I am one happy and proud stallion! Today, Little Mike made his graded stakes debut a winnng one by taking the Grade III(T) $100,000 Ft. Lauderdale Stakes at Gulfstream. In a field of 11 that included 5 horses that have been in Grade I races, Mikey took them wire-to-wire finishing the mile and 1/16th in 1:40.52!!! What a great effort. Even my other stallion buddies here at Foot Fall Farm were impressed giving me hoof bumps and hoof fives all afternoon. Little Mike's win should give me bragging rights around here for a while.
You can check out the article, which includes a picture so you can see how handsome Mikey is, on bloodhorse.com at http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/60679/little-mike-12-1-hangs-on-in-ft-lauderdale.
This was Little Mike's sixth start on turf with five wins and one second in a listed stakes. The $60,000 from the win puts Mikey over $200,000 in lifetime earnings. Little Mike is out of the Wavering Monarch mare Hay Jude (Hay Jude, that name always cracks me up.) and is an A+ nick according to TrueNicks. Can't wait to see what's next for Little Mike.
Hay (get it? instead of Hey), if you haven't already, make sure you get your reservation in for the ITOBA Awards Banquet on January 22, 2011. This should be quite the soiree with the Stallion Season Auction kicking things off that afternoon where, of course, you can bid on a season to me. I'm hip #68 of the 80 seasons for sale and my season does sell with a right of return for breeding in 2012 if no live foal is produced from the 2011 breeding. T-minus 36 days and counting until the breeding season starts. Yes!
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