Three Mile Island Passes

It has been announced that Three Mile Island p,2,1:56.2f ($288,079) has passed away at the age of 34.

Alisa Horner, the office manager at White Birch Farms in Allentown, New Jersey stated that Three Mile Island passed away on Saturday, February 2 of natural causes. Horner also stated that the mare didn’t have any health issues prior and still looked great, considering her age.

A bay mare by No Nukes, Three Mile Island was from the Race Time dam Racy Kathy.

Foaled in 1985, Three Mile Island took a two-year-old world record mark of 1:56.2f and earned $288,079 on the racetrack before starting her Hall of Fame career as a broodmare.

From 15 foals, Three Mile Island was a 100 per cent producer whose foals earned over $4.3 million with 12 going over $90,000. Her most notable son was Island Fantasy p,3,1:50.1 ($1,371,525), but she also produced another six sub-1:53 pacers.

Three Mile Island was inducted into the Living Horse Hall of Fame in Goshen as a broodmare in 2001, two years before her sire No Nukes.

Three Mile Island’s page in the Standardbred Old Friends book explains that the mare was named for the worst nuclear disaster in North America.

Three Mile Island’s last foal was born in 2007 and she has lived the last 12 years as a happy retiree at White Birch Farm.

Please join Standardbred Canada in offering condolences to the connections of Three Mile Island.

(With files from White Birch Farms)