Smart Strike
| Smart Strike | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Philip H. Iselin Handicap (1996) |
| Awards | |
| Leading sire in North America (2007, 2008) | |
| Honours | |
| Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (2008) | |
Smart Strike (May 21, 1992, in
mare Classy 'n Smart, Smart Strike is a half-brother to 1991 Canadian Triple Crown champion Dance Smartly
.
Owned and bred by
Philip H. Iselin Handicap. However, he was just developing into a top-flight horse when his career was cut short by injury. He suffered a condylar fracture during a workout while preparing for the Breeders' Cup
.
At maturity, he reached 16 hands (64 inches, 163 cm) high.[2]
Stud record
Since he was retired to
stallion
rose dramatically as a result of the performance of his offspring. Twice honored as the leading Sire in North America, he was the sire of 113 stakes winners, 12 champions, five Breeders' Cup winners, and two Classic victors. He has also found international success, both as a sire and broodmare sire, producing champions in several different countries.
- Fleetstreet Dancer (b. 1998) - won Japan Cup Dirt
- Tenpins (b. 1998) - Philip H. Iselin Handicap
- Canadian Horse of the Year (2004), set North Americanrecord for 7 furlongs on turf
- Portcullis (b. 1999) - 2002 Champion Grass Horse in Canada
- Added Edge (b. 2000) - Canadian Champion 2-Year-Old Colt(2002)
- Canadian Champion 3-Year-Old Filly, dam of Eye of the Leopard
- English Channel (b. 2002) - American Champion Male Turf Horse (2007), multiple Grade 1 winner including the Breeders' Cup Turf
- Canadian Champion 3-Year-Old Filly (2005). Dam of 2022 Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike
- Fabulous Strike (b. 2003) - earned a "huge" 118 Aristides Breeders' Cup Stakes
- Laurel Futurity(2006), Straight Deal Stakes (2007)
- Curlin (b. 2004) - 2007 / 2008 American Horse of the Year, wins include Preakness Stakes, Breeders' Cup Classic, Dubai World Cup.
- Furthest Land (b. 2005) - winner of the 2009 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile and Kentucky Cup Classic
- Square Eddie (b. 2006) - won 2008 Breeders' Futurity Stakes, 2nd Breeders' Cup Juvenile
- Papa Clem (b. 2006) - won 2009 Arkansas Derby
- American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt
- My Miss Aurelia (b. 2009) - undefeated as winner of the 2011 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies
- Battle of Midway (b. 2014) - won the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, Affirmed Stakes, and Shared Belief Stakes. 3rd in 2017 Kentucky Derby
Damsire:
- Mine That Bird (b. 2006) - won 2009 Kentucky Derby
- Shared Account (b. 2006) - won 2010 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf
- Queen's Plate and Plate Trial Stakes
- Inglorious (b. 2008) - won 2011 Queen's Plate, Woodbine Oaks, La Lorgnette Stakes
- Dullahan (b. 2009) - won 2012 Pacific Classic Stakes, Blue Grass Stakes, 2011 Breeders' Futurity Stakes, half-brother to Mine That Bird
- Rich Strike (b. 2019) - won 2022 Kentucky Derby
- Stars on Earth (b. 2019) - won 2022 Oka Sho, Yushun Himba
Death and honors
For his contribution to Thoroughbred racing, Smart Strike was inducted in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2008.
While remarkably healthy and fertile until early 2015, Smart Strike was humanely euthanized on March 25, 2015, as a result of complications due to laminitis.
Pedigree
| Sire Mr. Prospector (USA) 1970 |
Raise a Native (CAN) 1961 |
Native Dancer | Polynesian |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geisha | |||
| Raise You | Case Ace | ||
| Lady Glory | |||
| Gold Digger 1962 |
Nashua | Nasrullah | |
| Segula | |||
| Sequence | Count Fleet | ||
| Miss Dogwood | |||
| Dam Classy 'n Smart (CAN) 1981 |
Smarten | Cyane | Turn-To |
| Your Game | |||
| Smartaire | Quibu | ||
| Art Teacher | |||
| No Class | Nodouble | Noholme | |
| Alba-Jay | |||
| Classy Quillo | Outing Class | ||
| Quillopoly (family 23-b)[4] |
References
- ^ "Champion Sire Smart Strike Euthanized". BloodHorse. March 25, 2015.
- ^ Peters, Anne (March 13, 2015). "Pedigree Analysis: Is Bigger Always Better?". BloodHorse.
- ^ "Pedigree of Smart Strike". Equineline. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
- ^ "Thoroughbred Bloodlines - Turk Mare - Family 23-b". www.bloodlines.net. Retrieved 11 August 2020.