Yankee Cam Passes

Trot Insider learned that stallion Yankee Cam passed away on Thursday (Sept. 27). He was 24.

On the track, the son of Cam Fella and Yankee Co Ed was a winner of 18 races, including the 1996 Champlain Stakes at what is now Woodbine Mohawk Park and a pair of New Jersey Sire Stakes in his three-year-old season.

After finishing eighth behind Village Jasper in the 1997 Breeders Crown at Mohawk, Yankee Cam capped his sophomore campaign with a third-place finish in the $270,000 Windy City Pace at Maywood Park and a seventh-place effort in the $200,000 Provincial at Windsor Raceway.

In a well-travelled four-year-old season, he won at The Meadowlands, Los Alamitos, Freehold and Yonkers before retiring to stand stud in Québec for 18 of his 20 years of stallion duty.

Yankee Cam's progeny earned over $11 million. Thirteen of his progeny earned over $250,000 in their respective careers, led by Royal Becquet (p, 3, 1:51s), who banked $538,442. Yankee Cam also sired a trio of 1:50 pacers in Big Bam Ray (p, 4, 1:49.2m), White Mountain Top (p, 10, 1:49.3f) and Brave Alex Semalu (p, 5, 1:49.4s).

Please join Standardbred Canada in offering condolences to the connections of Yankee Cam.