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Win Win Win Retired Due To Tendon Injury; Stud Plans Pending

Live Oak Plantation's homebred Win Win Win, impressive winner of the Grade 1 Forego Stakes at Saratoga in his most recent start, Aug. 29, has been retired from racing due to a tendon injury.

A versatile 4-year-old son of Grade 1 winner Hat Trick, Win Win Win was rounding into the best form of his career for trainer Michael Trombetta and was targeting a start in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile at Keeneland. Stud plans will be announced at a later date.

“I would like to thank Mike Trombetta and his staff and the Live Oak Stud crew for all the care they gave Win Win Win,” said Charlotte Weber. “He provided us a lot of thrills on the racetrack and I am looking forward to his future as a stallion.”

In a deep and contentious Forego, Win Win Win circled the field at least eight-wide around the turn and finished with a dramatic flourish, going from last to first in the seven-furlong event to win in 1:21.71, leaving in his wake four Grade 1 winners—Complexity, Whitmore, Mind Control, and Firenze Fire.

Last season at three in his sophomore bow, Win Win Win set a new track record at Tampa Bay Downs in winning the Pasco Stakes, an early prep for the G2 Tampa Bay Derby. He drew off with authority in the seven-furlong test, speeding to an eye-catching 7 1/4-length score in the stakes and track-record time of 1:20.89, smashing the previous record of 1:21.40 set by Catalina Red in the 2014 renewal of the Pasco.

Demonstrating his versatility, Win Win Win also annexed the Manila Stakes at one mile on turf at Belmont Park after finishing third in the Tampa Bay Derby and second in the G2 Blue Grass Stakes. In the latter, he picked up 40 points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby leaderboard, securing him a spot in the gate for the first Saturday in May. He ultimately finished ninth in the Derby and seventh in the Preakness Stakes before his win in the Manila.

Win Win Win won two of his three starts as a 2-year-old, taking a 6 1/2-furlong maiden special weight at Laurel in his career debut. He crushed allowance foes by 6 1/2 lengths at 5 1/2 furlongs in his next start and concluded his juvenile season with a second-place finish in the seven-furlong Heft Stakes at Laurel.

All told, Win Win Win lived up to his name, capturing five of his 12 starts, placing in four others, and earning $601,600 in his accomplished career. Win Win Win is the seventh Grade 1 winner to represent his sire and he is produced from the winning Smarty Jones mare Miss Smarty Pants, a half-sister to graded stakes winner and multiple graded stakes-placed Unbridled Humor.

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Champion Game Winner Retired To Lane’s End For 2021

Lane's End Farm announced today that undefeated champion 2-year-old and graded-stakes winning 3-year-old Game Winner has been retired from racing and will stand the 2021 season at Lane's End.

Game Winner, who has earned over $2 million from four graded stakes wins, is the second-highest-earning colt by perennial leading sire and Lane's End stallion Candy Ride. During his championship 2-year-old season, Game Winner went unbeaten with victories in the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity, G1 American Pharoah Stakes and G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs.

As a 3-year-old, Game Winner ran a terrific race in the Kentucky Derby, finishing fifth beaten by just over three lengths. That same year, his graded stakes performances featured second-place finishes in the G2 Rebel Stakes and G1 Santa Anita Derby. He was most recently seen winning the G3 Los Alamitos Derby.

“As a 2-year-old he was just phenomenal, he really brought it to that championship level,” said Bob Baffert. “To do what he did really showed that he was the best of the best. Candy Ride was a brilliant racehorse and he throws brilliance, and with Game Winner, the minute he showed that brilliance I knew we had something special.”

Game Winner broke his maiden at first asking at Del Mar, dominating the field by 5 3/4 lengths. This dominating performance gave his connections the confidence to target the G1 Del Mar Futurity just 16 days later. The win would become the first of three Grade 1 victories as a 2-year-old, as he later took the G1 American Pharoah Stakes posting a 97 Beyer and the Breeders' Cup Juvenile by almost three lengths. After an unbeaten 2-year-old season that included three Grade 1 victories, he was rightly crowned champion 2-year-old male. In doing so, Game Winner joined an elite list of just three colts to win three or more North American Grade 1 races as a 2-year-old in the past 20 years.

“Champion 2-year-olds make great sires,” said Bill Farish. “Street Sense, Uncle Mo, American Pharoah, and now Nyquist looks very promising. All were the very best of their generation and now are among the elite stallions in America. Game Winner dominated in his championship year and was a graded-stakes winner at three. He is a champion from the immediate family of a champion, so we are honored that Gary and Mary West have entrusted Lane's End with his stallion career. “

Game Winner started his 3-year-old career with back-to-back second-place finishes in the G2 Rebel Stakes, beaten by a nose by Omaha Beach, and the G1 Santa Anita Derby. His next start came in the Kentucky Derby where he was a fast-finishing fifth after getting knocked hard out of the gates and being as far back as seventeenth at the halfway point of the race. He finished just over three lengths behind the winner and earned the highest Thorograph figure of .25 of the field. His final 3-year-old start was a dominating five-length win in the G3 Los Alamitos Derby.

