Career Highlights
- First foal from millionaire Grade I winner Halo
America was a $1.8 million Keeneland
September yearling purchase in 2001 by Demi O’Byrne for Coolmore.
- Marino
Marini won his 2-year-old debut in April at the Curragh and the Sara
Lee Marble Stakes a month later.
- He was also second, defeated less than a length
in the Grade I Phoenix Stakes defeating Storm Cat’s European champion 2-year-old Hold That
Tiger and third in the
Norfolk
Stakes (G3) at Royal Ascot.
- Winner of his first start at 3 in the U.S. at Hollywood
Park, Marino Marini then was second
in a head decision to Southern Image at equal weights in
his dirt debut, the Grade I Malibu
Stakes where he defeated nine graded winners.
- Retired with earnings of $294,384,
Marino Marino earned more than Van
Nistelrooy,
a Group 3 winner and Storm Cat’s most expensive yearling of 2001.
From Storm Cat’s Best 2-year-old Crop
With his 12th crop to the races in 2002, Storm
Cat led North America’s
Juvenile Sire list, and Marino Marini was among the eight 2-year-old
stakes winners to contribute to Storm Cat’s eighth sire title
in eight years. To date this phenomenal crop of 85 foals has produced
two champions, 17 stakes winners and progeny earnings of $9.8 million.
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