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Trotting stallion collapses in breeding shed

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March 01, 2008

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Windsong's Legacy, who captured the 2004 trotting Triple Crown, becoming the first horse to accomplish the feat in 32 years, died Saturday morning while in the breeding shed at Perretti Farms in New Jersey. The son of Conway Hall-Yankee Windsong (by Prakas) was 7 years old.

According to Perretti Farms spokesman Bob Marks, Windsong's Legacy was on the "phantom" and his semen had just been collected for subsequent breeding when he collapsed. Marks said veterinarians suspect the stallion suffered a ruptured aorta, although a necropsy will be conducted to determine the exact cause of death.

In 2004, under the tutelage of trainer-driver Trond Smedshammer, Windsong's Legacy won the Hambletonian, Yonkers Trot (held at Hawthorne Race Course) and Kentucky Futurity to become the first trotting Triple Crown champ since Super Bowl in 1972. He earned $1.7 million in his 3-year-old sesaon with nine wins in 12 starts. He took a lifetime mark of 1:53 in winning the final of the Stanley Dancer Trot.

Windsong's Legacy's stallion career has thus far resulted in 184 foals from his first and second crops, with his oldest foals now 2 year olds in training. He was bred to 104 mares in 2007 and already had a large number of mares booked for this year.

"Unfortunately, this will require some re-shuffling of mares to other stallions," said Marks.

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