I Want Revenge Dead at 12

[Wandering Eyes]

Grade I winner I Want Revenge (Stephen Got Even-Meguial {Arg}, by Roy) passed away in Indiana Nov. 24, according to owner Jeff Jeans, who recently purchased the stallion for $10,000 at the Keeneland November Sale. According to Jeans, I Want Revenge had a fever of 104 degrees upon arriving to a farm in Indiana and was subsequently treated via intravenous therapy. While Jeans said he showed tangible improvement to the treatment, I Want Revenge’s condition eventually deteriorated once more and he died suddenly Saturday.

“I Want Revenge did not suffer, there were no signs of him thrashing about,”Jeans wrote in a Facebook post. “He simply passed and dropped where he was standing…We were struck by the tremendous presence this horse had, he simply commanded your attention when you saw him.”

Jeans noted that he had to pull a weanling filly from the November Sale due to a virus that led to a fever similar to the one developed by I Want Revenge.

I Want Revenge captured the GI Wood Memorial in dramatic last-to-first fashion as a 3-year-old in 2009–a performance that stamped him as the morning line favorite for the GI Kentucky Derby a month later. He never made the starting gate for the race, however, after an ankle filling necessitated a scratch on the morning of the race. Trained by Rick Dutrow, Jr., I Want Revenge added a pair of graded stakes placings in a career that lasted into his 6-year-old season, but the dark bay never returned to the winner’s circle. He retired in 2012 with a record of 3-3-6 from 14 starts and total earnings of $928,000.

I Want Revenge entered stud at Pauls Mill Farm in 2014 and spent the 2015-2018 seasons at Millenium Farms. I Want Revenge was slated to stand the 2019 season at the Indiana Stallion Station in Anderson, Indiana.

 

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