All-Time Minnesota-Bred Earner Mr. Jagermeister Retired, Stud Plans Pending

Mr. Jagermeister, the all-time leading Minnesota-bred money earning Thoroughbred, was retired Saturday following a workout at Tampa Bay Downs in which he was preparing for next week's Pelican Stakes.

The 7-year-old, who had earned $700,839 in 37 starts, returned to the barn following the workout when it was discovered that he had suffered a condylar fracture of the left front.

“We breezed him and everything went fine,” trainer Valorie Lund said. “He came back off. At first we thought it was his foot.” But the veteran trainer quickly knew it was something more and called for an x-ray. It was then the fracture was determined.

A younger horse might return from such a setback but Lund knew it was time for Mr. Jagermeister to retire. “I'm sorry to see him go. He was such a joy,” she said. Plans are in the making for a potential career in the breeding shed.

Mr. Jagermeister returned to his barn in Ocala where Lund keeps a string of 30.

“He was wanting to play in the aisle,” she said. “He's feeling fine.”

Mr. Jagermeister exploded onto the scene in the summer of 2017 when as a 2-year-old he broke his maiden at Canterbury at first asking by 11 1/2 lengths. His second start was a runner-up finish in a Prairie Meadows stakes race followed by the easiest 15 1/2 length win in the Northern Lights Futurity, the premiere race for state-bred 2-year-olds. A month later he met the talented Amy's Challenge in the Shakopee Juvenile. That battle became one of the most memorable at Canterbury. The filly defeated Mr. Jagermeister by a fraction of a length after the two dueled down the stretch.

Mr. Jagermeister would continue to face top competition throughout his career. While he is the all-time leader for state-breds in earnings, he is seventh overall in money earned racing at Canterbury. The son of Atta Boy Roy, who Lund also trained, made much of his purse money the hard way.

“He always met tough horses,” Lund said. “He was really an astounding racehorse.”

He won 13 of 37 starts with six seconds and four third-place finishes in a career that will lead to a Canterbury Hall of Fame induction.

In 2018 Mr. Jagermeister finished second to Mitole, then one of the nation's fastest sprinters, in an Oaklawn stakes. Later in his career he was second to Whitmore, a future Breeders' Cup Sprint winner. His brilliant speed carried him far. In his final race on Jan. 9, a Tampa Bay Downs sprint that he won by seven lengths going away, Mr. Jagermeister recorded a career best 100 Beyer Speed Figure.

It was a race in his 3-year-old season that Lund remembers the most. That year began in the Grade 2 San Vicente at Santa Anita where he tired on a blistering pace. He next romped in a Turf Paradise allowance before facing Mitole and heading south to Shakopee. He went favored in the 10,000 Lakes against older statebreds and won by eight lengths. Mr. Jagermeister was and is the only 3-year-old to win that race in 28 renditions.

Following a tenth place finish in the Mystic Lake Derby, his first turf try, Mr. Jagermeister went on a three-race sweep of the Victor Myers, Minnesota Derby and Minnesota Classic Championship. It was the Derby Lund recalls fondly.

“We wanted to keep him off the rail. He won by so far. Leandro [Goncalves] was standing up and cruising in,” she said. He won by 10 lengths in 1:40.37, just .17 seconds off the track record established in 1985. “Four off the rail all the way around. Geared down,” she remembered.

Family was planning to come to Tampa for the $100,000 Pelican Stakes, which was to be Mr. Jagermeister's next start, this coming Saturday. They will still visit and Lund hopes she can enter a maiden 3-year-old she has high hopes for.

“They will still come,” Lund said. “We will party but instead it will be a retirement party.”

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Readyforprimetime Retired To Bar None Ranches In Alberta

Stolz Thoroughbreds has acquired the More Than Ready son Readyforprimetime to stand in Alberta for the 2022 season.

Readyforprimetime is a sprinter, an allowance winner and a multiple stakes placed runner with third place finishes in the 2021 $100,000 Duncan F. Kenner Stakes at Fair Grounds and the 2020 $85,000 listed Lucky Coin Stakes at Saratoga. Readyforprimetime completed his race career this year with a record of 18-4-1-4 and $198,261. The 6-year-old stallion was sold as a yearling at the 2017 Keeneland September Yearling Sale for $220,000.

Readyforprimetime will be the only son of More Than Ready to stand in Canada. More Than Ready is an international sire who represents the Halo line and stands at WinStar Farm for a $50,000 stud fee.

More Than Ready has more black type winners than any North American sire in history with 212, and his total progeny earnings are over $210 million with 97 graded stakes winners, 30 Grade/Group 1 winners and 13 champions. More than Ready is the number-one sire of Breeders' Cup winners in history with seven wins and the only sire to have an Eclipse Award champion in each of the last four years.

Readyforprimetime will stand the 2022 season at Bar None Ranches Ltd. and is being offered for a limited book to approved mares only. He will stand for $1,250 LFSN.

