Con Lima Named 2021 Texas Horse of the Year

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Con Lima wins the 2021 Saratoga Oaks Invitational Stakes at Saratoga Race Course

Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Joseph Graffeo, Erik Nikolaus Del Toro, and Troy Johnson's Con Lima  has been named the 2021 Texas Horse of the Year by the Texas Thoroughbred Association. Con Lima has also been named champion 3-year-old Texas-bred filly for 2021 following a remarkable season.

Con Lima, a now 4-year-old filly by Commissioner  out of the Consolidator  mare Second Street City , bred in Texas by Lisa Kuhlmann, was a tour de force in 2021. She capped her impressive 3-year-old campaign with a front-running score in the Saratoga Oaks Invitational Stakes (G3T) in August at Saratoga Race Course, defeating a field of international sophomore fillies.

Her 3-year-old season began in early January for trainer Todd Pletcher with a wire-to-wire victory in the listed Ginger Brew Stakes at Gulfstream Park. She followed that with four more victories in stakes races, including the Herecomesthebride Stakes (G3T) and Honey Ryder Stakes at Gulfstream, the Wonder Again Stakes (G3T) at Belmont Park, and the aforementioned Saratoga Oaks. Con Lima was also second in the Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes (G1T) and the Sweetest Chant Stakes (G3T). She missed placing in just one of eight starts in 2021, coming in fourth in the Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2) on dirt. She amassed a record of 5-2-0 for the year with $795,015 in earnings.

Con Lima wins the Saratoga Oaks Invitational Stakes Sunday, August 8, 2021 at Saratoga
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Con Lima and her connections in the winner's circle after the 2021 Saratoga Oaks Invitational

Con Lima's dam, Second Street City, has been named the 2021 Texas Broodmare of the Year, while Kuhlmann is the TTA's 2021 Breeder of the Year.

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The leading accredited Texas-bred money earner for 2021 was Douglas Scharbauer.

The human awards—the T.I. "Pops" Harkins Award for lifetime achievement and Allen Bogan Memorial Award for TTA member of the year—will be announced at a later date.

2021 Texas-Bred Champions

(Sire/owner/breeder)

  • 2-year-old filly: Eagle Express  (Eagle  /W.S. Farish/W.S. Farish)
  • 2-year-old colt/gelding: Tengo Mis Papeles  (My Golden Song  /Wayne Sanders and Larry Hirsch/Macassar Corp.)
  • 3-year-old filly: Con Lima (Commissioner/Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Joseph Graffeo, Erik Nikolaus Del Toro, and Troy Johnson/Lisa Kuhlmann)
  • 3-year-old colt/gelding: Stone Cafe  (Stonesider /Douglas Scharbauer (Jan.-May) and Henry Witt Jr. (May-Aug.)/Douglas Scharbauer)
  • Older filly/mare: Shes Our Fastest  (Oratory /Mark Norman and Norman Stables/Eureka Thoroughbred Farm)
  • Older horse: Sunlit Song  (My Golden Song/Carolyn Barnett and Becky Harding/Carolyn Barnett)
  • Champion broodmare: Second Street City (Consolidator)
  • Horse of the Year: Con Lima