Fiftyshadesofgold wins the 2014 Eight Belles Stakes.
Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt
Fiftyshadesofgold wins the 2014 Eight Belles Stakes.
Photo: Dave Harmon
Fiftyshadesofgold wins the 2014 Eight Belles Stakes.
Photo: Dave Harmon
Fiftyshadesofgold wins the 2014 Eight Belles Stakes.
Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt
Fiftyshadesofgold - Churchill Downs, April 28, 2014
Photo: Reed Palmer/Churchill Downs
Fiftyshadesofgold wins the 2013 Debutante Stakes.
Photo: Reed Palmer Photography, Churchill Downs| Trainer | W. Bret Calhoun |
|---|---|
| Jockey | Mike E. Smith |
| Owner | Douglas Scharbauer |
| Breeder | Clarence Scharbauer Jr. |
| Fiftyshadesofgold View Five-Cross Pedigree | My Golden Song | Unbridled's Song |
| Golden Par | ||
| Hadif Cat | Hadif | |
| Cats Meow |
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A full field of 13 sophomore fillies, many of them favoring speed and stalking styles, will face off in the TVG Acorn on the Belmont Stakes undercard, looking to close the gap with Untapable for division honors.
Fiftyshadesofgold, winner of the Eight Belles (gr. III) at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Oaks day, breezed a half mile in :49 3/5 the morning of May 30 in her final workout before shipping to Belmont Park for the Acorn (gr. I).
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With a heart the size of the state where she was bred, Fiftyshadesofgold nailed down her first graded stakes win when the Texas-bred held off a determined Milam in the Eight Belles Stakes (gr. III) May 2 at Churchill Downs.
Champion juvenile filly She's a Tiger, disqualified from a win in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies in her final start of 2013, makes her first start of the year in the Eight Belles Stakes (gr. III) May 2 Churchill Downs.
Fair Grounds Oaks (gr. II) runner-up Fiftyshadesofgold will be pointed to the $175,000 Eight Belles Stakes (gr. III) Friday, May 2 instead of the Longines Kentucky Oaks (gr. I).
While no horses being pointed to the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) worked at Churchill Downs April 25, a pair of fillies being pointed to the Longines Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) breezed.
The Texas Stallion Stakes Series will be renamed to honor Clarence Scharbauer Jr., the longtime leading Texas owner and breeder who passed away in February.
Winchell Thoroughbreds' Untapable has turned a dazzling romp in Saturday's Rachel Alexandra Stakes (gr. III) at Fair Grounds Race Course into status as the top individual choice for the Kentucky Oaks Future Wager.
Clarence Scharbauer Jr., a patriarch in Texas racing whose family campaigned 1987 Kentucky Derby (gr. I) winner Alysheba, died Feb. 21 at the age of 88.
Designer Legs, a Louisiana-bred filly who cost $10,000 at auction and began her career in the upper Midwest, shipped into Saratoga Race Course and emerged with a grade II victory to her credit in the Adirondack Stakes.
Clarence Scharbauer Jr.'s talented Fiftyshadesofgold makes her graded stakes debut Aug. 11 at Saratoga Race Course, one of seven fillies entered for the $200,000 Adirondack Stakes (gr. II).
| Ben's Cat |
| Up With the Birds |
| Rachel Alexandra |
| Palace Malice |
| Untapable |
| California Chrome |
| Clearly Now |
| Bodemeister |
| Close Hatches |
| Imperative |
