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Champion Nest retiring and going to see Uncle Mo
Nest. Source: thoroughbreddailynews.com

Champion Nest retiring and going to see Uncle Mo

Three-year-old filly and MGISW Nest (Curlin–Marion Ravenwood, by A.P. Indy), Mike Repole, her owner, informed the Daily Racing Form on Wednesday that the filly had retired from racing.

The owner planned to race Nest this year after purchasing it for $6 million at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale last year. She was scheduled to ship to trainer Todd Pletcher's string at Saratoga after three workouts at Stonestreet Farm in Ocala, Florida. However, a diagnostic scan revealed "a slight abnormality in her hind ankle," Repole informed DRF.

“Since she wasn't perfect, it made it easy,” he said. “We shipped her to Lane's End, she arrived today. She has a date with Uncle Mo. We tried our best to bring her back as a 5-year-old and keep her in training. If we didn't have that intention, we would have bred her in February. We're going to breed her now, ecstatic about her career, wish it could have been one more season. She was a stakes winner at 2, 3, 4, a multiple Grade I winner, and a champion.”

Nest won the GI Central Bank Ashland S., placed second in the GI Kentucky Oaks, and then defeated the boys to finish second in the GI Belmont S., earning her the 2022 Eclipse Award for finest 3-year-old. Subsequently, she secured consecutive victories in the CCA Oaks and the Alabama S., both held at Saratoga. Despite having a delayed start to her career at age four, Nest came back to win the GII Shuvee S. upstate that summer of 2023.

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