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Hinkle Farms owned and raised, Veuve, wins her second race in a row. The Arch filly trained by Cindy Jones broke her maiden at Delaware Park by 7 1/4 lengths. She came back to win this Allowance at Monmouth by 2 1/4 lengths.

Sister Dawn, who was bred and sold by Hinkle Farms, broke her maiden at first asking in impressive fashion. She was a $120,000 September yearling. Look for her to make some noise in California this year.

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Bit of Whimsy, one of the top 3-year-old turf fillies of 2007, has been retired because of an injury suffered in the July 26 Diana Stakes (gr. IT) at Saratoga.

“We thought she had ruptured a tendon, but then later found out it was a twisted ankle,” said Bonner Young, who raced the 4-year-old daughter of Distorted Humor with Gerald McManis.

Last year, Bit of Whimsy won the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (gr. IT), Mrs. Revere (gr. IIT), and Sands Point (gr. IIIT) Stakes, and ran second in the Garden City Stakes (gr. IT). Her victory in the Sands Point came in a deadheat with Rutherienne.

Bit of Whimsy retired with four wins from 10 races and earnings of $555,133. She will boarded at her birthplace, Hinkle Farms near Paris, Ky., where her dam, Kristi B (by El Prado), also is kept.

Bit of Whimsy was bred by Young and her mother, Joyce B. Rowand. Breeding plans are undecided.

Bloodhorse.com, August 13, 2008

The Hinkle Farms homebred Buy the Barrel has been retired from racing. The 2008 racing season was a special one having won the Grade 2 Allaire Dupont Distaff on Preakness Day. She also won the Bayakoa and Houstan Distaff Stakes this year.

She will be retired to Hinkle Farms and bred in 2009. We wish to thank Cindy and Larry Jones for the incredible job they did training our filly. We owe everyone involved with her a special thanks for such a wonderful year.