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Summer Bird

4 year old Colt | Retired
Owner(s):
Kalarikkal K. Jayaraman  -  Dr. V. Devi Jayaraman
Trainer:
Tim A. Ice
Bred:
Kentucky (USA) by K. K. Jayaraman  -  Dr. V. Devi Jayaraman
Pedigree:
Birdstone  -  Hong Kong Squall  by  Summer Squall
Rating:
 
 
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What the Nation is saying about Summer Bird...

The Travers Celebration will return for its tenth year to honor 2009 Travers champion Summer Bird on Thursday, August 26, just two-days before the running of the 141st edition of the Grade 1, $1 million Travers Stakes.   With approximately $100,000 raised each year during the event, the Travers...Read More
Question: What do Curlin, Tiznow, Azeri, Mineshaft and Saint Liam have in common -- besides being named Horse of the Year this past decade?Answer: None of them raced as a 2-year-old.Neither did Zenyatta, Pleasantly Perfect, Bernardini, Rock Hard Ten, Roses in May, Albert the Great, Kona Gold, The Ti...Read More
Ben P. Walden, Jr., owner of Pauls Mill Farm, announced June 7 that Summer Bird will enter stud in 2011 at his farm near Versailles, Ky.Read More
Which running style historically wins the Belmont? Iron Maidens Thoroughbreds takes a look at the last 20 runnings of the Belmont.Read More
Champion Summer Bird, who catapulted to stardom in the 2009 Belmont Stakes (gr. I), has been retired due to complications of a fracture suffered last fall prior to the Japan Cup Dirt (Jpn-I). The son of Birdstone–Hong Kong Squall, by Summer Squall, burst on the scene when he scored an impressive 2 1...Read More
  • arazi · Too bad we won't get to see any more of Summer Bird. Might have been an interesting challenger to Quality Road. · 91 days ago
I just received a breaking news flash by e-mail via Bloodhorse.com that 2009 Belmont Stakes, Travers Stakes, and Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Summer Bird has been officially retired. The article stated that Summer Bird had not improved from the leg fracture he sustained while training for the Japan Cup (Dirt). Summer Bird proved to be one of the tougher 3yr.old's in 2009, and really proved his metal. I was really looking forward, given the way that Quality Road has been racing so far in 2010, to seeing a Summer Bird-Quality Road rematch in either the 2010 Travers Stakes or the 2010 Jockey Club Gold Cup. Or both? Best of luck to Summer Bird in his future endevours in the breeding shed.
With all the hoopla surrounding Zenyatta and Rachel at the end of 2009, and the Triple Crown occupying our thoughts for the first few months of this year, it’s been easy to forget about Summer Bird. Out of sight, out of mind.The champion 3-year-old male from 2009 has been galloping regularly at Dela...Read More
Sweet Life, a daughter of Kris S. who is the dam of champion Sweet Catomine and grade I winner Life Is Sweet, was named Kentucky Broodmare of the Year.Read More
The Florida Derby winner is long on talent and improving; will the lack of a quality juvenile foundation prevent a winning performance? ICE BOX ran the most compelling internal fractions of the Kentucky Derby prep season en route to his 20-1 Florida Derby upset on March 20.Read More
Trainer Tim Ice started his first ever in the Kentucky Derby last year. Summer Bird. He wasn’t a factor but he would come back later in the year to win the Belmont and the Travers and the Jockey Club Gold Cup and be awarded the Eclipse as best 3-year-old in the land. Summer Bird was swept out of his...Read More
Summer Bird, the champion 3-year-old of 2009, has resumed training and jogged Wednesday and Thursday at Oaklawn Park, said his co-owner, K.K. Jayaraman. Summer Bird has been rehabbing from a nondisplaced condylar fracture to his right foreleg, and recently received medical clearance to return to the...Read More
Summer Bird suffered an injury during his sojourn to the Far East, where he was going to race in the Japan Cup Dirt at Hanshin Race Course. The injury was to his right foreleg and a screw was inserted into the affected area to help with the healing process. Apparently, everything is on schedule for ...Read More
Curious trainer change for Summer Bird...
It seems like yesterday when Tim Ice and the Jayaramans were standing in the basement of Belmont Park at their winning press conference where Dr. KKJ was lavishing praise on his trainer. But in the theme of "what have you done for me lately" the Jayaramans relieved Ice of his training duties of 25 h...Read More
Trainer Tim Ice has been informed that he is being relieved of his duties as the trainer of champion Summer Bird as well as 24 other horses owned by K.K. and Vilasini Jayaraman. Ice, who is based at Oaklawn, said the loss of the horses will reduce his stable from 31 head to six. "It puts me almost o...Read More
  • ruby · OUCH! That's tough. Win the Belmont, get a pink slip. Things must have gone wrong in a hurry. · 205 days ago
  • mdracing69 · On top one moment...struggling to stay in the game the next! · 205 days ago
One morning the week of the Kentucky Derby, trainer Tim Ice was asked if he thought the race might be a little ambitious for Summer Bird, who at that point had raced just three times. His career had begun just two months earlier at Oaklawn Park, with a fourth-place finish in a maiden race. Summer Bi...Read More
Just down the road from the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire Hotel, site of tonight’s Eclipse Awards dinner, is beautiful downtown Burbank and the world-famous studio where the “Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” was produced for many wonderful years after Carson and his entourage moved West from New...Read More
Rachel Alexandra’s extraordinary victory in the Grade 1 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga Race Course has been voted by fans as NYRA’s 2009 “Story of the Year.” The victory eclipsed four other compelling tales from New York racing, including jockey Ramon Dominguez’s superlative year and Linda Rice’s hist...Read More
It’s been a month since Belmont/Travers/Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Summer Bird underwent surgery for a nondisplaced fracture of his left fore cannon bone. It will be a whole lot longer until we might get the chance to see him run again.  Read More
  • horses · It's too bad that Summer Bird won't be back until the summer. But it's good news that he's doing well. Interesting that Tim Ice has a half-brother to Summer Bird named Indy Squall in training at the FG. · 240 days ago
“With the close of each racing year comes the interesting problem of the best horse…In past years this was much easier than it is in the present. Today commercialism cuts an important figure, crowding old-fashioned ‘sportsmanship’ to the wall. Horses are no longer raced purely as ‘sport’ much as we ...Read More

