Hystericalady
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Hystericalady is a multiple stakes
winning American
Thoroughbred
race horse. Bred in Kentucky
by Abbott Properties, Hystericalady is the best daughter of the leading sire Distorted Humor
, a half sister to dual Classic winner Funny Cide
, and still racing at five. She’s a daughter of 1991 Chile
an champion older mare Sacramentada. A dual group I
winner in her native country, Sacramentada also won the 1992 Hawthorne Handicap
racing in the U.S. After producing six US-bred foals, Sacramentada returned to Chile in 2004. Sacramentada’s grandsire is Northern Dancer
, therefore Hystericalady carries the blood of that great sire on her top line (sire) and bottom line (dam).
Sold as a weanling at the November 2003 Keeneland Sales
for $100,000, she was sold again as a yearling at the Keeneland Sales in September 2004 for $125,000, this time purchased by Jerry Hollendorfer (in partnership with Dr. George Tadaro and Tom Clark's Rancho San Miguel). Like Funny Cide, Hystericalady is a bright chestnut, and like Funny, who won all three of his two-year-old races, she was almost as impressive at two. But as she grows older, she grows more formidable. With her win in the 2008 Delaware Handicap
, she became the richest horse in Hollendorfer's career and the richest horse to come from Northern California
. (Hystericalady trains under Hollendorfer at Golden Gate Fields
.) Now a mare (a filly
becomes a mare
when she reaches her fifth year), Hystericalady is set for a return to the Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic. It will be her second effort. In 2007, she lost by a neck to Ginger Punch
.
Always a standout when she races with an explosive turn of foot, in her latest efforts she’s been sensational. In the 2008 Azeri Stakes she went off as the 7-10 favorite. She won the 2008 Fleur de Lis Handicap
by seven and a half lengths, giving up nine pounds to her rivals. In the 2008 Delaware Handicap
she romped home by four lengths, tackling the distance of 10 furlongs for the first time in her career. Also in August 2008 she won the Molly Pitcher for the second time in back to back wins, taking it by nine lengths with great ease. In September 2008, running on a synthetic surface (her record stands at 0-for-5), she struggled the entire length of the stretch with the speed horse, Santa Teresita, as well as with the track and still got second.
Breeders Cup Ladies Classic
On October 24, 2008, in her second Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic, Hystericalady was in a dead heat
with Carriage Trail for fourth place against a strong field of eight Grade I
winners: Zenyatta (race day favorite at 1-2 choice), Cocoa Beach, Music Note, and Ginger Punch
. Ginger Punch, who won the 2007 Distaff Cup, followed by Hystericalady, finished fifth in 2008.
She has, to date, won seven graded stakes and won 10 times on different tracks.
November breeding stock sale Nov. 3 at the Central Kentucky auction house. It hasn't yet been decided if she will race in 2009.
Graded stakes race
A graded stakes race is a term applied since 1973 by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada to describe races that derive their name from the stake, or entry fee, owners must pay...
winning American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Thoroughbred
Thoroughbred
The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...
race horse. Bred in Kentucky
Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...
by Abbott Properties, Hystericalady is the best daughter of the leading sire Distorted Humor
Distorted Humor
Distorted Humor is an American Thoroughbred racehorse and a successful sire.-Bloodline:Distorted Humor's sire is Forty Niner, 1987's Eclipse Award winning Outstanding Two-Year-Old Male Horse by the champion sire, Mr. Prospector. Distorted Humor's dam was Danzig's Beauty by Danzig. Distorted...
, a half sister to dual Classic winner Funny Cide
Funny Cide
Funny Cide is a Thoroughbred race horse who won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes in 2003. He is the first New York-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby and the first gelding to win since Clyde Van Dusen in 1929.-Bloodlines:...
, and still racing at five. She’s a daughter of 1991 Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
an champion older mare Sacramentada. A dual group I
Graded stakes race
A graded stakes race is a term applied since 1973 by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada to describe races that derive their name from the stake, or entry fee, owners must pay...
winner in her native country, Sacramentada also won the 1992 Hawthorne Handicap
Hawthorne Handicap
The Hawthorne Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late April at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. The race is open to fillies and mares, 3-Years-Old and Up, and was raced on dirt until 2006 when the new synthetic Cushion Track was installed...
racing in the U.S. After producing six US-bred foals, Sacramentada returned to Chile in 2004. Sacramentada’s grandsire is Northern Dancer
Northern Dancer
Northern Dancer was a Canadian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and the most successful sire of the 20th Century. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association calls him "one of the most influential sires in Thoroughbred history"....
