Mr. Buff makes it look easy in Saginaw Stakes

By Sarah Mace

Mr. Buff, a third generation homebred for Chester and Mary Broman through the male line, made winning Sunday’s $100,000 Saginaw Stakes for older New York-breds look like a walk in the park. Leading a field of five through temperate fractions, the big chestnut gelding prevailed over four rivals in the 1 1/16-miles contest by 6 1/4 lengths geared down.

Last fall and winter 5-year-old Mr. Buff attained peak form for trainer John Kimmel, stringing together four straight wins between November and January, including victories in the Alex M. Robb on December 29 and open Jazil Stakes, which he won by 5 1/4 lengths on January 26. To Mr. Buff’s connections, it seemed like the time was ripe to test graded waters. Making the trip to the Big Easy with jockey Junior Alvarado, who was aboard for the Jazil win, Mr. Buff gave the Grade 2 New Orleans Handicap a try, but it was not his day and he was eased out of the race.

Two months later Mr. Buff proved that his New Orleans performance was, for all practical purposes, a toss-out. Returning on May 27, for a highly competitive renewal of the Commentator Stakes for state-breds, he set a testing pace and hung tough to finish a close third behind Pat On the Back, a talented horse in career form, and Giant Expectations, who has spent his career contesting, and in some cases winning, graded stakes.

Drawn at the rail and the odds-on betting favorite, Mr. Buff did not have the smoothest of breaks in the Saginaw, stutter-stepping when the gate opened and needing a few strides to get his feet properly underneath him.

Once up to cruising speed, Mr. Buff quickly took over the top spot from Sea Foam, who got the jump on the field at the bell. Setting moderate early fractions of 24.03, 47:66 and 1:11.15, he led Sea Foam in the two-path by a length and Mo Diddley, who pursued three-wide.

Just in advance of the quarter pole Sea Foam got within three-quarters of a length of Mr. Buff, but the pacesetter wasn’t having any of it.

Mr. Buff widened his lead to around eight lengths in the stretch before cruising across the finish-line geared down to win by 6 1/4 lengths in a final time of 1:41.21.

Dynamax Prime, the most likely horse on paper to have had first run on the leader, closed from a tracking fourth to get second, 2 3/4 lengths ahead of Sea Foam in third. Completing the order of finish were Twisted Tom and Mo Diddley. Runaway Lute was scratched. [VIDEO REPLAY[3]]

Alvarado had the tale to tell of an ideal outing. “He’s a big horse that likes to be on the lead. He’s a fighter,” the jockey said. “Today, he got the lead and we were able to control the race the way we wanted to. From the three-eighths pole, I knew how much horse I had. When I started to feel Sea Foam coming at me, I just let him get loose. At that point, I knew I still had a lot of horse.”

Kimmel seconded Alvarado’s account. “He’s big. He’s 17.2 hands and probably every bit of 1,100 pounds. He’s just a big, strong horse and has some natural talent. Today, he laid over that group of horses. Junior said he lost a little bit of focus turning for home because there was nobody near him. Junior asked him to get going and I think if he had felt a little bit of pressure, he had a lot more in the tank.”

Kimmel has by no means ruled out a return to graded company in the future for Mr. Buff. Quite the contrary.

“It was a good effort and it sets him up well,” he said. “One of these days, he’s going to show up on a big race day – maybe the [Grade 1, $1 million] Whitney [on August 3]. He loves two-turn races and he’s run very well at Saratoga. So, we might show up there.”

The Saginaw was Mr. Buff third stakes win and ninth career victory in 29 starts. A consistent check-collector with six additional runner-up finishes and four thirds, he has earned $623,786.

Mr. Buff’s sire is Chester and Mary Broman’s homebred multiple stakes winning homebred Friend or Foe, who is, in turn, a son of Friends Lake, their homebred graded stakes winner who took them to the Kentucky Derby in 2004  after winning the Florida Derby. Mr. Buff’s pedigree page speaks volumes about the couple’s breeding program.

Historically, the Bromans have also periodically injected new blood into their broodmare band, and Mr. Buff’s dam Speightful Affair is no exception. A graded stakes placed Ontario-bred by Speightstown, Speightful Affair was purchased by the couple for $80,000 at the Fasig-Tipton 2013 winter mixed sale.

