Out with Octave

Dappled out and lighter in color from her racing days, millionaire Octave resides at Darley’s Gainsborough Farm near Versailles, Ky.
"Octave is low maintenance,” said Broodmare Manager Gary Harlow. “Easy to care for and mild tempered.”

Below, Octave at Keeneland in 2007.

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Photos below, Octave at Darley's Gainsborough Farm in September 2010.

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The multiple grade I winner closed out her career with a third-place finish in the Oct. 27, 2007, Emirates Airline Breeders' Cup Distaff (gr. I). She is a full or half-sister to three stakes winners, including grade II winner Belle Cherie (dam of stakes winner Last Best Place by Gone West.)

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The gray millionaire daughter of Unbridled's Song--Belle Nuit (by Dr. Carter) was purchased as a 3-year-old for $4 million by John Ferguson on behalf of Shaikh Mohammed’s Darley in 2007 at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November mixed sale. Octave was bred by Mr. and Mrs. Martin Wygod.
 
Octave has a 2010 weanling colt by A.P. Indy and she is in foal to Bernardini.

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