, therefore Hystericalady carries the blood of that great sire on her top line (sire) and bottom line (dam).
Sold as a weanling at the November 2003 Keeneland Sales
Keeneland Sales
The Keeneland Sales is an American Thoroughbred auction house in Lexington, Kentucky founded in 1935 as a nonprofit racing/auction entity on 147 acres of farmland west of Lexington, which had been owned by Jack O. Keene...
for $100,000, she was sold again as a yearling at the Keeneland Sales in September 2004 for $125,000, this time purchased by Jerry Hollendorfer (in partnership with Dr. George Tadaro and Tom Clark's Rancho San Miguel). Like Funny Cide, Hystericalady is a bright chestnut, and like Funny, who won all three of his two-year-old races, she was almost as impressive at two. But as she grows older, she grows more formidable. With her win in the 2008 Delaware Handicap
Delaware Handicap
The Delaware Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid July at Delaware Park Racetrack in Wilmington, Delaware. The Grade II race is open to filles and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-quarter miles on the dirt....
, she became the richest horse in Hollendorfer's career and the richest horse to come from Northern California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. (Hystericalady trains under Hollendorfer at Golden Gate Fields
Golden Gate Fields
Golden Gate Fields is an American horse racing track straddling both Albany, California and Berkeley, California along the shoreline of San Francisco Bay adjacent to the Eastshore Freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area...
.) Now a mare (a filly
Filly
A filly is a young female horse too young to be called a mare. There are several specific definitions in use.*In most cases filly is a female horse under the age of four years old....
becomes a mare
Mare
Female horses are called mares.Mare is the Latin word for "sea".The word may also refer to:-People:* Ahmed Marzooq, also known as Mare, a footballer and Secretary General of Maldives Olympic Committee* Mare Winningham, American actress and singer...
when she reaches her fifth year), Hystericalady is set for a return to the Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic. It will be her second effort. In 2007, she lost by a neck to Ginger Punch
Ginger Punch
Ginger Punch is an American Thoroughbred filly racehorse. Owned and bred by operations belonging to automotive parts magnate, Frank Stronach, she is out of the mare Nappelon and sired by the Canadian-bred Awesome Again, winner of his country's 1997 Queen's Plate and the 1998 Breeders' Cup Classic...
.
Always a standout when she races with an explosive turn of foot, in her latest efforts she’s been sensational. In the 2008 Azeri Stakes she went off as the 7-10 favorite. She won the 2008 Fleur de Lis Handicap
Fleur De Lis Handicap
The Fleur de Lis Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid-June at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The race is open to filles and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the dirt...
by seven and a half lengths, giving up nine pounds to her rivals. In the 2008 Delaware Handicap
Delaware Handicap
The Delaware Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid July at Delaware Park Racetrack in Wilmington, Delaware. The Grade II race is open to filles and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-quarter miles on the dirt....
she romped home by four lengths, tackling the distance of 10 furlongs for the first time in her career. Also in August 2008 she won the Molly Pitcher for the second time in back to back wins, taking it by nine lengths with great ease. In September 2008, running on a synthetic surface (her record stands at 0-for-5), she struggled the entire length of the stretch with the speed horse, Santa Teresita, as well as with the track and still got second.
Breeders Cup Ladies Classic
On October 24, 2008, in her second Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic, Hystericalady was in a dead heat
Tie (draw)
To tie or draw is to finish a competition with identical or inconclusive results. The word "tie" is usually used in North America for sports such as American football. "Draw" is usually used in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Commonwealth of Nations and it is usually used for sports such as...
with Carriage Trail for fourth place against a strong field of eight Grade I
Graded stakes race
A graded stakes race is a term applied since 1973 by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada to describe races that derive their name from the stake, or entry fee, owners must pay...
winners: Zenyatta (race day favorite at 1-2 choice), Cocoa Beach, Music Note, and Ginger Punch
Ginger Punch
Ginger Punch is an American Thoroughbred filly racehorse. Owned and bred by operations belonging to automotive parts magnate, Frank Stronach, she is out of the mare Nappelon and sired by the Canadian-bred Awesome Again, winner of his country's 1997 Queen's Plate and the 1998 Breeders' Cup Classic...
