D Train delivers full brother to Donato Hanover

Hanover Shoe Farms has announced the birth of the first full brother to 2007 Horse of the Year and world champion Donato Hanover 3,1:50.3 ($2,998,777).  Donato’s dam, D Train, foaled a bay colt by Andover Hall on May 8 at 4:45 am.  Both mare and foal are doing well.

 

D Train is also the dam of stakes winner Here Comes Herbie t, 3,1:52m $365,541.  She will now be bred to 2009 Horse of the Year Muscle Hill.

 

“He’s a tall, correct colt that bears a striking resemblance to Donato as a foal except for a few white hairs on his forehead,” commented Hanover farm manager Dr. Bridgette Jablonsky.

 

Big brother Donato Hanover was a national season’s leader at two, winning eight of nine starts, including a 1:55 mile in the $465,000 Peter Haughton Memorial and finished his freshman season with a victory in the $600,000 Breeders Crown 2-year-old colt championship. At three, Donato led sophomore and all-age trotters by money-winnings with $2,336,190 earned in 13 starts, and trotted the fastest mile of 2007 in 1:50.1, a world record for 3-year-old trotters and equaling the all-age record at Lexington in the $356,160 Kentucky Futurity final. He also won the Hambletonian, Canadian Trotting Derby, World Trotting Derby and Stanley Dancer Memorial.  (Hanover Shoe Farms)