Grade 1 winner Played Hard has been retired from racing, and she will enter the broodmare band of owner Richard Rigney, BloodHorse reports.
The 5-year-old Into Mischief mare suffered a training injury over the summer at Saratoga Race Course, and when the timetable for recovery would have precluded her from competing in the Breeders' Cup, the decision was made to retire her. She'll reside at Denali Stud in Paris, Ky.
Played Hard finished her career with six wins in 16 starts for earnings of $1,480,140, running for owner Rigney Racing and trainer Philip Bauer.
She earned her first graded stakes victory at age four, taking the Grade 3 Locust Grove Stakes, and she started her 5-year-old campaign with a Grade 1 win in the La Troienne Stakes. Her final start came in the G1 Ogden Phipps Stakes at Belmont Park on June 10, where she finished third.
Played Hard was bred in Kentucky by Susan Casner, out of the placed Tiznow mare Well Lived, a full-sister to Dubai World Cup winner Well Armed. She sold to Rigney Racing for $280,000 at the 2019 Keeneland September Yearling Sale.
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