Marley Vale, Pico Teneriffe Retired

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Graded stakes-winning distaffers Marley Vale and Pico Teneriffe have been retired from racing, according to owner Eugene Melnyk. Marley Vale, whose big win came in the 1999 Test Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga, will be bred to A.P. Indy, and Pico Teneriffe will visit the court of Danzig.

Bred by Fawn Leap Farm, Marley Vale (Forty Niner -- Waggley, by Hagley) won six of 17 races and earned $569,502. Pico Teneriffe, who was bred by Robert and Albert Clay, captured three graded stakes. A daughter of Red Ransom out of the Mr. Prospector mare Ballerina Princess, Pico Teneriffe won six of 22 races and earned $583,648. The two 5-year-old mares were trained by Todd Pletcher.

Melnyk also announced that his horses primarily will be quartered at Woodbine, where they will be trained by Phil England. "The outstanding purses and stakes at Woodbine have lured my stable back to Canada," Melnyk said. Melnyk is a Canadian citizen who lives in Barbados.

"Phil England will have a stable of 30-40 of our horses," Melynk said. "Todd remains our primary trainer in New York. He'll have Graeme Hall (a grade II winner) and his promising half-sister Harmony Lodge and a draught of some of our top yearlings. Mike Hushion will also have horses in New York. Josie Carroll and Ron Burke will train some of our horses at Woodbine this summer."

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