by Gunjan Patel, for Hanover Shoe Farms, Inc.

Hanover, PA — Hanover Shoe Farms has announced the birth of the first full brother to 2007’s Horse of the Year and world champion Donato Hanover 3,1:50.1 ($2,998,777). Donato’s dam, D Train, foaled a bay colt by Andover Hall on May 8, 2010, at 4:45 a.m. Both mare and foal are doing well.

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The full brother to Donato Hanover was foaled on May 8, 2010.

“He’s a tall, correct colt that bears a striking resemblance to Donato as a foal except for a few white hairs on his forehead,” commented Farm Manager Dr. Bridgette Jablonsky.

Big brother Donato Hanover was a national season’s leader at two, winning eight of nine starts including a 1:55 mile in the $456,000 Peter Haughton Memorial and finished his freshman season with a victory in the $600,000 Breeders Crown Championship.

At three, Donato led both sophomore and all-age trotters in earnings with $2,336,190 in 13 starts, and trotted the fastest mile of 2007 in 1:50.1, a world record for 3-year-old trotters and equaling the all-age record, at Lexington in the $356,160 Kentucky Futurity Final in which he was a straight heat winner.

Never finishing worse than third in his career, Donato Hanover scored 19 straight victories including the Hambletonian, Canadian Trotting Classic, World Trotting Derby and Stanley Dancer Memorial.

D Train is also the dam of stakes winner Here Comes Herbie 3,1:52 ($365,541). She will be bred to 2009 Horse of the Year Muscle Hill in 2010.