Win Approval (29 January 1992 – 19 July 2021) was an American

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racehorse and "Blue Hen"

broodmare A mare is an adult female horse or other equine. In most cases, a mare is a female horse over the age of three, and a filly is a female horse three and younger. In Thoroughbred horse racing, a mare is defined as a female horse more than four ...

. She was the daughter of

With Approval With Approval (May 9, 1986 – June 21, 2010) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Canadian Triple Crown in 1989 under jockey Don Seymour. Even though he missed the rest of his three-year-old season due to injury, he was named the ...

, who was the winner of the

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and a Champion turf racer. She had an unremarkable racing career, running for her breeder between 1994 and 1996. After her retirement from racing, she became an exceptional broodmare, producing four

graded stakes race A graded stakes race is a thoroughbred horse race in the United States that meets the criteria of the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA). A specific grade level (I, II, III or listed) is then ...

winners from ten foals. Her progeny earned $8,936,808. She was named the

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Broodmare of the Year for 2017. She was euthanized at age 29 in 2021.

Notable Progeny

Eight of Win Approval's foals would be winners. Her 1998 foal, Stakes winner Revved Up, would retire at 11 with $1,548,653 in earnings. Her 1999 foal, the multi-millionaire

Miesque's Approval Miesque's Approval (foaled March 3, 1999 in Florida) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2006 Breeders' Cup Mile and was voted that year's American Champion Male Turf Horse. He was bred and raced by Charlotte Weber's Live Oak Planta ...

won the Breeders Cup Mile. Her 2008 foal, Za Approval earned $1,394,666 and was second in the Breeders' Cup Mile to two-time Horse of the Year

Wise Dan Wise Dan (foaled February 20, 2007) is a champion American Hall of Fame and Canadian Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse. He is the first horse to win the same three Eclipse Awards in consecutive years, having been named American Horse of the ...

. Her final foal

World Approval World Approval (foaled February 23, 2012) is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 2017 Breeders' Cup Mile. A minor stakes winner at age three, he won his first Grade I race at age four in the United Nations Stake ...

, born in 2012, would win both the Breeders' Cup Mile and

Woodbine Mile The Woodbine Mile is a Grade I stakes race on turf for Thoroughbred racehorses three years old and up held annually in mid September at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Canada. Currently sponsored by Ricoh, the Woodbine Mile offers a purse of Can$1, ...

Personality

The manager of the Live Oak Stud, Bruce Hill, described her temperament: "She's very independent. She's happier when you give her her feed and keep going, but she's not difficult." He went on to say, "You could probably breed anything to her and she would get you a racehorse. All of her foals are geldings for a reason, they're quite independent like her. They are not necessarily cooperative all of the time, they'll prop and spin and buck. They aren't easy to ride, they're not run offs but the jocks have their hands full that's for sure, and they earn every penny when they get on them." Trainer Mark E. Casse described the half-brothers Za Approval and World Approval more bluntly, "People ask if he's like (his multiple graded stakes-winning half brother) Za Approval and I'm like 'Yeah, they're both mean.'" Both Za Approval and World Approval raced as geldings due to their difficult dispositions.

References

{{reflist 1992 racehorse births 2021 racehorse deaths Blue Hen Broodmare