According to NTRA, Asi Siempre has been retired and will be sold. Mind you she’s not injured…

“She is not injured, just aging a bit,” said Biancone. “We have some very good young fillies coming up behind her. She was an unbelievable mare for us.”

She’s 5. So I guess age double standards for females exist for race horses too, unless there really is some difference in how mares age compared to horses (is there?). Admittedly she hasn’t had a good year, however I’ll miss her and wish she was going to be around longer.

Check out her gutsy run in last year’s BC Distaff… she’s the grey. She gets bottled up and steadied in the backstretch, gets bottled up again behind a wall of horses in the stretch, goes about 5 wide and THEN literally pushes her way through to go past the wall of horses and closes for 2nd.

Sorry about that YouTube video… didn’t realize that annoying overdub carried all the way through until I got home.