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Dam of Distinction Fortune Of Delight Dead at 26
Dam of Distinction Fortune Of Delight has died.

Photo Courtesy Eaves Family Partnership
Dam of Distinction Fortune Of Delight Dead at 26

By Andrea Caudill

Q-RACING JOURNAL—MAY 26, 2015—Dam of Distinction Fortune Of Delight died May 26 at the age of 26.

Bred by champion owner Mrs. Gwendolyn Eaves and owned by Eaves Horses Family Ltd. Partnership, Fortune Of Delight was a bay daughter of Six Fortunes out of the Reb’s Policy (TB) mare Our Third Delight.

Our Third Delight was herself a dam of distinction, producing the likes of champions Dean Miracle and Tres Seis. Fortune Of Delight, like her brothers, was fast on the track. She won or placed in 25 of 35 career starts and earned $100,269. She won the 1992 El Tesoro de Oro Derby, and placed in both the Grade 1 Rainbow Silver Cup and World’s Championship Classic. She placed in a total of seven stakes and equaled The Downs at Albuquerque’s 350-yard track record, and was named the New Mexico Hi-Point 3-Year-Old Filly in 1992 and Hi-Point Aged Mare in 1993. She was also awarded the Superior Race Horse award in 1993.

Fortune Of Delight would go on to rival her mother’s prowess as a broodmare. She has to date produced 14 winners from 17 starters, with progeny earnings of more than $2.7 million. She has produced five stakes winners, lead by champions A Delightful Dasher ($1,660,525) and Hes My Dasher ($576,250). A Delightful Dasher provided the family with an All American Futurity win in 1999. Her other stakes winners include A Delightful Legacy ($179,153), Buckshot Delight ($119,682) and Indeed A Delight ($48,947), as well as stakes-placed runners A Fortunate Choice ($65,848) and Fortune Pending ($6,267).

She has an unstarted 2-year-old by Wave Carver named Conspicuous.

Fortune Of Delight was honored as the sport’s broodmare of the year in 1999, and named a dam of distinction in 2006.

Daughter A Delightful Legacy carries on her dam and granddam’s habits, as she is the mother to champion and sire Inseperable ($672,756), stakes winners Seperate Interest ($424,216) and Tell Of The Past ($62,408), and stakes-placed runners Jess Before Dawn ($152,328) and Teller No Lies ($103,932).

“Today we said our goodbyes to Fortune Of Delight,” Meredith Copeland wrote. “Allen, Mimi Cate and I laid our hands on her as she passed away peacefully. ‘Fortune’ was my grandmother, Gwendolyn Eaves’, most beloved broodmare.”

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