. Ginger Punch, who won the 2007 Distaff Cup, followed by Hystericalady, finished fifth in 2008.
She has, to date, won seven graded stakes and won 10 times on different tracks.
Racing career
- 24/10/08 4th to ZenyattaZenyattaZenyatta is a retired American champion Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of 19 consecutive races in a 20-race career and American record-holder for consecutive victories without defeat in unrestricted races....
in the $2,000,000 Grade I Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic at Santa Anita ParkSanta Anita ParkSanta Anita Park is a thoroughbred racetrack in Arcadia, California, United States. It offers some of the prominent racing events in the United States during the winter and in spring. With its backdrop of the purple San Gabriel Mountains, it is considered by many as the world's most beautiful race...
. - 9/27/08, 2nd to ZenyattaZenyattaZenyatta is a retired American champion Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of 19 consecutive races in a 20-race career and American record-holder for consecutive victories without defeat in unrestricted races....
in the $245,000 Grade I Lady's Secret Breeders' Cup HandicapLady's Secret Breeders' Cup HandicapThe Lady's Secret Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually near the end of September during the Oak Tree Racing Association meet at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. The race was run at Hollywood Park in 2010 due to impending work at Santa Anita Park...
at Santa Anita ParkSanta Anita ParkSanta Anita Park is a thoroughbred racetrack in Arcadia, California, United States. It offers some of the prominent racing events in the United States during the winter and in spring. With its backdrop of the purple San Gabriel Mountains, it is considered by many as the world's most beautiful race...
. - 7/24/08, 1st in the $300,000 Grade II Molly Pitcher Breeders' Cup Handicap, Monmouth Park
- 7/13/08, 1st in the $1,000,000 Grade II Delaware HandicapDelaware HandicapThe Delaware Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid July at Delaware Park Racetrack in Wilmington, Delaware. The Grade II race is open to filles and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-quarter miles on the dirt....
, Delaware Park Racetrack - 6/14/08, 1st in the $300,000 Grade II Fleur de Lis HandicapFleur De Lis HandicapThe Fleur de Lis Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid-June at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The race is open to filles and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the dirt...
, Churchill DownsChurchill DownsChurchill Downs, located in Central Avenue in south Louisville, Kentucky, United States, is a Thoroughbred racetrack most famous for hosting the Kentucky Derby annually. It officially opened in 1875, and held the first Kentucky Derby and the first Kentucky Oaks in the same year. Churchill Downs... - 5/03/08, 3rd to Intangaroo in the $300,000 Grade I Humana Distaff HandicapHumana Distaff HandicapThe Humana Distaff Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually on the first Saturday in May as part of Derby Day at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky...
, Churchill DownsChurchill DownsChurchill Downs, located in Central Avenue in south Louisville, Kentucky, United States, is a Thoroughbred racetrack most famous for hosting the Kentucky Derby annually. It officially opened in 1875, and held the first Kentucky Derby and the first Kentucky Oaks in the same year. Churchill Downs... - 3/09/08, 1st in the $175,000 Grade III Azeri Stakes, Oaklawn Park Race Track
- 2/02/08, 4th to Intangaroo in the $250,000 Grade I Santa Monica HandicapSanta Monica HandicapThe Santa Monica Stakes is an American Grade I Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late January/early February at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California...
, Santa Anita ParkSanta Anita ParkSanta Anita Park is a thoroughbred racetrack in Arcadia, California, United States. It offers some of the prominent racing events in the United States during the winter and in spring. With its backdrop of the purple San Gabriel Mountains, it is considered by many as the world's most beautiful race... - 10/27/07, 2nd to Ginger PunchGinger PunchGinger Punch is an American Thoroughbred filly racehorse. Owned and bred by operations belonging to automotive parts magnate, Frank Stronach, she is out of the mare Nappelon and sired by the Canadian-bred Awesome Again, winner of his country's 1997 Queen's Plate and the 1998 Breeders' Cup Classic...
in the $2,000,000 Grade I Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic, Monmouth Park - 10/07/07, 2nd to Tough Tiz's Sis in the $250,000 Grade I Lady's Secret Breeders' Cup HandicapLady's Secret Breeders' Cup HandicapThe Lady's Secret Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually near the end of September during the Oak Tree Racing Association meet at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. The race was run at Hollywood Park in 2010 due to impending work at Santa Anita Park...
