Page 6 - July 2007 The Game

6 The Game, July 2007 Canada’s Thoroughbred Racing Newspaper
~ Stallion News ~
A Fleets Dancer Euthanized
Champion, A Fleets Dancer, was euthanized this Spring following an incident at Anson Stud Farm where he had been standing stud since 2004.
The fiery chestnut horse, by Afleet - My Dream Come True, by Vice Regent, had sired 91 foals in three crops with 72 foals currently of racing age. His best progeny included Lady Dancer, a three year old filly, who has had three wins and a third in seven starts this year in the United States.
Owned by Cam Allard, A Fleets Dancer raced under the tutelage of Hall of Fame Trainer Roger Attfield in the latter part of his career amassing total career earnings of more than $1 million in his 45 lifetime starts.
His most profitable season was in 2001 at age 6, when he earned close to $430,000 on his way to being voted Champion Older Horse in Canada after winning the $150,000 G3 Dominion Day and the $150,000 G3 Durham Cup Handicaps at Woodbine. Also that year he was second in the $400,000 G2 Washington Park Handicap at Arlington Park & the Valedictory Handicap at Woodbine; he finished third in the both the $400,000 G2 Kentucky Cup Classic at Turfway Park and the $300,000 G2 Saratoga BC Handicap at Saratoga.
A Fleets Dancer had also excelled in the West before moving to Woodbine, winning both the Manitoba and Alberta Derbys in 1998 as well as the KY Alta Handicap at Northlands Park.
Stallion Elajjud Euthanized
Spring Farm’s productive stallion, Elajjud, was euth- anized in late March after an unknown injury caused the fifteen-year-old horse to badly falter in behind when bringing him in from his daily paddock turn-out at the farm where he stood in Granton, Ontario.
Owner Dr. Brown had said that they weren’t exactly sure what happened, figuring that the bay son of Dayjur - Aishah, by Alydar, had injured himself by jump- ing or twisting in the early spring snow.
“We think maybe it was a pelvic fracture or it was spinal.” explained Dr. Brown, who said he was away in Kentucky at the time.
Elajjud had retired in 1998 after racing from age 3 to 6. Entering stud in 1999, Elajjud registered 68 foals with 65 foals in 6 crops of racing age.
“He was probably the best statistical horse in Canada.” commented Dr. Brown, who men- tioned that the stallion was mainly for his own produc- tion and a few outside mares, “We were really looking forward to this year.”
Elajjud’s best progeny include: Stakes winner, Shot Gun Ela, who raced from age 3 to 5 (2004 -2006) with earnings totalling $315,491 with 7 wins - 4 seconds and 3 thirds in 19 lifetime starts; Seven time winner, Only Fools Rush In; Garzon, who placed in 7 of his 17 career starts; Swiftnsassy, a three time winner of more than $82,000 in the US.
Spring Farm acquires son of Unbridled
Saffir, a 5-year-old son of Unbridled - Storm Alert, by Storm Cat arrived late in the season to Spring Farm in Ontario. Owned in partnership by Dr. Brown and Elizabeth Moran’s Brushwood Stables, Saffir was a winner on both the dirt and the turf showing both ability and speed. Saffir was a $1.8 million yearling purchase and while attempting to bring the back to the races in 2007 after suffering an injury last year, the decision was made to retire him to stud.
The name Saffir, comes from the Saffir- Simpson Hurricane Scale, the 1-5 rating of a hur- ricane’s intensity, relative to his mare’s name being Storm Alert.
Runaway Groom Euthanized
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Survivalist to shuttle to Argentina
by Michael Burns
Grade 3 winner Survivalist, who is standing his initial season this year for $9,328 (10,000 Canadian) at Park Stud in Ontario, Canada, will shuttle to Argentina for the Southern Hemisphere season at Gaston Balbi's Haras Arroyo de Luna as part of a four- year lease agreement.
The breeder of the 2007 United Arab Emirates Derby (UAE-G2) winner Asiatic Boy, Haras Arroyo de Luna also stands Not for Sale and Sultry Song at their Haras San Lorenzo de Areco facility in San Antonio de Areco.
A five-year-old by Danzig, Survivalist was retired last season after suffering a tendon injury during train- ing. He won five of 15 career starts and earned of $478,920 for owner-breeder Phipps Stables.
Survivalist won the 2005 Gotham Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct and finished second later that season in the Wood Memorial Stakes (G1).
Survivalist is out of the winning Mr. Prospector mare Miner’s Game, a full sister to multiple Grade 1 winner and sire Seeking the Gold.
Michael Burns is a South America-based Thoroughbred Times correspondent
Grade 1 winner and Canadian Champion, Runaway Groom was euthanized due to complications of old age at Vinery in Lexington, Kentucky on June 8, he was 28.
The gray son of Blushing Groom (FR), out of the stakes winning Call the Witness mare Yonnie Girl was the sire of 31 graded stakes winners including champion sprinter and sire Cherokee Run. He had been pensioned in February after 22 seasons at stud.
Vinery stallion manager Mike Heintzman was quot- ed in the Thoroughbred Times, “He started to get uncomfortable, and there was no way we were going to let him suffer. He was a great horse on the racetrack, a great horse in the stallion barn, and a great horse to be around on a daily basis.”
Runaway Groom was Canada’s 1982 champion three-year-old colt winning six of his 18 starts and earn- ing $347,537 in two seasons.
He won two of the 1982 Canadian Triple Crown races as well as the G1 Travers Stakes at Saratoga defeating all three of America’s Classic winning colts
from that year. Runaway
Groom was bred by Gardiner Farms and ran under the silks of Albert Coppola for trainer Charlie Whittingham.
To June 10, 2007 - Runaway Groom has sired 684 winners and 72 stakes winners from 1,097 foals of racing age.
His progeny have earned more than $55 million.
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