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Gunite Follows Fellow Winchell Colorbearer to Ashford
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3/19/2025
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Last year, Coolmore's Ashford Stud teamed up with Winchell Thoroughbreds to launch the
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career of Eclipse Champion Epicenter.
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And this year, the two groups will team up once again for Gunite, a dual Group 1 winning
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son of Gunrunner.
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So this year we're very, very pleased and proud to continue our relationship with Winchell
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Thoroughbreds, Ron Winchell and Steve Asterson, in announcing that Gunite will stand the 2024
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breeding season here at Ashford Stud, following hot on the heels of Epicenter last year.
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One of the main things to consider when breeding to a horse like Gunite is how tough he was,
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how durable he was.
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He started his career on the 29th of April, broke his maiden on his third start at Churchill
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Downs, ran six times in all as a two-year-old, showing his obviously soundness and fortitude,
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and culminating in a very, very impressive display beating Witt, who was a very accomplished
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horse in his own right, at Saratoga in the Hopeful.
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And the thing about Gunite was, not only was he able to display this precocity and
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brilliance at two in the Hopeful stakes, but then in the Amsterdam at three, and then his
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ding-dong battle and relationship with Elite Power throughout the season in all of the
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best races, but obviously culminating in the Forgo, where Gunite was able to better him
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by a length of three quarters.
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And Gunite is maintaining the lead, and he will defeat Elite Power in the Forgo.
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Physically, he's beautiful.
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He's got a lot of leg, he's 16'1", very correct horse, very good mover, and he'll be very
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popular with breeders.
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I think the main thing, when you consider a horse like him, is how similar he is in
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many ways to his Sire Gunrunner, and how similar he is to both Cowboy Cal, Sire Giants Causeway,
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and Giants Causeway himself.
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He was ultra, ultra tough.
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And the great thing about the Gunrunners is that they are tough, sound horses.
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If you combine that with two doses of the Iron Horse's blood, you get horses that are
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going to be built for durability and brilliance.
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Obviously Gunite himself was seen to best effect over six and seven furlongs, but you'd
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imagine given the stoutness of his pedigree, you'd imagine when mixed with the right mares,
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he would get classic distance type horses.
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Gunite competed at a very high level in all three years of his racing career, and was
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arguably running the best race of his life when finishing second to the champion sprinter-elect
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Elite Power, who he had beaten in the forego prior to that.
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So I think in today's environment, a horse that is able to demonstrate the soundness,
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the fortitude to run and place in five grade ones, to compete at the highest level, not
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only in the United States, but in Saudi Arabia and in Dubai, I think that shows how sound
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a horse he is, how durable a horse he was, and a horse that I think every breeder should
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be interested in bringing to.
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