Sharp Cat
| Sharp Cat | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Ruffian Handicap (1998) |
| Last updated on April 12, 2010 | |
Sharp Cat (1994–2008) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won fifteen of her twenty-two starts of which seven of her wins were Grade 1 events.
Background
She was a daughter of the two-time
In Neon
.
Sharp Cat was bred by
Prince Ahmed bin Salman who raced her under his The Thoroughbred Corp. Sharp Cat was conditioned for racing from a base in California by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee D. Wayne Lukas who handled her in 1996 and 1997. Wally Dollase
took over as her trainer in 1998.
Racing career
In 1996, Sharp Cat won the Grades 1
Breeders' Cup Distaff
.
Racing as a four-year-old for trainer Wally Dollase, Sharp Cat won two more Grade 1 races, the
Ruffian Handicap and, in a race in which she earned an exceptional 119 Beyer Speed Figure, the Beldame Stakes.[2] Undefeated that year, Sharp Cat was sent to Churchill Downs for the November 1998 Breeders' Cup Distaff as the pre-race favorite but did not compete after suffering a nearly fatal case of cramping that sent her into shock.[3]
Stud record
Prince Ahmed bin Salman died in 2002, and the following year his estate sold Sharp Cat to
Seeking the Gold, and Cherokee Run without producing a significant runner.[4] On April 21, 2008, at the Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington, Kentucky, she was humanely euthanized as a result of birthing complications after delivering a foal by A.P. Indy.[5]