3-time Grade 1 turf winner Gufo will start stud career in Canada

Three-time Grade 1 winner Gufo, a 6-year-old, turf specialist who was retired from racing in April, has been sent to Canada to begin a breeding career at Ballycroy Bloodstock, the farm said Friday on social media.

“Excited to bring this multiple Grade 1 winner to the breeders of Ontario,” Ballycroy said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

Daily Racing Form was first to report the story.

The only racehorse owned by Dr. Stephen Cainelli’s Otter Bend Stables, the $220,000 son of Declaration of War out of the Petionville mare Floy was trained by Christopher Clément to a record of 21: 9-4-5, all on turf. Highlighted by wins in the 2020 Belmont Derby Invitational (G1) and in the 2021 and 2022 runnings of the Sword Dancer (G1), Gufo earned $2,176,530 in purse money.

With wins at distances ranging from 1 1/16 to 1 1/2 miles, Gufo has not raced since his seventh-place result in the October 2022 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic (G1). He was retired after what was described by Clement as a setback during the spring.