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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.

 

HELLO LOVER won nine races in his 6-year-old season, and was one shy of the top spot as the winningest horse in the nation. He launched his season at Parx Racing with a score on Jan. 3 while in for a $7,500 tag, and Robert E. Reid Jr. made the claim of the year when taking him out of that race on behalf of Kasey K Racing Stable. 

The gray gelding faced starter allowance, allowance or stakes company for the remainder of his 16 starts, and at season’s end had amassed $304,495 to rank as his illustrious sire Not For Love's leading earner for the year.

HELLO LOVER made his stakes debut in Parx’s Gr.3 Greenwood Cup S. in July and finished third behind Redeemed, who set a new track record for the mile and a half, and Not Abroad. 

Making at least one start every month in 2012, Hello Lover wrapped up his season with two stakes starts in December. He finished second in Laurel Park’s Jennings H. (to EIGHTTOFASTTOCATCH, who he grew up with while romping in the fields at Dark Hollow Farm) and was third in the Auld Lang Syne S. at Parx. He was honored as the Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association's Parx Racing Horse of the Year, Leading Older Gelding, Winningest Horse, Claiming Horse of the Year and Outstanding Claim of the Year.

HELLO LOVER has been third or better in 27 of his 34 career starts, and has total earnings of $444,055 through mid-July, 2013. In his most recent start, he rallied to finish third in Saratoga's opening day James Marvin S.-G3.

 

Race Record:
2nd- Jennings H. at LRL Video Triangle
3rd- Greenwood Cup S.-G3 at PRX
3rd- James Marvin S.-G3 at SAR
3rd- Donald LeVine Memorial S. at PRX
3rd- Auld Lang Syne S. at PRX  

Hello Lover
Gr./ro.g., 2006, Not For Love—Chemise, by Secret Hello
Bred by Linda Newton. Foaled, Raised and Sold by Dark Hollow Farm
Sold for $105,000 as a yearling at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling Sale in 2007 
Currently in training with Robert E. Reid Jr. for Kasey K Racing Stable and Brier Creek Farm LLC