Red Oak Stable homebred Unbridled Mo (Uncle Mo–Unbridled Waters, by Unbridled), winner of this year's GI Apple Blossom H., has been retired from racing and will join her owner's broodmare band based at Darby Dan Farm.
“Unbridled Mo did not bounce back the way we anticipated after her last start in the GII Delaware H. July 14,” Red Oak Stable's Racing and Operations manager Rick Sacco explained. “The entire [Red Oak] program was on display at a national level. We raised Unbridled Mo, broke her, sent her to the races, and freshened her every year before she went back to the track. She was an honest and consistent race horse who won graded stakes races at three, four and five.”
Trained by Todd Pletcher, Unbridled Mo won the 2016 GIII Monmouth Oaks and the 2017 GIII Houston Ladies Classic and GIII Doubledogdare S. She defeated champion Unique Bella (Tapit) by 2 1/4 lengths in the Apr. 13 Apple Blossom before a third-place effort in the June 9 GI Ogden Phipps S. The 5-year-old mare concluded her racing career with a fifth-place effort in the Delaware H. On the board in eight of 12 starts, Unbridled Mo retires with seven wins and earnings of $1,067,880.
“Unbridled Mo will always have a special place in my heart,” said Red Oak Farm owner Stephen Brunetti, who added he had travelled the country with his late father, Hialeah Park owner John Brunetti, Jr., to watch the mare race.
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