Saturday, December 6, 2008
Hippie Power passed rivals at the top of the stretch last night at Remington Park to break his maiden by 8 ¾ lengths. He also became the 35th two-year-old winner for Freshman Sire, Chapel Royal.
The win breaks the record set back in 1998 when End Sweep established the Freshman Sire record with 34 individual winners while standing at Mockingbird Farm in Ocala, Florida. Fasliyev tied that mark in 2003 while standing at Coolmore Stud in Ireland, and in 2006, Invincible Spirit equaled the record for a Northern Hemisphere freshman sire.
Hippie Power is out of the Graded Stakes producing, Stage Door Johnny mare, Flowers For M’ Lady; owned by Champion Racing Stable and Poindexter Thoroughbreds LLC, trained by Allen Milligan, and was bred in Kentucky by Julie Rodgers & Jackie Plude.