NEWS
Orchard Park to The Racing Edge in Ocala
Posted: Saturday, November 17, 2007 3:28 PM
Multiple graded stakes winner Orchard Park will stand his first season at stud at owner-breeder Peter Vegso’s The Racing Edge in Ocala for $5,000.
The eight-year-old by Hennessy won six of 26 career starts and earned $669,722 in six seasons.
A full brother to multiple Grade 2 winner Silver Tree, Orchard Park is out of stakes-placed winner Blue Begum, by With Approval. He is from the female family of Grade 1 winners Tiller and Endear.
Orchard Park won five of seven starts as a three-year-old in 2002, including victories in the Jefferson Cup Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs and Palm Beach Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream Park. He also won the Virginia Derby at Colonial Downs and Gravelines Stakes at Gulfstream as a three-year-old, and placed in the Crown Royal American Turf Stakes (G3).
