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Robert J. Key, one of the Standardbred sport’s most influential breeders, most notably through his horse American Winner, passed Wednesday morning (Jan. 27), in Pennsylvania.
Key bred American Winner in partnership with the late John Glesmann and the colt won the 1993 Hambletonian. As a sire, American Winner leaves a legacy through his daughter Yankee Blondie, the dam of Muscle Hill.
American Winner was a son of Super Bowl and the Speedy Somolli mare BJs Pleasure. Key and Glesmann purchased BJs Pleasure as a yearling from breeder Lana Lobell Farms. The following year Lana Lobell sold her half-brother, Mack Lobell.
Street Gossip was a model of consistency in 2020, hitting the board in all eight of his starts earning him 2020 Ohio Two-Year-Old Trotting Colt of the Year honours.
Street Gossip, a son of Cash Hall out of the Yankee Glide mare The Young Princess, won four out of his eight races and collected a pair of second- and third-place finishes for trainer Virgil Morgan Jr. and owner Carl Howard and the Jesmeral Stables, earning $171,761.
Street Gossip was purchased in July by Howard and Jesmeral Stable after a third-place finish in a leg of the Ohio Sires Stakes. “I saw him racing in his first sire stakes race at Northfield Park. He was very competitive,” Morgan said. “I was elated once we got him. To see how good gaited he was and that we really had something to work with.”
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