Didn't know Awesome Feather passed in April

[mysaladdays]

How did I miss that one, I was a huge fan! She just died in April of 2023. Nice homebred and 2010 Eclipse Award winner, won the BC Juvie Fillies, undefeated as a 2 yr old under trainer Stanley Gold for 6 races.



THen got sold to Stronach for $2.3 million and moved to Chad Brown and won 4 more stakes races. Her only defeat came in the BC Ladies Classic, her very last race. (That was the race that Royal Delta won.)


Then Stronach sold to Katsumi Yoshida for $1.9 million, she was in foal to a Medaglia d'Oro, who took her to Northern Farm in Japan where she produced 5 winners from 6 foals. But she died at age 15. Kinda young.



I forgot all the bru haha surrounding jacks or better removing horses from Stanley Gold, or what their fallout was about?  I didn't follow it.    I guess Brown got this one and Casse got some others. Which left Stanley Gold with about 10 horses and appears he pretty much stopped training in 2019-2020 except a few here and there. I thought he was a pretty good trainer at the time, patient and seemed to bring them along slow slow slow. 


www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=8305870&registry=T

Anyway, I felt bad reading about her death.  Such a lovely horse.


www.truenicks.com/articles/267980/u-s-champion-awesome-feather-dies-at-15