In 2018 Speightful Affair produced a full sister to Mr. Buff. Unfortunately, her 2019 foal by Friend or Foe, who stands at Smallwood Farm in Virginia, was stillborn.

 

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2019/06/30/mr-buff-saginaw/

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Diversify to spend retirement at Old Friends Equine

(Courtesy NYRA Communications)

Ralph and Lauren Evans’ recently retired two-time Grade 1 winning New York-bred Diversify is on his way to Old Friends Equine, a Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance-accredited facility in Kentucky.

Originally trained by the late Rick Violette, Jr., who died in October 2018, Diversify was transferred to the care of Jonathan Thomas to prepare for his 2019 campaign. After incurring a suspensory injury earlier this month, the decision was made to retire the $1.9 million earner.

Old Friends was created in 2003 by Michael Blowen, a former movie critic for the Boston Globe and lifelong racing fan, who oversees the farm in Georgetown, Kentucky where fans are welcome to interact and visit with retired stars of racing.

“Michael Blowen and Mr. Evans got together and the decision was made for him to go to Old Friends and live out his life in the spotlight,” said Thomas. “It’s a tremendous facility and Mr. Blowen has done incredible things with allowing fans to have access to these star horses. I think it’s also really good for the horses. Diversify is a horse that loves attention and being acknowledged. This is the beginning of a new story for him.”

Old Friends also has a facility in Cabin Creek, in Greenfield Center in upstate New York, which is home to a number of retired New York stars including 1996 Travers winner Will’s Way.

Blowen said he is hoping to launch a second New York facility soon within ten minutes of downtown Saratoga Springs, which could be headlined by Diversify who was a wire-to-wire winner of the Grade 1, $1.2 million Whitney Handicap last year at Saratoga Race Course.

“If we can get the money together, I would like to name the location after Rick Violette the way we named the farm in Greenfield Center at Cabin Creek after Bobby Frankel. Rick and I used to talk about aftercare all the time and he was an avid supporter of looking after horses when they were done racing. It would be an honor to name the new place after him,” said Blowen. “We already have King Kreesa, Lubash and Kharafa and of course Commentator. We have all these great New York-breds and it will be so great to show them off.”

Diversify, voted the 2018 New York-bred Horse of the Year, will leave for Kentucky on Thursday afternoon.

“If I can’t get a horse to the racetrack healthy and sound, my ultimate job is to make sure that the horse retires sound and can go live out his life the right way,” said Thomas. “This game is cool for a lot of reasons but the fact that someone is doing this kind of thing with these horses is awesome. In what other sport can you go and shake hands with the stars?”

For more information on Old Friends, visit https://www.oldfriendsequine.org[2].

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2019/06/27/diversify-old-friends-equine/

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Hot Diggitty up just in time to capture Ontario County Stakes

By Sarah Mace

Under a perfectly-timed ride by Reylu Gutierrez, Hobby Horse Stables’ Hot Diggitty just got up in time to win the 2019 renewal of the $50,000 Ontario County Stakes for New York-bred 3-year-olds at Finger Lakes Monday. The black-type score made it back-to-back victories for the gelded son of Frost Giant, who broke his maiden on at Belmont on May 4.

Trained by Jeremiah Englehart, Hot Diggitty ran three times as a juvenile in state-bred maiden special weight company downstate. He finished a closing third and closing second in October and November at Belmont before winding up the year with a clunker at Aqueduct on November 30.

Clearly profiting from his winter break, Hot Diggitty returned for his first start as a 3-year-old on May 4 to come from well off the pace to break his maiden over off going, earning a career high Beyer Speed Figure of 73. Englehart then gave Hot Diggitty seven weeks and a work over the Farmington oval in preparation for his stakes debut.

Third choice of seven at odds of 5-1, Hot Diggitty exited post five cleanly and settled near the back of the tightly-packed group as the sophomores traveled up the backstretch. Up front, 49-1 longshot Empiremeister was first out of the gate, but immediately passed to his inside by 1-5 favorite Freudnme, whose unbeaten record was on the line in his fourth career start.

