First winner for Consolidator

Grade 1 winner CONSOLIDATOR (Storm Cat) was represented by his first winning

offspring on Sunday when his juvenile daughter Solid Lunar captured her career

debut, appropriately enough, at Lone Star Park. Five years ago, her sire ran

fourth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) at the same track.

On Sunday with Cliff Berry aboard, the bay lass was

three-quarters of a length clear on the line in the 3RD race, finishing up 4 1/2 furlongs

on the fast track in :52 4/5 for trainer Steve Asmussen.

Consolidator nearly broke his maiden in his second career start, just missing

by a neck in the Kentucky S. (G3) at Churchill Downs. He got the job done next

out for conditioner D. Wayne Lukas, and proceeded to finish third in the Sanford

S. (G2) and fourth in the Hopeful S. (G1) at Saratoga before earning his first

stakes score in the Breeders' Futurity (G1) at Keeneland. The chestnut finished

out his juvenile campaign in the Breeders' Cup, and returned as a three-year-old

to run fourth in the San Vicente S. (G2). He posted a dominant 6 1/2-length

victory in the San Felipe S. (G2) before a fifth-place effort in the Blue Grass

S. (G1).

Consolidator was a contender for the 2005 Kentucky Derby (G1), but sustained

a fractured sesamoid bone in his right front ankle during a routine gallop the

Sunday before the Run for the Roses and was immediately retired.

The chestnut stands for a fee of $15,000, due when the foal stands and

nurses, at Darley near Lexington, Kentucky.