My Typhoon
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My Typhoon is an American
Thoroughbred
racehorse
whom the NTRA
calls "one of the world's best-bred horses."
Bred in Ireland
by David Tsui's Sunderland Holdings, she was sired by Giant's Causeway
, a son of Storm Cat
whose stud fee in 2006 became the highest in the world at $500,000. Her dam is Urban Sea
, winner of the 1993 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
and her damsire was Miswaki
, a two-time Leading broodmare sire in Great Britain & Ireland
and a son of Mr. Prospector
. My Typhoon is a half-sister to Galileo
, a colt who in the year before My Typhoon's birth won the 2001 Epsom Derby
, the Irish Derby, and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and was voted the 2001 European Champion Three-Year-Old
. She is also a half sister to 2009's superhorse, Sea the Stars
.
At the December 2002 Tattersalls Sale
, My Typhoon was sold as a weanling to Live Oak Stud of Ocala, Florida
for a then-record price of US$2.95 million. Her new owners entrusted her race conditioning to U.S. Racing Hall of Fame
trainer
William I. Mott.
At Churchill Downs
, in 2005 My Typhoon won her first significant race, capturing the Grade II Mrs. Revere Stakes
. She won again that year at Colonial Downs
, taking the Virginia Oaks
. At age four, she returned to racing and in May 2006 won the Grade III Gallorette Handicap
at Pimlico Race Course
and June's Grade II Mint Julep Handicap
back at Churchill Downs. In August she won the GII Ballston Spa Breeders' Cup Handicap
and after a third place result in the First Lady Stakes at Keeneland Race Course returned to Churchill Downs where she finished sixth in November's Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf
won by the great Ouija Board.
Despite being extremely valuable for her breeding potential, My Typhoon's owners decided to race her at age five. She began 2007 in March with a second place finish in the Hillsborough Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs then won April's Grade III Jenny Wiley Stakes
at Keeneland Race Course. Shipped north, in June she won the Grade II Just A Game Stakes at Belmont Park
and at Saratoga Race Course
on July 28th won her third straight stakes under jockey Eddie Castro
. Her victory in the 1⅛ miles Diana Handicap
turf race marked her first ever Grade 1 win and was also significant because throughout her racing career, My Typhoon has struggled at distances beyond 1-1/16 miles. As well, under the new Breeders' Cup
"Win and You're In" provision for designated races, her victory in the Diana Handicap guaranteed her a berth in the 2007 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf
. In her next outing on August 23rd, My Typhoon finished sixth in the Ballston Spa Handicap.
United States
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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...
racehorse
Horse racing
Horse racing is an equestrian sport that has a long history. Archaeological records indicate that horse racing occurred in ancient Babylon, Syria, and Egypt. Both chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by 648 BC...
whom the NTRA
National Thoroughbred Racing Association
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association is a broad-based coalition of horse racing interests consisting of leading thoroughbred racetracks, owners, breeders, trainers and affiliated horse racing associations, charged with increasing the popularity of horse racing and improving economic...
calls "one of the world's best-bred horses."
Bred in Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
by David Tsui's Sunderland Holdings, she was sired by Giant's Causeway
Giant's Causeway (horse)
Giant's Causeway is a Kentucky-bred thoroughbred racehorse who competed primarily in Europe. In 2000, he won five straight Group One races. His performance that year earned him European Horse of the Year honors....
, a son of Storm Cat
Storm Cat
Storm Cat was an American Thoroughbred stallion whose breeding fee during the peak of his stud career was $500,000, the highest in the world. As such, he was one of the few horses with a 24-hour armed guard....
whose stud fee in 2006 became the highest in the world at $500,000. Her dam is Urban Sea
Urban Sea
Urban Sea was a French Thoroughbred racemare best known for winning France's most prestigious race in 1993 and for her importance as a world class broodmare. She is one of only two mares to ever produce two Epsom Derby winners, namely Galileo and Sea the Stars...
, winner of the 1993 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is a Group 1 flat horse race in France which is open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older. It is run at Longchamp over a distance of 2,400 metres , and it is scheduled to take place each year, usually on the first Sunday in October.Popularly referred to as the...
and her damsire was Miswaki
Miswaki
Miswaki was an American bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was a Group 1 winner in France as well as a stakes race winner in the United States...
, a two-time Leading broodmare sire in Great Britain & Ireland
Leading broodmare sire in Great Britain & Ireland
The list below shows the leading sire of broodmares in Great Britain and Ireland for each year since 1899. This is determined by the amount of prizemoney won during the year by racehorses which were foaled by a daughter of the sire.-----References:*...
and a son of Mr. Prospector
Mr. Prospector
Mr. Prospector was a thoroughbred racehorse foaled in Kentucky, whose descendants have been dominant in the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. He won half of his 14 career races.-Background:...
. My Typhoon is a half-sister to Galileo
Galileo (horse)
Galileo is a retired Irish Thoroughbred racehorse and active sire. He is best known for winning the Epsom Derby, Irish Derby Stakes, and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 2001 and for his rivalry with the Godolphin champion Fantastic Light...
, a colt who in the year before My Typhoon's birth won the 2001 Epsom Derby
Epsom Derby
The Derby Stakes, popularly known as The Derby, internationally as the Epsom Derby, and under its present sponsor as the Investec Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies...
, the Irish Derby, and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and was voted the 2001 European Champion Three-Year-Old
Cartier Racing Award
The Cartier Racing Awards are awards in European horse racing, founded in 1991, and sponsored by Cartier jewelers. The award winners are decided by points earned in group races plus the votes cast by British racing journalists and readers of the Racing Post and Daily Telegraph newspapers.Eight...
