Champion Shared Belief Euthanized Following Colic Surgery

Champion Shared Belief Euthanized Following Colic Surgery

Category : News - Thu 03/12/2015 - 19:43 EST

It was announced on Thursday afternoon that champion Shared Belief had been euthanized following colic surgery. The four-year-old gelding had been in training for his comeback after fracturing his pelvis in April.

Shared Belief, a dark bay son of Candy Ride (ARG) was trained by Jerry Hollendorfer and owned in part by sports personality Jim Rome’s Jungle Racing. He had won ten of his twelve starts and earned the Eclipse Award in 2013 as the nation’s champion juvenile. Of those ten victories, eight of them came against graded stakes competition and he was a five-time Grade 1 winner. He began his career with Corey Nakatani in the irons who would eventually be replaced by Mike Smith.

Championship two-year-old season 

As a juvenile, he made his debut in a maiden race at Golden Gate and won impressively by seven lengths. He went on to string together consecutive graded stakes victories in the Hollywood Prevue Stakes (G3) and the CashCall Futurity (G1), both run at the now-defunct Hollywood Park. Though he went to the sidelines and missed the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1), his three-race streak was enough to warrant the Eclipse and the sights were set for his three-year-old campaign.

Almost undefeated as a three-year-old

As a three-year-old, he returned with a vengeance in an allowance race in May. Though too late for the Triple Crown, he won his next three starts – the Los Alamitos Derby (G2) and the Pacific Classic (G1) and Awesome Again Stakes (G1). In the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1), he lost all chance at the start when he was bumped by the eventual winner Bayern. He closed out the year with a game win in the Malibu (G1). He won his first two starts as a four-year-old before his final start in the Charles Town Classic (G2). 

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