Trot Insider has learned that prominent Maritime stallion Western Paradise has passed away at 25. He was like one of those horses I d let out in the morning and at nighttime I whistle and he’d be galloping to you and go back in the stall,” said Tony Zuethoff, who owned the stallion and stood him at his Pictonian Farm in Pictou, N.S. “He was like a big pet.”
Western Paradise (Western Hanover - No Paradise) raced 84 times from 1999 through 2003 and won on 19 occasions. The Brittany Farms-bred stallion began his career at The Red Mile and raced up and down both coasts, eventually stepping into open stakes company as a four-year-old. He won a preliminary for the Presidential Series at The Meadowlands in 2002 and finished second in a dead-heat in the $300,000 Graduate Series while racing against and defeating a string of millionaires the likes of Rair Earth, Armbro Positive, Armbro Proposal, Intrepid Seelster and Color Me Best.
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Dr. Mitchell Downey had to pinch himself when he was able to obtain regally-bred stakes-winning pacer Blood Money from the Standardbred Horse Sales Company s 2020 Mixed Sale.
When it came time to review the catalogue, he turned the page down on Blood Money but he didn t think he would actually get to own him. I really had my heart set on bidding on a horse later in the sale (than Blood Money). explained Dr. Downey. Turned out that horse ended up being out of the sale .
Having bid on two other horses prior to Blood Money entering the sales ring, he really thought the horse would go for more than his $32,000 sale price.
Up-and-coming youngsters
Three promising young pacers to win at Boxing Day meetings on the eastern seaboard were Pelosi, Letterkenny Boy and Our Road To Mecca, who all belong to the same family.
Pelosi, who won at Albion Park and has now won 12 of her 24 starts, is a three-year-old filly by
American Ideal from the Life Sign mare For Dear Life 1:55.8 ($322,331), a thrice Group 1 winner.
Pelosi Dan Costello photo
Letterkenny Boy, also a winner at Albion Park, is a four-year-old by Art Major from Postmark (2:00.3), dam of the Victoria Derby heat winner Major Post 1:52.6 ($177,026) and Missing Letters 1:53.7 ($123,410). Postmark was a Fake Left mare from the Monarch Hanover mare Irish Mail, the dam of the top flight filly Express Post (1:57.6) and the grand-dam of Our Road To Mecca, who scored at Ballarat on the same night as Pelosi and Letterkenny Boy won.