Frank's Rockette, a five-time graded stakes winner, has been retired from racing with stud plans to be determined, Daily Racing Form reports.
Owner Frank Fletcher told DRF that the decision came after a discussion with trainer Bill Mott and racing manager Kathy Moore following the 6-year-old Into Mischief mare's final start, a second in the Pumpkin Pie Stakes on Nov. 5 at Aqueduct.
Frank's Rockette will join Fletcher's broodmare band in Kentucky. While plans for her initial mating have not been finalized, Fletcher told DRF he was considering cornerstone Gainesway sire Tapit.
A homebred for Fletcher out of the Grade 3-winning Indian Charlie mare Rocket Twentyone, Frank's Rockette retired with 12 wins in 30 starts for earnings of $1,509,733.
After winning on debut as a juvenile by 8 3/4 lengths, she knocked on the door of a graded stakes win with runner-up efforts in her next three starts, two of them in Grade 1 competition. She broke through the following summer with a run of three graded victories in the Grade 3 Victory Ride Stakes, the G2 Prioress Stakes, and the G2 Gallant Bloom Handicap. In later campaigns, she added Grade 3 wins in the Sugar Swirl Stakes and Hurricane Bertie Stakes.
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