Horse Racing Radio Community (HRRN), the award-winning broadcast group primarily based in Lexington, introduced at the moment it can have a good time the achievements of Corridor of Fame mare Princess Rooney main as much as Friday’s opening day of the Keeneland Fall Meet. 

‘Princess Rooney Week’ offered by Keeneland Gross sales begins Monday, September 30 by Saturday, October 5. All through the week, HRRN pays tribute to the good Keeneland gross sales graduate throughout their full platform of exhibits, in addition to on the community’s social media pages, web site and e-newsletters. Listeners will take pleasure in replays of her largest wins together with interviews and conversations trying again on his racing profession.

All HRRN exhibits might be heard all through North America on Sirius 162/XM 207 with dwell streaming and podcasts of all exhibits are made accessible on the community’s web site, www.horseracingradio.internet, and a number of podcast platforms together with Apple Podcasts and PodBean. A full schedule of all HRRN exhibits and extra affiliate info might be discovered on the HRRN website.

Foaled on March 22, 1980, at Parrish Hill Farm in Kentucky, Princess Rooney recorded 17 wins from 21 lifetime begins together with 5 Grade 1 victories with $1.343,399 in purse earnings. Initially educated by Frank Gomez for house owners Jim and Paula Tucker, she was transferred to the barn of Corridor of Fame coach Neil Drysdale within the spring of 1984. She concluded her profession on the finish of that 12 months with consecutive wins in Keeneland’s Grade 1 Spinster earlier than capturing the inaugural working of the Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Hollywood Park. She can be voted that 12 months’s Eclipse Champion Older Mare and can be inducted into horse racing’s Corridor of Fame in 1991. Following her racing profession, Princess Rooney was bought in foal to Danzig by George Aubin on the 1985 Keeneland November Breeding Inventory Sale for $5.5 million from the Stone Farm consignment. On the time, the third highest value ever paid for a broodmare.

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