Grade 1 winner Restless Rider retired, will breed with top stallion

Grade 1 winner Restless Rider has retired from racing and will visit leading sire Quality Road, owners Fern Circle Stables and Three Chimneys Farm announced Wednesday.

The 4-year-old daughter of Distorted Humor, out of the Unbridled's Song mare Silky Serenade, tallied $897,160 in earnings having won or placed in seven of nine lifetime starts.

A half-sister to multiple graded stakes winner and sire Private Vow, Restless Rider was trained by Kenny McPeek.

“She’s a really special filly and we’re proud of what she accomplished,” McPeek said. “Fern Circle winning their first Grade 1 while partnering with Three Chimneys team was great. I’m sure she will be a great broodmare as well. Her kind of talent is hard to find.” 

One of the Leading juveniles of her generation, the gray filly at age 2 won the Alcibiades Stakes (G1) and Debutante Stakes in addition to running second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, Spinaway Stakes (G1) and Golden Rod Stakes (G1). She also placed at age 3 in the Ashland Stakes (G1) at Keeneland.

“Restless Rider is representative of what we are looking to do at Three Chimneys -- to race top quality horses with like-minded partners, and to share the ups and downs together," said Three Chimneys chairman Goncalo Torrealba. "We are honored to be partners with Paul Fireman’s Fern Circle Stables and to have won a Grade 1 race like the Alcibiades together.

"She was a top-class filly and an extremely talented 2-year-old. That, coupled with the success Distorted Humor has had as a broodmare sire, makes her a very exciting prospect. We hope the best is yet to come.”