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Runnymede foundation mare Kazadancoa dies at 33
Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 4:35 PM
Kazadancoa (Fr), a foundation mare for Catesby Clay’s Runnymede Farm in Paris, Kentucky, died on March 30 at the age of 33.
The Green Dancer mare left her mark on four generations of runners. She is the dam of graded stakes winners Jacodra, Jacodra’s Devil, and Changing Ways.
She is the fourth dam of European Group 2 winner and classics hopeful Laughing Lashes, and the second dam of multiple graded stakes winner, 1995 Kentucky Derby (G1) runner-up, and sire Tejano Run, Grade 2 winner and sire More Royal, Grade 2 winner Pays to Dream, and Palace Weekend, who is the dam of Group 1 winner Palace Episode.
Overall, Kazadancoa produced 14 foals and was pensioned following the birth of her final foal in 2000. Out of the unraced Charlottesville mare Khazaeen, she hails from a family that includes influential sire Blushing Groom (Fr), Japanese champion and prominent sire King Kamehameha, Grade 1 winner and sire The Deputy, and South African champion Musir, and Japanese champion and sire Agnes Digital among many top-level horses.
“There are a lot of heavy hearts at Runnymede due to the passing of ‘Kaz,’ as she was affectionately known on the farm,” said Martin O’Dowd, Runnymede’s vice president and general manager. “I have lived and worked with her for my 25 years at Runnymede and while she was our foundation mare and a true matriarch, she was also much more than that to all of us. We had so much respect for her, not just as a producer but also as a personality. She was an extremely intelligent lady who did not suffer fools and at time exhibited a distinctive sense of humor.”
Bred in France, Kazadancoa won one of eight starts in three seasons before being retired in 1982. Clay purchased her for $30,000 at the 1989 Keeneland January horses of all ages sale.
“She was family and will be missed,” O’Dowd said.
Kazadancoa was buried at the farm near the broodmare and foal complex.
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Posted by: debra , Fall River Mills, CA on April 07, 2011 at 03:21 PM
Blessed be the broodmares! In this time of early Spring when I look out to the pasture & see mares with their babies cavorting alongside, it doesn't matter that the taxes aren't done yet, or that I still have to clean the barn. All's right with the world.
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Posted by: unclemolover!, horse LAND, IL on April 06, 2011 at 05:23 PM
wow 33 she lived a long happy,(and succesfull) life! rest in peace lovely one! :)
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