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Grade I Winner Presious Passion Retired

Chestnut turf specialist made 52 starts and won 14 races, including three grade I stakes.

 Thursday, June 14, 2012
Grade I Winner Presious Passion Retired

Grade I Winner Presious Passion Retired

Chestnut turf specialist made 52 starts and won 14 races, including three grade 1 stakes.

 Thursday, June 14, 2012
Presious Passion Returns at Delaware Park

Presious Passion Returns at Delaware Park

Patricia Generazio's Presious Passion, second in the Emirates Airline Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. IT) at Santa Anita last year, has been entered on the Sept. 22 card at Delaware Park.

 Monday, September 20, 2010
Presious Passion Makes Return to Monmouth

Presious Passion Makes Return to Monmouth

Multiple grade I winner Presious Passion returns to Monmouth Park June 12 to defend his title in the $250,000 Monmouth Stakes (gr. IIIT) on turf.

 Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Presious Passion Leads Sheema Classic Cast

Presious Passion Leads Sheema Classic Cast

Front-running 7-year-old figures to carry them as far as he can in 12-furlong stakes March 27 at Meydan.

 Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Presious Passion Earns Top Florida-Bred Honor

Presious Passion Earns Top Florida-Bred Honor

Presious Passion was the biggest winner during the 50th annual Florida-bred awards banquet March 15. The 7-year-old Royal Anthem gelding was honored as the 2009 Horse of the Year

 Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Presious Passion Fires Again in Mac Diarmida

Presious Passion Fires Again in Mac Diarmida

The turf might not have been as firm as he likes it, but front-running Presious Passion had little trouble handling it in the $150,000 Mac Diarmida Stakes (gr. IIT) at Gulfstream Park Feb. 28.

 Sunday, February 28, 2010
Presious Passion Seeks Repeat in Mac Diarmida

Presious Passion Seeks Repeat in Mac Diarmida

Charismatic 7-year-old gelding Presious Passion attempts to add a repeat win in the $150,000 Mac Diarmida Stakes (gr. IIT) Feb. 28 at Gulfstream Park to his sterling record.

 Thursday, February 25, 2010

Presious Passion After McKnight Threepeat

Veteran campaigners Presious Passion and Cloudy's Knight, a pair of grade I winners who starred in last month's Breeders' Cup races, meet in the $150,000 W.L. McKnight Handicap at Calder.

 Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Presious Passion Parades in Clement Hirsch

Presious Passion Parades in Clement Hirsch

Trainer Mary Hartmann came west looking for firm turf for her star Presious Passion and found what she was looking for. The 6-year-old son of Royal Anthem hooked a paceless field and strolled gate to wire for a 2 1/2-length victory in Oak Tree's $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch Memorial Turf Championship (gr. IIT) at Santa Anita Oct. 11.

 Sunday, October 11, 2009
Presious Passion Tries a Different Hirsch

Presious Passion Tries a Different Hirsch

After heavy rains at Belmont Park forced her to make Presious Passion a late scratch from the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational (gr. IT) Oct. 3 at Belmont Park, trainer Mary Hartmann knew exactly what she had to do. She shipped her multiple grade I-winning 6-year-old cross-country to California where she knew she would find the kind of firm footing her star appreciates for a different Hirsch at Santa Anita Park.

 Thursday, October 08, 2009

Pico Central Notches First Winner

Pico Central, who now stands in Korea, notched his first winner June 19 when the 2-yer-old filly Marquet Madness won the sixth race at Monmouth Park by seven lengths in her first start.

 Friday, June 19, 2009
McKnight: Presious Passion Does It Again

McKnight: Presious Passion Does It Again

Just as he did when taking the United Nations Stakes (gr. IT) in wire-to-wire fashion this summer at Monmouth Park, Patricia Generazio's Presious Passion sprinted to an early lead and never looked back, as the 5-year-old gelding took them all 12 furlongs to win the W.L. McKnight Handicap (gr. IIT) for the second consecutive year Dec. 13 on the Calder Race Course grass.

 Saturday, December 13, 2008
'Passion' Surprises in United Nations

'Passion' Surprises in United Nations

Trainer Mary Hartmann, who has conditioned horses at Monmouth Park for more than a decade, got the biggest win of her career when she saddled Presious Passion for a dramatic front-running upset victory in the $750,000 United Nations Stakes (gr. IT) July 5 at the New Jersey track.

 Saturday, July 05, 2008
Hartmann Has Surprise Element in U.N.

Hartmann Has Surprise Element in U.N.

Trainer Bobby Frankel has the class edge with Southern California invaders Champs Elysees and Sudan, but local hope Presious Passion has the element of surprise in his favor in the $750,000 United Nations Stakes at Monmouth Park July 5.

 Thursday, July 03, 2008
Presious Passion Wires in Pan American

Presious Passion Wires in Pan American

Presious Passion went wire-to-wire in the 12-furlong marathon Pan American April 5 at Gulfstream Park, winning for trainer Mary Hartmann.

 Saturday, April 05, 2008
Presious Passion Shocks in McKnight

Presious Passion Shocks in McKnight

Presious Passion, ridden confidently by Elvis Trujillo, shocked a field of capable distance horses at odds of 67-1 when he scored a 1 1/4-length win in the $200,000 W.L. McKnight Handicap (gr. IIT) on the turf at Calder Race Course Sept. 15.

 Saturday, December 15, 2007

Presious Passion Powers Past Cliff Hanger Rivals

Presious Passion had been completely over-matched in graded stakes company in his last two starts, but he turned that around at Meadowlands the night of Sept. 21, capturing the $150,000 Cliff Hanger (gr. IIIT) on the Big M's turf course.

 Saturday, September 22, 2007

Here and There...

R.D. Williams hits 3,500 winners...Rachel Lavoy out 4-6 weeks...Dogwood Dominion nomination time...Churchill Downs hosts Governor's Scholars...Arlington opens...Taylor Made interns celebrate graduation.

 Tuesday, June 04, 2002

Hartmann Has Trio for Divisions of N.J. Futurity

Trainer Mary Hartmann will have a busy night with her New Jersey-breds at Meadowlands on Friday as she has three entered in both divisions of this year's New Jersey Futurity.

 Wednesday, November 07, 2001