American Champion Female Turf Horse
Honorees
Table:
Year

Horse

Age

Trainer

Owner

2018

Sistercharlie

4

Chad Brown

Peter M. Brant

2017

Lady Eli

5

Chad Brown

Sheep Pond Partners

2016

Tepin

5

Mark Casse

Robert E Masterson

2015

Tepin

4

Mark Casse

Robert E Masterson

2014

Dayatthespa

5

Chad Brown

Jerry Frankel et al.

2013

Dank

4

Michael Stoute

James Wigan

2012

Zagora

5

Chad Brown

Martin S. Schwartz

2011

Stacelita

5

Jean-Claude Rouget

Martin S. Schwartz

2010

Goldikova

5

Freddy Head

Wertheimer et Frère

2009

Goldikova

4

Freddy Head

Wertheimer et Frère

2008

Forever Together

4

Jonathan E. Sheppard

Augustin Stable

2007

Lahudood

4

Kiaran McLaughlin

Shadwell Racing

2006

Ouija Board

5

Ed Dunlop

Lord Derby

2005

Intercontinental

5

Robert J. Frankel

Khalid Abdullah

2004

Ouija Board

3

Ed Dunlop

Lord Derby

2003

Islington

4

Michael Stoute

Ballymacoll Stud

2002

Golden Apples

4

Ben Cecil

Gary A. Tanaka

2001

Banks Hill

3

André Fabre

Khalid Abdullah

2000

Perfect Sting

4

Joe Orseno

Stronach Stables

1999

Soaring Softly

4

James J. Toner

Joan & John Phillips

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Sistercharlie ( foaled 13 March 2014 ) is an Irish-bred Champion Thoroughbred racehorse . She showed very good form when trained in France , winning three races including the Prix Penelope and finished second in the Prix de Diane . When transferred to race in the United States in 2018 , she improved to become one of the best female racehorses in North America , winning the Jenny Wiley Stakes , Diana Stakes , Beverly D. Stakes and Breeders ' Cup Filly & Mare Turf . She was voted the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Female Turf Horse of the year . So far in 2019 , she has repeated her wins in both the Diana and Beverly D. , and set a course record in the latter race .
Chad C. Brown ( born December 18 , 1978 ) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer known for his expertise with turf horses and with fillies and mares . He has trained several Eclipse Award winners including Stacelita , Big Blue Kitten , Lady Eli and Flintshire . After receiving the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer of 2016 , he won his first Triple Crown race with Cloud Computing in the 2017 Preakness Stakes . He also won the Eclipse Award in both 2017 and 2018 .
Lady Eli ( foaled February 2 , 2012 in Kentucky ) is a retired Thoroughbred racehorse who was named the American Champion Female Turf Horse of 2017 . She first came to national attention when she won the 2014 Breeders ' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf . She extended her record to a perfect six wins from six starts in the 2015 Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes but then stepped on a nail on her way back to the barn , which led to a life-threatening case of laminitis . After a lengthy recovery , Lady Eli finished second in her August 2016 return to the racetrack , then won the Flower Bowl Stakes in October . With her 2017 wins in the Gamely Stakes and Diana Stakes , she won at least one Grade I race in each of her four racing seasons .
Tepin ( foaled March 14 , 2011 ) is a retired Thoroughbred racehorse who was named the American Champion Female Turf Horse of 2015 and 2016 . She showed very promising form as a two-year-old in 2013 when she won the Delta Princess Stakes on the dirt . After a disappointing three-year-old season when she failed to win in four starts , she emerged as a top-class turf performer in 2015 . Her wins as a four-year-old included the Churchill Distaff Turf Mile Stakes , Just A Game Stakes and First Lady Stakes before recording her biggest success when defeating male opposition in the Breeders ' Cup Mile . In 2016 , she won her first four starts and was then sent to England , where she defeated a field of leading European milers to win the Queen Anne Stakes . On returning to North America , she extended her winning streak to eight in the Woodbine Mile . The streak included three Grade/Group 1 wins against male horses in three different countries . Although Tepin finished second in her next two starts including an effort to defend her title in the Breeders Cup Mile , she was still named the Champion Female Turf Horse for the second year in a row .
