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00:00Fenthra Farm will welcome four newcomers to their stud barn in 2023.
00:07Today we visited with five-time grade one winner and champion Jackie's Warrior and
00:11Belmont hero Moe Donegal.
00:14When you look back at all of the records and all of the great horses that have raced at
00:19Saratoga there's just the list of who's who and for Jackie's Warrior to be the first horse
00:25to ever win a grade one at two, three, and four, I mean, you're talking about that'll
00:30be in the record books forever.
00:33You know, Woody Stevens is five Belmonts and I would say Jackie's three grade ones at Saratoga
00:38are records that I don't see anybody breaking those records.
00:42He was just big dominant from two all the way through the end of his career.
00:45Just very, you know, very fast horse that could, you know, carry his speed.
00:51You just look back at the numbers, you know, that he ran and he's just one of those horses
00:55that doesn't come along very often.
00:57When he beat Life is Good, I think when Jackie, that race at Saratoga was just, it was unbelievable
01:03and I was so fortunate to be there that day to be able to get to see it and, you know,
01:07that battle was, you know, was amazing and Jackie just, you know, was so determined that
01:12day and what a race.
01:15It's Jackie's Warrior, Life is Good, the two of them will battle it out to the finish in
01:19the Allen Jerkins and it's going to be Jackie's Warrior by a head.
01:24I mean, what was amazing was how big he was, big and strong.
01:27I mean, he is a heavy muscled horse with a lot of bone.
01:30You first saw him as a two-year-old.
01:32He was massive then and so you're just like, this is the biggest kid on the playground.
01:37I've had so many people come out here to the farm and look and they'll step back and they'll
01:42say that may be the best one we've seen of all the new ones.
01:46Plus the type of mares he's getting, you know, as well.
01:49Every mare that he got was a stakes mare.
01:51Stakes mare, stakes producer.
01:53He's going to get every opportunity with the mares that he got and great looks, great mares,
01:59you know, hopefully he throws himself and we'll be in good shape.
02:03I think for Moe Donegal, you know, to win that graded stakes at two in the Remson, which
02:07is a tough, grueling race at a mile and an eighth, but yet be able to go on and do what
02:13he did as a three-year-old.
02:14Anytime you can win the wood and, you know, he gets a better trip in the Kentucky Derby.
02:19You know, very much could have won that day, but come back and then top it off with the
02:24Belmont.
02:25It takes a very good horse to be able to do that.
02:28Billak Moe Donegal was one of the absolute best of his class.
02:31Anytime you win a classic race to go along with a wood memorial in Remson, you know,
02:37it's a lot to offer for breeders and especially for $20,000.
02:41We've had a lot of people out here to the farm to see him and things have gone over
02:45well and Moe Donegal is a big, tall, stretchy horse.
02:49You know, he's got a lot of length and a lot of size to him.
02:52You know, what I love about him is though, even though he stands over a lot of ground,
02:56he's 16, 2 1⁄2, is he's got a beautiful frame on him.
03:00With Moe Donegal, one of the biggest for us has been the fact that Mike Rapoli is our
03:04partner and, you know, when you've got a guy that buys 71 yearlings out here at the
03:09Keeneland sale, having him as your partner is not a bad thing to have and Mike brings
03:14so much energy.
03:16We love to have sons of Uncle Moe because that's what our breeders want and so we try
03:20to provide them what they're looking for and, you know, Moe Donegal represents that.