Forego winner Win Win Win retired with tendon injury

Win Win Win, who splashed his way from last to first to win the Grade 1 Forego Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 29, has been retired from racing due to a tendon injury to his right foreleg, his connections announced on Monday.

Stallion plans were pending according to a press release.

Trainer Mike Trombetta said Monday that Win Win Win showed heat and inflammation in his right foreleg over the weekend and that he told owner/breeder Charlotte Weber that generally means an injured tendon. Weber races under the Live Oak Plantation banner.

“If he was a gelding or just a racehorse you could give him three or four months off and have a competitive campaign,” Trombetta said. “He just isn’t that kind of a horse.”

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Win Win Win, a son of Hat Trick, is a stakes winner on both turf and dirt. He saved his best for last when he rallied widest of all from about 20 lengths back over an extremely sloppy track to win the Grade 1 Forego at Saratoga. Out of that race, he was training toward a start in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Nov. 7 at Keeneland.

“Everybody sees things differently but I’ll remember that for the rest of my life,” Trombetta said of the Forego. “It was pretty cool. I’ve been doing this for 30 years and I never experienced anything quite like that.”

As a 3-year-old Win Win Win set a Tampa Bay Downs track record for seven furlongs winning the Pasco Stakes in a time of 1:20.89. He finished ninth in the Kentucky Derby and seventh in the Preakness before winning the Manila Stakes on turf at Belmont Park, where he ran a mile in 1:31.56.

Overall, Win Win Win had a record of 5-3-1 from 12 starts with earnings of $601,600.

“I would like to thank Mike Trombetta and his staff and the Live Oak Stud crew for all the care they gave Win Win Win,” Weber said in a press release. “He provided us a lot of thrills on the racetrack and I am looking forward to his future as a stallion.”