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Balletto Retired

Stats Updated Through: 1/2/2008

Trainer: Thomas Albertrani Jockey: Corey S. Nakatani
Owner: Darley Stable
Age/Sex 6-year-old

2006 Stats:
Starts
7
1st-2nd-3rd
0-4-2
Earnings (Rank)
$537,850 (76)
Win % (In-The-Money %)
0% (85%)

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Racing Career:

Date	Purse	Race Name	Track	Grade	Finish
11/04/06	$2M	Emirates Airline Breeders' Cup Distaff	Churchill Downs	1	3
10/07/06	$600K	Beldame S.	Belmont Park	1	2
08/25/06	$400K	Personal Ensign S.	Saratoga		2
07/30/06	$250K	Go for Wand H.	Saratoga	1	2
06/17/06	$300K	Ogden Phipps H.	Belmont Park	1	3
05/21/06	$150K	Shuvee H.	Belmont Park	2	2
03/30/06	$37K	Allowance Optional Claiming	Gulfstream Park		4
10/30/04	$1M	Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies	Lone Star Park		2
10/09/04	$500K	Frizette S.	Belmont Park		1
09/19/04	$300K	Matron S.	Belmont Park		2
08/02/04	$47K	Allowance	Saratoga		1

Silks and Media:

Strengths: Sensational pedigree and part of a stable that is having a career-defining season. Run-all-day type can carry her Grade 1 quality up to 1-1/4 miles and seldom fails to fire her best shot.

Weaknesses: Suffered a severe bout of colic in 2005 after a runner-up effort in the '04 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. Retired and subsequently brought back after one year and five months on the sidelines, so it's a question if she'll ever realize her ultimate potential.

In The Genes: Sire, Timber Country, won the 1994 Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Churchill and the 1995 Preakness. Dam, Destiny Dance, is a daughter of the great Nijinsky II and G1-winning millionaire Althea, the 1983 Eclipse Champion Two-Year-Old Filly and eventual beaten favorite in the 1984 Kentucky Derby. Destiny Dance, won the G3 Sheepshead Bay Handicap in New York.

Status: Scheduled for a 2007 mating with A.P. Indy.

Bet You Didn't Know: Balletto is the only United Arab Emirates-bred horse ever to compete in the Breeders' Cup.

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

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