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Grade 2 Winner Rushie Retired To Pleasant Acres Stallions In Florida

Pleasant Acres Stallions is excited to announce the arrival of Rushie (Liam's Map / Conquest Angel, by Colonel John) to their stallion barn.

Brokered by Jacob West, the Grade 2 Pat Day Mile winner was acquired by a partnership and then sent to Florida for the 2022 breeding season.

Out of the first crop by Liam's Map, Florida-bred Rushie first entered the Kentucky Derby trail after breaking his maiden in his first start at three, followed by a pair of third place finishes in the G1 Runhappy Santa Anita Derby (to Honor A.P. and Authentic), and the G2 Toyota Blue Grass stakes (to Art Collector and Swiss Skydiver).

Trainer Michael McCarthy and owners James and Donna Daniell ran Rushie in the G2 Pat Day Mile on the Derby undercard where he earned a graded stakes win that day, finishing the mile in 1:34:41. In total, Rushie earned nearly $700,000 and in 2020, averaged close to $72,000 in earnings per start.

“We are very pleased to have Rushie join our roster of exceptional stallions in Florida. Right now, there are only three stallions by Liam's Map being offered to breeders in 2022 – two are standing in Kentucky at Spendthrift and Airdrie Stud, and Rushie is here at Pleasant Acres Stallions,” said Joe Barbazon. “Being able to expand the Liam's Map bloodline to our Florida breeders is very exciting!”

Rushie's sire, Liam's Map (Unbridled's Song / Miss Macy Sue, by Trippi) is a two-time Grade 1 winner of more than $1.3 million. The Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner had six wins and two seconds from eight starts with a total of six triple-digit Beyer Speed Figures – topping his career with 114 Beyers in his G1 Woodward and Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile victories. He is proving himself a successful stallion and currently leads all North American third crop sires by cumulative Grade 1 winners. His 2-year-olds have sold for up to $1.2 million and his yearlings have sold for $500,000, $450,000, $400,000, etc.

Rushie's first dam, Conquest Angel (Colonel John / More Oats Please, by Smart Strike) was a $300,000 OBS April 2-year-old in training purchase. She is by multiple Grade 1 winner millionaire Colonel John (Tiznow / Sweet Damsel, by Turkoman). His second dam, More Oats Please, has produced three winners from five starters, including Peace and War – a Grade 1 winner that started as a $300,000 yearling, went on to become a $1.5-million Fasig-Tipton mixed sale purchase, and then was sold for $1.45 million at the Keenland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Rushie joins stallions Amira's Prince, Bellavia, Breaking Lucky, Bucchero, Curlin's Honor, Gone Astray, Gunnevera, Handsome Mike, Leinster, Long On Value, Neolithic, No Never No More, and Sweetontheladies, at the 220-acre farm located just northwest of Ocala.

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Champion Sprinter Gamine Retired From Racing

Owner Michael Lund Petersen announced today that champion sprinter Gamine, the leading distaff earner of champion sire Into Mischief, has been retired.

One of the fastest horses of her generation, Gamine flirted with two of the most iconic records in the history of the sport set by the legendary Dr. Fager, believed by many to be the fastest horse of all time.

In her 18 3/4-length romp in the Acorn Stakes she blazed the mile in 1:32 2/5, which was one-fifth of a second off Dr. Fager's world record set 54 years ago, which remains unbroken on dirt. In her 6 1/4-length domination of the fastest fillies in the country in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, her track-record seven-furlong time of 1:20 1/5 equaled Dr. Fager's time in the Vosburgh Handicap that stood for 31 years. Finishing a distant second was Kentucky Oaks winner Serengeti Empress.

When she romped by seven lengths in the Test Stakes at Saratoga, her blazing time of 1:20 4/5 for the seven furlongs was only two-fifths of a second off the track record set 44 years ago, while not being asked in the stretch. The Equibase comment reads she won “at will.”

Now five years old, her connections felt she has nothing left to prove.

Trainer Bob Baffert said, “Gamine is the best filly sprinter I have ever trained. She defines greatness. She's a big, beautiful, elegant filly. She was all class. We knew we had something very special right from the start.”

Gamine's other Grade 1 victories include the seven-furlong Derby City Distaff Stakes presented by Kendall-Jackson Winery at Churchill Downs, run in a sprightly 1:21 2/5, and the Ballerina Stakes at Saratoga. She also cruised to a 10-length victory in the Grade 2 Great Lady M. Stakes at Los Alamitos and won the Grade 3 six-furlong Las Flores Stakes at Santa Anita by five lengths.

Her average margin of victory was seven lengths.

“Gamine is leaving the track happy and healthy. She gave me and my family the thrill of a lifetime,” said Lund Petersen. “We look forward to her next chapter.”

Gamine will reside at Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa Farm in Paris, Ky.

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