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.
Race Record:
2nd- Jennings H. at LRL Video
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