epsom Derby (Eng-G1) winner Dr Devious (Ire) and 1991 champion Irish sprinter Archway,
died recently at Coolmore Stud near Fethard, County Tipperary, Ireland, due to complications after foaling a Danehill filly.
She was 16. The healthy filly has been placed with a nurse mare.
By Alleged out of Rose Red, by Northern Dancer, Rose of Jericho was unraced. Her first foal, Archway, was 3-2-1 in nine
starts, winning the 1991 Greenlands Stakes (Eng-G3) at the Curragh to earn sprinting honors in Ireland.
But it was her second foal, Dr Devious, who brought her international acclaim. Winner of the Three Chimneys Dewhurst
Stakes (Eng-G1) and Vintage Stakes (Eng-G3) at two, the Ahonoora colt was shipped to the United States for new owner Sidney
Craig to run in the Kentucky Derby (G1). After finishing seventh in the run for the roses, he was shipped back to Europe,
where he won the Epsom Derby and Irish Champion Stakes (Ire-G1) and finished second in the Irish Derby (Ire-G1). He was highweighted
at three on the English Free Handicap from 11-to-14 furlongs.
Rose of Jericho also produced 1997 Ormonde Stakes (Eng-G3) winner Royal Court and multiple Japanese stakes winner Shinko
King.
Grade 2 winner A. P. Assay dies in paddock accident
Posted: 9/29/2003 10:46:00
AM ET
John Toffan's and Trudy McCaffery’s A. P. Assay, winner of the 1998 A Gleam Handicap (G2) and ’99
Desert Stormer Handicap, was euthanized on September 26 at William S. Farish’s Lane’s End near Versailles, Kentucky,
after suffering a broken neck during a lightning storm.
The nine-year-old daughter of A.P. Indy had produced
three foals. Her first foal is an unraced two-year-old filly by Kingmambo named Prissy Britches. Her second, a Gone West filly,
is a yearling this year and sold for $1.6-million at the Keeneland September yearling sale. Her last foal is a weanling daughter
of Unbridled’s Song.
A. P. Assay won five of 14 career starts and earned $381,691 while racing for her breeders, Toffan and McCaffery. A.
P. Assay was out of the Grade 3 winning Clever Trick mare Nice Assay, who also produced three-time Grade 1 winner Came Home.
Two-time Turf Champion Flawlessly Dead
Date Posted: 9/26/2002 5:00:54 PM
Last
Updated: 10/4/2002 2:41:36 PM
Flawlessly, the last runner to win consecutive Eclipse Awards as a turf champion and one of only two mares to have done
so, died Sept. 26 of natural causes in her paddock at John Williams' Elmwood near Versailles, Ky. The 14-year-old mare had
experienced kidney problems in the past.
"I fed her five peppermints last night, and she was content," said Williams, who helped deliver and raise Flawlessly
at his former Central Kentucky farm, Ballindaggin. "I watched her jog in the field last night and had no reason to feel that
I wouldn't see her again this morning. I'm just devastated; she was just 14. She was a sweet mare, so kind. And what a race
mare. Won nine grade I stakes. How many stallions now in Kentucky can you say won that many. None."
Flawlessly raced as a homebred for Louis and Patrice Wolfson's Harbor View Farm and was sired by the couple's great racehorse,
Affirmed, a two-time Horse of the Year. Flawlessly won three consecutive runnings of both the Matriarch Stakes (gr. IT) and
Ramona Handicap (gr. IT); two consecutive runnings of the Beverly Hills Handicap (gr. IT); plus the Beverly D. Stakes (gr.
IT) and four other graded srakes. She was trained her championship seasons in 1992-93 by Charlie Whittingham, who took over
from Richard Dutrow Sr. the first half of 1991.
Flawlesslywas retired with 16 wins from 28 starts and earnings of $2,572,536. She won 15 stakes and placed in seven others.
Produced from the Nijinsky II mare La Confidence, Flawlessly delivered foals her first two years as a broodmare, but
experienced difficulties and never produced another offspring. Her first foal, Flawlessness, a Storm Cat filly, captured one
of nine races. She died in 2000. The other, a Storm Cat filly named Dreamlike, was sold and never raced.
"It was quite a thrill looking out the window and seeing two champion mares," Williams said about watching Flawlessly
and 1987 juvenile champion Epitome. "It's not going to be the same."
Flawlessly was buried at Elmwood.
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Champion and Top Producer Glorious Song Dead
Date
Posted: 10/1/2003 3:04:22 PMLast Updated: 10/2/2003 4:14:46 PM
Glorious Song, who achieved notable success as a racemare and broodmare, was euthanized
over the summer in England. The 27-year-old Halo mare was the property of Sheikh Mohammed, owner of Dalham Hall Stud near
Newmarket.
