My Conquestadory Retired

Conquest Stables’ 2013 GI Alcibiades S. heroine My Conquestadory (Artie Schiller–Golden Artemis, by Malibu Moon) has been retired from racing and will begin her new career as a broodmare, trainer Mark Casse announced yesterday. The 3-year-old was preparing for a start in Keeneland’s GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Saturday prior to this announcement. 

“I felt like she was not training as good as she should and decided not to take a shot,” Casse said. “I know the owners want to breed her and we had this race as a goal to get a Grade I. When we decided she would not make it, we decided to call it a day with her. She is 100% sound. We just didn’t want to run her if she was not herself.” 

The “TDN Rising Star” burst onto the scene at Woodbine when she took down the boys and earned a black type win on debut in the GII Summer S. last September. The dark bay followed that up with an equally impressive come from behind victory in Keeneland’s Alcibiades a month later and closed out her juvenile campaign with a fourth in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita last November. Runner-up in her sophomore bow in Woodbine’s GIII Selene S. May 18, My Conquestadory was third next out in Del Mar’s GII San Clemente H. July 19 and completed the trifecta again there last time in the GI Del Mar Oaks Aug. 16. Bred by Paul Tackett, the $240,000 OBSMAR purchase retires with a record of 6-2-1-2 and earnings of $503,526.