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Good Night Shirt champion steeplechase horse

Posted: Monday, January 21, 2008 10:54 PM

2007 CHAMPION STEEPLECHASE HORSE GOOD NIGHT SHIRT

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Good Night Shirt is a Maryland-bred to the core.

He is by Concern, the Maryland-bred winner of the 1994 Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) who was by one of the finest Maryland-based horses ever, Broad Brush. His broodmare sire is Two Punch, a highly successful stallion at Northview Stallion Station in Chesapeake City, and Good Night Shirt was co-bred by Thomas Bowman, an owner of Northview.

Unfortunately, Good Night Shirt did not run very well on the flat. He scored two victories on Pimlico Race Course’s turf in 2004, but it was clear he was unlikely to progress much further. Sold to Harold A. “Sonny” Via, Good Night Shirt had decent racing seasons in 2005 and ‘06, including a victory in the ‘06 David L. “Zeke” Ferguson Memorial Hurdle Stakes at Colonial Downs.

But, as 2007 began, Via and Fisher decided that the spring would determine whether Good Night Shirt continued over hurdles.

“The plan was to see what he could do,” Fisher said. “If he didn’t do well, then he would go over timber in the fall.”

Good Night Shirt performed very well to say the least. The chestnut gelding won three major hurdle races, established a single-season record for earnings over fences in the United States ($314,163), and collected the first Eclipse Award for Fisher, who was the jump sport’s leading trainer by wins for the third time in 2007.

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