Dreaming of Anna, 2-year-old champ of 2006, dies at 14

Dreaming of Anna, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2006, has died, according to Wayne Catalano, who trained the filly for her breeder, Frank Calabrese. She was 14.

Catalano said he was told Dreaming of Anna died last week in Kentucky.

“We’re very sad,” Catalano said. “Mr. Calabrese and I had a lot of fun with her.”

Dreaming of Anna won nine stakes during her career, topped by the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies in wire-to-wire fashion in 2006 at Churchill Downs. Overall, she won 10 races from 17 starts for earnings of $2,204, 550.

“She was similar to Farrell,” Catalano said. Farrell, a multiple Grade 2 winner, won the Pippin Stakes on Saturday at Oaklawn. “She had speed and she’s very smart and she controlled the races at all times.

“She was special to me. She was my first Breeders’ Cup winner.”

Other highlights of Dreaming of Anna’s racing career included five Grade 3 wins on turf, including the Summer at Woodbine at 2 and the Mint Julep at Churchill Downs in her final season of racing in 2008.

Dreaming of Anna, by Rahy, has produced two stakes winners in Grade 3 winner Dreamologist and stakes winner Fast Anna.