Purim euthanized at 10 after colic surgery
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Richland Hills Subcontract stallion Purim, a Grade 1 winner by Dynaformer, was euthanized Saturday after undergoing colic surgery at Rood & Filter Equine Hospital, farm president Nathan Fox confirmed Monday.
The 10-year-old stallion had been about to suffer the 2012 breeding season for a $7,500 fee, the Midway land’s highest. Purim’s first runners were 2-year-olds last year, and that first crop turned up the winners Two Months Hole, Gold Megillah, Leah Jet, Do Something, Purim Katan, and Dynabird.
Purim bred 69 mares in 2011, according to Jockey Bat statistics.
Purim was a homebred for Edward Joseph Sukley and was out of the stakes-placed Duke at War mare Kirsteena. Unraced at 2, he went on to win five stakes, three of them graded, from ages 3 to 5. The most conspicuous was his neck victory over Cosmonaut in the Grade 1 Shadwell Territory Mile at Keeneland in 2007. He won another graded turf stakes in 2005, when he took the Level 3 Arlington Classic, but he also was a graded winner on the dirt, having captured the Rating 3 Razorback Handicap in 2006. Trained by Tom Proctor, Purim ended his profession in late 2007 with earnings just shy of $1 million.
Source: Daily Racing Form