01/01/04- Doneraile Court started off the New Year with a 2nd for his newly turned 3-year-old Basketball Court in the Dancing Count S.at Laurel Park.
12/13/03 - DONERAILE COURT gains his 18 th winner as MADRONE out of Easy to Cope, by Copelan breaks her maiden in her first out at Golden Gate Fields. She was a $50,000 2003 OBSAPR sales filly.
11/23/03 - Baldomera becomes new graded stakes filly for her sire running 2nd in the Valley Stream (G3) at Aqueduct.
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RULER'S COURT co-highweighted
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DONERAILE COURT TO HILL'N' DALE
John Sikura's Hill 'n' Dale Farm has purchased prominent first-crop sire Doneraile Court and will stand him for $15,000 live foal. The 7-year-old son Seattle Slew, now standing at stud in Chile, formerly was based at Doug Arnold's Buck Pond Farm near Versailles, Ky., where he stood in 2003 for a syndicate for $7,500.
"He's the type of stallion we're looking for," Sikura said about Doneraile Court, who ranks third on the freshmen sire list with $650,000 in progeny earnings "He got off the mark quickly, and has 2-year-old winners all over the place."
The best of his 16 winners is Ruler's Court, a 14-length winner of the Oct. 5 Norfolk Stakes (gr. II). Doneraile Court also is the sire of stakes winner Horah for Bailey.
A $1-million Keeneland July yearling, Doneraile Court was a New York graded stakes winner at two and three and was produced from the grade I stakes-placed Stop the Music mare Sophisticated Girl. He will stand for a syndicate.
Record setting Rulers Court, from the first-crop of Leading Sire Doneraile Court, winning the Norfolk by 14! Can you ever remember a First-Crop Sire with 18 winners having a 2yo win like this? Can you ever remember any Sire having a 2yo win like this?
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NEW STAKES WINNER for the NEW YEAR - BALDOMERA Takes Ruthless Stakes at Aqueduct.
1/4 - BALDOMERA, f. '00, Doneraile Court—Pleasure Card, by Lil Fappi.
BALDOMERA came from off the pace to catch High Peaks in deep stretch and win the $78,375 Ruthless Stakes on a rainy Sunday at Aqueduct by 1 3/4 lengths.
BALDOMERA ridden by Anthony Black and carrying 118 pounds, won for the third time in nine lifetime starts.
Baldomera, a 3-year-old Kentucky-bred filly by Doneraile Court, earned $47,925 for breeder-owner Hidden Lane Farm. She is now 3-3-2 from nine starts with earnings of $110,455. She previously finished second in the Valley Stream (G3I) on Nov. 23 at Aqueduct.
"She doesn't like to be up near the pace," said winning trainer Guadalupe Preciado. "She can get intimidated when she gets dirt in her face, so Tony (Black) did a nice job keeping her outside early."
Lifetime: 9-3-3-2, $110,455.
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