Pedigree Query

Dark Vader, now an 8 year old gelding, finished 2nd in a 100K stakes race yesterday. I guess he can still run some. It was a race for Ohio State breds on turf. Maybe he will be a grass horse now. The race was a 8.5F race called the Best of Ohio Sydney Gendelman Stakes at Belterra Park. So, Dark Vade...

madelyn wrote:I asked because one of my friends owns a season. I found him a buyer for this year.

Good, hope he gets a champion.

madelyn wrote:Is anyone interested in breeding to him?

106 were last year according to the mares bred list.

Well, I guess we can rule out a stud career for Sermononthemount. I just found out that he has been gelded. Must be the guy that just claimed him had it done. Anyway, a stallion career for him was a long shot anyway. Hope for a happy home for Sermononthemount after he is done racing, but that may be...

Actually, Tale of Silence at Darby Dan is Tale of Ekati's full brother, not his son. I think that Sermononthemount was a better racehorse than T of E's son at Darby Dan, Tale of Verve, until recently when he apparently got hurt. Yes, the odds of Sermononthemount becoming a stallion at a big farm is ...

Oh oh! Sermononthemount is entered in another 5K claiming race on 12/15. This does not look like good news. Maybe someone will claim him and try to make him a regional stallion someplace. After all, he is graded stakes placed and he is from the Storm Cat sire line, which is the hottest line in the c...

Joe Sharp was the trainer of Girvin, who has the same sire as Sermononthemount, Tale of Ekati. Maybe that was part of the reason that Sharp claimed Sermononthemount. Girvin won a bunch of graded stakes races including the Grade 1 Haskell Stakes and well over a million dollars. Maybe a good place to ...

The bad news is that Sermononthemount was entered in a 5K claiming race after placing in 3 stakes races as a 3 year old including a 2nd place in the grade 3 Indiana Derby last year. Apparently, it was a dump job, and Sermononthemount was claimed today. The good news is the now 4 year old colt was cl...

I am very interested in the Classic. Life Is Good, Flightline, etc. Should be a great race.

Hot freshman stallion Girvin has been relocated to Airdrie Stud in Kentucky. It is nice when a relocation is considered a good thing for a stallion rather than a dump job. Apparently, his owners and people involved think that Girvin should be in Kentucky where the best stallions compete for the best...

Dark Vader finished 5th in the 6F 100K stakes race for Ohio bred horses at Thistledown today. Thinking about it, I am not surprised. He usually runs in races at a mile to 9 furlongs. He is not a sprinter, and I guess it showed. Also, he may not have been quite ready after just finishing 3rd in an al...

Turns out that we won't be seeing Dark Vader at Emerald Downs. Dark Vader is entered in a couple of Ohio state bred 100K stakes races at Thistledown race track on the 13th of August (this coming Saturday). They are 6F and 10F races. He will have to scratch from at least one of those races unless the...

Dark Vader finished 3rd in an allowance race at Del Mar Sunday. He was also claimed for 40K. It was a conditioned allowance race optional claimer (N2X) and because Dark Vader, (a 7 year old gelding) has won 3 allowance races, he had to have a claiming tag on him to enter the race. Dark Vader has als...

A drop in class for Dark Vader. He is entered on 6/12 in a Santa Anita AOC race for horses that have never won a race other than and 50K claiming price, which should be easier than previous races for horses that have never won 2 races other than and claiming price of 80K or 100K. That is probably h...

A drop in class for Dark Vader. He is entered on 6/12 in a Santa Anita AOC race for horses that have never won a race other than and 50K claiming price, which should be easier than previous races for horses that have never won 2 races other than and claiming price of 80K or 100K. That is probably h...