“Mary and I have been excited about Game Winner since the day Ben Glass bought him for us at Keeneland,” said Gary West. “These special horses are so hard to come by and to have a champion means everything to us. I am so pleased he will stand at Lane's End and I plan on supporting him extensively as I have with my other stallions, alongside the superior group of shareholders they have put together. This includes Alpha Delta, Summer Wind Farm, SF Bloodstock, Mt. Brilliant Farm, Sea Horse Breeders, West Point and St. Elias. They are among the best breeders in America and undoubtedly will support him and contribute greatly to his chances to be a successful stallion.”

Bred in Kentucky by Summer Wind Farm, Game Winner is out of the A.P. Indy mare Indyan Giving who has also produced graded-stakes winner Flagstaff. His second dam is champion Fleet Indian who won five graded stakes and earned over $1 million. To date, his sire Candy Ride has produced 16 Grade 1 winners and is the fourth-leading active sire by lifetime earnings.

Game Winner will be available for inspection in the coming weeks and a stud fee will be determined.

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Grade 1 Winner Volatile Retired To Three Chimneys For 2021 Breeding Season

Three Chimneys Farm and Phoenix Thoroughbreds announced today that Grade 1 winner and stakes record setter Volatile, winner last time out in the Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap against a field comprised of all Grade 1 winners at Saratoga, has been retired due to a hairline fracture of his right front cannon bone. He will take up stud duty at Three Chimneys for the 2021 breeding season.

By Violence (Medaglia d'Oro), who ranks first in 2020 by Grade 1 winners, Volatile was his sire's most expensive yearling sold at public auction when hammered down for $850,000 at Keeneland September in 2017.

The ultra-talented and stunningly-gorgeous gray, was the model of consistency, compiling a record of five wins and a second from six starts. Undefeated this year, he rose to the top of the sprint division with dominant victories culminating in a Grade 1 win in the Vanderbilt where he clocked a final quarter :22.94, the fastest in the race's history.

His two starts prior to that saw a combined margin of victory of nearly 16 lengths, including a stakes record and near-track record performance in the listed Aristides Stakes at Churchill Downs which earned him the highest Beyer Speed Figure of the year, a 112. His final time of 1:07.57 while being throttled down, was just .02 seconds off the track record, running the final eighth mile in :11 and change.

Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen, a winner of over 9,000 races, said of Volatile, “He reminds me very much of Mitole in his championship season. Volatile is as fast as any horse I have ever trained. His brilliant performances this year would have made him the likely favorite for the Breeders' Cup Sprint and a tough horse to beat. I trained his mother and his grandmother, the incredible Lady Tak who won multiple Grade 1 races for us. You will not find a better looking individual than Volatile, nor one with as much speed and raw talent.”

“Volatile is a beautiful horse that breeders will like when they see him. He exudes class and is a great physical. He was brilliant and that is what can make a stallion special,” said farm owner Gonçalo Torrealba, adding, “Three Chimneys will proudly support him with plenty of quality mares, I can guarantee that.”

A stud fee has not yet been announced. The farm will send a release informing breeders as to when he will be available for inspection.

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Breeders’ Cup Hopeful Con Te Partiro Retired; Still To Be Offered At Keeneland November Sale

Con Te Partiro, a multiple Group 1 winner in Australia who had visions of returning to her native country for a swan song start in this year's Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf before being offered at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, has been retired from racing due to a minor knee injury, per Ray Thomas of Australia's Daily Telegraph.

The 6-year-old daughter of Scat Daddy will remain cataloged for the Keeneland November sale.

Con Te Partiro was announced for the upcoming Breeders' Cup at Keeneland and the ensuing sale on the same property on Sept. 12, aiming to close a 2020 campaign that has included wins in the G1 Coolmore Classic and G1 Coolmore Legacy Stakes in Australia.

The mare was born in the U.S., and raced domestically for for trainer Wesley Ward and owner Hat Creek Racing. She won on debut as a juvenile during Keeneland's 2016 Spring Meet by 5 1/2 lengths. That campaign also saw her win the Bolton Landing Stakes at Saratoga by 5 3/4 lengths, and later finish second against male competition in the Juvenile Turf Sprint Stakes on the Breeders' Cup undercard at Santa Anita.

Like many of Ward's runners, Con Te Partiro was sent to England's prestigious Royal Ascot meet, and she came back with a victory in the Sandringham Handicap. Her remaining time in the U.S. saw her become a Grade 3-placed runner.

Con Te Partiro sold to SF Bloodstock and Newgate Farm for $575,000 during the 2018 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, and she was sent to the barn of Australian trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott to continue her racing career. The career renaissance she has experienced in 2020 was foreshadowed by her first Australian start, a victory in the G3 Dark Jewel Classic.

This is the second retirement for Con Te Partiro, who was initially sent off to be a broodmare during the 2019 Southern Hemisphere breeding season. However, she was put back in training at the insistence of her trainers after the mare failed to get in foal.

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