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Grade 1 Winner Street Band Retired, To Be Offered In Fasig-Tipton November Sale

The connections of Grade 1 winner Street Band have announced her retirement from racing. She will be cataloged at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton November Sale.

Racing in partnership for Ray Francis, Cindy Jones, J. Larry Jones, Medallion Racing, and MyRacehorse.com, Street Band won five times in her career and she retires with earnings of more than $1.1 million.

“Street Band was a special filly for our barn. She had so much class to go with her Grade 1 talent. It's bittersweet to see her go, but we are proud that she proved herself to be among the best of her generation,” said trainer Larry Jones, who also bred the filly with Cindy Jones and Ray Francis.

A 7 1/4-length maiden winner at age two, Street Band would go on to win three graded stakes races by an average margin of three lengths in her career. Her most impressive win came in the $1-million Grade 1 Cotillion at Parx. In a field that featured four different multiple Grade 1 winners and an Eclipse Award champion, Street Band defeated the best fillies of her generation to win going away by 2 1/4 lengths. In winning the Grade 1 Cotillion, she handed multiple Grade 1 winner Guarana the only defeat in her career to this point.

Street Band won or placed nine times in her career, adding victories earlier in the year in the G2 Fair Grounds Oaks and G3 Indiana Oaks to her Cotillion score, along with a third in the Grade 1 Alabama at Saratoga.

Street Band hails from a family with success across the globe. She is the sixth winner from seven to race produced by Street Minstrel, a daughter of top-class broodmare sire Street Cry and a half-sister to two other stakes horses. Street Band's second dam is Minstrel's Lassie, herself a Grade 1 and French stakes winner, and a half-sister to Mintly, the granddam of two-time Australian Group 1 winner Manighar.

Phillip Shelton, manager of Taylor Made's Medallion Racing said, “Street Band took our Medallion partners on an incredible journey. She was our first Grade 1 winner, beating a star-studded field in the Grade 1 Cotillion. We will always remember her pulling her last-to-first charge to beat Grade 1 winners Guarana, Serengeti Empress, Bellafina, and champion Jaywalk. Thanks to Larry Jones and our partners Ray Francis and his family, Larry and Cindy Jones, and MyRacehorse.com.”

Taylor Made Sales Agency will consign Street Band to the Fasig-Tipton November Sale, which will be held immediately following the Breeders' Cup on Sunday, Nov. 8 at historic Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Ky.

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Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile Winner Spun To Run Retired; Stud Plans Pending

Spun to Run, the dominant winner of last year's Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, has been retired from racing by owners Bob and Sue Donaldson.

Spun to Run won five races as a 3-year-old last year by a combined 20 lengths. His most important win came in the 2019 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile at Santa Anita Park where he led gate-to-wire to win by 2 3/4 lengths over favored multiple Grade 1 winner Omaha Beach. That deep field also included multiple Grade 1 winner Improbable, and graded stakes winners Coal Front and Mr. Money. He earned a 109 Beyer speed figure in the win.

In addition to his Breeders' Cup victory, Spun to Run captured the Grade 3 Smarty Jones Stakes and the M.P. Ballezzi Appreciation Mile Stakes where he ran a 110 Beyer Speed Figure, the second-highest for a 3-year-old at a mile or more in 2019. His brilliant 3-year-old campaign also included a strong second-place finish to Maximum Security in the G1 Cigar Mile, where he posted a -2 Thorograph figure, and a third place finish in the G1 Haskell Invitational Stakes. He retires with earnings of $1,160,520.

A brilliant miler with the ability to carry his speed, Spun to Run captured three of four starts at a mile, with his one second at the distance coming in the Cigar Mile. He ran less than a 1 on the Thorograph in six of his nine starts at three.

Owner Bob Donaldson commented: “From day one, this guy showed us his heart and determination, but most importantly, he showed us a mindset that was unlike any horse we had ever been around. With each start he just got better and more determined to simply outrun his competition.”