, Oak Tree At Santa Anita ParkSanta Anita ParkSanta Anita Park is a thoroughbred racetrack in Arcadia, California, United States. It offers some of the prominent racing events in the United States during the winter and in spring. With its backdrop of the purple San Gabriel Mountains, it is considered by many as the world's most beautiful race... - 8/25/07, 1st in the $300,000 Grade II Molly Pitcher Breeders' Cup Handicap, Monmouth Park
- 7/07/07, 3rd to Nashoba's KeyNashoba's KeyNashoba's Key was a bay filly thoroughbred race horse by Silver Hawk out of Nashoba who went undefeated in her first six starts in the Southern California racing circuit, before placing 4th in the 2007 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.Bred and owned by 79-year-old Warren B...
in the $300,000 Grade I Vanity Invitational Handicap, Hollywood Park - 6/03/07, 2nd to Nashoba's KeyNashoba's KeyNashoba's Key was a bay filly thoroughbred race horse by Silver Hawk out of Nashoba who went undefeated in her first six starts in the Southern California racing circuit, before placing 4th in the 2007 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.Bred and owned by 79-year-old Warren B...
in the $175,000 Grade II Milady Breeders' Cup HandicapMilady Breeders' Cup HandicapThe Milady Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the end of May Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. The Grade II event is open to fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on Cushion Track synthetic dirt and offers a...
, Hollywood Park - 5/05/07, 1st in the $300,000 Grade I Humana Distaff HandicapHumana Distaff HandicapThe Humana Distaff Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually on the first Saturday in May as part of Derby Day at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky...
, Churchill DownsChurchill DownsChurchill Downs, located in Central Avenue in south Louisville, Kentucky, United States, is a Thoroughbred racetrack most famous for hosting the Kentucky Derby annually. It officially opened in 1875, and held the first Kentucky Derby and the first Kentucky Oaks in the same year. Churchill Downs... - 2/24/07, 4th to Hello Lucky in the $100,000 Grade III Las Flores HandicapLas Flores HandicapThe Las Flores Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the first week of April at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California...
, Santa Anita ParkSanta Anita ParkSanta Anita Park is a thoroughbred racetrack in Arcadia, California, United States. It offers some of the prominent racing events in the United States during the winter and in spring. With its backdrop of the purple San Gabriel Mountains, it is considered by many as the world's most beautiful race... - 7/15/06, 5th to Adieu in the $500,000 Grade II Delaware OaksDelaware OaksThe Delaware Oaks Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid July at Delaware Park Racetrack in Stanton near Wilmington, Delaware....
, Delaware Park Racetrack - 6/11/06, 1st in the $150,000 Grade II Hollywood Breeders' Cup OaksHollywood Breeders' Cup OaksThe Hollywood Oaks is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the first week of June at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. The Grade II event is open to three-year-old fillies...
, Hollywood Park - 2005, 1st in the $40,000 Juan Gonzalez Memorial Stakes, Alameda County Fair
- 2005, 1st in her maiden effort under Russell BazeRussell BazeRussell Avery Baze is a horse racing jockey. He holds the record for the most race wins in North American horse racing history, and is a member of the United States Racing Hall of Fame....
, winning by three and a half lengths.
Changing hands
Hystericalady was purchased for $3 million by Sheikh Mohammed during the 2008 KeenelandKeeneland
Keeneland is a Thoroughbred horse racing facility and sales complex in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. Operated by the Keeneland Association, Inc., it is also known for its reference library on the sport, which contains more than 10,000 volumes, an extensive videocassette collection, and a substantial...
November breeding stock sale Nov. 3 at the Central Kentucky auction house. It hasn't yet been decided if she will race in 2009.