Trotting stallion and multiple stakes winner Joie De Vie died on Monday, Jan. 4 at Le Fonpanette farm near Torino, Italy.
Through two seasons of racing, 1982 and 1983, the son of Super Bowl won $1,017,251. As a freshman Joie De Vie won four of five races and $9,546. The next season, owned by breeder Maurice Siegel, Lana Lobell Farms, Crown Stable and Paul Nigito and trained by Robert Johnson and Howard Beissinger, Joie De Vie blossomed.
He won 13 of 25 races and $1,007,705, becoming the first trotter to win one million dollars in a single season. The divisional champion of that season, Joie De Vie counted among his classic victories the Canadian Trotting Classic, Yonkers Trot and Dexter Cup.
When the prohibitive favorite for the 1983 Hambletonian, Stanley Dancer’s Dancer’s Crown, died suddenly 18 days before the race, Joie De Vie inherited the role, but lost to another Dancer trainee, the filly Duenna, in an upset.
Joie De Vie was an active stallion at Lana Lobell in New Jersey for several years, siring 595 foals and winners of $13,465,453. He was later exported and remained active as a stallion with his last major crop born in 2002 when he sired 79 offspring. He also sired five foals in 2008.
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