Multiple grades stakes winner and millionaire Trinniberg died recently at Haras San Miguel Queguay in Uruguay according to a report by Turf Diario Aug. 5. The 16-year-old son of Teuflesberg won the 2012 Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) at Santa Anita Park for trainer Shivananda Parbhoo and owner Sherry Parbhoo. He was subsequently crowned Eclipse champion sprinter that year.
Trinniberg was bred in Kentucky by J M Stables who sold him as a yearling for just $1,500 at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearling Sale. He was picked up the following year by his trainer Parbhoo for $21,000 at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training. He went on to win five of his 18 starts, four of them in graded stakes company.
Although a sprinter, Trinniberg qualified for the 2012 Kentucky Derby (G1) during the era when graded earnings, regardless of distance, determined eligibility. He pressed the leader Bodemeister through six furlongs in 1:09.80 and faded to finish 17th, 31 1/2 lengths behind the winner I'll Have Another. Trinniberg retired in 2013 with earnings in excess of $1.5 million.
After standing at Rockridge Stud near Hudson, N.Y., from 2014-19, Trinniberg was purchased by a coalition of South American breeders, including Haras La Concordia, Haras San Miguel Queguay, and BGC Thoroughbred Stud in a deal brokered by Ricardo Colombo.
Although he struggled to attract quality mares in the United States, he was well received in South America. He was named Uruguay's leading sire in 2021, the same year his 2-year-old Nopaya Naa was crowned the country's champion juvenile filly.
