Dam Rondonia Foaled 1997 Colour Bay Parents Dynaformer Earnings 1.355 million USD | Damsire Monteverdi Country United States Species Equus caballus Sex Gelding Grandsire Roberto | |
Breeder Richard & Nathan Fox / Richard Kaster | ||
Mcdynamo 2013 national museum of racing hall of fame inductee
McDynamo is a thoroughbred gelding (who was born in 1997) who is a five-time winner of the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Grand National Steeplechase at the Far Hills Races and a three-time honoree with the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Steeplechase horse. McDynamo was sired by Dynaformer.
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History
Owner Michael Moran bought McDynamo for $82,000 at the Keeneland yearling sale in September 1998.
As a three-year-old, McDynamo came in seventh at the Pimlico Race Course in May 2000 in his debut race. He won his next start at Pimlico at 1½-miles, but had just two more starts before being sidelined for a year after surgery to remove a hind ankle chip. He won only one of five races as a four-year-old. After unsuccessful efforts at Saratoga Race Course (ridden by Pat Day) and Belmont Park, Moran turned McDynamo to Sanna Hendriks, who specializes in training steeplechasers. McDynamo won his first jump race by 4¼-lengths at Far Hills Races on October 20, 2001.
The 2004 running of the Grade 1 $175,000 Breeders' Cup Steeplechase saw McDynamo, then a 7-year-old gelding coming back for his first race in 11 months after recovering from hock surgery, win the race for a second consecutive year, defeating Hirapour by 1½ lengths in a finishing time of 5:06.8. The race covered a 2⅝-mile distance and jumps over 14 fences. The crowd was estimated at 45,000.
The 2007 running saw McDynamo running for a fifth consecutive title, one of nine horses running for the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Grand National, with a purse of $300,000. At the age of 10, McDynamo was the oldest of 43 horses competing at Far Hills that day. All starters in the race carried 156 pounds.
McDynamo was named Eclipse Award for Outstanding Steeplechase horse in 2003, 2005 and 2006. He was an Eclipse Award finalist every year from 2002 to 2007, and won at least one Grade 1 steeplechase race in each of those seasons. He was retired from racing at the end of 2007.
In 2013, McDynamo was inducted into the National Museum of Racing & Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, NY.
McDynamo holds the current U.S. Steeplechase record for earnings with $1,310,104.