Millionaire pacing mare and broodmare Go On BB will be retired at Hanover Shoe Farms.
Go On BB (Dontgetinmyway-Challo B B-Nobleland Sam) foaled in 2004 and was purchased in August of 2006 by Frank Baldachino. The gutsy mare raced under the care of Burke Racing Stable from 2006 through 2013, earning $1,461,538 and putting together a career summary reading 69-36-16 from 178 starts with a lifetime mark of 1:50f.
As a two-year-old in 2006, Go On BB won seven starts including the Genesis and Indiana Sires Stakes finals, earning $74,500 with a record of 1:54.4. At three, she won 19 of 22 starts while banking $362,149 for the season with wins in the $206,000 American National in her season best record of 1:51, the $100,000 Indiana Sires Stakes final, Genesis and Blossom Series finals, in addition to numerous Fillies & Mares Open Handicaps.
She continued her winning ways as an aged mare, winning 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012 Indiana Sires Stakes Aged Mare Championships and earning more than $100,000 every year until being retired from racing at the age of nine in 2013.
After her racing career ended, Go On BB was bred on a foal share with Hanover Shoe Farms to Somebeachsomewhere, producing her richest foal, Gotthisone Hanover p,1:51.4 ($209,196). She is also the dam of Going Gone Hanover p,3,1:51f ($132,372) and Lyons Legacy p,1:52.3f ($97,607), both by Captaintreacherous. Go On BB had a total of eight foals with average yearling prices of $49,000, including a $100,000 Captaintreacherous (Lyons Legacy) and $85,000 Papi Rob Hanover (Golden Glove Hanover), and progeny earnings totalling $537,386 as of Dec. 4, 2024.
Go On BB will join the retired herd at the age of 21 in 2025 at Hanover Shoe Farms to live the rest of her life at her leisure. Her final foal by Captaintreacherous is being carried via embryo transfer, due March 26, 2025.
Hanover Shoe Farms supports the retirement of an additional 184 mares, 34 geldings and two stallions. Some have second careers as nanny mares for orphaned foals and tease mares for the farm's breed shed. One of the geldings works as a pony horse for yearling videos but the majority are free to roam and graze the fields.
(With files from Hanover Shoe Farms; Photo of Go On BB with her second foal Geremel Hanover)