Menifee
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Menifee (born 1996) is a stallion Thoroughbred racehorse that competed in the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1999. His rivalry with Triple Crown contender Charismatic was compared at times with the rivalry between 1978 contenders Affirmed and Alydar, who won and placed (respectively) in all three races that year. He was trained by Elliott Walden, and ridden in all three races by Pat Day.
Menifee placed second in both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, both behind Charismatic, but failed to place in the top three in the Belmont Stakes. He retired with 5 wins, 4 places and one show in 11 starts; two of those wins were as a two-year-old in 1998. The Belmont was the only time he did not have a top-three finish. Following the Triple Crown series in the summer of 1999, he won the Grade I Haskell Invitational Handicap at Monmouth Park and ran third in the Travers Stakes.
Menifee stood until recently at Stone Farm, where the ten-year-old son of Harlan commanded US $15,000 for a live cover breeding. But in October of 2006, it was announced that he's been sold to the Korean Racing Association to continue his stallion career.
[edit] References
- Menifee's pedigree and photo
- Menifee Profile on the Stallion Register]
- Menifee Profile at Stone Farm]
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