NEWS
Stallion Lost Soldier dies of apparent heart attack
Posted: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 6:34 PM
Lost Soldier, sire of 2005 champion sprinter Lost in the Fog, died on Tuesday in his paddock at Doug Arnold’s Buck Pond Farm in Versailles, Kentucky.
The cause of death was suspected to be a heart attack, according to a press release from Buck Pond. The son of Danzig was 20 years old.
“It looks like he went down for a nap and simply didn’t get back up,” Arnold said. “He didn’t have a mark on him. There were no signs of any struggle. He went peacefully.”
Lost Soldier is the sire of 459 horses of racing age among ten crops, including 25 current two-year-olds. He has 244 winners, and his progeny have won $17,527,897.
Lost in the Fog won eight of nine starts as a three-year-old in 2005, including the King’s Bishop Stakes (G1), before cancer cut his life and career short the following year. Lost Soldier’s top earner is multiple Grade 3 winner Soldier’s Dancer, who has earned $1,524,780.
Bred by Winborne Farm in Kentucky, Lost Soldier initially raced for the Maktoum family, who purchased him as a weanling at the 1990 Keeneland November breeding stock sale for $500,000.
The son of Danzig out of Lady Winborne, by Secretariat, reached the starting gate 45 times from ages two to seven in England, Dubai, and North America. Lost Soldier won 11 times with earnings of $434,089. Group 2 stakes placed at Ascot, Lost Soldier won the Isle of Capri Casino Louisiana Downs Handicap (G3) in 1996 and the Maxxam Gold Cup Handicap in 1997, when he set a track record for nine furlongs on the dirt at Sam Houston Race Park.
After his racing career, Lost Soldier was purchased privately by John Franks to stand at Franks Farms in Ocala. After Franks’ death in 2004, Arnold bought Lost Soldier and moved him to Kentucky for the 2005 breeding season.
Lost Soldier will be buried at Buck Pond Farm.
