The retirement of 2010, Kentucky Derby Winner Super Saver was announced by WinStar Farm.
There was a fear that Super Saver would not recover his racing form after such an injury, making retirement the preferable option, although the three-year-old colt had an injury to his cannon bones that he could have recovered.
While a stud fee has yet to be named for him, he will be put out to stud.
Super Saver managed to take home $1,889,766 in his racing career. Including the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby, he also won two races and finished second in two others. In addition, in the Odysseus’s Grade 3 Tampa Bay Derby, he had a third place finish.
In the wake of the departure of Bill Casner and Ken Troutt, Super Saver’s campaigners, from the WinStar partnership comes Super Saver’s retirement. For WinStar Farm, Super Saver represented a major breakthrough, giving them their first Kentucky Derby winner.
While the winner of the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, the farm had previously bred Funny Cide, their sale of him as a yearling prevented them from reaping any reward from it. Super Saver was one of four WinStar horses, the year he won the Derby by 2 ½ lengths. Cementing WinStar’s position was another WinStar horse, Drosselmeyer, won the Belmont Stakes.