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[baymare]

Great news!

I'll have fun researching the pedigrees and looking at the pretty pictures!!

Have you posted any pictures of the new baby? If so, where/what date are they posted and I'll find them.



I was just reading an article about "nurse mares" and their abandoned foals. Bearing in mind that I've never raised a foal from the get-go, I would think that supplementing the TB foal's calorie intake with bottle feeding of say, goat's milk, would be easier than using a nurse mare.

(I'm not referring to a situation where the foaling TB mare is totally unable to nurse or has died, but just doesn't produce enough milk for a robust strapping Thoroughbred foal.)

[baymare]

Runaway Groom (1979–2007) was a Canadian Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_Groom


Background
Bred by Gardiner Farms in Caledon, Ontario, Runaway Groom was sired by the prominent Nearco descendant Blushing Groom out of the mare Yonnie Girl. He was purchased as a yearling at the Fasig-Tipton sale in Kentucky by New Yorker Albert J. Coppola[2], who only realized later that the colt's birthplace meant he qualified for the Canadian Triple Crown series.

Racing career
Runaway Groom did not race at age two. Trained by New Yorker John DiMario, he began his career in the spring of 1982 at age three. Racing in Kentucky, he won two of his first four races, then was sent to Toronto's Woodbine Racetrack for the Queen's Plate, the most prestigious race in Canada and the first leg of the Canadian Triple Crown series. Under jockey Robin Platts, the lightly regarded Runaway Groom surprised fans and bettors as he finished a solid second behind Son of Briartic. In the ensuing Prince of Wales Stakes, Runaway Groom turned the tables on the Plate winner, winning it as well as the third leg of the Triple Crown, the Breeders' Stakes.

Brought to New York to compete, Runaway Groom won an allowance race at Belmont Park before competing in Saratoga Race Course's premier event, the Grade I Travers Stakes. In a very strong field, bettors sent the colt off at 13-1 odds but under Canadian jockey Jeffrey Fell, Runaway Groom won the race, marking the only time in American racing history that a horse has beaten the Kentucky Derby winner (Gato Del Sol), the Preakness Stakes winner (Aloma's Ruler), and the Belmont Stakes winner (Conquistador Cielo) in the same race.

For his 1982 performances, Runaway Groom earned Canadian Champion 3-Yr-Old- Colt honors. When he raced at age four in California, his conditioning was taken over by Charles Whittingham. His best graded stakes race result before he retired to stud duty was a third in the 1983 San Diego Handicap at Del Mar Racetrack.

Stud record
Sent to the Vinery breeding farm in Lexington, Kentucky, Runaway Groom had a long and successful stud career. He sired a number of Graded stakes race winners, including Cherokee Run (who won the 1994 Breeders' Cup Sprint), 2006 Sunshine Millions Oaks and 2007 Sunshine Millions Distaff winner Joint Effort, Japanese runner Machikane Hokushin, and multiple-stakes-winning millionaires Down The Aisle and Wekiva Springs.

In 2001, Runaway Groom was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.[3] In February 2007, the 28-year-old horse was pensioned from stud duty, having sired sixty stakes race winners and twenty-seven graded stakes winners.

On June 8, 2007, Runaway Groom was humanely euthanized due to the infirmities of old age.

[baymare]

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.