Elusive Kate Dieas After Foaling

Four-time Group 1 winner Elusive Kate (Elusive Quality–Gout De Terroir, by Lemon Drop Kid) died Saturday after producing her first foal, a colt by Dansili (GB). She was six. Trained by John Gosden for Magnolia Racing and Gosden’s wife Rachel Hood, Elusive Kate made her first five starts for them, winning the G1 Prix Marcel Boussac as well as the G3 Prix du Calvados. Purchased by Teruya Yoshida prior to her eighth-place finish in the GII Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, the bay would go on to take two editions of the G1 Prix Rothschild as well as the G1 Falmouth S. in a 17-start career with earnings of $1,319,154. She was retired in the autumn of 2013 after finishing fifth behind Olympic Glory (Ire) (Choisir {Aus}) in the G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. on Champions Day at Ascot. Trainer John Gosden paid tribute to Elusive Kate after the high-class mare died while giving birth to her first foal. 

Gosden told the Times, “She was a lovely filly with a great pedigree. It’s very sad for Mr Yoshida.”