Shooting Star Thorpedo Anna Retires From Racing
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Thorpedo Anna #6 with Brian Hernandez riding won the $1,000,000 Grade I Cotillion Stakes at Parx Racing in Bensalem, PA on September 21, 2024. Second was Gun Song #7 with John Velazquez. Photo by Bill Denver/EQUI-PHOTO. Bill Denver/EQUI-PHOTO Johnny made a record, went straight up to number one. Suddenly everyone loved to hear him sing his song. Watching the world go by, surprising it goes so fast, Johnny looked around and said hey I made the big time at last. Don’t you know that you are a shooting star? And all the world love you just as long as you are a shooting star. Thorpedo Anna does not exactly fit the bill of the subject of that Bad Company song, but we can make a few parallels. The world of Thoroughbred racing features performers that normally don’t stick around a real long time. As fans, we enjoy them while we can because we understand age, injury, and the lure of the breeding shed will take them all too soon. Some of these equine athletes shine much brighter than others, and Thorpedo Anna was absolutely a Haley’s Comet horse. Winning the 2024 Kentucky Oaks launched Thorpedo Anna into the national spotlight. Ashley Phillips Trained by Kenny McPeek, this daughter of Fast Anna broke her maiden at first asking by 8 ½ lengths at Keeneland on October 26, 2023. From there, this granddaughter of Uncle Mo won five of her next six starts including the 2024 Kentucky Oaks, Acorn Stakes, and Coaching Club American Oaks, which are all grade 1 races. After losing by a flaring nostril to the boys in the Travers Stakes, she closed the year with wins in the grade 1 Cotillion Stakes and a powerful front-running score in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff. Those five wins and a second…
