When the name Curalina comes up, Susan Atkins remembers singing a lullaby to a “redhead with a beautiful star on her forehead.” Aron Wellman remembers bidding on a yearling and hoping nobody else saw what he saw under “a little too much baby fat.”
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Grade 1 winner Illuminant has been retired from racing after she emerged from a recent workout with some minor signs of discomfort, her connections announced July 13.
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Jacob West has joined Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners as the company’s Vice President of Bloodstock. West, 31, has previously worked for Taylor Made as a Buyer Account Manager and most recently served as the Director of Bloodstock for Three Chimneys Farm.
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They’ve been together at various times since, at the races or other sales, and gathered again in the basement of Belmont Park last Saturday when that same colt put them in the winner’s circle for the 149th Belmont Stakes.
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With Lady Eli, co-owned by Kumin through Sheep Pond Partners, slated for a run in the $300,000 Gamely Stakes (G1T), Illuminant was shifted to the $201,035 Monrovia Stakes (G2T) two races later on the Saturday card.
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ARCADIA, CA – Illuminant easily could be among the entries for Saturday’s Grade 1 Gamely Stakes at Santa Anita, a race she won in 2016.
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Tapwrit was one of the top sellers of the 2015 Saratoga Selected Yearling sale. The partnership formed to buy Grade 2 winner and Kentucky Derby contender Tapwrit for $1.2 million was at the same time relatively spur of the moment and years in the making.
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Crossing a street can be the simplest of task. It’s usually a quick and uneventful process in the everyday life of people in all corners of the world. Yet on one fateful afternoon in August of 2015, the all-too-routine act of walking from one street to another triggered a chain of events that has taken Aron Wellman and his partners on an amazing journey that just might include a coveted stop at Louisville on the first Saturday in May.
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Mar. 14 TDN Top 12 Rank: 2 Last Start: 1st, GII Tampa Bay Derby, TAM, Mar. 11 Accomplishments Include: 1st, Pulpit S., GP, Dec. 10 Next Start: Possible for GII Blue Grass S., KEE, Apr. 8 Thoro-Graph sheet, Equineline PPs KY Derby Points: 54
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Dogwood Stable President Cot Campbell described Curalina as “a high-class racehorse” that has “a great future ahead of her as a broodmare” during the 2016 Aiken-Trained Horse of the Year ceremony Sunday. In addition, Campbell reminded the audience at the Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame and Museum that Curalina had accomplished something “unusual” because […]
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