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Thoroughbreds Point Given Best Pal Azeri Voted To Hall Of Fame
Azeri, foaled in 1998 from the pairing of Jade Hunter--Zodiac Miss (AUS), by Ahonoora, distinguished herself exclusively on the Thoroughbred track by winning the Older Female Championship 3 years in a row, 2002-'04. She was no much less formidable in her election to the National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame, gaining entrance on her first ballot.
The 2010 election also acknowledged 2001 Horse of the Year Point Given, and grade one winner and 1-time California leading earner Most beneficial Pal.
Azeri's Particular Place in History
Couple of females have won an outright Horse of the Year Eclipse Award. Azeri did that in 2002, the 1st given that Secretariat's Lady's Secret in 1986. Azeri was also the Older Female Champion of 2002, and she kept that going for the subsequent two years.
The only Thoroughbred in record-keeping history to win far more consecutive championships than Azeri in any Eclipse Award category was Forego. He won Older Male Champion from 1974 through 1977 and three straight Horse of the Year awards, 1974-'06.
Azeri's Racing Record
Azeri's 4-year-old campaign was her most notable, when she won eight of nine starts, including the Breeders' Cup Distaff. Her 5-length win gave her Horse of the Year status. In 2004 she raced from the barn of Hall of Fame conditioner D.Wayne Lukas, who leads all trainers in classic victories and Breeders' Cup wins.
In all, Azeri won 17 of 24 starts, with four seconds. The chestnut mare won 11 grade one races, earned $four,079,820, and retired as the leading North American female earner.
Allen E. Paulson (Allen E. Paulson Living Trust) bred and campaigned Azeri. Her initial trainer was Laura de Seroux.
Amongst Azeri's other notable wins were 3 victories in the Apple Blossom Handicap and two triumphs every single in the Milady Breeders' Cup and the Clement L. Hirsch and Bathroom vanitiesom vanities Handicaps.
Greatest Pal Raced Seven Years
A gelding son of Habitony--Ubestshedid, by King Pellinore, Finest Pal is described by the son of his owners as "a massive, tough, ugly son of a gun...mean and ornery you didn't turn your back on him" but "...he was there to win every time he could".
The paradoxically named Most beneficial Pal turned in seven years of workmanlike performances on the track, earning $5,668,245 in 18 wins, 11 seconds, and four thirds from 47 starts.
He scored in the 1990 Hollywood Futurity (G1) and the Norfolk Stakes (G1) the 1991 Pacific Classic Stakes the 1992 Santa Anita Handicap (G1), Oaklawn Handicap (G1), and Charles F. Strub Stakes (G1) and the 1993 Hollywood Gold Cup Handicap (G1).
Greatest Pal was bred and owned by the Golden Eagle Farm of John and Betty Mabee of Ramona, California. His trainers included Ian Jory, Gary Jones, and Richard Mandella.
Retired in 1996 at age eight, Ideal Pal succumbed two years later to a heart attack suffered during a workout at Golden Eagle Farm. "...he was carrying out what he liked to do," Larry Mabee commented.
Point Given Among Classic Most effective
He was supposed to be the 2001 Triple Crown Champion, but Point Given got to the line fifth in the Kentucky Derby. Nonetheless, the chestnut son of Thunder Gulch--Turko's Turn, by Turkoman rebounded in the Preakness Stakes, the Belmont Stakes, the Haskell Invitational Handicap and the Travers Stakes. Before the Kentucky Derby, he won the Santa Anita Derby and the San Felipe Stakes (G2).
In the Belmont, he romped as few have accomplished just before him, earning a 12-1/four length victory. His record, short but really sweet, was a lot more than enough to earn him the Horse of the Year Eclipse in 2001, as nicely as the Champion 3-Year-Old Male title.
Bred and owned by The Thoroughbred Corporation (of Kentucky), Point Given was trained by Bob Baffert and won nine of 13 lifetime starts. He also produced 3 seconds though earning $three,968,500.
Baffert still speaks of Point Given as "among the finest racehorses I ever trained". Point Given was retired right after his final two wins, having battled a tendon injury.
Resources: magazine, concern August 7, 2010, post entitled "Long Wait Is More than"
Thoroughbred Instances
The Blood-Horse magazine, concern August 21, 2010/No.34, post "The Time Has Come", by Claire Novak
2006 Thoroughbred Instances Racing Almanac
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