Bond retired and sold

The ultra-talented trotting mare Bond (Southwind Frank – Boccone Dolce) has been sold and retired, and will head to harness racing’s broodmare ranks for 2025.

Bond banked more than $1.48 million in her 22-race career. She posted a 7-2-0 summary from nine starts as a two-year-old, then sported a 8-2-1 summary from 13 sophomore starts en route to winning the Dan Patch Award as the Three-Year-Old Trotting Filly of the Year in the U.S.

As a two-year-old, Bond triumphed in the Goldsmith Maid and Pennsylvania Sire Stakes Final and her three-year-old wins include Delmonica Hanover, Elegantimage and Breeders Crown, where she set her lifetime mark of 1:51.2.

“As a three-year-old she was the best mare in her crop and I am convinced that she could have beaten the colts that year,” said Åke Svanstedt, who co-owned Bond together with Little E LLC and L Berg Inc. The four-year-old is being sold to Eric Good’s Spring Station Farm in Kentucky where she will begin her new career as a broodmare.

”We are incredibly proud of what she has achieved on the racetracks and want to wish her a successful broodmare career in Kentucky,” continued Svanstedt. “Her caretaker Stine Holm played a big part in Bond’s success, for which we are very grateful and we also want to thank Robert Lindström who managed to put this deal together.”

From Standardbred Canada, with files from worldtrot.se