Mark E. Casse ( born February 14 , 1961 ) is a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer whose most notable horses include 2015 American champion turf mare Tepin and Canadian Horses of the Year Sealy Hill ( 2007 ) , Uncaptured ( 2012 ) , Lexie Lou ( 2014 ) , Catch A Glimpse ( 2015 ) and Wonder Gadot . He has won eleven Sovereign Awards for outstanding trainer in Canada and has been the leading trainer at Woodbine Racetrack 14 times . In 2019 , he won his first American Classic with War of Will in the Preakness Stakes .
Dayatthespa ( foaled February 17 , 2009 ) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse . As a three-year-old in 2012 she won her first five races including the Herecomesthebride Stakes , Appalachian Stakes and Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup . After winning two races in an abbreviated 2013 season she reached her peak as a five-year-old in 2014 , winning the Yaddo Stakes , the First Lady Stakes and the Breeders ' Cup Filly & Mare Turf .
Dank ( foaled 6 March 2009 ) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse . She showed useful form in Europe as a three and four-year-old , winning the Atalanta Stakes , Dahlia Stakes and Kilboy Estate Stakes . The filly showed improved form when campaigned in the United States in the second half of 2013 , winning the Beverly D. Stakes and the Breeders ' Cup Filly & Mare Turf and being voted American Champion Female Turf Horse .
Sir Michael Ronald Stoute ( born 22 October 1945 , in Barbados ) is a Barbadian British thoroughbred horse trainer in flat racing . Stoute , whose father was the Chief of Police for Barbados , left the island in 1964 at the age of 19 to become an assistant to trainer Pat Rohan and began training horses on his own in 1972 . His first win as a trainer came on 28 April 1972 when Sandal , a horse owned by Stoutes father , won at Newmarket Racecourse in England . Since then , he has gone on to win races all over the globe , including victories in the Dubai World Cup , the Breeders Cup , the Japan Cup and the Hong Kong Vase . He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1998 for services to tourism in Barbados . He was the only trainer in the 20th century to win an English Classic in five successive seasons and has been Champion Trainer ten times ( 1981 , 1986 , 1989 , 1994 , 1997 , 2000 , 2003 , 2005 , 2006 and 2009 ) . He was the trainer for Kribensis , who is the only horse to have won the Triple Crown of Hurdling , doing so in the 1989/90 racing season . Stoute also trained Shergar , arguably his most famous horse , who won the 1981 Epsom Derby and was later stolen , presumably by the IRA . In 2009 , three horses trained by Stoute - Conduit , Tartan Bearer and Ask - pulled off a rare feat when the trio made a clean sweep of the placings at the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes . In all , the horses took home $ 1,787,000 of the $ 2,008,945 prizemoney in Britain 's richest horserace . Those wins helped him regain his Champion Trainer title in 2009 , winning a total of £3,372,287 in prize money . In 2013 he trained the Queen 's horse Estimate to Gold Cup victory at Royal Ascot .
Zagora ( foaled March 13 , 2007 ) is a retired French Thoroughbred racehorse with graded stakes wins on two continents and two countries . Defeating horses like G1 Gamely Stakes winner Marketing Mix , Breeders ' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Tapitsfly , European champion The Fugue , American Oaks winner Lady of Shamrock , Matriarch Stakes winner Stormy Lucy , and Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes winner Nahrain .
Chad C. Brown ( born December 18 , 1978 ) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer known for his expertise with turf horses and with fillies and mares . He has trained several Eclipse Award winners including Stacelita , Big Blue Kitten , Lady Eli and Flintshire . After receiving the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer of 2016 , he won his first Triple Crown race with Cloud Computing in the 2017 Preakness Stakes . He also won the Eclipse Award in both 2017 and 2018 .
Martin S. Schwartz ( Buzzy , born March 23 , 1945 ) is a Wall Street trader who made his fortune successfully trading stocks , futures and options . He received national attention when he won the U.S . Investing Championship in 1984 . Schwartz is the author of Pit Bull : Lessons from Wall Street 's Champion Day Trader .