Three-wide entering the turn and making his way closer to fence in the bend, Hot Diggitty advanced into fifth and was clearly on the move. Angling out into the clear for the stretch run, he had three to pass as Freudnme still led the group into the final furlong. Freudnme was now tiring and Hot Diggitty was finding his best stride.

Roaring past his rivals in the final sixteenth, Hot Diggitty crossed the finish line to win by three-quarters of a length. Freudnme held second, a keeping head in front of Empiremeister, who outran his odds to get third. After early fractions of 22.58 and 46.10, the final time for six furlongs over the fast going was 1:11.80. [VIDEO REPLAY[2]]

Bred Hobby Horse Stables in partnership with John P. Hicks, Hot Diggitty is the first foal out of Hot Splash, a NYSS stakes-placed daughter of Grade 1 winner Sunriver whose stud career in New York was unfortunately cut short by a heart attack after two seasons.

Hot Splash graduated to broodmare duty with earnings of over $230,000 in 25 starts. She currently has a juvenile filly by Gemologist named Darcy’s Gem, and an unnamed yearling colt by Micromanage. She foaled a filly by Keen Ice on April 11, 2019.

From two wins and a pair of seconds in five starts, Hot Diggitty has earned $73,650.

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2019/06/24/hot-diggitty-ontario-county-stakes/

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Confidently-spotted maiden Rinaldi delivers for team Bond in NYSS Spectacular Bid

By Sarah Mace

The only non-winner in the field of nine sophomores signed up for the $150,000 Spectacular Bid Division of the New York Stallion Stakes (NYSS), Rinaldi broke his maiden with flair when he scored a convincing three-quarter-length win in the 7-furlong turf stakes in his second career start.

A keen-eyed Jimmy Bond, who owns and trains the gelded son of former New York sire Posse, picked him out as weanling at the Fasig-Tipton New York fall mixed sale in Saratoga for only $5,000. Rinaldi has now earned $91,140.

When Rinaldi was unveiled at Belmont just 17 days ago, the bay gelding was able to recover nicely after being pinched back at the break and finished third, 1 3/4 lengths behind the winner at longshot odds of 29-1 going six furlongs on the grass. Given his maiden status and relative lack of experience, bettors also kept him at relative arm’s length in the Spectacular Bid, letting him go at 10-1.

Off to a good start from post five under Luis Saez, Rinaldi settled in second at the flank of pacesetter Thorny Tale, pressing the leader through early splits of 22.58 and 45.73.

Shadowing Thorny Tale through the turn, Rinaldi engaged him fully in upper stretch, dueled and got past with a little more than a furlong to go.

Digging in to preserve the lead, Rinaldi crossed the finish line three-quarters of a length ahead of NYSS Times Square winner Funny Guy (Big Brown), stopping the clock in a sharp 1:21.30. Thorny Tale hung on for third another 2 1/2 lengths back, followed by Smooth Tales, who completed the superfecta. [VIDEO REPLAY[3]]

Said Saez, who also had the call for Rinadi’s debut, “It was amazing. He broke so sharp and he was way better in the clear. When we came into the straightaway, I was asking pretty hard, and he responded.”

A little more than an hour before post time, the complexion of the Spectacular Bid got a makeover when Linda Rice scratched morning line favorite Blindwillie McTell. The three-time stakes winner on dirt was slated to make his turf debut in the race, but Rice’s Newly Minted, who outworked Blindwillie McTell on grass when preparing for her own grass debut, could do no better than third in the NYSS Cupecoy’s Joy three races earlier. The conditioner opted to wait and fight another day – on dirt.

Bred by Barry Ostrager, Rinaldi is one of six winners from eight foals to start out of Kentucky-bred mare Dynamite Cocktail, a six-figure earner by Dynaformer. She has produced two other stakes horses, led by Hollinger (Black Minnaloushe), 2009 Sovereign Award Champion 2-year-old colt and earner of over $700,000. Rinaldi is Dynamite Cocktail’s last reported foal.

Posse, who stood at Rockridge Stud in Hudson and shuttled to Haras Rapetti in Uruguay, stood his final season in New York in 2016 before relocating permanently to the Southern Hemisphere.

