Multiple Grade 3-winning New York-bred Lubash retired

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Lubash, the popular 10-year-old New York-bred gelding who has won 12 stakes and earned more than $1.5 million in his career, has been retired from racing, trainer Christophe Clement said Wednesday.

Clement said the gelding is sound and training well “but not with the enthusiasm he used to.”

Clement said Leonard Pivnick, owner and breeder of Lubash, will look for a place for Lubash to spend retirement, potentially at Old Friends.

Lubash, by Freud, won 18 races from 54 starts with 9 seconds and 7 thirds. He won 12 stakes including two runnings of the Grade 3 Tropical Turf Handicap at Gulfstream Park West and the Grade 3 Fort Marcy at Belmont Park. He won two runnings of the Ashley T. Cole and West Point and one running each of the Kingston and Mohawk, the four New York-bred turf route stakes on the New York Racing Association calendar.

“I’m very proud of the career he had,” said Clement, who trained Lubash for 36 of those 54 starts. “He’s 10, and he’s retiring physically sound, which is the way it should be.”

Jim Ryerson trained Lubash for his first 18 races.