Stacelita ( foaled 17 April 2006 ) is a Thoroughbred racehorse who was a Classic winner while based in France and became an Eclipse Award winner when relocated to the United States .
Jean-Claude Rouget ( born 1953 in Normandy ) is a French Thoroughbred horse trainer and former jockey .
Goldikova ( foaled 15 March 2005 , in Ireland ) is a champion Thoroughbred racemare based in France , although she has also raced in the USA and England . She has won 14 Group One races , with nine victories over colts and geldings . This puts her above Miesque as the only European-trained horse to have won more than 10 Group I races since their introduction in the 1970s . Goldikova is the only horse to win three ( 2008 , 2009 , 2010 ) Breeders ' Cup Mile races . She was ridden by Olivier Peslier in all of her race starts .
Freddy Head ( born 19 June 1947 , in Neuilly , France ) is a retired champion jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing and currently a horse trainer . Known also as Freddie , his grandfather was a jockey as was his father Alec Head who also became a successful trainer and owner of Haras du Quesnay near Deauville . Alec Head 's horses won The Derby and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe . In the 1976 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe , Freddie Head rode to victory on a horse trained by his father and in 1979 took another win on a horse trained by his highly successful sister , Christiane Criquette Head . A six-time winner of the French jockey 's championship , Freddie Head scored a number of important Group I wins in the United Kingdom and is best known to Americans for his back-to-back victories aboard U.S. Hall of Fame filly Miesque in the 1987 and 1988 Breeders ' Cup Mile . Freddie Head retired as a jockey in 1997 and began working as a trainer . In 2008 , he became the first man ever to win Breeders ' Cup races as both a jockey and trainer when Goldikova won the Mile .
Wertheimer et Frère is a Thoroughbred horse racing and breeding business partnership between brothers Alain and Gérard Wertheimer of France . The Wertheimer brothers are the owners of the House of Chanel in Paris . They inherited that company and the horse racing business from their father Jacques who had inherited a racing stable from his parents Pierre and Germaine Wertheimer . The brothers operate as La Presle Farm and/or Wertheimer Farm in the United States and in France as Wertheimer et Frère where they have won numerous important Conditions races . Alec Head trained for the family in Europe until his retirement in 1984 but for a number of years continued to act as their bloodstock advisor . Head 's daughter Christiane Criquette Head took over as trainer in 1983 and continued to have great success until they ended their working relationship in 2006 . In the United States , the Wertheimer brothers won the 1993 Breeders ' Cup Turf and earned American Horse of the Year honors with Kotashaan . In 2003 , they won the Breeders ' Cup Juvenile Fillies with Halfbridled . Both horses were trained by Richard Mandella . In 2008 , 2009 , and 2010 , their filly Goldikova won the TVG Breeders ' Cup Mile , becoming the only horse to ever win a Breeders ' Cup event three times . In 2011 , Goldikova competed in the event for a fourth consecutive year , finishing 3rd . Goldikova was trained by Freddy Head who is the brother of Criquette Head .
Forever Together ( foaled April 12 , 2004 in Kentucky ) is an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse . Bred by the White Fox Farm of Karen and Dewey White , she was purchased and raced by George W. Strawbridge , Jr. 's Augustin Stable . Trained by Jonathan Sheppard , Forever Together 's wins include back-to-back editions in 2008 and 2009 of the Diana Stakes at Saratoga Race Course . She won the 2008 Breeders ' Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Santa Anita Park and was voted American Champion Female Turf Horse honors . In a November 11 , 2009 return to Santa Anita Park to defend her Breeders ' Cup Filly & Mare Turf title , Forever Together ran third to winner , Midday .
