SirePowered Results: Henny Hughes

Henny Hughes’s top runner has not yet seen action in 2015, but it’s already been a productive year for the stallion.

According to DRF’s SirePowered Results, Henny Hughes, best known as the sire of two-time champion Beholder, registered three victories over the weekend, led by Merry Meadow’s score in the Grade 3 Hurricane Bertie Stakes at Gulfstream Park on Saturday.

Merry Meadow, a rising star in the female sprint division, recorded her third straight stakes victory in the Hurricane Bertie, romping by 9 1/2 lengths in her 2015 debut and earning a 98 Beyer Speed Figure. Out of the winning Allen’s Prospect mare Merryland Monroe, Merry Meadow previously captured the Sky Beauty Stakes and the Grade 3 Sugar Swirl Stakes to conclude her 2014 campaign.

The Henny Hughes filly Verismilitude made it back-to-back wins this year by finishing in a dead heat for first in an optional-claiming race on Saturday at Aqueduct. The filly, who is out of the winning Trempolino mare Open Window, posted an 84 Beyer, improving over the 69 earned in a Jan. 4 allowance win.

One day earlier, Rooster Bullet won an optional claimer at Delta Downs, earning an 84 Beyer. The gelding is out of the multiple stakes-winning You and I mare Sweet Nanette.

Multiple Grade 1-placed as a juvenile, Henny Hughes blossomed as a sprinter in his 3-year-old season, scoring Grade 1 wins in the King’s Bishop Stakes and the Vosburgh Stakes, the latter against elders. He won 6 of 10 career starts, only missing the board once, for earnings of $1,124,820. The horse began his stud career at Darley’s Jonabell Farm near Lexington, Ky., and later stood at Walmac Farm in Lexington; he also shuttled to Australia. He was sold to stand in Japan beginning with the 2014 season.

Henny Hughes’s top runner is Beholder, who owns six Grade 1 victories, highlighted by the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies and 2013 Breeders’ Cup Distaff. Both victories secured divisional Eclipse Awards for the mare, who has bankrolled $3,368,300. Knocked out of last year’s Breeders’ Cup due to illness, Beholder is back in training, and targeting a return in the Grade 1 Madison Stakes on April 4 at Keeneland.

Henny Hughes’s other top runners include Japanese champion Asia Express and graded/group stakes winners Chitu, Honey Hues, She Digs Me, Keiai Leone, and Henny Hound.

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