Lady's Secret was Secretariat's daughter and most successful progeny. She was so successful that it's hard to know where to begin! Her record was 45: 25-9-3 with total earnings of $3,021,328. She was trained by D. Wayne Lukas. She was voted #76 on the Blood Horse Top 100 race horses of the 20th century list. In 1986, as an older mare, she defeated the best male horses in our nation four times! She won 10 of her 15 starts in her fourth year, and every single one was a Graded Stakes race! Eight of those 10 wins were in Grade 1 Stakes Races!! No other horse in history has won that many Graded Stakes races in a single season. She was the first filly to win the Whitney Stakes since Gallorette. So, no wonder that she won the Eclipse Outstanding Older Female Horse Award and the very privileged, rarely won by fillies, Eclipse Horse of the Year Award!
She is the all-time highest female money-earner. She was inducted in the Hall of Fame the year I earned my Ph.D., 1992!!! How cool is that! Her nickname was "Iron Lady" and she was ridden frequently by Pat Day. But another of her riders, Chris McCarron said of her, "Lady's Secret was awesome! She brought a very tough attitude with her into every race!" The Lady's Secret Cafe at Monmouth Park in New Jersey and the Lady's Secret Breeder's Cup Handicap at Santa Anita honor her! On All Saint's Day in 1986, she won the Breeder's Cup Distaff, sealing her fate as an Eclipse Winner. In one of the links below, you can see that race! It's fabulous! She ran like her daddy. She was out front right at the start, relaxed, calm, smooth, running her own private race. She stays out front the entire time, mostly at 5 1/2 lengths. They try to close on her, but as the announcer says, she "puts it in another gear." As she sails effortlessly over the finish line, way, way in front, the announcer goes nuts and says, "[she is] a brilliant champion! Another flawless performance!" She retired to become a mother and bore 11 kids. She died due to complications of childbirth on March 4, 2003, the same week that Violet was born. Her last foal is named Cool Valley Cowboy! You can read more about this amazing filly at the following links:http://www.tmeter.com/horses/ladyssecret.html
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http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall/horse.asp?ID=99
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http://www.thoroughbredchampions.com/biographies/ladyssecret.htm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady