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Close Hatches

Close Hatches is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Unraced as a two-year-old she emerged as one of the leading fillies of her generation in the United States in 2013 when she won five of her eight races including the Gazelle Stakes, Mother Goose Stakes and Cotillion Handicap. In the following year she won the GradeII Azeri Stakes before recording successive Grade I victories in the Apple Blossom Handicap, Ogden Phipps Handicap and Personal Ensign Stakes.Close Hatches is a dark bay or brown filly bred in Kentucky by Millsec Limited, a horse breeding company registered at Khalid Abdullah's Banstead Manor Stud in Newmarket, Suffolk. She races in the colours of Khalid Abdullah's Juddmonte Farmorganisation, as did both of her parents. She is from the first crop of foals sired by First Defence who won the Grade I Forego Stakes in 2008 and is the first foal of her dam Rising Tornado, who failed to win in three minor races in France. Rising Tornado's dam Silver Star was a full-sister to Xaar the leading European two-year-old of 1997, and as a descendant of the broodmare Best In Show, was related to numerous major winners including El Gran Senor and Rags to Riches.[2] Close Hatches has been trained throughout her racing career by Bill Mott. She has been ridden in all but one of her races by the Dominican jockey Joel Rosario.

Close Hatches

Submitted July 16, 2018 at 04:56AM by Horsepedigree
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