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Canada’s Horse of the Year Arravale Retired
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Arravale, Canada’s Horse of the Year and champion turf female in 2006, has been retired.
(a multiple Grade 1 winner), Red Bloom (Group 1 winner) and French Oaks (Group 1) winner Latice. A splint injury at the start of 2007 delayed and
Arravale in training at Keeneland in early April with trainer Mac Benson’s partner and assistant Barb in
the irons.
The daughter of Arch nished fourth in her last start in the Grade 2 Nassau Stakes on May 31 at Woodbine.
hindered Arravale’s four-year-old campaign. Arravale retires with a record of ve wins in 15
Owner Bob Costigan purchased the ve-year-old as a yearling at the Keeneland September sale.
starts, one second and one third and earnings of $1,129,697.
Arravale became the sixth female thoroughbred to be named Canada’s Horse of the Year since the inception of the Sovereign Awards in 1975.
She will be sent to Mill Ridge Farm in Kentucky before heading to Ireland in the fall to be boarded. In the spring of 2009 she will be bred to Chevely Park Stud stallion Pivotal, a Group 1 winner.
After winning two of her three starts as a two-year- old, Arravale was readied for an American campaign
the following year. She won her season
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debut at Woodbine and nished third in the Grade 1 American Oaks at Hollywood Park.
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In her next start, Arravale won the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks at 1
1/8 miles on the turf.
At Woodbine, Arravale nished second in the Grade 2 Canadian Stakes before taking home her biggest prize.
On October 22,
2006, Arravale, under
her regular rider Jose Valdivia, won the Grade 1 E.P. Taylor Stakes, over a eld that included ve Grade 1 winning llies and mares such as Angara
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News In Review
Fires moves past Hawley on list of all-time winning jockeys
Hall of Fame Jockey Earlie Fires (age 61) moved past Hall of Fame Jockey, Sandy Hawley into ninth place on the list of all-time winning North American riders in June at Arlington Park
Hawley was inducted into the Racing Hall of Fame in 1992. Fires was among the 2001 Hall of Fame class.
Three-year-old lly, Much Obliged, trained by Malcolm Pierce
for Pin Oak Stables
was the winner of the inaugural $200,000 American 1000 Guineas Stakes at Arlington Park on May 24, 2008.
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