Awesome Abby
When I worked her, I was surprised at her rather fast time. She did a faster work than most (female) yearlings, 2, and 3 and 3+year olds!
Here's the record workout time for this year, female, 4 years and older. The fast time for a female 3 year old was 1:52:17
What's interesting is the mare in 1st place is 8 years old and by the same sire. : )
1. Made of Candy -- bl.m.8 -- Made of Awesome -- Christophe Desjardin ---- Year 44 Week 13 -- 1:52.04
2. Awesome Abby -- bl.m.9 -- Made of Awesome -- Stormy Peak -------------- Year 44 Week 14 -- 1:52.08
3. Bagpipes and Drums -- ch.f.4 -- Fighting Irish -- Ali Hedgestone ----------- Year 44 Week 2 -- 1:52.27
4. Closure -- br.m.6 -- Greyhound's Ghost -- Laura Cameron ------------------ Year 44 Week 13 -- 1:52.36
Awesome Abby was a gift to me from Hope Bentley, and when I got her, she was 7 years old and she hadn't raced for little over a year. I almost decided to retire her as a broodmare but thought I should at least run her for 1 year and try to make some money with her. She was doing well enough that I just kept racing her each year, as I was having fun with her and my barn was already bloated with foals and yearlings and I knew I had a good runner but it would be a coin toss as to if she would be a great broodmare or not. Of her 9 wins, 5 have been stakes and several have been allowance races.
Last year she finished 2nd in the SC Distaff Trot behind the then 4 year old mare, Forty Odd. I'm sure hoping this year she'll go down in history as one of the oldest mares to win that race : ) It will be a very hard thing to do though, being the oldest age so far has been age 5.
I wish broodmare's increased risk of dying while foaling could be moved up a few years, especially given that older mares can still be successful on the track well past age 4 or 5.
Stormy