Cash Control retired, will be bred to Quality Road
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Cash Control, a two-time Grade 3 stakes winner and an earner of nearly $550,000, has been retired and will be bred soon to Quality Road, said owner and breeder Richard Klein. Cash Control, 6, finished second last Saturday in the New Orleans Ladies at Fair Grounds.
Klein’s father, banker and philanthropist Bertram Klein, died last month at age 86. Richard Klein said he and his wife and children will continue to be active in racing under the new stable name of Klein Racing.
◗ Time to Travel, a sharp maiden winner on the Florida Derby card Saturday at Gulfstream Park, is now at Keeneland with trainer Michael Matz. The full brother to Grade 1 winner Hard Not to Like was conditioned for his first two starts by Rachel Halden, whose stable is returning to Woodbine in Canada.
◗ This week marks the 20-year anniversary of Kurt Becker becoming the first and only public-address announcer at Keeneland. It was on April 4, 1997, that Becker’s voice first was amplified throughout the Keeneland plant to accompany a race, breaking a 60-year tradition of silence that younger fans today might find peculiar, if not downright bizarre.
Becker still has his residence in Altamont, Ill., where he grew up wanting to be a race-caller like his father, Karl, a Standardbred announcer. Becker fills out his years working as an announcer at the Keeneland sales and for the Motor Racing Network on NASCAR broadcasts.
◗ Friday is College Scholarship Day, with $10,000 in scholarships for registered college students being raffled off throughout the opening-day program. In addition, Jim and Linda McIngvale will give away $10,000 for the second straight year. Through the years, nearly $300,000 in scholarships has been given away through a program sponsored by Keeneland and the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association.