NEWS
Memorette retired for visit to Empire Maker in 2008
Posted: Monday, January 28, 2008 4:15 PM
MEMORETTE
Benoit & Associates photo
by Jeff Lowe
Grade 2 winner Memorette has been retired and booked to Empire Maker for the upcoming season.
Trained by Bill Currin for his wife, Betty, Memorette finished third to Ginger Punch in the Sunshine Millions Distaff Stakes on January 26 at Gulfstream Park in her final start. She was scheduled to arrive on Monday afternoon at Valkyre Stud in Georgetown, Kentucky, farm owner Catherine Parke said.
The Currins bred Memorette in California in the name of their Oak Tree Farm, and Bill Currin gave the six-year-old Memo (Chi) mare to his wife as a birthday present.
Memorette won the 2006 Beverly Hills Handicap (G2) and Fran’s Valentine Stakes at Hollywood Park and ’04 California Breeders’ Champion Stakes at Santa Anita Park. She finished second or third in 13 stakes, including second-place finishes in the 2005 Las Virgenes Stakes (G1) and Santa Anita Oaks (G1).
Out of the Shahrastani mare Forever Fondre, Memorette won four of 32 career starts and earned $896,753.
Jeff Lowe is a Thoroughbred Times staff writer
