Wasted Tears, trainer Bart Evans’ homebred grade II winner, has been retired from racing to become a broodmare. The 6-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Najran finished fourth in the First Lady Stakes (gr. IT) at Keeneland Oct. 8 in her last start.
Wasted Tears experienced her best season in 2010, winning the John C. Mabee Stakes (gr. IIT), the Jenny Wiley Stakes (gr. IIT), the Ouija Board Distaff Handicap (gr. IIIT), and the Honey Fox Stakes (gr. IIIT). She finished second in that year’s Matriarch Stakes (gr. IT).
Wasted Tears also won the Ouija Board in 2009 and this year, setting a course record in the ’09 running. She was retired with 12 wins from 22 starts and earnings of $941,463.
Out of the stakes-winning Greinton mare Wishes and Roses, Wasted Tears is a half sister to stakes winners Almost Certain and Wishingitwas.
Foaled at the late Bruce Hundley’s Saxony Farm near Lexington, Wasted Tears is boarded at Jeff and Chiquita Reddoch’s Stonehaven Steadings, which is a part of the former Saxony acreage.