Adare Manor is retired, will go through sales ring in November

Adare Manor, who passed $2 million in career earnings last month with her third consecutive win, was retired from racing with the intent to sell her in November at the Fasig-Tipton auction in Kentucky.

Trainer Bob Baffert confirmed the move Thursday morning. It was reported first Wednesday afternoon by Thoroughbred Daily News. Baffert said Adare Manor is retiring healthy, but the timing of the Breeders’ Cup Distaff on Nov. 2 might be too soon for her to be ready.

Before the news broke, Adare Manor was said by the Santa Anita racing office to be a possible starter Sunday in the Zenyatta Stakes (G2), which she won last year. Last month she was the morning-line favorite to defeat males in the Pacific Classic (G1), but Baffert scratched her after she was reported to have tied up two days before the race.

One of the top older females racing in North America, the 5-year-old Uncle Mo mare owned by Michael Lund Petersen won the Grade 1 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes on Aug. 3 at Del Mar, raising her career record to 18: 10-5-0 with earnings of $2,096,600. Eight of her wins came in graded stakes, including top-level victories in the Clement L. Hirsch in 2023 and 2024 and this year’s Apple Blossom Handicap.

Adare Manor was bought as a 2-year-old for $375,000 at a 2021 Ocala Breeders’ Sale auction.