He Loves Me

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.

The Maryland-bred champion 3-year-old filly of 2004, HE LOVES ME competed exclusively in stakes competition that year, winning half of her 10 starts. Those victories came in the Gr. 3 Iowa Oaks, Pimlico's Twixt, Pearl Necklace and Caesar's Wish S., and Laurel's Wide Country S. She was also third in Belmont Park's Gr. 1 Gazelle H. When she retired the next season, she had 11 wins or placings from 17 starts, and earnings of $355,698.

By Not For Love, HE LOVES ME is a full sister to multiple stakes winner and graded stakes placed FOR KISSES. Her half-sister Running Creek is the dam of stakes winner SOFTLY LIT. HE LOVES ME is out of PALLISER BAY, winner of the grassy Gallorette H.-G3 at Pimlico and two other stakes and six times stakes-placed. Purchased by Dark Hollow, agent, for $100,000 at the 2012 Keeneland January sale, HE LOVES ME is the dam of three yearlings to sell for six figures, including her yearling of 2014, Cherished Prize, who was the top-priced filly sold at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearling sale. Earlier in the summer the filly was chosen by trainer Tony Dutrow as champion of the 80th annual MHBA Yearling Show.

Produce History

2016 bred to PADDY O'PRADO for 2016
2015 foal died
2014 b.c. by ARCHARCHARCH
2013 CHERISHED PRIZE, b.f. by PURE PRIZE. Sold for $200,000 at the FTM Sept Yrlg Sale
2012 INFATUATED, ch.f. by MORE THAN READY. Sold for $200,000 at the Kee Sept Yrlg Sale
2011 aborted
2010 colt by MORE THAN READY - died in 2010
2009 HE LOVES ME MORE, dk.b./br.f. by MORE THAN READY. Sold for $175,000 at the Kee Sept Yrlg Sale
2008 READY LOVE, dk.b./br.f. by MORE THAN READY. Winner.
2007 aborted

HE LOVES ME
2001 Bay Mare
Not For Love—Palliser Bay, by Frosty the Snowman
Owned by Dark Hollow Farm