SLM SNOWMAN EUTHANIZED

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GRADE 1 WINNER SLM SNOWMAN DIES

June 28, 2007 – Grade 1 winner SLM Snowman was euthanized on May 27 due to complications from lamintis. He was 7.

Bred by Lindsey Mitchell and her late husband, Steve, SLM Snowman raced from 2002-06 and earned $544,988 from 11 wins in 27 starts. The gelding by champion This Snow Is Royal won six stakes, including the 2004 MBNA America Challenge Championship (G1) at Sam Houston Race Park. He also was a two-time winner of the Grade 2 MBNA America Central Challenge at Prairie Meadows, and he currently holds the 440-yard track record at the Iowa track.


SLM Snowman made his last start in the $150,510 Remington Park Invitational Championship on June 4, 2006. The gelding won the race against a field that included 2005 world champion DM Shicago, reigning champion aged stallion Country Chicks Man, Grade 1 winner and 440-yard world record holder A Long Goodbye and Grade 1 winner This Snow Is Cold.


“We weren’t planning to race him this year,” said Mitchell from her home in Athens, Texas. “Toward the beginning of the year we were hoping he would recover from his laminitis, but he turned 7 this year and we just wanted him home. He was a great horse, and he had a great personality.”


SLM Snowman was one of three starters foaled by the Windy Rac N Frac, a winning daughter of the Pass ’Em Up (TB) stallion Racin Free. Now 14, Windy Rac N Frac is a half sister to 1997-98 world champion SLM Big Daddy. By Michael Cusortelli.