Serena's Song
| Serena’s Song | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Rahy |
| Grandsire | Blushing Groom |
| Dam | Imagining |
| Damsire | Northfields |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 1992 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Dr. Howard J. Baker |
| Owner | Robert and Beverly Lewis |
| Trainer | D. Wayne Lukas |
| Record | 38: 18-11–3 |
| Earnings | $3,283,388 |
| Major wins | |
| Oak Leaf Stakes (1994) Hollywood Starlet Stakes (1994) Landaluce Stakes (1994) Las Virgenes Stakes (1995) Jim Beam Stakes (1995) Santa Ynez Stakes (1995) Gazelle Handicap (1995) Santa Anita Oaks (1995) Mother Goose Stakes (1995) Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (1995) Haskell Invitational Handicap (1995) Beldame Stakes (1995) Hempstead Handicap (1996) Fleur De Lis Handicap (1996) Santa Maria Handicap (1996) Santa Monica Handicap (1996) Pimlico Distaff (1996) |
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| Awards | |
| Kentucky-bred Three-Year-Old Filly (1995) Kentucky-bred Horse of the Year (1995) Kentucky-bred Handicap Mare (1996) American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly (1995) |
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| Honours | |
| U.S. Racing Hall of Fame (2002) | |
| Horse (Equus ferus caballus) | |
| Last updated on January 1, 2008 | |
Serena’s Song (foaled 1992) is an American Thoroughbred race horse. She won 17 graded stakes races, including 11 Grade I (some against males and older mares), in three seasons for $3,286,388 in earnings.
She was by Rahy out of Imagining by Northfields (by Northern Dancer). Serena's Song was bred in Kentucky by Dr. Howard J. Baker. Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas bought her at auction for $150,000 for Eclipse of Merit owners Robert and Beverly Lewis.
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[edit] Two-year-old season
In her two-year-old season, Serena's Song started 10 times and won four races. She also finished second twice and third once while compiling earnings of $597,335. In the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, she finished second to the undefeated champion Flanders by a head. In the Grade I Hollywood Starlet Stakes, she beat Urbane.
[edit] Three-year-old season
In 13 starts at age three, Serena's Song won 9. One of her top performances was in the defacto second jewel of the filly Triple Crown, the $200,000 Grade II Black-Eyed Susan Stakes. That race was run on May 19, 1995, over a mile and one eighth at Pimlico Race Course. Serena's Song beat a field of seven stakes winners, including Conquistadoress and Rare Opportunity.
Serena's Song also beat males that year in the Jim Beam Stakes and the Haskell Invitational Handicap. She defeated older females in the Beldame Stakes. That year, she brought home the American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly award, winning $1,524,920.
[edit] Four year-old season
In 1996, when she was four, Serena's Song started 15 times, winning 5 times, placing in 7 races, and coming in third twice. She ran over eight tracks and never finished worse than third. In May, she shipped to Baltimore and won the grade two Pimlico Distaff, now called the Allaire duPont Distaff Stakes, on the Preakness Stakes undercard. She came very close to winning the Whitney Handicap and was second in the Breeders' Cup Distaff. That year, she brought home $1,164,133.
[edit] Foals
Serena’s Song was sent to Denali Stud near Paris, Kentucky, as a broodmare. So far she has produced 12 foals, six of which have raced and five of which have won.[1] Among her offspring are these named horses:
- Sophisticat (by Storm Cat),
- Serena’s Tune, 1998, (by Mr. Prospector),
- Arbitrate by Deputy Minister, stakes-placed.
- Grand Reward (by Storm Cat), won grade II race in the US, placed in four group races in England and Ireland, over $500,000, at stud.
- Harlington, 2002 by Unbridled
- Pure Symmetry, 2003, by Storm Cat, placed
- Colourful Score, 2004, by Storm Cat
- Spark Candle, rig, 2005, by A.P. Indy
- Schramsberg, 2006, by Storm Cat: Unraced.[2]
- Stormberg (colt), 2008, by Storm Cat
- Night and Day (filly), 2009, by Unbridled's Song
- filly, 2010, by Street Cry
Serena’s Song was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2002, at age ten.
[edit] Tabulated pedigree
| Sire Rahy 1985 |
Blushing Groom 1974 |
Red God | Nasrullah |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Run | |||
| Runaway Bride | Wild Risk | ||
| Aimee | |||
| Glorious Song 1976 |
Halo | Hail to Reason | |
| Cosmah | |||
| Ballade | Herbager | ||
| Miss Swapsco | |||
| Dam Imaging 1983 |
Northfields 1968 |
Northern Dancer | Nearctic |
| Natalma | |||
| Little Hut | Occupy | ||
| Savage Beauty | |||
| Image Intensifier 1971 |
Dancer's Image | Native Dancer | |
| Noors Image | |||
| Pat's Irish | Tudor Minstrel | ||
| Snow Shower (Family: 7) |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Thoroughbred Times Retrieved 2011-1-2
- ^ Bloodhorse: Mating Choices -- Serena's Song Retrieved 2011-1-2
[edit] External links
- "Champions, The Lives, Times, and Past Performances of America's Greatest Thoroughbreds, Revised Edition, Champions from 1893-2004," the Daily Racing Form
- Serena’s Song’s pedigree, racing stats, and photo
- Serena’s Song in the Hall of Fame