Bred by Canadian horseman E.P. Taylor, Glorious Song was a four-time champion for Frank Stronach and Nelson Bunker Hunt
and dam of such noted runners as champion Singspiel and major sire Rahy. In the name of Beechwood Farm, Stronach bought Glorious
Song for $36,000 at the 1977 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society yearling sale at Woodbine and raced her until selling a half-interest
in her to Hunt. The sale took place two days before Glorious Song won the Santa Margarita Invitational Handicap (gr. I) in
February of 1980.
Glorious Song won two other grade I stakes that year, the La Canada Stakes and Top Flight Handicap. She also provided adept
against males, with scores over them in that year's Michigan Mile and One-Eighth Handicap (gr. II), Dominion Day Handicap
(gr. III), and Canadian Maturity. She was voted a 1980 Eclipse Award as top older mare, and picked up Canadian awards as Horse
of the Year and best older mare.
Glorious Song repeated as Canada's top older mare when she won the 1981 Spinster Stakes (gr. I), along with the Santa Maria
Handicap (gr. II) and another Dominion Day, this time in track-record time. She was retired at the end of the year with 17
wins, including 13 added-money wins, from 34 starts and earnings of $1,004,534 while trained first by Fred Loschke, then Gerald
Belanger Jr,, and finally John Cairns. Following her retirement, Hunt bought Stronach's interest in her.
Glorious Song went through two more ownership changes during her lifetime. John Sikura of Canada bought her privately in
1984. and Sheikh Mohammed purchased her from Sikura in 1987.
Singspiel proved a top international runner, winning such grade I or group I fixtures as the Canadian International Stakes,
Japan Cup, Juddmonte International Stakes, and Vodafone Coronation Cup. He also won the second running of the Dubai World
Cup and ran second in the Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. IT). He earned an Eclipse Award and was a champion in Dubai.
Rahy, a $2 million Keeneland July sale yearling and a grade II winner, developed into a prominent stallion at Robert N.
Clay's Three Chimneys Farm near Midway, Ky. His offspring include champion Serena's Song.
Glorious Song, who was produced from the Herbager mare Ballade and whose full brother Devil's Bag also was a champion,
foaled 13 offspring, eight of whom were winners, including additional stakes winners Rakeen. She also is the granddam of French
group I winner Mezzo Soprano. Another full sibling to the mare was Saint Ballado, the sire of 47 stakes winners to date.
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Top Shadwell broodmare Height of Fashion dead
Posted: 8/1/2000 6:19:00 PM ET
English champion Height of Fashion (Fr), an anchor in Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al Maktoum’s broodmare
band, died from infirmities of old age on Saturday at Shadwell Farm near Lexington. She was 21.
“It’s a very sad day. There’s a big void here at the moment,” said Rick Nichols, Shadwell vice
president and general manager. “She’s the cornerstone for Shadwell. She was Shadwell. She put Shadwell on the
map—in the first year of operation she foaled (English classic winner) Nashwan.”
Bred and raced by Queen Elizabeth II, Height of Fashion was sold to Sheikh Hamdan for a reported $2-million at the end
of her three-year-old season. Named England’s champion two-year-old filly in 1981, Height of Fashion won 5-of-7 career
starts, including the ‘82 Princess of Wales’s Stakes (Eng-G2), for $151,532 in earnings.
A daughter of Bustino out of Highclere (GB), by Queen’s Hussar, Height of Fashion produced 1989 Epsom Derby (Eng-G1)
winner and European sire Nashwan, along with four other stakes winners during her broodmare career.
Nashwan also won the Two Thousand Guineas (Eng-G1), King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes (Eng-G1), and Eclipse
Stakes (Eng-G1) during his career and was highweighted at three on the European Free Handicap from 9 ½-to-11 furlongs. He
is the sire of 1996 American champion grass mare Wandesta (GB) and multiple Group 1 winner and $3,797,566-earner Swain (Ire).
Height of Fashion also produced Unfuwain and Alwasmi, sons of Northern Dancer who were English group stakes winners and
since have made their mark as sires. Unfuwain, winner of the 1988 Princess of Wales’s Stakes (Eng-G2) and three other
group events, has sired European champion Alhaarth and 22 total stakes winners, including Lahan, winner of this year’s
classic One Thousand Guineas (Eng-G1) and Kildangan Stud Irish Oaks (Ire-G1).
Alwasmi, who stood in the United States and Canada from 1990 to ’94, has sired multiple graded stakes winner Bursting
Forth and four other stakes winners. He currently stands in Germany.
Height of Fashion was in foal to 1992 Horse of the Year A.P. Indy at the time of her death. Her last foal is a two-year-old
Gulch colt named Nayef that is in training in England, Nichols said.
“She was a tremendous broodmare, giving us two sons that we are standing at stud,” Nichols said. “Plus,
we’ve got five of her daughters. We look for great things from them. Three of them are by Mr. Prospector, one by Dayjur,
and one by Lyphard. They’re bred differently and as individuals they’re quite different, too. Now we’ll
look to the future with them.”
Height of Fashion was buried at the farm, under a grove of trees overlooking the paddock where she once strolled with
the young Nashwan.—Tom Law
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