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.
Living up to his name, GOLDMINER'S DREAM earned more than 40 times his purchase price by capturing four stakes and placing in nine others during his eight-year career to earn $511,260.
The usual career-ending fractures, knee chips and a bowed tendon didn't stop GOLDMINER'S DREAM from coming back at the age of nine to place in stakes company. Excelling at shorter distances, the chestnut horse set a track record at Pimlico, getting five furlongs in :56 4/5, won the six-furlong Housebuster H. in 1:09 3/5, and was three times graded stakes-placed. Overall, he started 54 times and finished in the top three in 34.
Ch.g., 1989, Crafty Prospector—Twelve Tribes, by Fifth Marine Bred by Davidson and Hoffberger Purchased by Marshall Silverman and Dark Hollow Farm for $12,000 Raced by Dark Hollow Farm Racing Partnership.
