Stakes winner Gregorian Chant retired

ARCADIA, Calif. – Gregorian Chant, a two-time stakes winner who raced primarily in Southern California from the spring of 2019 until earlier this month, has been retired.

Trainer Phil D’Amato said on Sunday that the 8-year-old Gregorian Chant will be sent to owner Andrew Molasky’s ranch in Las Vegas, Nev., later this month.

“He had zero issues,” D’Amato said. “He showed me in his last race he didn’t want to run anymore. He was good to us.”

Co-owned by Molasky’s Old Bones Racing Stable, Michael Nentwig, and Slam Dunk Racing, Gregorian Chant won consecutive stakes in six-furlong turf races at Santa Anita in the restricted Clocker’s Corner Stakes and Grade 3 San Simeon Stakes in the spring of 2021. He was third in three Grade 2 turf sprints in 2022 – the Churchill Downs Turf Sprint, Eddie D Stakes, and Joe Hernandez Stakes.

In his final start, Gregorian Chant was sixth of nine in a $32,000 claimer at a mile on turf at Santa Anita on April 5.

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