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Ideal News to retire

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June 02, 2006 Send To A Friend  | Print View

Trainer Joe Holloway on Thursday said Ideal News has been retired and is on her way to Brittany Farms to become a broodmare.

Ideal News swept last year’s Blossom Series and won the Miss New Jersey before coming down with pneumonia prior to the Fan Hanover final. Holloway said Ideal News nearly died after falling ill, which followed a victory in her Fan Hanover elim.

Lifetime, the Western Ideal-Whats New mare won nine of 19 starts and earned $268,975 with a mark of 1:51.4 taken at The Meadows. She raced twice this year, with a best finish of fourth in the Mares Open at the Meadowlands on May 20.

Ideal News is owned by Brittany Farms and Val D’Or Farms. She is a half sister to Dieberspace p, 1:49.4 ($622,271) and Western News p,2, 1:54.3 ($154,735).

“She looked good, but she just wasn’t finishing,” Holloway said. “It was just those last hundred feet. I think [the illness] caught up with her. It was stressful on her. We wanted to do what was right for her; it’s not fair to her to keep going.”

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