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2019/06/23/rinaldi-n-nyss-spectacular-bid/

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Kid Is Frosty takes to the grass in NYSS Cupecoy’s Joy

By Sarah Mace

Kelly Mitchell’s Kid Is Frosty gave New York sire Frost Giant[2] the bragging rights for this year’s Cupecoy’s Joy, the filly division of a pair of $150,000 New York Stallion Stakes (NYSS) for eligible New York-sired 3-year olds co-featured at Belmont Park on Sunday.

Rallying in the stretch to capture the 7-furlong turf contest at odds of 6-1, the chestnut aced her grass debut while tacking on an extra half-furlong to her longest previous distance.

As has become familiar in recent years, ambitious New York-sired sophomores of all stripes – including maidens and dirt runners – will throw their hats in the ring for this pair of NYSS races. The lucrative purse is a draw, as is the opportunity to experiment with a grass start before Saratoga. Kid Is Frosty was one of four horses in the field of seven trying turf for the first time.

The most seasoned of the group, Kid Is Frosty had never missed the board in in seven prior starts, with one win, four seconds and two thirds. She also posted a pair of half-mile works on the grass in preparation, including a bullet move on June 9.

Forwardly placed after the bell, Kid Is Frosty raced inside in the early stages, a length behind longshot pacesetter Parton (Honorable Dillon) through a quarter in 23.15 and a half in 46.69. Undefeated 3-5 favorite Newly Minted (Central Banker), also debuting on turf and sporting a bullet work on the green, chased another length back in third.

[3]Kid Is Frosty switched out a path in the turn, hooked up directly with Parton and straightened away for the stretch drive in the lead, while Newly Minted inherited second and Niko’s Dream (Central Banker), who broke her maiden on turf at a mile last out on May 19, rallied from five lengths back into third.

Kid Is Frosty kicked away to a 2 1/2-length lead, but had to dig in late to turn back pressure from Niko’s Dream before crossing the finish line a neck to the good in a strong final time of 1:21.49. Newly Minted had to settle for third in her first taste of defeat, while Plink Freud completed the superfecta. Next in order were Sterling Beauty, Parton and Sweet Meadow Mist. [VIDEO REPLAY[4]]

Irad Ortiz, Jr., who also had the call from trainer Brad Cox for Kid Is Frosty’s runner-up finish in the NYSS Park Avenue two starts back, reported, “I got a good feeling about her on the grass. I rode her one time before and she was going so comfortable and showed so can do it on dirt, so I thought she’d be all right on the turf.

“[Brad Cox] has been working her here and saying she’s been doing fine on the grass, so I rode her with confidence. She’s good. She always tries. On dirt, she couldn’t really show what she has. She improved, but on the turf, she improved a lot.”

Bred by Bad Boy Racing, Kid Is Frosty is the first foal out of Murmure, a placed runner by Lemon Drop Kid who last changed hands at public auction when purchased for $20,000 at the 2015 Keeneland November sale by Cecil Seaman. Her most recent reported foal is a 2-year-old full to Kid Is Frosty sister named She’s Grrreat.

Frost Giant, currently fourth in the New York sire rankings, stands for a 2019 stud fee of $2,500 at Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions[5] LLC in Stillwater.

Cupecoy’s Joy was the second New York-bred in the modern era (following the lead of Fio Rito) to win a Grade 1 contest, taking the Acorn Stakes in 1982. In her next start she won the Grade 1 Mother Goose.

 

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2019/06/23/kid-is-frosty-cupecoys-joy/

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Miss Lily B wins one for the home team in Niagara Stakes

By Sarah Mace

The field of six lined up for Finger Lakes’ $50,000 Niagara Stakes Monday was equally divided between NYRA invaders and Finger Lakes-based runners. Of the players for the home team, Ronald A. Brown’s homebred Miss Lily B appeared to have the most upside on paper and did not disappoint, scoring a dominant victory in the annual six-furlong sprint for New York-bred 3-year-old fillies.

The luck of the draw landed the NYRA shippers in posts 1-3. Lined up from the rail out were Franklin Square winner Stonesintheroad, Elegant Zip with placings in four New York-bred stakes and Cartwheelin Lulu, winner of the Joseph A. Gimma. Of the three, only “Lulu” had a prior start over the racetrack, having broken her maiden at first asking in Farmington last August.

Exiting posts 4-6 were the locals: Twice For Honey, looking for a third career victory but with ground to make up in the Beyer department, eventual winner Miss Lily B, and stakes-placed Wait a Minute.

