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Round Pond Retired

Stats Updated Through: 1/2/2008

Trainer: Michael R. Matz Jockey: Edgar S. Prado
Owner: Fox Hill Farms, Inc.
Age/Sex 6-year-old Mare

2006 Stats:
Starts
5
1st-2nd-3rd
3-1-1
Earnings (Rank)
$1,469,400 (18)
Win % (In-The-Money %)
60% (100%)

In The News:

• Darley buys Round Pond for $5.75 million

• Fasig-Tipton sale to offer Grade 1 talen...

• '06 BC Distaff winner Round Pond retired

• Round Pond tries to bounce back from los...

• Oaklawn crowd favorites race for new bar...

• MORE

Previous Stats:
Year	Starts	1st	2nd	3rd	Earnings	Win %	In-The-Money %
2006	5	3	1	1	$1,469,400.00	60%	100%
2005	6	4	1	1	$467,300.00	66%	100%

Racing Career:

Date	Purse	Race Name	Track	Grade	Finish
04/07/07	$500K	Apple Blossom H.	Oaklawn Park	1	3
03/11/07	$200K	Rampart H.	Gulfstream Park	2	4
11/04/06	$2M	Emirates Airline Breeders' Cup Distaff	Churchill Downs	1	1
10/07/06	$600K	Beldame S.	Belmont Park	1	3
08/27/06	$300K	Molly Pitcher Breeders' Cup H.	Monmouth Park	2	2
03/11/06	$175K	Azeri Breeders' Cup S.	Oaklawn Park		1
02/16/06	$40K	Allowance Optional Claiming	Oaklawn Park		1
07/16/05	$500K	Delaware Oaks	Delaware Park		2
06/04/05	$250K	Acorn S.	Belmont Park		1
04/15/05	$250K	Fantasy S.	Oaklawn Park		1
03/20/05	$75K	Honeybee S.	Oaklawn Park		1

Silks and Media:

Strengths: Gifted with natural speed, capable of :45-and-change opening half-miles, but relaxed enough to rate a few lengths off the pace. Spent bulk of her career training at Delaware Park and Oaklawn, two of the most-demanding, endurance-building surfaces in the US.

In The Genes: Sire, Awesome Again, won the 1998 Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill over what many consider the greatest field ever assembled. Awesome Again also sired Breeders' Cup champs Wilko ('04 Juv.), Ghostzapper ('04 Classic) and Ginger Punch ('07 Distaff). Dam, Gift of Dance, is half-sister to multiple European Group 1 winner Black Minnaloushe.

Status: Retired after suffering a slab fracture in the left knee during a run in the Apple Blossom, April 7, 2007, her second race following her win in the 2006 Breeders' Cup Distaff. At $5.75 million, she was the sales-topper at the 2007 Fasig-Tipton November sale, purchased by Darley. She will become a member of the broodmare band at Darley's Lexington, Ky. farm and be bred in 2008.

Bet You Didn't Know: Filly has been in the barn of not one, but two Kentucky Derby-winning trainers – John Servis and Michael Matz.

NOTE: Stats include North American and selected international races. Click here to view selected international race list.

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