Multiple Grade 1 winner Winter Memories was euthanized on May 16 due to a hind leg suspensory issue that made standing and walking painful, BloodHorse reports.
The 15-year-old daughter of El Prado has been a high point for a signature Darby Dan female line that reaches back to cornerstone mares Memories of Silver and second dam All My Memories.
“It was a sad passing,” Darby Dan Farm owner John Phillips told BloodHorse. “That family has been in my family for three generations of horses, for three generations of family members.”
Winter Memories won eight of 12 starts during her racing career and earned $1,268,100. Among her seven graded stakes victories were Grade 1 scores in the Garden City Stakes and the Diana Stakes. She also finished second in the 2010 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Churchill Downs.
As a broodmare, Winter Memories produced eight foals, with six starters, led by Grade 3-placed multiple stakes winner Winter Sunset and Grade 1-placed Seasons. Both are by Tapit.
The final foal by Winter Memories is a yearling filly by Mendelssohn, who will be kept by Phillips to race and later join the broodmare band.
Read more at BloodHorse.
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