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Old 12-15-2006, 09:59 AM
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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
You left out a freaky Donny Von Hemel filly (and famous broodmare) from that crop named Mariah's Storm.

She won her debut by 13 lengths, in hand, at the old Ak Sar Ben racetrack. Won a Grade 2 stake by her 3rd lifetime start. She ran in the Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland in her 4th lifetime start, was bet to 3/1, and broke her leg.

She actually returned to the races 10 months later after her scary breakdown, and won a Grade 3 stake with a 103 Beyer! In her very next start she won a stake at Arlington Park by 14 lengths, totally in hand, and earned a 109 Beyer. The 2nd place finisher in that race was a 4-time Stakes winner named Bayou Plans, who was also the dam of Grade 1 winner Midas Eyes.

Of course, the highlight of Mariah's Storm's carrer on the race track was her 5 1/2 length victory, in hand, over "the most consistantly good horse in the last 30 years" Serena's Song. Mariah's Storm earned a 120 Beyer figure in that victory. Which, I believe equals the highest Beyer figure ever run by a filly, at a route distance, since they started publishing them in the racing form.

Mariah's Storm was 10-of-16 lifetime starts....and the movie Dreamer was supposedly loosely based on her story. From those who've seen the movie, I hear VERY loosely based. Mariah's Storm is also famously the dam of Giant's Causeway.

That crop of fillies foaled in '91 was, in my opinion, the best crop I've ever seen by far....and Inside Information, was the most brilliant filly I've seen during my time and absolutely belongs in the Hall of Fame.
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Yeah she was very nice filly for Von Hemel. She completley destroyed
every filly in the mid west. One of my favorite mid west jockeys
rode her for awhile Bobby Lester. She also has produced productive
NY stallion Freud and Roar of The Tiger.
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