Sweet Life, the dam of champion Sweet Catomine and multiple Grade 1 winner Life Is Sweet, has passed away at age 27.
Sweet Life (by Kris S, out of Symbolically), earned Broodmare of the Year honors in 2009, reflecting her status as a highly influential broodmare in producing winners of two Breeders' Cup races.
Sweet Life's daughter Sweet Catomine, sired by Storm Cat, was crowned champion 2-year-old filly in 2004 after capturing the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante Stakes and G2 Oak Leaf Stakes. At age three, she was victorious in the G1 Santa Anita Oaks and G3 Santa Ysabel Stakes.
Three years after foaling Sweet Catomine, Sweet Life foaled a full-sister to Sweet Catomine, Life Is Sweet. This special filly won over $1.8 million on the racetrack, including victories in the Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic and G1 Santa Margarita Invitational Handicap. Sweet Life also produced Calimonco, a stakes-winning full brother to the illustrious fillies.
Bred and owned by Pam and Martin Wygod, Sweet Life will be greatly missed. The mare resided at Lane's End Farm since 2008 and was retired from the broodmare band in 2018.
She will be buried in the cemetery at Lane's End Farm. Her daughters, Sweet Catomine and Life Is Sweet are now retired from the broodmare band and grace the fields at Lane's End.
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