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Brody's Cause (foaled March 17, 2013) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He has won
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races at two and three years of age and was regarded as a contender for the
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. After finishing unplaced on his debut he won a
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and then took the Grade I
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before finishing third in the
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. In 2016 he ran poorly in the
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before taking the
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Background

Brody's Cause is a bay horse with a white blaze and three white
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bred in Kentucky by William Arvin Jr., Gabriel Duignan & Petaluma Bloodstock. He was sired by
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, who was the
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in 2000 and later won three sires' championships in North America. His other good winners have included
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,
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,
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,
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and
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. Brody's Cause's dam Sweet Breanna showed good racing form in her native Canada, winning three times and being placed in the La Lorgnette Stakes and the
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. She was a female-line descendant of
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's grand-dam Imperatrice. In September 2014 the
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was consigned to the
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sale and was bought for $350,000 by
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and Susan Albaugh's Albaugh Family Stable. The colt was sent into training with
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.


Racing career


2015: two-year-old career

Brody's Cause began his racing career in a one-mile
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at
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on August 1 when he was well supported in the betting but finished eighth of the ten runners behind One Legend. On September 11 the colt started favorite for another maiden over the same distance at
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. Ridden by Emmanuel Esuivel he started steadily before making his challenge on the wide outside entering the straight. He took the lead in the last hundred yards and won by one and a quarter lengths from Conquest. Three weeks after his win at Churchill Downs, Brody's Cause was stepped up sharply in class for the
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Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland, a race which saw
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take over as his jockey.
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winner
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started favorite with Brody's Cause being made the 11.8/1 sixth-choice in an eleven-runner field. Racing on a muddy track, Brody's Cause was restrained by Lanerie in the early stages before making progress on the outside in the stretch. He overhauled Exaggerator in the final strides and won by a length. Lanerie commented "I think the sky is the limit for him. Just the way he does things, he does it so easy", while Romans described the winner as "just a damn good horse". On his final appearance as a two-year-old Brody's Cause started second favorite for the
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at Keeneland on October 31. After racing towards the rear of the fourteen runner field before making steady progress in the straight to finish third behind
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and Swipe.


2016: three-year-old career

On March 12, 2016 Brody's Cause began his second season in the
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a Grade II trial race for the
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run over furlongs at
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. He was made the 2.3/1 favorite but after being bumped at the start he finished seventh of the nine runners behind the
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-trained Destin.
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took over from Lanerie when Brody's Cause returned to Grade I class for the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland on April 9. He started the 4.2/1 second favorite behind the
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runner-up Zulu, with the best of the other twelve runners appearing to be the Chad Brown-trained My Man Sam and the Romans stable's other runner Cherry Wine. Brody's Cause was held up as usual as the outsider Laoban set the early pace, before making strong progress on the outside approaching the final turn. He maintained his run into the stretch, took the lead a furlong out and won by lengths from My Man Sam, with Cherry Wine a head away in third. After the race Romans described the winner as "a prototype Derby horse". On May 7 Brody's Cause was one of twenty colts to contest the
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. Although he had been regarded as a leading contender in the build-up to the race his odds drifted badly on the day and he started a 24.9/1 outsider. He raced wide for most of the way and made some progress in the closing stages but never looked likely to challenge the leaders and finished seventh behind Nyquist.


Stud career

Brody's Cause entered stud in 2017 at
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Notable progeny

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, g =
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Pedigree

* Brody's Cause is
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3x4 to Roberto, meaning that the stallion appears in both the third and fourth generations of his pedigree.


References

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