Success Express

Success Express
Sire	Hold Your Peace
Grandsire	Speak John
Dam	Au Printemps
Damsire	Dancing Champ
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1985
Country	United States
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Tri Star Stable
Owner	Eugene V. Klein
Trainer	D. Wayne Lukas
Record	17: 4-2-4
Earnings	$835,359
Major wins
Breeders' Cup Juvenile (1987)
Last updated on September 5, 2007

Success Express (foaled February 25, 1985 in Kentucky – 24 April 2015) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

Background

Success Express was a bay horse bred by Tri Star Stable. During his racing career he was owned by Eugene V. Klein and trained by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee D. Wayne Lukas.

Racing career

At age two Success Express won four of his eight starts. The colt capped off his year with his only Graded Stakes win under jockey José A. Santos in the 1987 Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Hollywood Park Racetrack. Success Express was winless in nine starts at age three with his best result a second in the Grade II Bay Shore Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Stud career

In 1989, Success Express was retired to stud in Australia and spent two seasons in New Zealand between 1991 and 1993. There, he has sired multiple stakes winning millionaire, Staging, as well as Polar Success whose career earnings were more than $2 million and who was a multiple stakes winner including the Group One Golden Slipper Stakes.

Pedigree

Pedigree of Success Express (USA), dark bay colt, 1985

Sire Hold Your Peace (USA) 1969	Speak John (USA) 1958	Prince John (USA)	Princequillo (IRE)
			Not Afraid (USA)
		Nuit De Folies (FRA)	Tornado (FRA)
			Folle Nuit (FRA)
	Blue Moon (USA) 1948	Eight Thirty (USA)	Pilate (USA)
			Dinner Time (USA)
		Blue Grail (USA)	Blue Larkspur (USA)
			Ample (USA)
Dam Au Printemps (USA) 1979	Dancing Champ (USA) 1972	Nijinsky (CAN)	Northern Dancer (CAN)
			Flaming Page (CAN)
		Mrs. Peterkin (USA)	Tom Fool (USA)
			Legendra (USA)
	Lorgnette (IRE) 1964	High Hat (GB)	Hyperion (GB)
			Madonna (GB)
		Mlle. Lorette (USA)	Lovely Night (USA)
			Gallorette (USA)