I'll Get Along (foaled March 11, 1992, in

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) is a

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by champion sprinter

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and out of the stakes-winning

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mare Don't Worry Bout Me, tracing to the ,

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. She was selected and purchased for Roy and Patricia Chapman by trainer Bob Camac for $40,000 at the 1993 Keeneland September yearling sale. Trained by Camac, I'll Get along was a stakes winner of $277,009 but is best known as a broodmare through her mating to

Elusive Quality Elusive Quality (January 27, 1993 – March 14, 2018) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was a record-setting sprinter on the racetrack and the leading sire in North America of 2004. He sired the 2004 Kentucky Derby winner Smarty Jones. ...

that produced

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, the 2004

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and

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winner who was voted

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honors. In 2004, I'll Get Along was sold for $5,000,000 to Gaines-Gentry Thoroughbreds, then in foal with an Elusive Quality filly. At

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, she was bred to Champion sire,

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. She has since produced a second stakes winner, the turf sprinter filly Smartys Emperoress by Holy Roman Emperor.

Progeny

* Be Happy My Love (PA), 1999 filly by Formal Gold; *

(PA), 2001 colt by Elusive Quality; * Sippin' Bourbon (FL), 2003 colt by Hennessy - shipped to Australia; * Speedy Jones (FL), 2004 colt by Orientate; * Elusive Moment (KY), 2005 filly by Elusive Quality; * Maytide (IRE), 2006 colt by Sadler's Wells; * Attractive (IRE), 2007 filly by Sadler's Wells; * Smartys Emperoress (KY), 2008 filly by Holy Roman Emperor; * Gointobegone (KY), 2009 filly by Smart Strike; * Cuadrante (KY), 2010 colt by Henrythenavigator

References

I'll Get Along's pedigree plus photo
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