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Veteran Pin Oak Stallion Broken Vow Pensioned From Stud Duty

Broken Vow (Unbridled–Wedding Vow, by Nijinsky II) has been pensioned from stud duty, Pin Oak Stud announced today.

The Pin Oak homebred won nine of his 14 starts, and won or placed in six graded stakes, earning $725,296. Trained by Graham Motion, Broken Vow won the Grade 2 Philip H. Iselin Handicap and G3 Ben Ali Stakes and placed in the G1 Gulfstream Park Handicap, G3 Fayette Stakes, and the G2 Meadowlands Cup Handicap, etc., before retiring to his birthplace in Kentucky to start his career at stud.

The 24-year-old stallion retires having been among the top 15 active sires, with an impressive 15 percent black type horses from starters. Broken Vow sired 159 black type horses in total, 80 of those black type winners, as well as six champions.

His six Grade 1 winners include Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner and Eclipse champion Champagne Room, the co-topweight female sprinter of her year Sassy Image, as well as Cotton Blossom, Unbridled Belle, and Rosalind. Additionally, Broken Vow is making his mark as a broodmare sire, as his daughters have already produced three champions and some 100 black type horses, including Eclipse champion Runhappy.

“First as a race horse and then as an anchor to our stallion roster for 20 seasons, Broken Vow is the embodiment of Ms. Abercrombie's breeding program, producing sound, competitive racehorses whose bloodlines endure,” said Clifford Barry, manager of Pin Oak Stud. “We appreciate the industry's support through the years, but mostly we thank Broken Vow for his loyal service to the farm and look forward to providing a well-deserved retirement for him here at Pin Oak.”

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Jockey Mario Pino Achieves 7,000-Win Milestone At Presque Isle Downs

Jockey Mario Pino recorded his 7,000th career victory on Wednesday at Presque Isle Downs in Erie, Penn., guiding Enjoy the Music to victory for trainer S. Matthew Kintz. Pino entered Wednesday with 6,998 wins and seven mounts; the jockey won the second race aboard Gucci Gal for win number 6,999, and captured the milestone win in race four.

Pino, 60, is the 10th-leading rider in North American history, having surpassed Jorge Velazquez for that ranking in 2017. He is now 57 wins shy of the next-winningest rider, the retired Angel Cordero, Jr.

Ahead of Wednesday's card, Pino told yourerie.com he was considering retirement: “I'm a little excited and on the other hand I'm a little pressurized you know because it's coming to the last two and they always say the last one or two are the hardest ones, but yeah I'm real excited and I've had that goal for a long time.”

Born in Delaware, Pino grew up on a farm surrounded by horses. His father trained show horses for the local jumping circuit, and the farm took in client horses to board as well. Pino and his siblings were raised caring for the animals, cleaning stalls and doing all the chores necessary to keep a family farm running smoothly.

By the time he was 13 years old, Pino knew he wanted to be a jockey. He found jobs exercising Thoroughbreds at Delaware Park and later Penn National before a friend of his father took him to Belmont Park. There, he found a job working for Joe Cantey, trainer of champion Temperence Hill and multiple Grade 1 winners Majesty's Prince and Cox's Ridge.

Pino rode his first winner in January of 1979 at Bowie Race Course in Maryland, then got his next two winners in quick succession the following day. He was hooked.

Over the course of his career, Pino earned both the George Woolf (2013) and Mike Venezia Awards (2016), both of which are based on character and sportsmanship.

Other than his impeccable character, Pino may be best-known as the regular rider for Hard Spun, second in the 2007 Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic.

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Harness Trainer, Alleged Navarro Co-Conspirator Oakes Pleads Guilty To PED Charges

Harness trainer Christopher Oakes pled guilty to one count of misbranding and drug adulteration with intent to defraud or deceive on Wednesday, when he appeared before federal judge Mary Kay Vyskocil via teleconference. According to the Thoroughbred Daily News, Oakes is the 10th of the original 27 indicted in March 2020 to plead guilty in a scheme to use performance-enhancing drugs in racehorses.

Oakes was allegedly overheard on wire taps speaking to Jorge Navarro (who was also indicted and pled guilty) about the distribution and use of performance-enhancing drugs to Thoroughbreds. Specifically, the TDN reported that Oakes and Navarro were overheard making plans to administer performance-enhancing substances to X Y Jet, who later died suddenly.

Navarro changed his plea from not guilty to guilty this summer, but has not yet been sentenced.

Oakes told Vyskocil on Wednesday: “I purchased medications from Dr. Seth Fishman and Dr. Gregor Skelton and his assistant Ross Cohen and administered the medications to the horses in my care to gain an unfair advantage.”

Oakes will be sentenced on Feb. 17, and faces up to three years in prison.

Read more at the Thoroughbred Daily News.

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Red-Hot Gun Runner Leads Three Chimneys’ 2022 Roster At $125,000

Three Chimneys confirmed its roster and announced its fees for the 2022 breeding season.

The marquee stallion for the upcoming breeding season is clearly Horse of the Year Gun Runner, who has enjoyed a meteoric rise with his first crop of runners. He is the sire of five individual stakes winners including undefeated multiple Grade 1 Winner Echo Zulu, winner of the G1 Spinaway and the G1 Frizette. In addition, he has sired Grade 1 Hopeful winner Gunite, as well as Grade 2 winners Pappacap and Wicked Halo.

The extraordinary exploits of his progeny have landed him atop both the freshman sire list as well as the 2-year-old sire list worldwide. His yearlings sold for up to $975,000.

The 2022 fees are as follows:

Gun Runner – $125,000 Live Foal Stands and Nurses
Volatile – $15,000 Live Foal Stands and Nurses
Palace Malice – $12,500 Live Foal Stands and Nurses
Sky Mesa – $12,500 Live Foal Stands and Nurses
Sharp Azteca – $5,000 Live Foal Stands and Nurses
Will Take Charge – $5,000 Live Foal Stands and Nurses
Funtastic – $5,000 Live Foal Stands and Nurses

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