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Blissfull Hall

By Cambest-Hundred Kisses-Abercrombie
p,3, 1:49.2 ($1,468,648)
Bay Horse, foaled March 26, 1996 in Lexington, Kentucky

BlissfullHall

Blissfull Hall with driver Ron Pierce at the Little Brown Jug

As one of the most successful racehorses of the late 1990s, Blissfull Hall is quickly proving that he is able to pass his talents on to his youngsters. This Pacing Triple Crown winner of over $1.4 million followed in the footsteps of his sire Cambest, who also won over $1.4 million during his career on the racetrack. His dam, the Abercrombie mare Hundred Kisses, has produced nine babies, five winners and Blissfull Hall is her second and most successful foal to date. She has also foaled Blissfull Hall's full brother Bradley Hall, p, 4, 1:50.1 ($96,689-a 2004 winner) and his half-brother Hasty Hall (by Jenna's Beach Boy), a winner of $132,269, with a three-year-old mark of 1:54.1. Hundred Kisses was a moderately successful racehorse, winning $143,291 and taking a four-year-old record of 1:52.4.

Blissfull Hall's career was attended to by none other than Ben Wallace throughout the two years that he raced (1998 & 1999) and Ron Pierce was his regular driver for the most part. Blissfull Hall began his career after being purchased for $47,000 by Ecuries DanielPlouffe, Inc, as a yearling, and then began racing in conditioned paces in Canada (in mid-season), winning the $81,130 Champlain Stakes at Woodbine in 1:54 on September 10, 1998 after winning his elimination in 1:53.2 the week prior. He wrapped up his freshman season with $14,829 in earnings with a 4-1-2 record from just eight starts.

At three his career took off as he matured and blossomed into a formitable racing machine. He would go postward a total of 23 times, winning 15 races, with three seconds and four thirds, taking a mark of 1:49.2 at Balmoral Park on July 31, 1999 en route to winning the $238,000 American National Three-Year-Old Colt Pace.

Though Blissfull Hall won his Memadowland's Pace elimination in 1:51.1, he finished a disappointing seventh in the Final, but rebounded to win the American National in his next trip postward, after winning that stakes elimination in 1:51.2. He won his Adios elim in 1:53.1 and was second in the Final of that stake on August 14.

He next won both his Cane elim (in 1:53.4) and the $377,934 Final in 1:51.4 at Freehold Raceway on September 4, 1999 and then scored in the Simcoe Stake at Mohawk in 1:51.2 on September 11, 1999. Later that month he took his Little Brown Jug elimination in 1:53 and then scored in the Final raceoff in 1:55.3, besting Looking For Art, Mystical Shark and Royalflush Hanover in the showdown. He finished third in the Tattersalls on October 7, then won the Messenger elim in 1:51.1 and the $347,760 Final in 1:51.2 by well over three lengths.

Blissfull Hall's next start was in the Breeders Crown elimination at Mohawk on October 23, 1999, which he promptly won in 1:51.2, before finishing third inb the $588,000 Final for three-year-old pacers one week later. He shipped to Dover Downs where he captured his Progress Pace elimination in 1:52, and then finished third in the Final and then ventured to Windsor Raceway where he took his Provincial Cup elim in 1:51.3, winning by eight lenghts. In the $240,000 Final on December 5, 1999 Blissfull looked through the starting gate for the final time and finished a determined second to Royalflush Hanover, pacing in 1:52.4 in frigid weather for Ron Pierce.

Blissfull Hall began his career as a stallion in 2000 at Kentucky's Walnut Hall Farm, the same operation that bred the colt. He was then moved to Pennsylvania in 2001, where he stands today. Blissfull Hall's second crop are three-year-olds in 2004 and to date from 358 foals he's produced 130 starters, 42 of whom have paced faster than 2:00 and ten who have been timed in 1:55 or better--earning $1.7 million.

His best performer to date both by earnings and by record is Camelot Hall, p,3, 1:49, a winner of $696,323.

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