Regional sire and multiple graded stakes winner Blueskiesnrainbows died last week due to complications from colic, according to Bad Boy Racing and Whizway Farms. The son of English Channel was 16.
The late Edward “Ned” Evans bred Blueskiesnrainbows out of the Deputy Minister daughter Cho Cho San, who is out of grade 1-placed, multiple grade 2 winner Dance Colony. Evans sold the colt as a yearling for $33,000 to Whizway Farm during the 2010 Keeneland September Yearling Sale.
Raced in partnership by Stan Whisenant’s Whizway and Kelly Mitchell’s Bad Boy Racing and trained by Bob Baffert, Blueskiesnrainbows became a grade 1-placed, three-time graded stakes winner. He captured the 2012 Swaps Stakes (G2), 2014 San Pasqual Stakes (G2), and the 2013 Native Diver Stakes (G3). He also ran second in the 2013 Breeders’ Cup Marathon (G2) and was third in the 2012 Santa Anita Derby (G1) by half a length behind eventual Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1) winner I’ll Have Another and Creative Cause . Blueskiesnrainbows retired with a 7-3-3 record from 28 starts and earned $672,552.
Blueskiesnrainbows entered stud at Swifty Farms in Indiana in 2016 and then was moved to Mitchell’s Sunlight Farm in Oklahoma starting with the 2019 breeding season. From limited crops, he sired 25 winners led by stakes-placed winner Everything’s Rosy and Rainbows Are Free.
