Graded stakes winner Harvest Moon retired
ARCADIA, Calif. – The two-time graded stakes winner Harvest Moon has been retired after a series of disappointing performances, trainer Simon Callaghan said on Sunday.
Harvest Moon left Callaghan’s stable in December for Kentucky. A 5-year-old mare by Uncle Mo, Harvest Moon won 4 of 9 starts and earned $384,720 in a two-year career.
Co-owned by breeder Alice Bamford and Michael Tabor, Harvest Moon was in her best form in the late summer and early fall of 2020, winning the Grade 3 Torrey Pines Stakes at Del Mar and the Grade 2 Zenyatta Stakes at Santa Anita before a fourth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Keeneland.
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Harvest Moon was winless in three starts in 2021, including a well-beaten fifth in the Grade 3 Bayakoa Stakes at Los Alamitos on Dec. 5.
“She didn’t come back the same way she was as a 3-year-old,” Callaghan said.
Harvest Moon will be bred to Munnings, Callaghan said.
Jockeys fined for whip infractions
Jockeys Tyler Baze and Mario Gutierrez have been fined for excessive use of the whip in races at Santa Anita on Saturday.
Baze was fined $1,000 for using his whip more than six times in the second race on American Admiral, who finished second. According to a ruling issued on Sunday by stewards Luis Jauregui, Will Meyers, and Kim Sawyer, this was Baze’s third such offense in the last two months.
Gutierrez was fined $750 for using his whip more than six times in the Grade 2 Santa Ynez Stakes on second-place finisher Awake at Midnyte. This was Gutierrez’s second such infraction in the last two months.