Grannys Connection in the winner’s circle after taking the Union Avenue (Susie Raisher)
NYRA Press Office
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.— Trainer Tom Morley reported that stakes-winning New York-bred Grannys Connection has been retired.
Owned by Orpen Horses, Jack Hardin Towell, Jr. and Alan Griffin, Grannys Connection was last seen posting a 1 1/2-length stakes triumph in the Union Avenue on August 11 going six furlongs at Saratoga Race Course. The bay daughter of Connect will go out with a 7-5-2-0 record, posting open-lengths triumphs at Aqueduct Racetrack over the winter before defeating open allowance optional claiming company at Monmouth Park. She finished a close second in the Dancin Renee on June 25 at Belmont Park.
“She’s not hurt, but she had some minor skeletal changes on x-ray after her last race,” Morley said. “She’s accomplished everything we could have possibly asked of her. Erring on the side of caution, she’s been retired. She’s in Kentucky at her owner’s farm in a paddock. I am thrilled for her that she went out on the note she went out on. Obviously, a little sad that we don’t get to carry on our journey together, but she’s been a superstar for the barn, and I wish her all the luck in the world in having her babies.”
Grannys Connection, bred in the Empire State by the late Paul Pompa, Jr., is out of the six-time winning Old Fashioned mare Grannys Drink and was purchased for $57,000 at the 2022 OBS March Sale. She retired with earnings of $268,050.
