One day after a runner-up finish in the Emirates Airline Filly and Mare Turf (G1), Grade 1 winner Film Maker was retired and is scheduled to be bred to leading sire Storm Cat in 2007.
"She's going to Lane's End [Monday]," trainer Graham Motion said. "We felt at this stage of the game that we wanted to send her home sound. We wanted her to walk out of the barn the same way she walked into the barn."
The 2004 and '06 Filly and Mare Turf runner-up, Film Maker retires with eight wins, eight seconds, and seven thirds from 27 lifetime starts. She has earned $2,203,730 for owner Donald Adam's Courtlandt Farms.
Trained by Graham Motion, the six-year-old Dynaformer mare won the 2003 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes (G1) at Keeneland Race Course. Film Maker finished third in the 2005 Filly and Mare Turf.
Film Maker retires with six graded stakes wins over four seasons. She finished second four times in Grade 1 races and third on two other occasions.
Always at her best on Breeders' Cup day, Film Maker twice finished second to perhaps the most talented racemare of her generation, Ouija Board (GB), in the Filly and Mare Turf.
"It's disappointing that Film Maker had to run against Ouija Board all three years," Motion said. "In any other era, she'd have won at least one of those races. Film Maker has nothing to be ashamed of finishing second to such a great mare."
Bred in Kentucky by TAC Holdings Inc, Film Maker is out of the Mr. Prospector mare Miss DuBois. — Mike Curry
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