Blushing K.D. Update: Blushing K.D.
lost her 3-year battle to survive her severe injuries and
was euthanized on August 5th. She will be
missed... When Blushing K.D. was in the news in 1997, it was
because she was winning stakes races at Oaklawn Park,
Monmouth and Fair Grounds. Her most important victory came
on a dark Friday afternoon in a driving thunderstorm at
Churchill Downs in the Kentucky Oaks (G1) against two other
outstanding fillies at the time, Glitter Woman and Sharp
Cat. Later that summer, while preparing for a start in the
Haskell Invitational against some of the best 3-year-old
males, she fractured both sesamoids in her left foreleg. Blushing K.D. has dealt with an assortment of physical
problems since her untimely retirement. After nearly 3 years
of recovery, she was recently sent to the farm of
veterinarian Bruce Lyle who will oversee the "breeding" of
the mare to the Quarter Horse stallion, Calyx, a son of Dash
for Cash. Because carrying a foal would be too taxing for
her at this point, she will be artificially inseminated and
then the embryo will be removed from Blushing K.D. and
implanted in a surrogate mare. If everything goes well, it
is possible that a future winner of the All American
Futurity will be produced by the winner of the Kentucky
Oaks!