Thoroughbreds

Gun Salute Wins Four Stakes Races, Topped by Grade I Secretariat Stakes Triumph

Gun Salute’s three-year-old campaign featured four stakes wins, including most notably a Grade I victory. He “ran the table” by collecting victories at all three levels of graded stakes competition, along with a listed stakes win, and was widely recognized as one of the top three-year-old turf colts in America. In the Secretariat Stakes (G.1) at Chicago’s Arlington Park, he drew off impressively to post a 1 3⁄4-length victory against a premier international group of three-year-old turf horses. His winning Beyer Speed Figure of 107 was the highest posted in the U.S. by any three-year-old colt on the turf in 2005. His other wins included the American Derby (G.2), the Hawthorne Derby (G.3), and the Forerunner Stakes at Keeneland. He also carried the Laue Ranch colors in the 2005 Breeders’ Cup at Belmont Park. Gun Salute is a Kentucky homebred son of the Danzig stallion Military and is out of the Laue Ranch broodmare Hail Roberta (by Roberto). He was trained by Bill Mott and ridden by Cornelio Velasquez. His lifetime record is 36 starts, eight wins, three seconds, and six thirds, with purse earnings of $829,118. Gun Salute is enjoying retirement at the Ranch.

Cayuga’s Waters: Stakes Winner & Foundation Broodmare

Cayuga’s Waters won a prestigious New York stakes race, along with three other events, as a three-year-old. The versatile filly was a winner and stakes performer on both dirt and turf. Her biggest win came in the Pebbles Stakes, run at one mile on the dirt at Belmont Park. She also ran second by a nose in Belmont’s Jena Jena Stakes, run at 1 1/16 miles on the turf. Perhaps her most visually impressive victory was in a 1 ⅛ mile allowance at Saratoga, where she prevailed by 10 ½ lengths over a rain-soaked dirt track with the announcer exclaiming “Jerry Bailey is just along for the ride!” Cayuga’s Waters is a New York-bred daughter of the Danzig stallion Langfuhr and is out of the Apalachee mare Tomahawkstress. She was trained by Bill Mott and ridden by Jerry Bailey. Her lifetime record is 18 starts, four wins, three seconds, and one third, with purse earnings of $194,422.

As a broodmare, Cayuga’s Waters has become the cornerstone of the Laue Ranch breeding program. Her first foal, Cascadilla Falls (E Dubai), won the Lucy Scribner Stakes at Saratoga. Her second foal, Glorious View (Pleasant Tap), won the Vagrancy (G.2) at Belmont Park, and her son Highball (Lemon Drop Kid) was Grade 3 placed. Her offspring have also been popular in the sales ring: A colt sold for $250,000 at Keeneland, and fillies sold for $235,000 and $210,0000 at Saratoga. Four daughters have been retained as Laue Ranch broodmares. And as recently as 2024, we have three granddaughters in training.