Plum Pretty, Winner of 2011 Kentucky Oaks, Dies at 16

Gainesway announced March 4 the death of Plum Pretty , the 2011 Kentucky Oaks (G1) winner by Medaglia d'Oro   out of the A.P Indy mare Liszy. She died at Gainesway Farm near Lexington..

She earned nearly $1.7 million from 12 career starts. Campaigned by John Fort's Peachtree Stable, Plum Pretty began her illustrious career with a victory in her 2-year-old debut in 2010. At 3, she placed in the Santa Ynez (G2) and Las Virgenes (G1) stakes before dominating the Sunland Park Oaks by an eye-popping 25 lengths. Building off that incredible performance, she captured the 2011 Kentucky Oaks (G1).

Additionally, Plum Pretty won the Apple Blossom Handicap (G1) and Cotillion Stakes (G2), as well as placing in the Hollywood Oaks (G2), Coaching Club American Oaks (G1), and La Troienne Stakes (G2) under trainer Bob Baffert.

Bred in Pennsylvania by Silent Indy Stables and DDS Stables, Plum Pretty was purchased by Fort at the 2010 Ocala Breeders' Selected Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training for $130,000 from the Kirkwood Stables draft. She went back through the ring during the 2012 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale with Taylor Made Sales Agency, where she was purchased by Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm as a broodmare prospect for $4.2 million.

Plum Pretty enjoyed being a broodmare, originally at Wayne and Cathy Sweezey's Timber Town Stables and then at Antony Beck's Gainesway Farm.

"She was a pleasure to be around and always a great mom," Pope said. "We are blessed to have several fillies out of her still to race and one that has already produced a foal. The colts have gone on to secondary careers in the show world and have her awesome personality."

She produced eight foals, four of which have raced, with Pretty At War, by War Front  , being a winner. Her last reported foal is a yearling filly by Charlatan  ; she has an unnamed 2-year-old filly by Speightstown.

Plum Pretty left behind a racing legacy that will long be remembered.