Jonathan E. Sheppard ( born December 2 , 1940 in Ashwell , Hertfordshire , England ) is an English Hall of Fame trainer in American Thoroughbred horse racing . Sheppard came to the United States in 1961 and in 1966 won his first race with Haffaday in a steeplechase event at My Lady 's Manor , Maryland . In 1973 he won his first earnings championship in steeplechase racing . He went on to win the earnings title another twenty-three times . He has trained the winner of four Breeders ' Cup Grand National Steeplechase and holds the record for most wins in the Colonial Cup Steeplechase with eleven . Sheppard is the only trainer to win the American steeplechase Triple Crown , doing it with Flatterer , the only horse to win the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Steeplechase horse four years in a row . [ citation needed ] In addition to steeplechase racing , Sheppard has met with considerable success in flat racing . In both venues , he has had a long working relationship with stable owner , George W. Strawbridge , Jr. , and in 2008 he conditioned Strawbridge 's filly Forever Together to victory in the Breeders ' Cup Filly & Mare Turf . [ citation needed ] In 1990 , he was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame . In 2004 , Sheppard was elected president of the National Steeplechase Association . In 2008 , Sheppard joined fellow Hall of Famee inductee Sidney Watters , Jr. as the only men in American racing to have trained a champion over both jumps and on the flat . As of 2010 , Sheppard 's horses have won twelve Eclipse Awards : [ citation needed ]
George W. Strawbridge Jr. ( born October 10 , 1937 ) is an American educator , historian , investor , sportsman and philanthropist .
Kiaran P. McLaughlin ( born November 15 , 1960 in Lexington , Kentucky ) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer best known for training 2006 Horse of the Year Invasor .
Shadwell Racing is the Thoroughbred horse racing operations of Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum , Deputy Ruler of Dubai , United Arab Emirates . Introduced to Thoroughbred flat racing while a student in the United Kingdom , Sheikh Hamdan established his first racing stable there in 1981 . Over the years he has invested heavily in both racing and breeding and has acquired major operations in England , Ireland and the United States . He owns eight stud farms worldwide containing over 200 regally bred mares and many top stallions . Six of these are in the county of Suffolk , England , three near Thetford - Nunnery , Melton and Snarehill Studs - plus the Salsabil Stud near Bury St. Edmunds , Elmswell Park Stud and Beech House Stud just outside Newmarket . The other two are Derrinstown Stud in Maynooth , County Kildare , Ireland and the 3200 acre Shadwell Farm near Lexington , Kentucky . The Nunnery Stud is where the whole British breeding operation is controlled and currently standing there are Aqlaam , Nayef , Mawatheeq and Sakhee , as well as Green Desert , now pensioned . In the past Nashwan , Unfuwain and Haafhd also stood there . Beech House Stud is used as a base for Shadwell 's private mares , both Thoroughbred and Arabian . The paddocks are also used to winter the private Arabian young stock before they are broken in at Snarehill . Elmswell Park Stud and Salsabil Stud are located deep in the Suffolk countryside . These operations together look after Sheikh Hamdan 's private mares .
Ouija Board ( foaled 3 March 2001 ) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse ( named after the ouija board spiritualism device ) owned by Edward Stanley , 19th Earl of Derby and trained by Ed Dunlop and Chris Hinson . In a career spanning four seasons , she won 10 of her 22 races , 7 of them Group 1s , including The Oaks in 2004 and the Hong Kong Vase in 2005 . In 2004 , she won the Breeders ' Cup Filly & Mare Turf and came 2nd to Intercontinental the following year in the same race . In 2006 , the Dunlop team took her back to the US , where she regained her crown in the Breeders ' Cup Filly & Mare Turf . Ouija Board has amassed over £3 million in prize money . Also , she is only the second horse ever to win Breeders ' Cup races in non-consecutive years , along with Da Hoss , who won the Breeders ' Cup Mile in 1996 and 1998 . Her silks were black , sporting a white cap , and a single white button below the collar . She had seven different jockeys , with Olivier Peslier , Kieren Fallon , Frankie Dettori and Jamie Spencer all victorious . As a broodmare she produced Australia the winner of the 2014 Epsom Derby .
