Multiple graded stakes winner D’ Funnybone’s first foal arrived on February 5 at Dr. Bernardo Mongil’s Monhill Farm in Pine Plains. The foal, a filly bred by Mike Schrader, is out of Ballado Hill a winning daughter of Saint Ballado and producer of two multiple winners.
A 6-year-old chestnut son of D’wildcat, D’ Funnybone won a pair of Grade 2 sprints at two, taking the Saratoga Special by more than ten lengths and Belmont’s Futurity by nearly five lengths. He followed up at three with victories in the Grade 2 Hutcheson and Grade 2 Swale, both at Gulfstream Park, and, later in the year, posted a three-length win in Belmont’s Grade 2 Woody Stephens, defeating Grade 1-winner Discreetly Mine and others and earning a Beyer Speed Figure of 100. He retired with a record of 6-3-0 from 15 starts and $686,700 in earnings.
Bred in Florida by Harold J. Plumley, D’ Funnybone is out of the Woodman mare Elbow, also the dam of stakes winner and graded stakes-placed Dr. Kathy. He hails from the female family of Grade 1 Top Flight Handicap-winner Chain Bracelet.
D’ Funnybone stands at Vinery New York at Sugar Maple Farm for a 2013 fee of $3,500, LF stands and nurses.
