Dreaming of Anna retired

Champion DREAMING OF ANNA (Rahy) has been retired. Owned and bred by Frank

Calabrese, the four-year-old filly compiled a 17-10-3-1 mark with $2,024,550 in

earnings. She will take up broodmare duty at Three Chimneys Farm near Midway,

Kentucky.

"She's happy, healthy and sound," trainer Wayne Catalano told Daily Racing

Form.

Named champion two-year-old filly following an unbeaten season in 2006 that

was capped by a convincing score in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1),

Dreaming of Anna garnered a total of nine stakes wins, including tallies in the

2007 Virginia Oaks and Pucker Up S. (G3). She opened her 2008 campaign with

consecutive victories in the Endeavour S. (G3) and Hillsborough S. (G3) and

added the Mint Julep H. (G3) this summer. The Kentucky-bred chestnut also

finished second in last year's Queen Elizabeth II Invitational Challenge Cup S.

(G1). She concluded her racing career with a sixth in last Friday's First Lady

S. (G1).

"She's the biggest money winner I've owned, and she ranks right up there with

my favorite horse," Calabrese said.

Dreaming of Anna counts multiple Grade 2 hero Lewis Michael, who will make

his next start in the Breeders' Cup following his last-out win in the Pat

O'Brien H. (G2) at Del Mar, as a full brother. She's out of the multiple

stakes-winning Justenuffheart (Broad Brush), who is a half-sister to 2004

champion turf horse Kitten's Joy (El Prado [Ire]).