Again-to-back Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Dash (G1) winner Groupie Doll has been retired from broodmare duties at Whisper Hill Farm, in line with the farm’s Fb web page.
Identified for her pace and coronary heart, Groupie Doll gained 12 of her 23 profession begins, amassing earnings of $2,648,850 beneath the tutelage of coach William “Buff” Bradley, and was named Eclipse Award champion feminine sprinter in 2012 and 2013. She contested the Cigar Mile Handicap (G1) in opposition to males twice in 2012-13, together with her finest effort coming in 2012 when she completed a nostril behind a number of grade 1 winner Keep Thirsty .
Following her second Breeders’ Cup win, Groupie Doll was bought by Mandy Pope’s Whisper Hill Farm for $3.1 million on the 2013 Keeneland November Breeding Inventory Sale. She made two begins for Pope, going out on a excessive be aware with a victory within the 2014 Hurricane Bertie Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream Park.
Groupie Doll’s degree of expertise on the racetrack has not transferred but to her offspring. From seven foals of racing age, she produced 4 winners, however no stakes winners so far. Her first foal Tapability , a gelding by Tapit , broke his maiden by 9 lengths in 2019 at Gulfstream. She was barren in 2021-22, and her final foal got here in 2024, a filly by Jackie’s Warrior , who’s unraced.
In 2015, Ellis Park renamed the Gardenia Stakes in Groupie Doll’s honor, and the 1-mile race is now generally known as the Groupie Doll Stakes. She gained the Gardenia Stakes (G3) in 2011.
Groupie Doll has appeared on the Nationwide Museum of Racing and Corridor of Fame poll the previous two years, however has not been voted in.
