Multiple Grade 2-winning millionaire
COWBOY
CAL (Giant’s Causeway) has been retired to Josephine Abercrombie’s Pin Oak
Stud and will stand the 2010 season for a fee of $7,500.
By 2009 leading sire Giant’s Causeway, the four-year-old Robert and Janice
McNair homebred won five graded stakes and earned $1,037,810 from a 19-7-5-2
line. A three-time Grade 1 runner-up, Cowboy Cal concluded his racing career
with a third in the Citation H. (G1).
Trained by Todd Pletcher, the dark bay colt captured the Bryan Station (G3)
and Tropical Park Derby (G3) in 2008 and rounded out his sophomore campaign with
a close second in the Hollywood Derby (G1). He opened this year with victories
in the San Pasqual H. (G2) and Strub S. (G2), and went on to capture the Oak
Tree Mile (G2) in October, stopping the teletimer in 1:33.
“A genuine miler that carried his speed over a distance,” Pletcher said. “He
gave his best effort in every race, but the Oak Tree Mile in 1:33 was pretty
special.”
Cowboy Cal is out of the Seeking the Gold mare Texas Tammy, a half-sister to
multiple Grade 1 winner and $4.5 million earner Behrens (Pleasant Colony). His
second dam is multiple Grade 2 winner and Grade 1 runner-up Hot Novel (Mari’s
Book), a half-sister to the granddam of two-time Whitney H. (G1) winner
Commentator (Distorted Humor).
“He’s a grand-looking horse,” Abercrombie said. “We’re very excited to have a
top son of Giant’s Causeway join our roster, and we’re so pleased to be partners
again with Janice and Robert McNair.”