Shared Account Booked to Bernardini

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Photo: Rick Samuels

Shared Account won the 2010 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.
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Shared Account, winner of last year’s Emirates Airline Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (gr. IT), is booked to leading second-crop sire Bernardini  .

Five-year-old Shared Account (Pleasantly Perfect  —Silk n’ Sapphire, by Smart Strike  ) also won the Lake Placid Stakes (gr. IIT) and the All Along Stakes (gr. IIIT) during her career and placed in three grade I events. She exited racing with 10 top-two finishes from 18 starts and earnings of $1,649,427 for Kevin Plank’s Sagamore Farm.

Champion 3-year-old male of 2006, Bernardini (A.P. Indy—Cara Rafaela, by Quiet American  ) is the runaway leader on the 2011 second-crop sire list and is the sire of 10 stakes winners. They include this year’s Travers Stakes (gr. I) winner Stay Thirsty  , Indiana Derby (gr. II) victor Wilburn  , and Pennsylvania Derby (gr. II) winner To Honor and Serve  . Bernardini’s other stakes winners include Italian group I winner Biondetti   and two English group winners.

Bernardini stands at Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley near Lexington. His 2012 fee is $150,000.
 

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