BY BROCK SHERIDAN

JULY 26, 2008—Florida-bred Hooh Why, who would go on to become a multiple graded stakes winner of $1,244,809, won her first career race at odds of 38-1. Trained by Donna Dupuy for Derby Daze Farm Inc. and Mark Hoffman, Hooh Why was the best of nine 2-year-old fillies in a five-and-a-half-furlong maiden special weight at Arlington Park.

Ridden by Inez Karlsson, Hooh Why settled into fifth on the inside going into the turn, where she began to make up ground as Timeless Miss and Secret Spell raced together on the lead through a :22.43 first quarter mile.

Hooh Why and Karlsson lacked room turning for home then shifted to the outside in the lane to win by a length in 1:07.11. She’s Salty Too was second with Lake Cook third.

Hooh Why paid $78.40 to win.

 

She finished her 2-year-old year with a respectable record of two wins in seven starts, including an allowance victory at Woodbine in October, with earnings of $107,335. She began to show her potential, however, with a third in the US$124,779 Glorious Song (Listed) won by Selva and second to Patena in the US$119,595 Display Stakes (Listed), both at Woodbine. She was also third in the $65,000 Sandpiper won by Dr. Zic at Tampa Bay Downs in her last race in 2008.

Hooh Why blossomed in her sophomore year, finishing third, just two noses shy of winner Stardom Bound, in the Santa Anita Oaks (G1) in March before winning her first stakes against Grade 1 company in the Ashland at Keeneland in April. She won the US$142,972 La Lorgnette at Woodbine in May of 2009 then her second graded stakes the next year by taking the Seaway (G3) at Woodbine in September of 2010. 

 

Hooh Why retired at age seven with a record of 12 wins, seven of which were in stakes, with 14 seconds and nine thirds—finishing in the top three in nearly 65% of her races. By Cloud Hopping out of Magic Merger, by Corporate Report, Hooh Why was bred in Florida by Gail Gee. She was a full sister to stakes winning Florida-bred Rumbling Cloud and a half-sister to stakes-placed Florida-bred D’wild Beach, both bred by Gee.

Hoffman consigned Hooh Why to the 2013 Fasig Tipton November Fall Mixed Sale where she was purchased in foal to Leroidesanimaux by SF Bloodstock LLC for $550,000.

In 2016, her second foal, Line of Departure, by Tapit, sold for $1.2 million at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale to Crupi’s New Castle Farm and in 2019, her gelding by Pioneerof the Nile brought $350,000 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. She produced four winners from seven starters and nine foals.

 

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