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Smart Strike

20 year old Horse | Retired
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Smart Strike at Lane's End Farm

What the Nation is saying about Smart Strike...

Grade I winner Stacelita, a finalist for 2011 champion female turf runner, has been retired from racing and booked to Smart Strike.A French-bred, Stacelita made four starts in the United States last year. Campaigned by Martin Schwartz, she captured the Beverly D. Stakes (gr. IT) at Arlington Park an...Read More
The Malibu Stakes, run at Santa Anita in December of every year, features some of the finest horses in California ...Read More
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  • freddycaple · The Factor just rolled!! That is the horse to watch this spring! derbydeals.com · 35 days ago ·
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  • GregRiessland · dead heat that didn't have to be his best race, the point was he felt the effects of a heated match thats what caused him to drop later. oh yes he did roll! · 34 days ago ·
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The family of G3 Long Island Handicap winner Hit It Rich (by Smart Strike) was nurtured at Wimborne Farm in Bourbon County, Ky., where the farm stallion was the very fast and very high-class Lord at War, an Argentine-bred chestnut by the Brigadier Gerard stallion General out of the Con…Read More
Never Retreat tossed her name into the Canadian Horse of the Year ring with her second graded stakes victory in as many Woodbine starts, taking the Grade 2 Canadian Stakes in emphatic fashion under Julien Leparoux. Read More
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  • RichardBlakley · Big day for grays yesterday! Big ups to Team Block, Julien (nice day!) and the classiest runner in the Block stable (ya hear that, Giant Oaf?)... · 141 days ago ·
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  • RichardBlakley · Big day for grays yesterday! Big ups to Team Block, Julien (nice day!) and the classiest runner in the Block stable (ya hear that, Giant Oaf?)... · 141 days ago ·
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2008 champion turf female Forever Together has been retired. Read More
Although he started his career on the dirt, Air Support has made an early name for himself running on the New York turf, earning a trip to the Breeders’ Cup courtesy of a workmanlike win in the Grade 3 Pilgrim at Belmont Park on October 3.   A son of Smart Strike out of the unraced Danzig mare...Read More
A $550,000 Smart Strike colt fetched $550,000 during the Sept. 16 session of the Keeneland September yearling sale. Bought by Bradley Weisbord, for Ahmed Zayat's Zayat Stables, he was consigned by Gainesway, agent.Read More
George Bolton, who once had an interest in two-time Horse of the Year Curlin, noted how “the good ones are not easy to buy” during the first of four book two sessions at the Keeneland September sale Sept. 14.Read More
The Mr. Prospector stallion Smart Strike has good karma with Monmouth Park. Fourteen years ago, Smart Strike won the Philip H. Iselin Handicap at the New Jersey track. It was one of his six victories from eight starts, but the Iselin was the most important. The race gave ...Read More
Smart Strike, who has had three grade I winners in a single day, can only be held down so long.He bagged the Preakness Stakes (gr. I) with Lookin At Lucky and the supporting Dixie Stakes (gr. IIT) at Pimlico with Strike a Deal. Now we can dispose of linebreeding to La Troienne in the pedigree of the...Read More
Life Is Sweet, the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic (gr. I) winner for Martin and Pam Wygod, has been pronounced in foal to Smart Strike.A 5-year-old daughter of Storm Cat, Life Is Sweet last raced in the Feb. 13 Santa Maria Handicap (gr. II) at Santa Anita. She finished second, exiting racing wit...Read More
  • luvzenyatta · Wow..that didn't take long..lol..seems like she just left! I sure do miss her. I like to load up her BC win and just watch her coming around the turn...all of sudden she gets shot out of a cannon..whoa...that was thrilling. I think I'll go watch it again right now :) · 654 days ago ·
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  • luvzenyatta · ok I enjoyed that again....I had forgotten that the pick 6 was $155,819.80(!)..did any of you guys pick that up:) · 654 days ago ·