Edward A. L. Dunlop ( born 20 October 1968 ) is a British thoroughbred racehorse trainer . Ed Dunlop was born to British champion trainer John Dunlop and his wife . Educated at Eton , he began his career on stud farms in Ireland and Kentucky before completing the National Stud student course in Sydney , Australia . Upon returning to Britain he spent three years as assistant to Nicky Henderson , then joined Alex Scott at his Newmarket Stables . When Scott was murdered in 1994 Dunlop took over and renamed the business Gainsborough Stables . The new stable had its first winner on 19 October 1994 and since then has sent entrants to races as far-flung as Istanbul , Dubai , Milan , Ireland and the United States . In 2003 alone the stable had 50 winners , and such prestigious owners as Edward Stanley , 19th Earl of Derby , have placed horses to train with Dunlop . Notable horses include Ouija Board ( won 47% , £2 million ) . Dunlop married in 1996 and has three daughters .
Edward Richard William Stanley , 19th Earl of Derby , DL ( born 10 October 1962 ) is a British peer and landowner .
Intercontinental ( foaled 2000 in England ) is a Thoroughbred Champion racehorse who competed in England , France , and the United States . Bred and raced by Khalid Abdullah 's Juddmonte Farms , she was sired by Danehill , a multiple Champion sire in England , Ireland , and France and the most successful sire in the history of Australian Thoroughbred racing . Her dam was the outstanding broodmare Hasili , whose sire Kahyasi won the 1988 Irish and Epsom Derbys . Intercontinental is a full sister to Cacique , Banks Hill , and Champs Elysees . Based in France with trainer André Fabre , Intercontinental made three starts at age two . She won two races and was third in the Group One Grand Critérium . At age three in 2003 , she made six starts at racecourses in France and England . Her only win came in the Listed Prix Amandine for three-year-old fillies at Deauville-La Touques Racecourse . She notably ran third to winner Russian Rhythm in the Group One 1,000 Guineas Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse . At age four , Intercontinental was sent to Robert Frankel , Juddmonte Farms ' trainer in the United States . For the U.S . Racing Hall of Fame trainer , Intercontinental began 2004 with a win in the Jenny Wiley Stakes at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington , Kentucky .
Robert Julian Frankel ( July 9 , 1941 - November 16 , 2009 ) was an American thoroughbred race horse trainer whom ESPN called one of the most successful and respected trainers in the history of thoroughbred racing . He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1995 , and was a five-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer . Often referred to as Bobby by others , he preferred and always used Robert . Frankel set the single-season world record for most Grade/Group I victories in 2003 with 25 Grade I wins , a record that stood until it was beaten by Aidan O'Brien in 2017 .
Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud ( born 1937 , Ta'if , Saudi Arabia ) ( Arabic : خالد بن عبدالله آل سعود ) is a member of the House of Saud . He has extensive business interests , run through Mawarid Holding , but is probably better-known as the owner of Juddmonte Farms . As such , he is one of the leading figures in the world of thoroughbred horseracing and the list of outstanding horses to have competed in Prince Khalid 's racing-colours includes the greats : Dancing Brave , Enable , Frankel and Arrogate .
Islington ( foaled 12 February 1999 ) is an Irish-bred , British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare . In a racing career which lasted from August 2001 until November 2003 she won six of her fifteen races including four at Group One level . As a three-year-old she won the Musidora Stakes , and after disappointing in The Oaks , she returned to win the Nassau Stakes and the Yorkshire Oaks . At four she raced creditably against male opposition before returning to all-female competition to win a second Yorkshire Oaks and the Breeders ' Cup Filly & Mare Turf . Despite racing only once in North America in 2003 she was voted American Champion Female Turf Horse at the Eclipse Awards .
