Champion Whitmore may have retired, but he was in the Breeders’ Cup action on November 5 at Keeneland However.
The 2020 Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) winner did mounting work for NBC’s Donna Barton Brothers when she interviewed Irad Ortiz Jr. when he returned from winning the Qatar Racing Breeders’ Cup Sprint aboard Juddmonte’s Elite power .
“So Whitmore, being a champion like him, showed up when I really needed him, which was the post-race interview with Irad Ortiz after he won the Sprint,” Brothers said. “Before the race, he was a little nervous. He was standing there with a few other ponies but when those horses walked and the wind blew, he did a kind of presentation walk at the time. that point. But he did as well as you might expect him to and he performed like a true champion for the post-race interview.”
Retired from racing at the end of 2021 after hitting a 15-13-5 record and earning $4.5 million for coach Ron Moquett, who owns him in partnership with Robert LaPenta and Head of Plains Partners , Whitmore trained with Laura Moquett to pursue a second career as a bonding hobby.
He competed on 15 October in the competitive track division of the Retired Racehorse Project Thoroughbred Shedding Competition, the largest thoroughbred retraining competition in the world for Thoroughbred racehorses.
