Yes It's True Euthanized

Yes It's True (Is It True–Clever Monique, by Clever Trick), the sire of 51 black-type winners and 11 graded winners, including GI King's Bishop S. hero and TDN Rising Star The Big Beast, GI Champagne S. victor Proud Accolade and top filly and mare sprinter La Verdad, was euthanized Nov. 23 at Hagyard Medical Institute. He was 19 years of age. After earlier showing signs of colic, a perforated intestine was discovered during exploratory surgery and the decision was made to euthanize after it became apparent that the damage was irreparable.

“We are deeply saddened by the loss of Yes It's True” said Three Chimneys Chairman Goncalo Torrealba. “He was a cornerstone of success for the many breeders that supported him and a wonderful horse to be around.”

Bred in Kentucky by George Waggoner Stables, Yes It's True fetched $220,000 as a Keeneland September yearling in 1997, then was knocked down to Satish Sanan's Padua Stables for $800,000 at the Barretts March Sale six months later. A dual Grade III winner at two, Yes It's True was a leading sprinter of his generation in 1999, with defeats of his peers in the GII Riva Ridge S., GIII Swale S., GIII Lafayette S. and GIII Jersey Shore Breeders' Cup S. That season also saw him defeat his elders twice–in the GI DeFrancis Memorial Dash and the GIII Maryland Breeders' Cup H., the race in which a drunken patron wandered onto the track and attempted to take a swing at Artax, who would later be named that year's champion sprinter.

First retired to Padua's Florida stallion division, he was relocated to Three Chimneys Farm in 2004 and averaged over $5 million in progeny earnings every year since his first crop hit the track. The sire of the winners of nearly $59 million to date, Yes It's True bred no fewer than 117 mares in 2015.

He has been buried at Three Chimneys.