Fairface Gets A New Lease on Life in a Stall Named for Ben Massam

In 2019, the TDN suffered an unimaginable loss with the passing of our News & Features Editor Ben Massam. In trying to find a way to honor his memory while doing some good for the industry he loved, we settled upon the Sponsor a Stall program at New Vocations. There, horses get a safe place to live while the organization retrains them for a second career, and family and friends can ensure their loved ones are remembered.

There was every reason to believe that Fairface, now living in Ben's stall at New Vocations, would thrive at the racetrack. A son of the perennial leading sire Tapit, he was bred by Wertheimer et Frere, who paid $3.1 million for his dam, the Storm Cat mare Honest Pursuit, at the 2009 Keeneland November sale. Honest Pursuit was bred by Juddmonte Farms, and his full-sister is the graded stakes placed Amertume.

He was sent to Todd Pletcher, but when he hadn't made it to the races by the beginning of his four-year-old year, the decision was made to send him to New Vocations.

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