Graded Winner Richly Blended Retired

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Raymond Dweck's Richly Blended, who won a pair of grade III stakes this year, has been retired from racing after suffering a stress fracture of his right front cannon bone. The 3-year-old colt suffered the mishap during a workout Aug. 4 at Monmonth Park in preparation for the Aug. 25 King's Bishop Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga.

Richly Blended is recuperating at Dweck's Jones Anderson Farm in New Jersey. No decision has been reached as to where he will enter stud. In what turned out to be his final start, Richly Blended set the pace in the Preakness Stakes (gr. I), but weakened and finished unplaced.

Trained by Ben Perkins Jr., Richly Blended (Rizzi--Valid Blend, by Valid Appeal) started off by winning his first start by 15 lengths. He then won an allowance race, then the Gotham Stakes (gr. III). After a third-place finish in the Wood Memorial Stakes (gr. II) behind Congaree and Monarchos, he took the Withers Stakes (gr. III) two weeks before the Preakness. Richly Blended, who was bred by Harry Mangurian's Mockingbird Farm, retires with four wins from six starts and earnings of $323,280.

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