L'Eggins Passes

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L’Eggins p, 3, 1:54.2 ($188,882) died peacefully overnight on Wednesday, November 15, 2012.

An older sister to the great mare Stienam p, 3, 1:53.4 ($1,355,474) - by Falcon Almahurst, out of Margaux (Columbia George) – L’Eggins was 32 years old.

Purchased as a yearling for $17,500 by Brian Legge’s Aberlake Farms, L’Eggins took her mark in her heat of Bluegrass Stakes (defeating Turn The Tide). Trained by Robert Young, L’Eggins equalled Roses Are Red’s World Record for two heats at Delaware (1:57h; 1:57.4h - 3:54.4h), on Little Brown Jug Day (Ralph Hanover).

Owned throughout her life by Legge, L’Eggins produced 10 foals before being retired in 2005, with 7 in 2:00, 4 in 1:55 and combined earnings of over $350,000. But like Stienam, L’Eggins would display her genetic prepotency through her daughters.

Her Abercrombie daughter No Escape p, 3, 1:54.3 ($107,794) produced 2005 William Haughton Memorial winner Dr No p, 4, 1:48.2 ($1,068,362), the youngest, fastest and richest of just five sub-1:50 performers sired by No Nukes. Sadly, No Escape left just three living foals before her untimely death in 2002, at the age of nine.

A Camluck filly by L'Eggins, Caliterra p, 3, 1:54.2f ($55,242) produced Arts Diva p, 2, 1:53.1; 3, 1:51.3; 4, 1:49.3 ($691,175). The first-crop daughter of Art Major won her Three Diamonds elim (2nd in the $660,000 Final) at two, and was a solid four- and five-year-old, defeating such mares as Dreamfair Eternal, Voelz Hanover, My Little Dragon, Ginger And Fred and A And Gs Confusion. Brothers Brian & Dr. David Legge board Arts Diva at Hanover Shoe Farms, where she produced her first foal (Well Said) in 2012. She is back in foal to Somebeachsomewhere.

Please join Standardbred Canada in offering condolences to the connections of L'Eggins.

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Brian and David are to be commended for providing a good life to a great producer for more than 30 years. You are excellent breeders and clearly good guys. I have the pleasure of owning Bee Full of Steinam (who we will breed) and Lil's Surfer Girl (gave us a nice looking colt). Until this week I owed Cocoa Beach. All were from this family and all of them have rewarded us.

Georg Leber-ICR Racing

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