Summer Bird - Pedigree

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BirdstoneGrindstoneUnbridled
Buzz My Bell
Dear BirdieStorm Bird
Hush Dear
Hong Kong SquallSummer SquallStorm Bird
Weekend Surprise
Hong Kong JadeAlysheba
Ruby Slippers

Summer Bird - Race Results & Past Performances

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View DetailsView Video11/07/094thSAK Desormeaux91 1/4 mSBreeders' Cup Classic-G103+ MZenyattaGio PontiTwice Over2:00.62
View DetailsView Video10/03/091stBelK Desormeaux101 1/4 mDJockey Club Gold Cup-G103+ MSummer BirdQuality RoadTizway2:02.51
View DetailsView Video08/29/091stSarK Desormeaux111 1/4 mDTravers Stakes-G103 MSummer BirdHold Me BackQuality Road2:02.83
View DetailsView Video08/02/092ndMthK Desormeaux131 1/8 mDHaskell-G103 MRachel AlexandraSummer BirdMunnings1:47.10
View DetailsView Video06/06/091stBelK Desormeaux111 1/2mDBelmont Stakes-G103 MSummer BirdDunkirkMine That Bird2:27.54
View DetailsView Video05/02/096thCDC Rosier111 1/4 mDKentucky Derby-G103 MMine That BirdPioneerof The NileMusket Man2:02.66
View DetailsView Video04/11/093rdOPC Rosier111 1/8 mDArkansas Derby-G203 MPapa ClemOld FashionedSummer Bird1:49.01
View Details03/19/091stOPC Rosier81 1/16 mDMSW03 MSummer BirdLuv GovCarnival Ride1:44.73
View Details03/01/094thOPC Rosier106 fDMSW03 MNemo LandingClassical ClosingBergman1:11.57

 

 

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