Millionaire and two-time Ohio Sire Stakes champion Sea Silk has been retired from racing with new partners added to the ownership for her broodmare career.
Diamond Creek Farm has announced the addition of Sea Silk to its broodmare ranks. She will be owned in partnership with a group that includes many of her original owners and her resulting offspring will be sold at the fall yearling sales.
A daughter of Downbytheseaside, Sea Silk was one of the standouts from that strong first crop. During her two-year-old campaign, Sea Silk won nine of 11 races, including capturing the Ohio Triple Crown made up of the Ohio Sire Stakes final, the Ohio Fair Stakes and the Ohio Breeders Championship. Her win in the Sire Stakes final in 1:51.2 clinched her a record for a two-year-old on a half-mile track. She crowned her two-year-old season as the 2021 Ohio Two-Year-Old Pacing Filly of the Year. She had other wins in Kentucky in the Bluegrass, was the winner of the Next Generation and was second in the Breeders Crown final.
Sea Silk followed that up with an equally impressive three-year-old season. She swept all four legs of the Ohio Sire Stakes and was second in the Jugette. Ultimately, Sea Silk was on the board 11 times in 14 starts, with eight wins, and she was named the 2022 Ohio Three-Year-Old Filly Pacer of the Year.
Sea Silk has now been retired to Diamond Creek and will be bred to the fully-booked Sweet Lou in 2023.
(With files from Diamond Creek)