Brittany Farms’ outstanding broodmare Miss Marita, the dam of 2006 Hambletonian Oaks champion Passionate Glide, 2000 Hambletonian Oaks champion Marita’s Victory, and two-time New Jersey Sire Stakes champion Mr. Vic, was euthanized Monday after having undergone colic surgery a week earlier, at the age of 20.
“Most horses wouldn’t have survived what she went through, but she actually came through (surgery) pretty good, since none of us expected her to survive,” said Brittany Farms’ Art Zubrod. “But we had given orders though that once she started to show any signs of suffering to euthanize her. She was just too good of a horse.” A daughter of Joie De Vie out of the Speedy Crown mare Keystone Profile, the unraced Miss Marita’s most prolific offspring was Passionate Glide, who took a mark of 1:52.2 at three and had career earnings of $2,060,447. Passionate Glide won the 2005 Breeders Crown final on her way to divisional honors, accolades she repeated the following year in which she captured the Oaks.
Marita’s Victory earned $666,731 on the racetrack, taking a mark of 1:54 as a 3 year old. Mr. Vic had a mark of Q1:54.2 and earnings of $318,942. Miss Marita is also the dam of the young sire Master Glide, with her last foal, the Cantab Hall colt Mr. Cantab, unraced at age two this year.
“We had also tried embryo transfers on her a couple times but we weren’t successful,” added Zubrod.
Miss Marita herself was a half sister to such stellar performers as 1996 World Filly Trotting Derby winner Act Of Grace 3, 1:52.3 ($403,525), who went on to become the dam of 2001 World Trotting Derby and Zweig winner Cobol and 2000 Lexington Breeders Classic Winner Graceful Touch. She was also a half sister to two-time New Jersey Sire Stakes champion Miss Prolific and Grand Circuit stakes winner Cherished Victory.
Zubrod said Miss Marita will be buried at the farm in
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