. She is also a half sister to 2009's superhorse, Sea the Stars
Sea the Stars
Sea The Stars is a champion Irish Thoroughbred colt racehorse. Regarded by many as one of the greatest racehorses of all time, he is best known for winning the 2,000 Guineas, the Epsom Derby, the Eclipse Stakes, - the first colt to accomplish this treble since 1989 champion Nashwan - the...
.
At the December 2002 Tattersalls Sale
Tattersalls
Tattersalls is the main auctioneer of race horses in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It was founded in 1766 by Richard Tattersall , who had been stud groom to the second Duke of Kingston. The first premises occupied were near Hyde Park Corner, in what was then the outskirts of London...
, My Typhoon was sold as a weanling to Live Oak Stud of Ocala, Florida
Ocala, Florida
Ocala is a city in Marion County, Florida. As of 2007, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 53,491. It is the county seat of Marion County, and the principal city of the Ocala, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated 2007 population of 324,857.-History:Ocala...
for a then-record price of US$2.95 million. Her new owners entrusted her race conditioning to U.S. Racing Hall of Fame
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers...
trainer
Horse trainer
In horse racing, a trainer prepares a horse for races, with responsibility for exercising it, getting it race-ready and determining which races it should enter...
William I. Mott.
At Churchill Downs
Churchill Downs
Churchill 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...
, in 2005 My Typhoon won her first significant race, capturing the Grade II Mrs. Revere Stakes
Mrs. Revere Stakes
The Mrs. Revere Stakes is an American race for thoroughbred horses run at Churchill Downs in the late fall of the year. It is open to fillies, age three, willing to race one and one-sixteenth of a mile on the turf...
. She won again that year at Colonial Downs
Colonial Downs
Colonial Downs is a racetrack for Thoroughbred flat racing and Standardbred harness racing located in New Kent County, Virginia adjacent to Interstate 64, halfway between Richmond, Virginia and Williamsburg, Virginia.-History and information:...
, taking the Virginia Oaks
Virginia Oaks
The Virginia Oaks Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in mid July at Colonial Downs in New Kent County, Virginia open to three-year-old fillies.First run in 2004, the Grade III event is contested on the Secretariat Turf Course....
. At age four, she returned to racing and in May 2006 won the Grade III Gallorette Handicap
Gallorette Handicap
The Gallorette Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run on Preakness Day at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland as a stakes feature of the undercard. It's set at a distance of one and one sixteenth miles on the turf....
at Pimlico Race Course
Pimlico Race Course
Pimlico Race Course is a horse racetrack in Baltimore, Maryland, most famous for hosting the Preakness Stakes. Its name is derived from the 1660s when English settlers named the area where the facility currently stands in honor of Olde Ben Pimlico's Tavern in London...
and June's Grade II Mint Julep Handicap
Mint Julep Handicap
The Mint Julep Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Churchill Downs racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky. Run in mid May, the Grade III event is open to fillies and mares age three and older...
back at Churchill Downs. In August she won the GII Ballston Spa Breeders' Cup Handicap
Ballston Spa Breeders' Cup Handicap
The Ballston Spa Handicap is an American race for thoroughbred horses open to fillies and mares, age three and up, on the turf at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York...
and after a third place result in the First Lady Stakes at Keeneland Race Course returned to Churchill Downs where she finished sixth in November's Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf
Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf
The Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf is a Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse race on turf for fillies and mares, three years old and up. It is held annually at a different racetrack in the United States as part of the Breeders' Cup World Championships....
won by the great Ouija Board.
Despite being extremely valuable for her breeding potential, My Typhoon's owners decided to race her at age five. She began 2007 in March with a second place finish in the Hillsborough Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs then won April's Grade III Jenny Wiley Stakes
Jenny Wiley Stakes
The Jenny Wiley Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the second week of April at Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington, Kentucky...
at Keeneland Race Course. Shipped north, in June she won the Grade II Just A Game Stakes at Belmont Park
Belmont Park
Belmont Park is a major thoroughbred horse-racing facility located in Elmont in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, on Long Island adjoining New York City. It first opened on May 4, 1905...
and at Saratoga Race Course
Saratoga Race Course
Saratoga Race Course is a Thoroughbred horse racing track in Saratoga Springs, New York, United States. It opened on August 3, 1863, and is the oldest organized sporting venue of any kind in the United States. It is typically open for racing from late July through early September.-History:John...
on July 28th won her third straight stakes under jockey Eddie Castro
Eddie Castro
Eddie Castro is a Panamanian-born jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. He grew up on a produce farm in Panama where he learned to ride saddle horses. Influenced by the accomplishments of other local jockeys, Castro attended the Panamanian jockey school and began riding in races in...
. Her victory in the 1⅛ miles Diana Handicap
Diana Handicap
The Diana Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race. Named for the mythological goddess Diana, the race is run each year at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. Inaugurated in 1939, it is open to fillies and mares age three and up willing to race the one and one-eighth miles on...
turf race marked her first ever Grade 1 win and was also significant because throughout her racing career, My Typhoon has struggled at distances beyond 1-1/16 miles. As well, under the new Breeders' Cup
Breeders' Cup
The Breeders' Cup World Championships is an annual series of Thoroughbred horse races, most but not all Grade I, operated by Breeders' Cup Limited, a company formed in 1982. From its inception in 1984 through 2006, it was a single-day event; starting in 2007, it expanded to two days. The location...
"Win and You're In" provision for designated races, her victory in the Diana Handicap guaranteed her a berth in the 2007 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf
Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf
The Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf is a Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse race on turf for fillies and mares, three years old and up. It is held annually at a different racetrack in the United States as part of the Breeders' Cup World Championships....
. In her next outing on August 23rd, My Typhoon finished sixth in the Ballston Spa Handicap.