Woodbine Oaks winner Dixie Moon to be bred to Medaglia d'Oro

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Following her fifth-place finish in the Grade 2 Canadian Stakes at Woodbine on Sept. 14, Dixie Moon was retired from racing, trainer Catherine Day Phillips said.

Day Phillips said that Dixie Moon, the winner of the 2018 Woodbine Oaks, has been sent to Kentucky and will enter owner Sean and Dorothy Fitzhenry’s broodmare band. She will be bred to Medaglia d’Oro.

“She retired very healthy and sound, and I think she was just finding her footing again as an older horse,” Day Phillips said. “It’s a bit bittersweet. It was hard to lose a horse like her from the barn, but yet exciting that she’s going to go on and have babies.”

Day Phillips said Dixie Moon’s value as a broodmare played a role in the Fitzhenrys’ decision to retire her.

“She didn’t have a lot more to prove as a racehorse and it was time to start her career as a broodmare,” she said.

The 4-year-old daughter of Curlin retires with a career record of five wins from 17 starts, with four of those victories coming in stakes. She won her debut as a 2-year-old in 2017, and immediately earned Grade 1 black type with a runner-up finish in the Natalma Stakes. She also won the Cup and Saucer Stakes and in the Ontario Lassie Stakes. She finished sixth in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Del Mar.

As a 3-year-old, Dixie Moon won the Woodbine Oaks on synthetic and the Carotene Stakes on turf, while finishing second in the Grade 3 Selene. She also finished third in the Grade 3 Trillium this season.

She retires with career earnings of $805,950.