Got Stormy, one of North America's most exciting turf milers of the past decade, will not deliver a foal in 2023, after losing her pregnancy late last year, Spendthrift Farm announced Wednesday.
The daughter of Get Stormy was part of the first book of mares for Spendthrift's Yaupon, a Grade 1-winning son of Uncle Mo, in 2022.
The farm announced that she was bred to fellow Spendthrift resident Bolt d'Oro on March 5 for the 2024 foaling season.
Spendthrift Farm's announcement can be read in full below:
“We are disappointed to report that near the end of 2022, Got Stormy experienced the loss of her pregnancy. While it is sad for all of us here at Spendthrift that she will not have a foal this year, we are very grateful she is in good health. We are excited to announce Got Stormy was bred on March 5th to champion freshman sire Bolt d'Oro. We thank all of her fans and MyRacehorse for their continued love and interest in this special mare.”
Got Stormy won 12 of 32 starts over the course of five seasons on the racetrack, earning $2,468,403.
She excelled from seven furlongs to a mile over the turf, winning 10 stakes races over the course of her career with trainer Mark Casse. The mare was purchased by Spendthrift Farm for $2.75 million at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton November Sale, and kept in training for one more season in partnership with MyRacehorse after previously being campaigned by Gary Barber.
Got Stormy is perhaps best known for her exploits at Saratoga Race Course, where she competed against males in three consecutive runnings of the Grade 1 Fourstardave Handicap from 2019 to 2021. In 2019, she lowered the course record for a mile over the Saratoga's inner turf by more than a full second, becoming the first filly to win the Fourstardave, and doing it in 1:32 flat – a record that still stands today.
After finishing second in the 2020 Fourstardave, Got Stormy came back to win the race again in 2021.
Other victories of note by Got Stormy include the G1 Matriarch Stakes, and Grade 3 scores in the Kentucky Downs Ladies Sprint Stakes, Franklin County Stakes, and Honey Fox Stakes. She also turned in runner-up efforts against male foes in the 2019 Breeders' Cup Mile at Santa Anita Park and the G1 Woodbine Mile.
Bolt d'Oro, an 8-year-old son of Medaglia d'Oro, stands at Spendthrift Farm for an advertised fee of $35,000. He was North America's leading freshman sire of 2022 by progeny earnings and he tied for the top spot by stakes winners, with six.
His top runners include Instant Coffee, who won the G2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at two, and established himself as a top Kentucky Derby contender with a win in the G3 Lecomte Stakes. Bolt d'Oro also has Grade 3 winners Boppy O and Major Dude.
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