Triple Crown winner Windsong’s Legacy, the Trotter of the Year in 2004, died from severe bleeding in his lungs, according to the report provided by Perretti Farms where the stallion was standing at the time of his death on March 1. “His passing was a great loss to New Jersey and the industry in general,” said Bob Marks, spokesman for the Cream Ridge, N.J. breeding farm. “We're keeping the books of Muscles Yankee and Revenue open to accommodate those previously contracted to Windsong’s Legacy who must now reshuffle.”
Windsong’s Legacy was in the midst of his fourth breeding season when he died suddenly, shortly after being collected that day. His first foals are scheduled to race this spring.
The 7 year old was autopsied at the New Bolton Center of the University of Pennsylvania. The diagnosis was “respiratory severe hyperemia, hemorrhage and lung edema.”
A son of Conway Hall, out of the Prakas mare Yankee Windsong, Windsong’s Legacy swept the Hambletonian, Yonkers Trot and Kentucky Futurity to capture trotting’s Triple Crown for 3 year olds. He concluded his racing career in 2004 with 10 wins, two seconds and four thirds from 17 starts for earnings of $1,744,644 for the ownership of Fredrik Lindegaard, Ted Gewertz and Patricia Spinelli.
Windsong’s Legacy, trained and driven by Trond Smedshammer, set a single season earnings record for a trotter in 2004 when he banked $1,713,806. He was the first trotting Triple Crown winner since Super Bowl in 1972. (SBOANJ)
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