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Posted on Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Nashoba’s Key, a multiple stakes winner in her career, died in a freak accident May 28, Wednesday, at Hollywood Park.
The 5-year-old daughter of Silver Hawk fractured her left hock when she kicked the wall of her pen at about 5:30 a.m. and was unable to be saved, Hollywood Park spokesman Mike Mooney said.
“She brought a lot of joy to everyone’s lives that were lucky enough to be associated with her, and we will miss her very much,” horse trainer Carla Gaines said.
Nashoba’s Key won the 2007 Milady’s Breeders’ Cup Handicap (gr. II) and Vanity Handicap (gr. I) on Hollywood Park’s Cushion Track after three wins on the turf followed by victories in the Clement L. Hirsch Handicap (gr. II) on Polytrack at Del Mar and the Yellow Ribbon Stakes (gr. IT) on turf at Oak Tree before losing her first race when fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (gr. IT) at Monmouth Park.
Horse trainer Carla Gaines then gave Nashoba’s Key some time off and brought her back to finish second in the Sunshine Millions Filly & Mare Turf at Santa Anita January 26.
In her final start, Nashoba’s Key won Santa Anita Park’s Santa Margarita Handicap (gr. IT) last March 9. She was being freshened for a summer and fall campaign.
Nashoba’s Key finished second in Eclipse Award balloting for champion female turf horse in 2007 to Lahudood. Nashoba’s Key won eight of 10 lifetime starts, earning $1,252,909.
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