Hold Me Back

Giant's Causeway - Restraint, by Unbridled's Song, 2006 DKB/BR
Fee: $6,000 S&N | Entered Stud: 2011 Submit Mare

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Hold Me Back - Winstar Farm

He Did Not Hold Back… priced so you won’t either

Multiple Grade 1 three-year-old Hold Me Back is one of the most promising sons of Giant’s Causeway to enter stud.

The multiple Graded stakes winner of $872,610 won his first two starts at two on the main track, a debut maiden special weight and a Keeneland allowance. He later:

Won $500,000 Lane’s End S. (G2) at 9 furlongs in his 3-year-old debut
Won $187,000 Dominion Day S. (G3) at 10 furlongs
Ran 2nd $1,000,000 Travers S. (G1) on the dirt, defeating Quality Road
Ran 2nd $750,000 Blue Grass S. (G1)

Hall of Fame horseman Bill Mott said admiringly of Hold Me Back, “Standing every bit of 16.3, he is a very fluid mover and an imposing individual. He is versatile and ran in all of the big races, including a great Travers run.”

Hold Me Back is by two-time U.S. Champion Sire Giant’s Causeway, and out of a daughter of two-time Champion Avowal. He stood his first season in 2011, and was bred to 100 mares. His first foals arrive in 2012.

Age	Starts	1st (SW)	2nd (sp)	3rd (sp)	Earning
2	3	2	0	0	$55,274
3	6	1 (1)	2 (2)	0	$655,100
4	5	1 (1)	1	0	$162,236
	14	4 (2)	3 (2)	0	$872,610

(RI: 20.13)
(3, 9f, Career best Rag# 5)

At 2:

1st An allowance (Kee, 8.5f, 1:44, by 2 lengths),
A maiden special weight (AP, 8.5f, 1:45:19).

At 3:

1st Lane's End S.-G2 (watch video) (view chart) ($500,000, TP, 9fAW, 1:49.63, dftd. Flying Private, Proceed Bee),
2nd Travers S.-G1 (watch video) (view chart) ($1,000,000, Sar, to Summer Bird, dftd. Quality Road),
Blue Grass S.-G1 ( Rag# 5) ($750,000, Kee, to General Quarters, dftd. Massone).

At 4:

1st Dominion Day H.-G3 (watch video) (view chart) ($216.400, WO, 10fAW, 2:03.65, dftd. Pool Play, Southdale).

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Generational Pedigree

GIANTS CAUSEWAY (USA) ch. 1997 [C]	STORM CAT (USA) br. 1983	STORM BIRD (CAN) b. 1978	NORTHERN DANCER (CAN)	b. 1961 [BC]
			SOUTH OCEAN (CAN)	b. 1967 *
		TERLINGUA (USA) ch. 1976	SECRETARIAT (USA)	ch. 1970 [IC]
			CRIMSON SAINT (USA)	ch. 1969 *
	MARIAH'S STORM (USA) b. 1991	RAHY (USA) ch. 1985	BLUSHING GROOM (FR)	ch. 1974 [BC]
			GLORIOUS SONG (CAN)	b. 1976
		IMMENSE (USA) b. 1979	ROBERTO (USA)	b. 1969 [C]
			IMSODEAR (USA)	b. 1967 *
RESTRAINT (USA) gr/r. 1998	UNBRIDLEDS SONG (USA) gr/r. 1993	UNBRIDLED (USA) b. 1987 [BI]	FAPPIANO (USA)	b. 1977 [IC]
			GANA FACIL (USA)	ch. 1981
		TROLLEY SONG (USA) gr. 1983	CARO (IRE)	gr. 1967 [IC]
			LUCKY SPELL (USA)	b. 1971
	AVOWAL (CAN) dkb/br. 1979	L'ENJOLEUR (CAN) b. 1972	BUCKPASSER (USA)	b. 1963 [C]
			FANFRELUCHE (CAN)	b. 1967
		WELL IN HAND (USA) b. 1963	BOLD RULER (USA)	br. 1954 [BI]
			BULL POISE (USA)	b. 1948