Grade I Winner My Conquestadory Retired
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Grade I winner My Conquestadory has been retired and will miss the Oct. 11 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (gr. IT) at Keeneland.
Trainer Mark Casse said the 3-year-old daughter of Artie Schiller who races for Ernie Semersky and Dory Newell's Conquest Stables is sound and her blood tests showed no issues.
"She is 100% sound and is happy but I just didn't feel like she was training as well as I have seen her train before, and we decided to skip the Queen Elizabeth," Casse said Oct. 7. "Once we decided that, Ernie and I discussed it and just thought, 'Let's go ahead and retire her.' She is already a grade I winner, so we decided why press it?
"Also, she was training good but when it got cold, she stopped eating and just wasn't happy. She has never been beaten more than three lengths in her life, and she has never run in anything but graded stakes."
The filly, who has been sent to Lane's End Farm near Versailles, Ky., to begin her breeding career, retires with a 2-1-2 record from six starts and earnings of $503,526.
After breaking her maiden at first asking in the TVG Summer Stakes (Can-IIT) at Woodbine, My Conquestadory won the Darley Alcibiades (gr. I) at Keeneland. She completed her juvenile campaign with a fourth-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (gr. IT).
My Conquestadory was winless in three 2014 starts, finishing second in the Selene Stakes (Can-III) and third in the Del Mar Oaks (gr. IT) and San Clemente Handicap (gr. IIT), both at Del Mar.
My Conquestadory was purchased by Conquest for $240,000 out of the Eisaman Equine consignment at the 2013 Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. select sale in March. Bred in Kentucky by Paul Tackett, the filly was previously sold by Tackett for $70,000 to Biltmore Mansion Racing at the Keeneland September sale in 2012.