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Mucho Gusto Retired Due To Soft Tissue Injury; Stud Plans Pending

Mucho Gusto, the winner of the 2020 Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (Grade 1), has been retired from racing after suffering a soft tissue injury training toward a defense of his title.

Trainer Bob Baffert said the 5-year-old son of Mucho Macho Man came up with the injury Tuesday morning. News of the retirement was first reported by Thoroughbred Daily News.

“He galloped this morning, and afterwards we noticed some heat in the pastern,” said Baffert. “Ultrasound showed a small issue in the ligament in the pastern area. With soft tissue problems like this it takes months of rest and you don't know if they're going to be the same when they come back. The good thing is we caught it early.”

Mucho Gusto retires with six wins in 13 starts for earnings of $3,953,800. After winning on debut at Los Alamitos' Thoroughbred meet, the horse won the Grade 3 Bob Hope Stakes, then finished second to Improbable in the G1 Los Alamitos Cash Call Futurity to finish his juvenile season.

He started his 3-year-old campaign on a winning note in the G3 Robert B. Lewis Stakes, then ran third in the G3 Sunland Park Derby. Mucho Gusto skipped the Triple Crown races, instead going on to win the G3 Lazaro Barrera Stakes and G3 Affirmed Stakes at Santa Anita before shipping east to finish second in the G1 Haskell Invitational Stakes to Maximum Security and third to Code of Honor in the G1 Travers Stakes. His season finished with a victory in the G3 Oklahoma Derby.

Mucho Gusto spent his first two seasons racing for owner Michael Lund Petersen, who purchased him for $625,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale of 2-year-olds in training. Petersen sold the horse privately to Saudi Prince Faisal Bin Khaled following his Oklahoma Derby score.

Mucho Gusto kicked off his 4-year-old campaign with a 4 1/2-length triumph in the Pegasus World Cup, then tested the Saudi Cup, where he finished fourth. After a 10-month layoff, Mucho Gusto made his final career start in the G2 San Antonio Stakes, where he once again finished fourth.

“I gave him all that time off to have him fresh for these races (the Pegasus and Saudi Cup),” said Baffert. “He really likes that track (Gulfstream). He ran huge in the Haskell, but his biggest race was the Pegasus. And I thought for a second he was going to win the Saudi Cup. He's sort of been the barn favorite.”

Bred in Kentucky by Teneri Farm Inc. and Bernardo Alvarez Calderon, Mucho Gusto is out of the winning Giant's Causeway mare Itsagiantcauseway.

Stud plans for Mucho Gusto are still to be determined.

Stablemate Charlatan, winner of the G1 Runhappy Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita on Dec. 26, is also on the Pegasus invitation list, but Baffert is undecided on whether the 4-year-old Speightstown colt would run. “The door is still open for the Pegasus but we haven't figured anything out yet,” he said.

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Grade 3 Winner Cowboy Culture To Enter Stud At Midwest Equine Clinic In Indiana

Quality Road's graded stakes-winning son Cowboy Culture enters stud in 2021 at Dr. Roger Beam's Midwest Equine Clinic in Trafalgar, Ind.

Undefeated in his first three starts for Repole Stable, Cowboy Culture won the historic Grade 3 Arlington Classic by a widening 5 3/4 lengths. He also was a runaway winner of the $200,000 Centaur Stakes at Indiana Downs at three. A winner of six races from ages two to four he retired sound with earnings of $339,494.

Trainer Brad Cox said, “Cowboy Culture was a very fast and precocious colt who won his first three starts for us, including a stakes race. He was always sound for me and was as honest and game as they come. I'm sure he'll do well in Indiana”

Quality Road has sired no fewer than 11 Grade 1 stakes winners–nine of them on dirt–with only six crops to race. His sales offspring sell at the highest average in the world.

Located just 29 miles west of Indiana Grand Midwest Equine Clinic's professional care features an on-site reproductive veterinary clinic for the ultimate in mare and foal care. Dr. Beam's conception rate is among the highest in the state.

The 16.1-hand Cowboy Cultire represents an outstanding opportunity for the Indiana breeder looking for a stellar racehorse by America's leading sire. His 2021 introductory fee of $2,500 live foal is enhanced with an option to breed additional mares for $1,500 each.

Best of all, participating breeders will receive at no cost a Guaranteed Lifetime Breeding Right to Cowboy Culture after three contracts have been fulfilled.

Dr. Beam said, “We're excited to introduce this classy racehorse to Indiana breeders. His pedigree is unsurpassed and his conformation is impeccable. He is Indiana's stallion of the future.”

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Cambre Retired To Arohra Farms In Ohio

Arohra Farms in North Lawrence, Ohio has announced that Cambre (Arch – Mourette, by Smart Strike) will enter stud in 2021. Cambre raced for owner Imagine Stables and trainer Kelsey Danner.

Cambre broke his maiden in his third career start in a maiden special weight at Tampa Bay Downs in a two-turn route race on the grass. He showed enough promise to later become a stakes-performer, finishing behind the likes of Standard Deviation (multiple graded stakes placed by Curlin) and Grade 3 winner Solidify (by Tapizar).

Cambre is out of Mourette (by Smart Strike), the multiple stakes placed producer of Sir Anthony (by Mineshaft), a multiple graded stakes winner of over $400,000 in career earnings, including wins in the G3 Prairie Meadows Cornhusker Handicap and the G3 Harlan's Holiday Stakes as an Illinois-bred. Sir Anthony still races in 2020 for his breeder/owner, Richard Otto.

Cambre's 2nd dam is Amourette, herself a multiple-stakes winner and black-type producer of two stakes-performers (in addition to Mourette).

Cambre will stand for special considerations in Ohio, and prospective breeders are asked to contact Arohra Farms for details.

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Hello Broadway Moves To Flowing Acres Farm In West Virginia

Flowing Acres farm at Fleetwood Lane is proud to announce the acquisition and relocation of Hello Broadway from the state of Florida, where he stood for several years with longtime veteran breeder and trainer Monte Thomas and his wife Cathy at Ups and Downs Farm before his passing in the fall of 2019.

Hello Broadway is the son of world-class sire Broken Vow and out of Nightstorm (Storm Cat). This world-class mare is also the dam of 2007 Grade 1 Wood Memorial winner Nobiz Like Shobiz.

As a 2-year-old, he finished second in the G3 Nashua Stakes. At three, he finished second in the G2 Hutcheson Stakes before injury cut his career short. At the time, his trainer Barclay Tagg was quoted as saying Hello Broadway was the best horse he's ever trained.

Until last year, Hello Broadway had been serviced as a private stallion for the Ups and Downs Farm broodmare band. He has had only 30 foals total, but with a remarkable $1.5 million in earnings to date.

New owner Michael Ingrassia said, “If we can get Hello Broadway to a commercial level here in the up-and-coming West Virginia breeding program, it's clear to us that his offspring have shown they can really run. It's not every day you can bring this kind of fire power from Unbridled/Storm Cat line to West Virginia.

Hello Broadway will join Lord of Greatness, the only son of champion stallion Greatness (by Mr. Prospector) standing at stud in North America, who is in his second season in the West Virginia stallion program.

Lord of Greatness has two brothers that are track record holders at Charles Town, in Immortal Eyes and Good Lord, both holding records for almost a decade.

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