Almost An Angel euthanized at age 21

Almost An Angel 2,1:57.1; 3,1:56, a winner of ($498,577 at ages two and three and $959,695 internationally, was euthanized at Hanover Shoe Farms on Monday, June 14. The 21-year-old mare had been suffering from several assorted ailments relating to old age.

 

Almost An Angel was voted the 2-Year-Old Trotting Filly of the Year for the 1991 racing season. She was trained and successfully campaigned in almost all of her North American starts by Mario Zuanetti. As a 2 year old she won 11 of 17 starts and led all 2 year olds in 2:00 miles. At age three her stakes wins included the classics Gran Premio Orsi Mangelli as well as a heat of the Hambletonian Oaks and the filly division of the World Trotting Derby.

 

As a broodmare, Almost An Angel is the dam of four stakes winners including Michelle’s Angel 2,1:56.2f; 3,1.54 ($435,921) and Al Dente Hanover 2,2:01.1; 3,1:54.3 ($370,161), and two of her daughters are already stakes-producing broodmares, including the dam of Spicy Wings 2,1:55.3.

 

Almost An Angel has a Donato Hanover yearling colt, a Donato Hanover suckling filly, as well as an embryo transfer by Explosive Matter being carried by a recipient mare. (Hanover Shoe Farms)