NEWS
The Vid gains first stakes winner
Posted: Friday, July 05, 2002
Multiple Grade 2 winner The Vid earned his first stakes winner on Thursday when Panimetro won the $66,600 Copa 4 de Julio at El Comandante in Puerto Rico. Out of the stakes-winning Take the Floor mare Floor Me, Panimetro won the 1 1/8-mile race by one length on a good track in 1:53.50.
Panimetro is one of 15 starters from the second crop of The Vid, who has 67 foals of racing age. His progeny have earned $361,035.
Dr. and Mrs. James Gamble bred Panimetro in Florida. He has won four of 16 career starts in two seasons and has earned $72,009 for owner Establo Madoca.
Joseph J. Sullivan bred and campaigned The Vid, who won 14 of 40 career starts in five seasons, including the 1995 Dixie Stakes (G2) and back-to-back wins in the Canadian Turf Handicap (G2) in '95 and '96. The son of World Appeal earned $952,216.
The Vid died at Irish Acres Farm near Ocala in June 2000 at the age of ten.