A chestnut daughter of Yes It’s True and never out of the exacta in seven prior starts for trainer Chris Englehart, Miss Lily B. was the clear third choice in the betting at 5-1 behind odds-on favorite Stonesintheroad and 9-5 Elegant Zip. The lightbulb seems to have come on for this filly in her final start of 2018, when she broke her maiden on November 28 following four runner-up efforts. She came into her stakes debut undefeated in two 2019 allowance starts, which she won by a combined nine lengths.

Miss Lily B showed her hand under John Davila immediately after the bell, charging to the front and opening up a length. Cartwheelin Lulu then charged up the inside to issue a challenge, and the pair hooked up through snappy quarter in 22.18.

Miss Lily B easily turned back her challenger by the approach to the far turn and regained a clear lead by the time the half ticked by in 45.66.

As Miss Lily B straightened away for the dash home, expanding her lead the whole time, it was immediately clear that no rival was close enough to pose a threat. Instead the battle was going to be for second among Elegant Zip at the rail, Cartwheelin Lulu in the two-path and Stonesintheroad three-wide.

Miss Lily B poured it on in the stretch, cruising under the wire to win by 7 1/4 lengths and stopping the clock over the fast going in a strong final time of 1:10.63.

Favorite Stonesintheroad out-finished Cartwheelin Lulu to claim second by 1/2 length, while Elegant Zip followed up 2 3/4 lengths further back. Wait a Minute and Twice for Honey completed the order of finish. [VIDEO REPLAY[2]]

Miss Lily B, who has earned $84,220 from four firsts and four seconds in eight starts, is the only foal produced by Magnificent Mia, a Kentucky-bred 7-time winner by Jump Start whom Brown campaigned for four seasons. Brown purchased Magnificent Mia for $14,500 at the 2008 Fasig-Tipton October yearling sale.

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2019/06/17/miss-lily-b-niagara-stakes/

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Late bloomer Gucci Factor wins Grade 3 Poker in style

By Sarah Mace

Following a protracted (and certainly, for the connections, anxious) wait for the results of a five-horse photo-finish from the placing judges, Castleton Lyons’ New York-bred Gucci Factor emerged as the winner of the Grade 3, $300,000 Poker Stakes featured at Belmont Sunday.

Taking his third trip to the winner’s circle in a row, the late-blooming 6-year-old son of Gio Ponti fully ratified his first stakes victory 20 days ago in the Kingston Stakes for New York-breds, and considerably upped the ante by winning his graded stakes debut.

Partnered with Joel Rosario to go a mile over the firm Widener turf, Gucci Factor had good support at the betting windows as the 5-1 third choice in a deep field. Favorite Clyde’s Image (9-5) and second choice Dr. Edgar (3-1) book-ended the group of eight. Gucci Factor was drawn in post four, but for the late runner, post position would not be an issue.

Gucci Factor and Rosario watched the early stages of the race unfold from second-to-last position, cruising comfortably in the clear just off the rail about eight lengths off the pace. Up front Dr. Edgar took the group through splits of 23.71 and 46.68, a length ahead of Krampus and Clyde’s Image.

Around the far turn, Gucci Factor came out a path and began his bid in earnest, while up front Dr. Edgar issued a direct challenge to Clyde’s Image.

Fanning out widest of all at the quarter pole as the six furlongs ticked by in 1:10.44, Gucci Factor made up ground in upper stretch. At the furlong marker he still had five to pass, chief among them Clyde’s Image, who was edging ahead.

Driving to the wire widest of five and ultimately moving best of the closers, Gucci Factor and got the bob in a speedy final time of 1:32.54.

The final order of finish for the quintet lined up across the track was: Gucci Factor, Hembree, Krampus, Dr. Edgar and Clyde’s Image, with official margins of nose, nose, nose and nose. In the final strides Clyde’s Image lost position after taking a bad step. Placed under a protective hold, the favorite was pulled up after the wire and vanned off. The preliminarily diagnosis as reported from trainer Tom Bush’s barn was a tendon injury. [VIDEO REPLAY[2]]

Quipping that Gucci Factor might have blossomed earlier “with a better trainer,” Christophe Clement said, “He’s a nice horse that has never stopped improving. Of the five horses at the end, they all finished about a neck apart. It was a pretty good race. We’re very grateful [to] the owners. Castleton Lyons were patient with this horse.”

