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El Prado and Silver Train

I remember you mentioned them before, but it's still fun to look them up AGAIN and look at their gorgeous photos & history.

El Prado is "all over" your foal crop. Hurray for the Celtic Spirit.

Really impressive bloodlines everywhere.

And to think I didn't even have a TB on the farm two years ago....

Nothing like jumping in with both feet. Is your birthday in the Spring, too, like the TB's?


Jeff n Patti
Is this the colt off the track that you bred once and gelded?


His sire:

INCLUDE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Include_(horse)
(foaled in 1997) is a millionaire American Thoroughbred racehorse and successful sire. Bred in Maryland by Robert E. Meyerhoff and raced under the Fitzhugh LLC banner as his owner, he had a record of 20: 10-1-4 with career earnings of $1,659,560. Include was best known for his wins in the grade one Pimlico Special and the grade two New Orleans Handicap and Massachusetts Handicap.[1]

Two-year-old season
Include was a slow-developing colt early in his career and raced only two times as a two-year-old, finishing out of the money once and finishing third in his second start for annual earnings of $4,280.

Three-year-old season
At age three, Include finished off the board in his first start and then reeled off four straight wins. In April 2000, he broke his maiden in his fourth attempt. He won that maiden special weight race at a distance of seven furlongs at Laurel Park Racecourse by 9½ lengths. Then he scored wins in two straight allowance races in the summer in his home state of Maryland, both contested at Laurel Park. The first was a nine furlong dirt race that he won by three lengths, and the second was an eight and half furlong race that he won by 8¼ lengths over a field of multiple winners. Include also won the $100,000 Vincent A. Moscarelli Memorial Stakes at nine furlongs at Delaware Park by 9½ lengths, defeating Judge's Case and Lightning Paces. He finished his sophomore season with a record of (5): 4-0-0 and annual earnings of $92,880.[2]

Four-year-old season
In 2001, Include had the best year of his career, which culminated in his being named Maryland's Champion Older Male and Horse Of The Year. As a four-year-old, he finished in the money in eight of nine races. During the fist quarter of the year, Include won two stakes races at Fair Grounds Race Course. The first was a race was a prep for the next plateau in his career; he started with a win in the $125,000 Whirlaway Handicap at eight and a half furlongs. He followed that up with a win in the $500,000 grade two New Orleans Handicap at nine furlongs, beating well-regarded horses such as Nite Dreamer and Arkansas Derby winner Valhol. After his New Orleans success, he shipped north to Baltimore, Maryland and scored a 3¼ length win in the $100,000 Jennings Handicap, a nine-furlong route race on dirt at Pimlico Race Course.

After his Jennings score, his connections decided to take a step up in class and compete in the $750,000 grade-one Pimlico Special Handicap. Include was bred and trained in Maryland, so many in the crowd threw their support behind him even though there had only been three Maryland winners of the "Special" before 2001. In that race, Include was the 5/2 second choice on the morning line in a field of seven graded stakes horses from around the country. He broke slowly but made up ground before the famous "Club house turn" at "Old Hilltop" and placed himself third rounding the track. He made a move at the top of the stretch and won the nine and a half furlong race in 1:55.3, defeating Albert the Great, Pleasant Breeze and Milwaukee Brew.

Include followed up this win with a score in the $500,000 grade-two Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs just outside Boston, Massachusetts. In that race, he recorded a Rogozian figure of 1 in a time of 1:48.61 as he won by four lengths, defeating Sir Bear and Broken Vow at nine furlongs. In his next race, he placed third in the grade-two Suburban Handicap at Belmont Park to Albert the Great and Lido Palace of Chile. At the end of the summer, he placed third in the grade-two Meadowlands Cup, losing to Gander and Broken Vow by a neck. In the late autumn, Include finished the year with a runner-up performance in the $450,000 grade two Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs, losing by a neck to Ubiquity.

During the last two years of his career, he earned 13 triple-digit Beyer speed figures in his final 15 starts, among which were back-to-back speed figures of 117. Include ended his four-year-old season with a record of (9): 5-1-2 and annual earnings of $1,435,400.

Five-year-old season
At age five, Include raced four times with a record of (4): 1-0-1 and annual earnings of $127,000. His lone win came when he repeated in the $100,000 Jennings Handicap at Pimlico Race Course, defeating Lightning Paces and First Amendment in 1:49 by 9 lengths. The only other race where he hit the board that year was a show finish in the grade two Massachusetts Handicap behind Macho Uno and Evening Attire.

Retirement
Include was retired to Airdrie Stud in 2001. He represents the last chance for his sire Broad Brush to continue the Domino line.


FORT PRADO
An 8-year-old son of El Prado, the highly durable Fort Prado won or placed in 36 of 59 races and earned $1,211,681. Thirteen of his wins came in stakes.

Fort Prado was a champion four separate years. His greatest season came in 2006 when he was voted Horse of the Year, top older male, and champion grass horse. During that year, he won four stakes, including the John B. Connally Breeders’ Cup Turf Handicap (gr. IIIT), the Fair Grounds Breeders’ Cup Handicap (gr. III), and the second of three consecutive runnings of the Black Tie Affair Handicap on turf at Arlington Park.

Read more on BloodHorse.com: http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/53513/fort-prado-to-hill-n-dale-in-illinois#ixzz1wIscFB5Q



Albertus Maximus sired by Albert the Great

Albertus Maximus retired to stand at Shadwell
http://www.drf.com/news/albertus-maximus-retired-stand-shadwell
Albertus Maximus, 2009’s Donn Handicap winner, has retired due to injuries he sustained in the Dubai World Cup that year. He will stand at his owner’s Shadwell Stud in Lexington, Ky., in 2012.

Sheikh Hamdan al Maktoum privately purchased Albertus Maximus, now 7, from his breeders, Marianne and Brandon Chase, after he won the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile in 2008. He won the Donn in his next start but came out of a sixth-place finish as favorite in the Dubai World Cup with a tendon injury. He returned to training late in 2009 but injured a splint bone.

“We realized that Albertus Maximus was not going to return to his Grade 1 form, so the decision was made to retire him to stud,” said Shadwell general manager Rick Nichols. “He is a strongly-made horse with obvious talent on both synthetic and dirt and raced successfully on both coasts.”

Shadwell will waive Albertus Maximus’s 2012 stud fee for approved mares and also will offer a breeders’ bonuses: the breeder of the first winner by Albertus Maximus will receive $5,000, and the breeder of the horse’s first black-type winner will receive $10,000.

Trained by Vladimir Cerin and Kiaran McLaughlin, Albertus Maximus won 6 of 17 lifetime starts and finished second or third in five other races, for career earnings of $1,328,230. In addition to his Donn Handicap and Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile victories, he also won the 2008 Windy Sands Handicap ay Del Mar.

Albertus Maximus is out of the Forty Niner mare Chasethewildwind, making him a half-brother to stakes-placed Chasethegold.


https://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/stallion-directory/stallion.aspx?stallion_no=7114438


God that was fun! Prayers are with you.