Enola Gray, six-time stakes winner, retires

DEL MAR, Calif. – Enola Gray, a six-time stakes winner, has been retired and will be bred in 2019, trainer Phil D’Amato said Sunday.

A 5-year-old mare, Enola Gray won 7 of 12 starts and earned $585,100, all for owner and breeder Nick Alexander. She won all her stakes in California and from 2016 to 2017. Enola Gray started once this year, finishing fourth in the Grade 2 Royal Heroine Stakes for fillies and mares at Santa Anita in April. She had three workouts in July, but was removed from training in recent weeks.

“It was one thing after another,” D’Amato said. “She had something come up.”

By Grazen, Enola Gray won the Grade 3 Wilshire Stakes at a mile on turf in July 2017 and five stakes for California-breds in her two-year career.

Enola Gray had a splashy debut, winning a maiden race for statebred females by 16 1/4 lengths at 6 1/2 furlongs at Santa Anita in April 2016.