HELLO LOVER won nine races in his 6-year-old season, and was one shy of the top spot as the winningest horse in the nation. He launched his season at Parx Racing with a score on Jan. 3 while in for a $7,500 tag, and Robert E. Reid Jr. made the claim of the year when taking him out of that race on behalf of Kasey K Racing Stable. The gray gelding faced starter allowance, allowance or stakes company for the remainder of his 16 starts, and at season’s end had amassed $304,495 to rank as his illustrious sire Not For Love's leading earner for the year. HELLO LOVER made his stakes debut in Parx’s Gr.3 Greenwood Cup S. in July and finished third behind Redeemed, who set a new track record for the mile and a half, and Not Abroad. Making at least one start every month in 2012, Hello Lover wrapped up his season with two stakes starts in December. He finished second in Laurel Park’s Jennings H. (to EIGHTTOFASTTOCATCH, who he grew up with while romping in the fields at Dark Hollow Farm) and was third in the Auld Lang Syne S. at Parx. He was honored as the Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association's Parx Racing Horse of the Year, Leading Older Gelding, Winningest Horse, Claiming Horse of the Year and Outstanding Claim of the Year. HELLO LOVER has been third or better in 27 of his 34 career starts, and has total earnings of $444,055 through mid-July, 2013. In his most recent start, he rallied to finish third in Saratoga's opening day James Marvin S.-G3.
Race Record: Hello Lover |
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