First Donato Hanover Full Brother Hits Ground

Hanover Shoe Farms today announced the birth of the first full brother to 2007 U.S. Horse of the Year and World Champion Donato Hanover

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'Donato’s dam, D Train, foaled a bay colt by Andover Hall on Saturday, May 8 at 4:45 a.m. Both mare and foal are doing well.

“He’s a tall, correct colt that bears a striking resemblance to Donato as a foal except for a few white hairs on his forehead,” commented Hanover Shoe Farms Farm Manager Dr. Bridgette Jablonsky.

Big brother Donato Hanover was a national season’s leader at two, as he won eight of nine starts, including a 1:55 mile in the $465,000 Peter Haughton Memorial. He finished his freshman season with a victory in the $600,000 Breeders Crown.

At three, Donato led sophomore and all age trotters by money winnings with $2,352,190 earned in 13 starts, and trotted the fastest mile of 2007 in 1:50.1, a World Record for three-year-old trotters and equalling the all-age record, at Lexington, in the $356,160 final of the Kentucky Futurity, in which he was a straight-heat winner.

Never finishing worse than third in his career, Donato Hanover scored 19 straight lifetime victories including the Hambletonian, Canadian Trotting Classic, World Trotting Derby and Stanley Dancer Memorial.

D Train will be bred to 2009 Horse of the Year Muscle Hill in 2010.

(With files from Hanover Shoe Farms)