"He was having trouble standing up to the hot weather in the summers," McIntosh said of the decision to retire the five-year-old horse. "Over the years he's always been a very sound horse, but he almost died as a three-year-old and he had poor health last year.
"I think the health issues and surgeries he's had have held him back."
McIntosh said that he felt a trip to the Delaware County Fair would give the horse a chance to prove himself, and he was right.
On Sept. 21, Cash Hall and his regular driver, John Campbell, broke a 12-year-old record set by Pine Chip with a 1:51.1 mile, setting a new World Record for a trotter on a half-mile track.
"I gave him a rest in the summer and he came back great this fall, and I was thinking of his stud career," McIntosh said of the move to time trial Cash Hall. "I looked up the World Record and I had trialled him in 1:53.4 last year so I wanted to try for it."
A son of Self Possessed-Chatty Hanover, Cash Hall retires with 11 career wins and $622,803 in career earnings for McIntosh and co-owners CSX Stables of Liberty Centre, Ohio, Michael Kohler of Sterling Heights, Michigan, and Cash Hall Stable of Lexington, Kentucky.
Courtesy of Standardbred Canada