Ballymacoll Stud is a Thoroughbred stud farm of 300 acres in County Meath , Ireland . It is located in the townland of Ballymacoll , approximately two miles from the village of Dunboyne and four miles ( 6 km ) from the town of Maynooth . Under the ownership of Michael Sobell and Arnold Weinstock and his family , it produced 29 individual Group One ( G1 ) winners of 52 Group 1 races between 1960 and 2017 . The stud was sold at auction in June 2017 for €8.15 million to an undisclosed buyer . Ballymacoll Estate was founded by Henry Hamilton ( 1760-1844 ) . It remained in Hamilton hands until January 1911 , when it was sold to Lord Nugent . Other owners and tenants followed , including Boss Croker , the trainer , the Inchape Family , and the Irish Army ( during World War II ) . In April 1946 , the property was purchased by the Hon . Dorothy Paget , daughter of Lord Queenborough and Pauline ( daughter of William C. Whitney ) . She owned the stud until her death in February 1960 at the age of 54 . Despite owning the stud , Dorothy Paget never actually visited the farm herself , but she did from time to time receive detailed reports , illustrated with photographs . Sir Gordon Richards , had been Dorothy Paget 's principal jockey and trainer , right up the time of her death .
Gary A. Tanaka ( born June 23 , 1943 , in Hunt , Idaho ) is an American businessman , sportsman and philanthropist who co-founded the investment company Amerindo Investment Advisors in 1979 along with Alberto Vilar . Tanaka was born during World War II in the Minidoka concentration camp in Idaho . He graduated from MIT , then earned a PhD degree at Imperial College London in the United Kingdom with a dissertation on the mathematics of the transition from laminar to turbulent flow in a fluid flowing over a solid surface . He lives in London with his wife and two children in a house which was once Dwight D. Eisenhower 's wartime headquarters . Tanaka has two adult sons , Mark Tanaka , who is also a fund manager , most recently of Sanno Point Capital Management and Michael Tanaka , a notable businessman based in the UK . Tanaka was known for his donation of £27m to Imperial College , which resulted in construction of the Tanaka Building in 2004 , designed by the international architecture , planning and design studio Foster and Partners . The building houses Imperial College Business School , and combines the business school 's facilities with a new front entrance for the College . He was also known for the high-profile court case against him in 2008 . In August 2008 , the Business School at Imperial College London was renamed from Tanaka Business School to Imperial College Business School both because the old name did not strongly emphasise its association with the College , and because Tanaka was found guilty of fraud the same year . The school 's accommodation was subsequently named the Tanaka Building . An alternative speculation is that the college changed the name of the school to distance itself from Tanaka 's fraudulent activities .
Banks Hill ( foaled February 24 , 1998 in England ) was a French Thoroughbred Champion racehorse . She was bred and raced by Khalid Abdullah 's Juddmonte Farms . She was sired by Danehill , a multiple Champion sire in England , Ireland , and France and the most successful sire in the history of Australian Thoroughbred racing . Her dam was the outstanding broodmare , Hasili , whose sire Kahyasi won the 1988 Irish and Epsom Derbys . Banks Hill is a full sister to Cacique , Intercontinental , Dansili and Champs Elysees .
André Fabre ( born 9 December 1945 ) is a French thoroughbred horse racing trainer . The son of a diplomat , Fabre graduated from university with a law degree but then decided to pursue a career in thoroughbred horse racing . He began by working in the stables as a groom then as a schooling rider . He became France 's leading jump jockey , winning more than two hundred and fifty races including the Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris . When he turned to training horses , Fabre proved even more successful , first with jump horses then with flat racers . He has been the champion trainer in France on 24 occasions , including 21 straight years from 1987 to 2007 , and is one of the most successful trainers in the world , winning across Europe and North America including four Breeders ' Cup races . Among the many champions Fabre has trained are Trempolino , Peintre Celebre , and two horses ranked No . 1 in the world , Hurricane Run ( 2005 ) and Manduro ( 2007 ) . Fabre fulfilled a lifelong ambition by finally winning the Epsom Derby in 2011 with Pour Moi
