Lady Shipman Retired, Has Date With Uncle Mo

Graded stakes winner Lady Shipman, an Eclipse Award finalist in 2015 for champion female sprinter, has been retired to Taylor Made Farm and will be bred to Coolmore Stud stallion Uncle Mo   in 2017.

An 11-time stakes winner and multiple track record setter, Lady Shipman most recently finished fourth in the Senator Ken Maddy Stakes (gr. IIIT) on the downhill course at Santa Anita Park Nov. 5— her first loss against her own sex since running second in the 2015 Buffalo Trace Franklin County Stakes.

Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said the daughter of Midshipman   was sound but "had a little issue that was probably going to need a lot of time off" so owner Randall Lowe made the decision to retire her with plans to sell her in foal next November.

"Lady Shipman retires as one of the greatest American female turf sprinters ever," said Duncan Taylor, President and CEO of Taylor Made Farm. "She is an outstanding broodmare prospect. The plan is to breed her and sell her in-foal next November."

The winner of this year's Royal North Stakes (Can-IIIT) at Woodbine and a close runner-up in last year's TwinSpires Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (gr. IT), Lady Shipman won 13 of 21 career starts for earnings of $902,387. She was previously trained by Kathleen O'Connell before joining McLaughlin's barn in 2016.

Armed with remarkable speed, Lady Shipman set track records at both Saratoga Race Course and OBS. In the 2015 Coronation Cup Stakes at Saratoga, she set the track record going 5 1/2 furlongs on the turf in a blistering 1:00.46, earning a 107 Beyer. In the OBS Sprint Stakes, she set another track record going six furlongs on the all weather track in 1:08.8.

Lady Shipman is out of the winning Mutakddim mare Sumthingtotalkabt.