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Mike Welsch was pretty impressed over the workout by Lookin At Lucky on Wednesday. "A very good work; maybe not the blowaway type.....like Street Sense or Barbaro, but just what you'd like to see," he explained on his video report. The Daily Racing Form's clocker guy was particularly taken...Read More
Lookin at Lucky is the Juvenile Champion of 2009. He has won six of seven starts with only a narrow defeat in a tough trip BC Juvenile. His return to the races in last month’s Rebel Stakes was a top shelf performance. Clearly he is a racehorse who has earned respect. He may or may not be...Read More
Iron Maidens Thoroughbreds takes a look at Lucky's pedigree to find out. Read More
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  • IronMaiden · Thanks, I'm glad everyone liked the pedigree analysis! · 690 days ago ·
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  • Arrrgy · Dosage numbers say yes. DP 10 - 4 - 12 - 0 - 0 CI 3.33 CD 0.92 http://chef-de-race.com/dosage/classics/2010/2010_classic_contenders.htm · 690 days ago ·
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A regally-bred Smart Strike colt sparked a flurry of bids that boosted his price to $400,000 and made him the most expensive horse sold so far during the opening session of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. March select sale of 2-year-olds in training. Donato Lanni, the bloodstock services director of H...Read More
Life Is Sweet, winner of the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic (G1) and stablemate of undefeated champion Zenyatta, was retired on Saturday after she developed stomach cramps following a workout at Hollywood Park, the Daily Racing Form reports.Read More
  • Medlocke · Really ironic. That's how the "Sport of King's" plays out sometimes. After John Shirreffs saddle's both the 2009 Breeders Cup Ladies Classic champion in Life is Sweet, and the Breeders Cup Classic champion in Zenyatta, everyone is lead to believe that Zenyatta will be retired, and Life is Sweet will, at that point, become the #1 filly/mare, if not horse period, in John Shirreffs racing stable. Now, on the day that Zenyatta is set to return to the track, Life is Sweet is set for retirement. IMO, Life is Sweet was a very high quality filly that was more than capable of holding her own, and showed that, against Zenyatta, and the best of the best fillies in racing by winning the 2009 Breeders Cup Ladies Classic. Also, ran a great 3rd against the colt's in the 2009 Hollywood Gold Cup. It really is another, not only quality filly, but quality horse lost to the track. Your racing ability will be sorely missed. All the best to Life is Sweet in retirement. May her breeding successes go on to equal her racing successes. · 696 days ago ·
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  • luvzenyatta · WOW, I just got home to hear Zenyatta wins #15!, Zardana shocks Rachel, and Life is Sweet is retired. I'm completely overwhelmed :) · 696 days ago ·
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The direct path to the Eclipse Award for champion two-year-old male goes to the winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1), or at least it has for the past four years and 12 of the last 13. Since the inception of the Breeders’ Cup in 1984, 20 winners of the Juvenile have walked away with the two-year...Read More
Buyers at the 2008 Keeneland September yearling sale who stopped by the Taylor Made Sales Agency barn to inspect Hip 1738 would have been looking at a bay colt by leading sire Smart Strike out of a young mare bred and raced by William S. Farish in partnership ...Read More
It may seem early to get excited about a Kentucky Derby prospect, but it's time to state the obvious: Lookin at Lucky is an exceptional horse who, if he stays healthy, might be very hard to beat come May 1 at Churchill Downs.Read More
Here is a list of horses that consignors and buyers think could be standouts Sept. 15 during the second session of the Keeneland September yearling sale in Lexington.Read More

Smart Strike - Race Results & Past Performances

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View DetailsView Video11/05/961stC PerretMth91 1/16 mDIselin Hcp-G103+ MSmart StrikeEltishSerena's Song1:41.40
View DetailsView Video09/14/964thC PerretBel81 1/8 mDWoodward-G103+ MCigarL'CarriereGolden Larch1:47.06