Perfect Sting ( foaled 1996 in Kentucky ) is an American Thoroughbred Championracehorse and broodmare . Bred by Frank Stronach 's Adena Springs Farm and raced by his Stronach Stables , she was sired by Red Ransom and out of the mare Valid Victress . Perfect Sting raced from age two through five during which time she won the 2000 Breeders ' Cup Filly & Mare Turf for trainer Joe Orseno and was voted that year 's American Champion Female Turf Horse . She was retired to broodmare duty after her 2001 campaign having won fourteen of twenty-one starts with career earnings of US $ 2,202,042 .
Joseph F. Orseno ( born October 4 , 1955 in Philadelphia ) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer . He began his career as a professional trainer in 1977 and in 1997 joined Frank Stronach 's racing stables . In 2000 , Orseno conditioned Red Bullet , an upset winner of the Preakness Stakes . He went on to win two Breeders ' Cup races that fall : the Juvenile with Macho Uno and the Filly & Mare Turf with Perfect Sting . In July 2002 , Joe Orseno returned to running a public stable .
Stronach Stables is the North American racing arm of Thoroughbred horse racing owner and breeder , Frank Stronach , who also owns the horse breeding operation Adena Springs . Stronach is also the CEO of the Stronach Group which owns racetracks that include Santa Anita Park , Gulfstream Park , Pimlico Race Course and Laurel Park The Stronach racing operation has owned and raced notable Thoroughbreds Glorious Song , Touch Gold and Giacomo in partnership with others . Among Stonach wholly owned horses , Ghostzapper won several major races including the 2004 Breeders ' Cup Classic , was voted the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year , and named the World 's Top Ranked Horse for 2004 . In Canada , Frank Stronach/Stronach Stables has won the Sovereign Award for Outstanding Owner nine times . In the United States , Stronach earned the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Owner in 1998 , 1999 , and 2000 . In 2000 , Frank Stronach won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Breeder . He subsequently established Adena Springs which owns horse breeding farms in Kentucky , Florida and Canada and won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Breeder in 2004 , 2005 and 2006 . Stronach Stables is a finalist for the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Owner for 2008 .
Soaring Softly ( 1995 in Kentucky - 2015 ) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse whose biggest win came in the 1999 Breeders ' Cup Filly & Mare Turf . She originally raced on dirt , with limited success . Switched to turf at age four , she won seven of eight starts and was named the American Champion Female Turf Horse .
James J. Jimmy Toner ( born July 7 , 1940 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer . At age nineteen in April 1960 he got his first win as a trainer , making him the youngest to ever win a Thoroughbred horse race in State of New York . He won the 1999 Breeders ' Cup Filly & Mare Turf with Soaring Softly and would be named that year 's American Champion Female Turf Horse .
Darby Dan Farm is a produce , livestock , and thoroughbred horse breeding and training farm founded in 1935 near the Darby Creek in Galloway , Ohio by businessman John W. Galbreath . Named for the creek and for Galbreath 's son , Daniel M. Galbreath ( 1928-1995 ) , it was expanded from an original 85-acre ( 340,000 m2 ) farm into a 4,000 acre ( 16 km² ) estate . Established in 1954 on the original area , Darby House today serves as a banquet and retreat facility . Still in the hands of the Galbreath family , it has 250 acres ( 1 km² ) of woodlands , a 110-acre ( 0.4 km2 ) animal preserve , and approximately 3000 acres ( 12 km² ) used for the commercial growing of food crops . The horse farm has 750 acres ( 3 km² ) of blue grass pasture and many barns and breeding facilities . Also , 39 houses were built on the property .