2004 Trotter of the Year dies at age 7 UPPER FREEHOLD - Triple Crown winner Windsong's Legacy, the Trotter of the Year in 2004, died from severe bleeding in his lungs March 1 at Perretti Farms in Cream Ridge. The 7-year-old horse was in the midst of his fourth breeding season. His first foals are scheduled to race this spring. "He was being collected when he keeled over," Perretti Farms spokesman Bob Marks said. The horse was transported to New Bolton at the University of Pennsylvania for an autopsy, which determined that he died from respiratory severe hyperemia, hemorrhage and lung edema. "His passing is a great loss to New Jersey and the industry in general,"Marks said. Mare owners who had contracts with Windsong's Legacy and want to stay with a New Jersey stallion are being offered bookings with Muscles Yankee and Revenue, according to Marks. "There are a lot of mares, our own included, who will be looking to go somewhere else," Marks said. "The books of most comparable stallions are closed." A son of Conway Hall, out of the Prakas mare Yankee Windsong, Windsong's Legacy swept the Hambletonian, Yonkers Trot and Kentucky Futurity to capture trotting's Triple Crown for 3-year-olds. He concluded his racing career in 2004 with 10 wins, two seconds and four thirds from 17 starts for earnings of $1.7 million for owners Fredrik Lindegaard, Ted Gewertz and Patricia Spinelli. Windsong's Legacy set a single season earnings record for a trotter in 2004 and was the first trotting Triple Crown winner since Super Bowl in 1972. Trained and driven by Trond Smedhammer, Windsong's Legacy opened his sophomore campaign with three straight wins, including the $235,571 Goodtimes Final at Woodbine. He added the $382,000 Stanley Dancer Final at the Meadowlands a month later, taking a mark of 1:53. OnAug. 7, 2004, he scored a one-length victory in the $1 million Hambletonian Final, defeating Cantab Hall and Cash Hall. In the $391,200 Yonkers Trot, contested that year over Hawthorne's one-mile oval, he was a winner again. Traveling to Ontario, he picked up another victory in the $901,290 Canadian Trotting Classic, and concluded his career on October 9 when he swept both of his heats of the Kentucky Futurity at Lexington's Red Mile. During his first three seasons at stud at Perretti Farm's, Windsong's Legacy bred 448 mares. His 2008 book was for more than 100 mares. From his first crop emerged the sales topper at the Harrisburg Sale on Nov. 5, 2007 when Bedtime Song, a half-sister to Pampered Princess, was hammered down for $360,000 toMichaelAndrew of Gorham, Maine. Smedshammer will train her.