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Claiborne pensioner Private Terms euthanized
Posted: Friday, January 29, 2010 6:15 PM
by Myra Lewyn
Pensioned Claiborne stallion Private Terms, sire of Grade 1 winners and millionaires Afternoon Deelites and Soul of the Matter, recently was euthanized due to the infirmities of old age, farm manager Bradley Purcell said. He was 25.
Private Terms, by Private Account, was retired from stud duty following the 2006 breeding season. He is the sire of 352 winners, including 23 stakes winners, from 507 starters in 17 crops of racing age.
Private Terms' top earner at $2,302,818 is Soul of the Matter, winner of the 1994 Super Derby (G1) and runner-up to Horse of the Year Cigar in the 1996 Dubai World Cup. Other top offspring include Afternoon Deelites, winner of the 1994 Hollywood Futurity (G1) and ’95 Malibu Stakes (G1), and multiple stakes winner La Reine’s Terms.
Private Terms also is the broodmare sire of 19 stakes winners, including 2009 Hawthorne Derby (G3) winner Proceed Bee.
Bred in Kentucky by Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Janney Jr., Private Account is out of the winning Bold Ruler mare Laughter, a half sister to champion filly Ruffian and Grade 2 winners and sires Buckfinder and Icecapade.
Private Terms won 12 of 17 starts and earned $1,243,947, all for owner Locust Hill Farm and trainer Charles Hadry. He captured the 1988 Federico Tesio (G3) before defeating Seeking the Gold in both the Gotham (G2) and Wood Memorial Invitational (G1) Stakes. He entered that year’s Kentucky Derby (G1) as the unbeaten co-favorite but subsequently finished ninth to Winning Colors and fourth to Risen Star in the Preakness Stakes (G1).
As a four-year-old, he won three of four starts, including the Massachusetts Handicap (G2) at Suffolk Downs and set a 1 1/8-mile track record at Pimlico Race Course in the 1 1/8-mile Never Bend Handicap.
Myra Lewyn is a Thoroughbred Times TODAY editor
