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Tassey25
11-07-2006, 03:08 PM
Film Maker retired, to be bred to Storm Cat

One day after a runner-up finish in the Emirates Airline Filly and Mare Turf (G1), Grade 1 winner Film Maker was retired and is scheduled to be bred to leading sire Storm Cat (http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/isd/stallion.aspx?stallion_no=935962) in 2007.
"She's going to Lane's End [Monday]," trainer Graham Motion said. "We felt at this stage of the game that we wanted to send her home sound. We wanted her to walk out of the barn the same way she walked into the barn."
The 2004 and '06 Filly and Mare Turf runner-up, Film Maker retires with eight wins, eight seconds, and seven thirds from 27 lifetime starts. She has earned $2,203,730 for owner Donald Adam's Courtlandt Farms.
Trained by Graham Motion, the six-year-old Dynaformer (http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/isd/stallion.aspx?stallion_no=1049059) mare won the 2003 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes (G1) at Keeneland Race Course. Film Maker finished third in the 2005 Filly and Mare Turf.
Film Maker retires with six graded stakes wins over four seasons. She finished second four times in Grade 1 races and third on two other occasions.
Always at her best on Breeders' Cup day, Film Maker twice finished second to perhaps the most talented racemare of her generation, Ouija Board (GB), in the Filly and Mare Turf.
"It's disappointing that Film Maker had to run against Ouija Board all three years," Motion said. "In any other era, she'd have won at least one of those races. Film Maker has nothing to be ashamed of finishing second to such a great mare."
Bred in Kentucky by TAC Holdings Inc, Film Maker is out of the Mr. Prospector mare Miss DuBois. — Mike Curry Thoroughbred Times

Jerfi
11-07-2006, 03:29 PM
Thanks for a nice article, and some cogent comments. That's always appreciated.

I'm sure it must be a very hard call for an owner to know when to retire a horse for future breeding purposes. It fills life with a bunch of WHAT IFS.

What if Barbaro's owner would have been satisfied with the KY derby, only ... and retired him, immediately. In retrospect, that would have likely been a good decision. But.. we just never know what may happen, so we have to do the best we can, as we go along, in deciding major events like that.

It takes courage ... and it takes guts...to make some calls.

Let's just hope for some good foals!

thegrandmeister
11-10-2006, 09:19 PM
one of my favs giacomo retired. i think most owners with really good ones realize after their 3 or 4 yr old campaign .theres more in stud fees than racing purses & risking injury. i liked seeing a john henry ,cigar , etc who picked em up & knocked them down for quite a few yrs thegrandmeister

Jerfi
11-10-2006, 11:42 PM
GM, I surely agree with that comment! It's always a bit sad to see a 3 yr old 'retired' to stud ...

Bernadini, to not race any more? come on... give me a break here!

TNT_Gravy
11-14-2006, 10:24 PM
You'd think at least they would run Bernardini in the Dubai World Cup tro( $)
Thats "their" race aint it ? ;)

Oh yeah , Film Maker , what an honest hard trying exceptional mare , bet she throws some good ones.

clusterf1
11-15-2006, 08:45 AM
Hope I live long enough to this foal Run.