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Owner: Calumet Farm
Bio: Patch is owned by Calumet Farm which is based in Lexington, Kentucky. The farm purchased his mother, Windyindy, when she was still carrying Patch. According to the Kentucky Derby, they purchased her for $180,000 at the 2013 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. She gave birth to Patch on March 18, 2014. He was named Patch well before he lost his eye. It was a nod to his father, Union Rags. Calumet farm manager Eddie Kane explained they tried to salvage his eye but were unsuccessful. “As a two-year-old, he developed an ulcer that would not clear up even with the best of care, so they had to remove the eye,” Kane told the Kentucky Derby. Pletcher has admitted that no one would know he was missing an eye just by watching him run. "If you watched him train and didn't know that he had one eye, there’s no indication of him doing anything peculiar in his training or in his races that would make you concerned about the one eye," Pletcher told the USA Today. (Getty)
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Patch: Photos of the One-Eyed Horse, Jockey & Trainer