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KETTLE WON created quite a stir in his 2-year-old debut during the 1998 Saratoga meet as the Todd Pletcher-trainee blew away the opposition with a ten and a half-length romp in maiden special company. He has since competed successfully on dirt and turf, going short and long, and fiinished second in the Fort Lauderdale Handicap-G3 over Gulfstream Park's turf course in March of 2000. A half-brother to the durable allowance horse GLIDE HOME, KETTLE WON is out of championSAFELY KEPT's half-sister SAFE AT THE PLATE, a stakes-placed winner of $114,923.
 
Ch.c. 1996, Colonial Affair–Safe At the Plate, by Double Zeus. Bred and raised at Dark Hollow Farm. Sold by Dark Hollow Farm for $120,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling Sale. Purchased by Anstu Stables for $370,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Florida Select Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale. Currently standing stud in New York.

Owned and campaigned by Sylvia and the late Arnold Heft, EIGHTTOFASTTOCATCH retired as a millionaire when capturing his fourth running of the Jennings H. in December 2014. The final year of his career was magical as in one of his three starts he also became the first horse to win three runnings of the Maryland Million Classic. The handsome chestnut son of Not For Love retired with  a dozen stakes wins, 17 wins all together, and earnings of $1,072,970 while racing through age 8. His five stakes placings included a second in the historic Pimlico Special-G3.   

In 2011, EIGHTTOFASTTOCATCH became the second Dark Hollow Farm-bred to win a Maryland Million Classic, joining PLAY BINGO.

Bred by Dark Hollow Farm and Graham and Anita Motion’s Herringswell Stables, EIGHTTOFASTTOCATCH is out of Dark Hollow Farm’s pensioned mare TOOFASTTOCATCH (by Nice Catch) and is a half-brother to stakes winner and Gr. 1-placed STORM PUNCH, stakes winner BAYONNE and nine other winners, who combined have earned in excess of $1.7 million. 

Race Record:
1st- $150,000 Maryland Million Classic three times at LRL View Video Triangle
1st - $100,000 Jennings Handicap at LRL four times  View Video Triangle
1st - $100,000 Henry S. Clark Stakes at PIM
1st - $100,000 Broad Brush Stakes at LRL
1st- $75,000 Harrison Johnson Memorial Stakes twice at LRL  View Video Triangle
1st- $75,000 Japan Racing Association Stakes at LRL View Video Triangle
2nd- $300,000 Pimlico Special G3 at PIM (2013)  View Video Triangle
2nd- $75,000 Harrison Johnson Memorial Stakes at LRL (2012) 
2nd- $75,000 Broad Brush Stakes at LRL 
2nd-$50,000 Joseph French Memorial Stakes at DEL
3rd- $100,000 Maryland Million Turf Stakes at LRL

EIGHTTOFASTTOCATCH
Ch.g., 2006, Not For Love—Too Fast to Catch, by Nice Catch
Bred by Dark Hollow Farm & Herringswell Stables. Sold as a yearling for $47,000 at FTMOCT
Retired from racing and currently in training as a sports horse with Rumsey Keefe. 

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KETTLE WON created quite a stir in his 2-year-old debut during the 1998 Saratoga meet as the Todd Pletcher-trainee blew away the opposition with a ten and a half-length romp in maiden special company. He has since competed successfully on dirt and turf, going short and long, and fiinished second in the Fort Lauderdale Handicap-G3 over Gulfstream Park's turf course in March of 2000. A half-brother to the durable allowance horse GLIDE HOME, KETTLE WON is out of championSAFELY KEPT's half-sister SAFE AT THE PLATE, a stakes-placed winner of $114,923.
 
Ch.c. 1996, Colonial Affair–Safe At the Plate, by Double Zeus. Bred and raised at Dark Hollow Farm. Sold by Dark Hollow Farm for $120,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling Sale. Purchased by Anstu Stables for $370,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Florida Select Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale. Currently standing stud in New York.

Race Record:
2nd- Miracle Wood S. at LRL
1st- MSW race at BEL

COMBAT DIVER
2012 Chestnut Colt, Line of David—Safe Journey, by Flatter 
Bred and raised at Dark Hollow Farm. Purchased by Wounded Warrior Stables for $100,000 at FTM May Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale in 2014

 

 

 

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KETTLE WON created quite a stir in his 2-year-old debut during the 1998 Saratoga meet as the Todd Pletcher-trainee blew away the opposition with a ten and a half-length romp in maiden special company. He has since competed successfully on dirt and turf, going short and long, and fiinished second in the Fort Lauderdale Handicap-G3 over Gulfstream Park's turf course in March of 2000. A half-brother to the durable allowance horse GLIDE HOME, KETTLE WON is out of championSAFELY KEPT's half-sister SAFE AT THE PLATE, a stakes-placed winner of $114,923.
 
Ch.c. 1996, Colonial Affair–Safe At the Plate, by Double Zeus. Bred and raised at Dark Hollow Farm. Sold by Dark Hollow Farm for $120,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling Sale. Purchased by Anstu Stables for $370,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Florida Select Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale. Currently standing stud in New York.

Race Record:
1st- Obeah S. at DEL
3rd- Maryland Racing Media S. at LRL

LUNA TIME
2012 Bay Filly, Malibu Moon—High Moment, by High Yield 
Bred and Owned by Dorsey Brown and Rich Palmer. Raised at Dark Hollow Farm. 

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