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Bowman’s Band euthanized because of colic complications
Posted: Monday, August 18, 2008 4:56 PM
BOWMAN'S BAND
Patricia McQueen photo
Grade 2 winner and freshman sire Bowman’s Band, who had been standing at William S. Farish’s Lane’s End Farm, was euthanized on Saturday at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington following complications from colic surgery.
The ten-year-old by Dixieland Band out of Grade 1-placed stakes winner Hometown Queen, by Pleasant Colony, was his sire’s leading earner after winning seven of 34 starts and finishing on the board in 17 others to compile $1,315,774 in earnings in four seasons.
Bowman’s Band won his seven races between the ages of three and five, including the 2003 Meadowlands Breeders’ Cup Stakes (G2). He also won the ‘01 Summing Stakes, also at the Meadowlands, as well as the ’02 R.R.M. Carpenter Jr. Memorial Stakes and the ’03 Brandywine Handicap, both at Delaware Park.
Campaigned by Martin Schwartz, he finished second or third in 14 stakes races during his career, including runner-up finishes in the ’02 Oaklawn Handicap (G1) and the ’04 Metropolitan Handicap (G1), and third-place finishes in the ’04 Pimlico Special (G1) and Whitney (G1) Handicaps.
Bowman’s Band was retired following his six-year-old season and stood his first two years at Maryland Stallion Station in a joint venture with Lane’s End. Bred in Kentucky by John Rooker, he was relocated to Lane’s End in Versailles, Kentucky, for the 2007 season.
His first crop of runners went to the track this year, and from five starters he has two winners—Just Hummm and Miss Charm City—as well as two placed runners.