Breeder Migdaly Serra of Sabana Farm echoed Donaldson's comments about Spun to Run's class in an interview with The BloodHorse MarketWatch earlier this year: “From a very young age, Spun to Run behaved like he always has—like a champion. Everyone who worked with us in that year knew it. He was exceptional.”

Darley's Darren Fox added: “Spun to Run embodies many of the best qualities in Hard Spun. When I think of Hard Spun, I think of his heart, desire, and the will to win. Spun to Run embodies much of Hard Spun's heart and speed, that honest running style that says, 'Here's what I have, catch me if you can.' It's a joy to watch and is certainly something that runs in a lot of Hard Spun's progeny.”

Spun to Run possesses a top-rung pedigree to complement the brilliance he showed on the racetrack. He is by Grade 1 winner and champion sire Hard Spun, making him a grandson of the mighty Danzig. In addition to Hard Spun, other male-line descendants of Danzig standing at stud include: Danehill, Green Desert, War Front, Sea The Stars, and Kingman.

Spun to Run's stakes-winning dam, Yawkey Way, is also the dam of stakes-winning 3-year-old filly Tap It All. He is from the immediate family of Grade 1 winners Constitution, All Fired Up, Awesome Humor, Emcee, and Competitive Edge.

Stud plans have not been determined for the 4-year-old son of leading sire Hard Spun.

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Wooderson, Half To Rachel Alexandra, To Enter Stud At Burdette Thoroughbred Farm In Arkansas

Wooderson (Awesome Again – Lotta Kim) has been acquired for stud duty by Burdette Thoroughbred Farm, Goshen, Ark., in a deal brokered by Chad Schumer of Schumer Bloodstock.

A half-brother to champion Rachel Alexandra, Wooderson was also a talented horse whose race record includes three wins and a stakes place to subsequent Grade 1 winner Tom's d'Etat.

Trained by Todd Pletcher for Let's Go Stable, Wooderson was a maiden winner at Saratoga and later added wide-margin allowance wins at Keeneland and Monmouth Park. He followed up those wins with an excellent second to Tom's d'Etat in the Alydar Stakes at Saratoga; beaten only a length by Tom's d'Etat, subsequently winner of the Grade 1 Clark Handicap, he pulled almost seven lengths clear of the third to record a 103 Beyer.

Wooderson was the co-highest priced yearling by top sire Awesome Again to sell in 2016 when purchased by Let's Go Stable for $400,000 at Keeneland.

Out of the stakes-winning Roar mare Lotta Kim, he is a half-brother to Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra, whose 13 wins included the G1 Preakness Stakes, Kentucky Oaks, Haskell Invitational, Mother Goose Stakes and Woodward Stakes.

A stud fee will be announced at a later date.

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Grade 1 Winner Annals Of Time To Enter Stud In Argentina

Annals of Time, a two-time Grade 1 winner on the turf, will begin his stallion career at Haras Vadarkblar in Argentina during the recently-started Southern Hemisphere breeding season, the South American publication Turf Diario reports.

The 7-year-old son of Temple City retired with five wins in eight starts for earnings of $860,300, highlighted by victories in the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby and Sword Dancer Stakes. He also finished third in the G3 Hill Prince Stakes as a 3-year-old.

Annals of Time is unraced since his Sword Dancer win during last year's Saratoga meet, where he ran for trainer Chad Brown and the partnership of Klaravich Stables and William Lawrence. The horse was then bought in full by Seth Klarman of Klaravich Stables for $190,000 at last year's Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale when he and Lawrence dissolved their partnership on several of their veteran runners.

Bred in Kentucky by Monticule, Annals of Time is out of the winning Distant View mare Lemon Haze, whose runners also include stakes winner Sharp Sally. German Group 3 winner Al Mundhir is in his extended family.

Annals of Time was purchased by Klaravich and Lawrence for $80,000 at the 2014 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearling Sale, making for a highly successful buy as his career came to a close.

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