Willcox Inn Suffers Fatal Paddock Accident
May 28, 2015 9:26:04 GMT -5
Post by Evelyn on May 28, 2015 9:26:04 GMT -5
This is terrible news. Condolences to Lael (they've had too much tragedy) and all the connections. He was a favorite of mine.
Willcox Inn Suffers Fatal Paddock Accident
Bloodhorse
Millionaire Willcox Inn had his stallion career cut short when he had to be euthanized after being injured in a paddock accident May 24. The 7-year-old son of Harlan's Holiday was wrapping up his first season at Suzie and Dr. C. Lynwood O'Cain's Saratoga Stud near Stillwater, N.Y.
Bred in Kentucky by Dr. John A. Chandler, Willcox Inn was out of the multiple graded stakes-performing Gone West mare De Aar, who is a half-sister to millionaire grade I turf runners Cetewayo and Dynaforce. He was trained by Michael Stidham and co-owned by Roy and Gretchen Jackson's Lael Stable and All In Stable, a partnership including Marette Farrell, John Adger, Jack Hodge, Marty Nixon, and Ron and Al Lepinski.
On his way to becoming a millionaire and multiple graded stakes winner, Willcox Inn generated a lot of excitement for this group.
"We have had many exciting moments in racing, a lot of them were with Willcox Inn," Jackson said after the horse's retirement from racing.
Many of the other partners felt the same way and enthusiastically joined the stallion syndicate.
Willcox Inn retired with earnings of $1,015,543 and a 6-4-4 record from 22 starts. A debut winner as a 2-year-old, defeating eventual Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner and champion 3-year-old male Animal Kingdom , he then finished third in the Dixiana Breeders' Futurity (gr. I) at Keeneland and the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (gr. IIT) at Churchill Downs.
As a 3-year-old, he captured the American Derby (gr. IIT), Hawthorne Derby (gr. III), and the Arlington Classic Stakes. Second to Wise Dan in the 2012 Shadwell Turf Mile (gr. IT) at 4, Willcox Inn raced as a 5-year-old to finish in the money in five graded stakes. He won the Washington Park Handicap (gr. III) in near course-record time, finished second in the Dixie Stakes (gr. IIT) and Mervin H. Muniz Jr. Handicap (gr. IIIT), and was third in the 2013 Shadwell Turf Mile and John B. Connally Turf Cup Stakes (gr. IIIT).
Suzie O'Cain had become strongly attached to Willcox Inn.
"He was developing into such a beautiful stallion," she said. "This spring and summer, he has been filling out and looking 100% like a first-class sire."
Willcox Inn Suffers Fatal Paddock Accident
Bloodhorse
Millionaire Willcox Inn had his stallion career cut short when he had to be euthanized after being injured in a paddock accident May 24. The 7-year-old son of Harlan's Holiday was wrapping up his first season at Suzie and Dr. C. Lynwood O'Cain's Saratoga Stud near Stillwater, N.Y.
Bred in Kentucky by Dr. John A. Chandler, Willcox Inn was out of the multiple graded stakes-performing Gone West mare De Aar, who is a half-sister to millionaire grade I turf runners Cetewayo and Dynaforce. He was trained by Michael Stidham and co-owned by Roy and Gretchen Jackson's Lael Stable and All In Stable, a partnership including Marette Farrell, John Adger, Jack Hodge, Marty Nixon, and Ron and Al Lepinski.
On his way to becoming a millionaire and multiple graded stakes winner, Willcox Inn generated a lot of excitement for this group.
"We have had many exciting moments in racing, a lot of them were with Willcox Inn," Jackson said after the horse's retirement from racing.
Many of the other partners felt the same way and enthusiastically joined the stallion syndicate.
Willcox Inn retired with earnings of $1,015,543 and a 6-4-4 record from 22 starts. A debut winner as a 2-year-old, defeating eventual Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner and champion 3-year-old male Animal Kingdom , he then finished third in the Dixiana Breeders' Futurity (gr. I) at Keeneland and the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (gr. IIT) at Churchill Downs.
As a 3-year-old, he captured the American Derby (gr. IIT), Hawthorne Derby (gr. III), and the Arlington Classic Stakes. Second to Wise Dan in the 2012 Shadwell Turf Mile (gr. IT) at 4, Willcox Inn raced as a 5-year-old to finish in the money in five graded stakes. He won the Washington Park Handicap (gr. III) in near course-record time, finished second in the Dixie Stakes (gr. IIT) and Mervin H. Muniz Jr. Handicap (gr. IIIT), and was third in the 2013 Shadwell Turf Mile and John B. Connally Turf Cup Stakes (gr. IIIT).
Suzie O'Cain had become strongly attached to Willcox Inn.
"He was developing into such a beautiful stallion," she said. "This spring and summer, he has been filling out and looking 100% like a first-class sire."