Continued Clement, “You could see he was coming with run toward the wire and watching Joel [Rosario] not having to use his whip. You know he thought he was going to get there. A very tight race and they all ran well.”

Rosario reported, “[Gucci Factor] was trying really hard and running at the end, I’m just glad we got close at the wire. He showed a lot of heart. He’s there for you all the time. He’s a real honest horse. He just loves to run. I thought he got the jump in the last minute, but I wasn’t sure.”

Gucci Factor has quietly compiled an impressive resume over four campaigns. A winner of seven of his 14 career starts, he worked steadily thorough his New York-bred and open conditions, after breaking his maiden in his fourth attempt at Belmont in June 2017. Although he has five dirt starts under his belt, the gelding has really come into his own as a full-time turf runner, winning five of six races on the green since last June. In his first foray into black type territory, he finished third in last year’s Ashley T. Cole for state-breds at Belmont Park. The Poker victory brings Gucci Factor’s earnings to $443,450.

Clement concluded, “He loves Belmont Park and he never stopped getting better. It’s nice when the patience pays off. He’s also a son of Gio Ponti, which is always fun.” Clement trained Gio Ponti to back-to-back Eclipse turf championships in 2009 and 2010 for Castleton Lyons, before the turf superstar was retired to stud duty with $6.1-million in earnings.

Bred by Highclere and foaled at Waldorf Farm in N. Chatham, Gucci Factor is out of Shoo In, an unraced Highclere-bred daughter of Dynaformer who has produced five winners from five foals to start. In addition to budding star Gucci Factor, her Ichiban Warrior (First Samurai) is stakes placed. Her most recent reported foal was in 2015

 

 

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2019/06/16/gucci-factor-wins-grade-3-poker/

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Multiple Grade 1 winner and New York-Bred HOY Diversify retired at 6

Courtesy DRF.com (By Mike Welsch)

Owner Ralph Evans announced Sunday that his two-time Grade 1-winning [and 2018 New York-bred Horse of the Year] Diversify has been retired after coming out of a workout Saturday at Belmont Park with a suspensory injury.

Diversify was owned by Evans and his daughter Lauren, who purchased the horse from WinStar Farm at the 2016 Keeneland November sale for $210,000 after he had opened his career with a pair of one-sided victories that season at Belmont. A 6-year-old gelded son of Bellamy Road, Diversify retires with 10 wins in 16 starts and earnings of just under $2 million.

His Grade 1 victories came in the 2017 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park and the 2018 Whitney at Saratoga.

Diversify was trained by the late Rick Violette and made his final start last September, finishing fifth in the Jockey Club Gold Cup. He was turned out on the farm following Violette’s death shortly thereafter and was transferred to trainer Jonathan Thomas to train for his 2019 campaign.

“He had a suspensory issue that we’ve had to deal with,” said Ralph Evans. “But it’s been a great ride a million-dollar ride. Diversify was the first horse my daughter ever owned; now she’s hooked for life. He won some of the biggest races around, and I am delighted we were able to win a second Grade 1 before Rick passed away last year. The horse meant a great deal not only to us but to Rick and his family as well.”

Diversify worked five furlongs in 1:02 in company with 2018 Travers winner Catholic Boy on Saturday.

“I thought he worked very well, and he came back from the work completely sound,” Thomas said. “But I discovered some inflammation different from the norm when I went back to check him yesterday afternoon. It was a recurrence of an old injury. You could press on, but it wouldn’t be fair to bring this horse back in any way other than the best shape possible.

“As his trainer, I want to assure he retires sound and has a happy life. Even though I didn’t get to run him, it was a real privilege to have a horse like him in our barn and to work for a man like Mr. Evans, who really spared no time or expense in trying to bring this horse back in the best way possible.”

Melissa Cohen served as Violette’s assistant throughout Diversify’s career and now works for Thomas. Upon the announcement of Diversify’s retirement, she said, “This horse did more for so many people when we needed it the most, I could never be upset about a happy retirement.”

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2019/06/16/diversify-retired-at-6/

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