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Fortune Ticket, Full-Brother To Gun Runner, To Stand At Anchor And Hope Farm In Maryland

Climax Stallions LLC has announced that Gun Runner's full brother, Fortune Ticket, will stand his first season at stud in 2022 at Anchor & Hope Farm in Port Deposit, Md.

Gun Runner recently broke the first-crop progeny earnings record set by Uncle Mo in 2015, who broke Tapit's 2008 record. Fortune Ticket was initially raced by his breeder, Three Chimneys Farm, where Gun Runner will stand in 2022 for $125,000 stands and nurses. Fortune Ticket was a multiple allowance winner at three who ran a 7 on Thoromanager.

“Fortune Ticket is an exciting prospect for the great state of Maryland. He is the only son of Candy Ride in Maryland and is a full-brother to a burgeoning superstar at stud, Gun Runner,” said Climax Stallions president Sean Feld.

Fortune Ticket will stand for just two percent of Gun Runner's $125,000 stud fee, $2,500 stands and nurses.

Louis Merryman of Anchor & Hope said, “Grace and I are excited to have a horse with this type of pedigree on our farm, not only is he a full-brother to Gun Runner, but he is from the family of Horse of The Year, Saint Liam. Fortune Ticket is correct and athletic which are keys to a stallion's success.”

Fortune Ticket will join Climax Stallions LLC's Editorial, a half-brother to Uncle Mo, who also stands for $2,500 at Anchor & Hope.

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Galawi Retired To Northview Stallion Station In Maryland

Galawi, a winning son of the world's most successful international sire Dubawi out of a Group 1-winning millionaire half-sister to the incomparable Goldikova, will stand his first season at Northview Stallion Station in Chesapeake City, Md., in 2022 for $2,000 live foal, payable when the foal stands and nurses.

A stakes-caliber runner who was retired early due to injury, 4-year-old Galawi, descends from generations of champions and Group 1 winners produced by the enormously successful stud and racing stable of Jacques Wertheimer, and in recent decades by his sons Alain and Gerard Wertheimer.

Sent to trainer Graham Motion earlier this year, Galawi impressed with his only U.S. start when accelerating from last to first in a mile and a quarter race over the Belmont turf course in June, getting the final quarter according to Trakus in :22.04.

“He was extremely impressive in the morning and had a real presence about him,” said Motion. “No doubt in my mind he was stakes caliber. He's just a very classy horse.”

Galawi, is out of Group 1 Prix Vermeille winner Galikova, a half-sister to seven stakes performers, led by Hall of Famer Goldikova. A champion in the U.S. twice and a champion in France four consecutive years, Goldikova won 14 Grade/Group 1 races, including three consecutive runnings of the Breeders' Cup Mile over males and four runnings of the G1 Prix Rothschild. Galikova's group-winning half-brother Anodin was second in the Breeders' Cup Mile and is a group stakes sire. The female line leads directly to Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Gold River.

“He's stunning looking and has a phenomenal pedigree,” said Motion. “I feel he has a stallion's pedigree. I just didn't anticipate him having to be a stallion so soon.”

Galawi, is one of three sons of Dubawi now at stud in the U.S. Dubawi has sired more than 225 stakes winners, and had a stellar 2021 Breeders' Cup as the sire of three winners – Yibir (Breeders' Cup Turf), Space Blues (Breeders' Cup Mile), and Modern Games (Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf).

“Turf racing takes up so much of our day-to-day racing – it's a natural to breed to a horse like this,” noted Motion. “There are so many more opportunities than there used to be for horses on the grass – especially for 2 and 3-year-olds. To get close to Dubawi and close to Goldikova – it doesn't get much better than that.”

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She’s A Winner, Dam Of Bluegrass Cat, Euthanized At Age 25

Regally-bred multiple graded stakes-producing mare She's a Winner, the dam of 2006 Grade 1 Haskell Invitational Stakes winner and stallion Bluegrass Cat, was euthanized on Saturday, Nov. 27 after suffering from colic, WinStar Farm reported today. She was 25 years old.

Bred by Ogden Phipps, the 1996 daughter of A.P. Indy out of the graded stakes-winning and graded stakes-producing Mr. Prospector mare Get Lucky descends from one of the strongest families in the stud book. She is a full-sister to Supercharger, dam of 2010 Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver, as well as a full-sister to Grade 1 winner Girolamo and multiple graded stakes winner Daydreaming, the dam of Grade 1 winner Imagining.

Her second dam is Grade 1 winner Dance Number, a half-sister to Private Account, and Polish Numbers, and the dam of Rhythm, and this is also the family of the brilliant stakes winner and producer Numbered Account, who traces to the immortal and highly influential La Troienne.

“It's with great sadness that we share the news of She's a Winner who suffered a severe bout of colic Saturday morning,” said Elliott Walden, WinStar's president, CEO, and racing manager. “Despite our best efforts to save her, the decision was made to humanely euthanize her. She meant the world to all of us here at WinStar. This family has been very good to us. She will be greatly missed.”

In addition to Bluegrass Cat, a WinStar Farm homebred who banked $1,761,280 in a stellar racing career, She's a Winner is also the dam of Dramedy, winner of the 2015 Grade 2 Elkhorn Stakes at Keeneland; multiple graded stakes winner Lord of the Game; graded stakes-placed Cal Nation; and stakes winner Sonoma Cat.

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Gun Runner Sets All-Time Earnings Record For First-Crop Sire

Three Chimneys' Gun Runner, the 2017 Horse of the Year and the Leading Sire of Two Year Olds worldwide as well as the Leading Freshman Sire in 2021, has established an all-time progeny earnings record for a first crop sire, eclipsing super sire Uncle Mo's first crop earnings record established in 2015. To put the significance of this accomplishment into perspective, Uncle Mo's first crop earnings surpassed the previous record established by the legendary Tapit back in 2008.

The previous first crop progeny earnings record of $3,670,354 as reported by the Blood-Horse and $3,717,490 as reported by the TDN, was surpassed today when the Tom Amoss-trained Shotgun Hottie won a $92,000 MSW race at Churchill, becoming winner number 22, boosting Gun Runner's earnings over $3.8 million. Gun Runner's milestone earnings record mirrors that of Uncle Mo's, having sired two Grade 1 winners including a Breeders' Cup champion. Their records differ, however, in that Gun Runner has sired one more graded stakes winner than Uncle Mo, with fewer starters.

“Gun Runner's record start at stud is a crowning achievement for the farm and its philosophy.” said Three Chimneys' owner Gonçalo Torrealba. “To surpass a record established by Uncle Mo, and Tapit previous to that, clearly compares Gun Runner favorably at this point in time with two of the most influential sires at stud today. He not only established a new progeny earnings record but he is also the leading sire in America by percent stakes winner to runners among all sires, pretty astonishing. Three Chimneys' whole team is grateful to the breeders who continue to support him with great mares, and a special thanks to partner Ron Winchell. He has been fantastic. I am grateful for his continued commitment to breed his best mares and race their progeny. Trainer Steve Asmussen has created his legacy through Horse of the Year Gun Runner and his progeny. Thank you, Steve.”

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