Welcome to the Millennium Minute. We want to thank mare owners for supporting our stallions during the 2008 breeding season. It has been an exciting spring at Millennium, with Student Council winning the Pimlico Special (G1) and Scrimshaw and Even The Score siring their first winners. Shaniko's first foals arrived, and Will He Shine bred a full book in his first season at stud.
With summer here, we look forward to Student Council's next start this Saturday in the $750,000 Hollywood Gold Cup (G1). Now a Grade 1 winner on dirt and synthetic surfaces, the son of Kingmambo takes on Heatseeker in search of his third Grade 1 victory.
For details on Student Council's Pimlico Special win and Scrimshaw's first winner, please read on! Thank you for your interest in Millennium Farms, and for further information on our stallions, services or racing stable, please visit www.millenniumfarms.com.
STUDENT COUNCIL WINS PIMLICO SPECIAL
 Millennium Farms’ STUDENT COUNCIL rallied 5 wide from off the pace in the mud to win the grade I Pimlico Special. He has now scored Grade 1 wins on Polytrack and on dirt.
With Shaun Bridgmohan riding for trainer Steve Asmussen, Student Council was last early, but gradually moved up on the outside on the backstretch and finished with determination to prevail.
Bridgmohan said he had watched earlier races on the program and was hopeful the Special would set up for late runners. He never had ridden Student Council in a race. “I had seen him run, and I didn’t want to take him out of his game,” Bridgmohan said. “Around the (final) turn, I had so much horse. He was asking me to give him somewhere to go.”
Ro Parra, who owns Millennium Farms near Lexington, said Student Council’s trip to Japan last fall for the group I Japan Cup dirt may have been a mistake; he checked in eighth. Parra said the trip took something out of Student Council, who needed a lot of time to recover. Parra said Asmussen had him ready. “Steve was pretty confident the horse would run big,” Parra said.
EVEN THE SCORE SIRES FIRST WINNER
Lexington, KY - June 26, 2008
Millennium Farms freshman stallion Even The Score, a multiple Grade 2 stakes winner of $751,629, sired his first winner today when two-year-old filly Enjoy The Score won a $23,000 maiden special weight race at Louisiana Downs.
Bred in Louisiana by Millennium Farms, Enjoy The Score is out of the Distorted Humor mare Time to Enjoy. The filly scored by 2 1/4 lengths for owners Jerry Hardin and Dwight Fugate; Hardin is the trainer. Enjoy The Score ran five furlongs in :59.28.
Even The Score is by Unbridled's Song, out of Ashtabula by Rahy. He is the leading money winner at stud by Unbridled's Song. Durable and sound, he won or placed in 19 of 29 starts. He stands at Millennium for a fee of $7,500.
As a six-year-old in 2004, Even The Score won the Californian Stakes and Mervyn Leroy Handicap, both Grade 2 events, and was third as favorite in the Grade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup.
SCRIMSHAW SIRES FIRST WINNER
Ravin Maniac is first winner for Scrimshaw. Ravin Maniac shook free in the stretch of the sixth race on Sunday at Arlington Park to post a 1 1/4-length win under Tim Thornton and become the first career winner for classic-placed freshman sire Scrimshaw.
After a third-place finish in her career debut on April 30 at Hollywood Park, Ravin Maniac pressed the pace in the 4 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race and seized command on the turn en route to a victory in :52.27 for trainer Larry Rivelli, who co-owns the dark bay or brown filly with Richard Ravin. Ravin Maniac is out of the winning Boston Harbor mare Radcliffe Yard.
Scrimshaw, an eight-year-old by Gulch out of the winning Sham mare Rogue Girl, stands for $3,500 at Millennium Farms in Lexington. A half brother to stakes winner Vogue Girl, Scrimshaw has 76 two-year-olds in his first crop.
Scrimshaw won four of 13 career starts and earned $461,842 in three seasons. He won the Coolmore Lexington Stakes (G2) at Keeneland Race Course in 2003 and finished third that year in the Preakness Stakes (G1).
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