Data Link retired to stud at Claiborne

Stuart S. Janney III's homebred Data Link, a Grade 1 winner and course

record-setter by top Claiborne stallion War Front, has been retired from racing

and will enter stud at Claiborne Farm in 2014, according to farm representative

Bernie Sams.  

During his highly-successful 2012 campaign, Data Link rallied smartly to earn

a Grade 1 title in the Maker's 46 Mile at Keeneland. In addition, he set a

course record winning the 1 1/8-mile Monmouth Stakes, placed in both the 1

1/16-mile Bernard Baruch Handicap at Saratoga and the Canadian Turf at

Gulfstream, then closed out the year with a 2 1/4-length romp in the Citation

Handicap at Hollywood Park.  

Trained by Hall of Famer Shug McGaughey, Data Link started this season with a

bang by taking the one-mile Canadian Turf. As the defending champion in the

Maker's 46, he finished second, beaten only a length by reigning Horse of the

Year Wise Dan. Data Link was an uncharacteristic fourth in his only subsequent

start, the July 4 Poker at Belmont. Also a winner at both two and three, Data

Link retires with a record of 18-8-2-1 and earnings of $831,335.

"We are pleased to have Data Link at Claiborne," Sams said. "He was a very

good, very consistent racehorse. He has an attractive pedigree, and it has no

Mr. Prospector until the fifth generation. I think he will be a good outcross

for a lot of breeders."

Foaled and raised at Claiborne for owner/breeder Janney, Data Link is out of

Database, a stakes-winning daughter of Known Fact. Database's full sister is

multiple stakes winner Vespers, who is the dam of Grade 1 winner Hymn Book, most

recently a close third in Saturday's Kelso Handicap. 

Data Link is by top sire War Front, a leading sire with 15 current-year

stakes winners. They include two-time Group 1 winner Declaration of War,

multiple Grade 2 victor and millionaire Departing, and Group/Grade 2-winning

juveniles War Command and Bashart.

For more information contact Sams at (859) 233-4252 or

bernie@claibornefarm.com.

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