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Purchased in 1982 as a $7,000 yearling, Garland Lobell won 14 of 63 starts, finishing no worse than third in 36 races, and earning a lifetime total of $345,689. His stakes record time of 1:55.3 came in the first heat of the 1984 Kentucky Futurity which he won by four lengths.

Garland Lobell’s stud career began in Quebec in 1986, and by the time his third crop of two-year-olds had reached the track his position as the top sire in that province had been established. The earnings of 87 foals from his last Canadian-bred crop (1995) totaled nearly $5.7 million.

Garland Lobell was paired with maiden mare Amour Angus for the first time in May of 1991. Their first foal was Emilie Cas El (3,1:57.1f, $245,199), Canada’s 1994 O’Brien Awards Horse of the Year. The couple also produced the brothers Conway Hall (3,1:53.4, $818,884), Angus Hall (3,1:54.3, $830,654) and Andover Hall (3,1:51.3, $870,510), who proved to be great sires in their own right, producing total foal earnings between them of more than $102 million. Garland Lobell and Amour Angus’ sister Canne Angus produced his richest foal, Cameron Hall (4,1:53.4s, $1,816,236).

As a broodmare sire, Garland Lobell has 276 2:00 and 31 1:55 credits, with 127 $100,000 winners, and earnings over $43 million. He was grandsire to the winners of three Hambletonians, two Kentucky Futurities and three World Trotting Derbies.

Garland Lobell currently ranks as the fourth leading moneywinning trotting sire of all time, with total foal earnings of over $50 million. He is also listed as the fourth leading all-time trotting sire of $100,000 winners (158). He was inducted into the Canadian Harness Racing Hall of Fame in 2005 and his offspring include 609 starters of racing age and have earned more than $46 million.