KETTLE WON created quite a stir in his 2-year-old debut during the 1998 Saratoga meet as the Todd Pletcher-trainee blew away the opposition with a ten and a half-length romp in maiden special company. He has since competed successfully on dirt and turf, going short and long, and fiinished second in the Fort Lauderdale Handicap-G3 over Gulfstream Park's turf course in March of 2000. A half-brother to the durable allowance horse GLIDE HOME, KETTLE WON is out of championSAFELY KEPT's half-sister SAFE AT THE PLATE, a stakes-placed winner of $114,923.
Ch.c. 1996, Colonial Affair–Safe At the Plate, by Double Zeus. Bred and raised at Dark Hollow Farm. Sold by Dark Hollow Farm for $120,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling Sale. Purchased by Anstu Stables for $370,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Florida Select Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale. Currently standing stud in New York.
CHANCELLOR M. H. won Colonial Downs' grassy one-mile Chenery Stakes for 2-year-olds on Virginia Derby Day 1999, leading every step of the way to score by a half-length over FIELD CAT, with future graded winner Lendall Ray in the beaten field.
An earner of $192,624, CHANCELLOR M. H. is the first foal out of MYSTIC DANCE, a Christiana Stables-bred stakes-winning great-granddaughter of famed producer OBEAH. OBEAH is the dam of champion GO FOR WAND, leading Maryland sire CARNIVALAY and stakes winners DANCE SPELL, BLACK POWDER and DISCORAMA, CHANCELLOR M. H.'s third dam.
B.g., 1997, Mt. Livermore—Mystic Dance, by Nepal Bred by Dark Hollow Farm and Ann Merryman Raised at Dark Hollow Farm Sold by Dark Hollow Farm as a weanling $110,000 at Keeneland November Breeding Stock sale
