Lady Eli
| Lady Eli | |
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Lady Eli in 2016
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| Sire | Divine Park |
| Grandsire | Chester House |
| Dam | Sacre Coeur |
| Damsire | Saint Ballado |
| Sex | Filly |
| Foaled | February 2, 2012 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Dark bay or brown |
| Breeder | Runnymede Farm & Catesby Clay |
| Owner | Sheep Pond Partners |
| Trainer | Chad Brown |
| Record | 9: 7-2-0 |
| Earnings | $2,169,800 |
| Major wins | |
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Miss Grillo Stakes (2014) Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (2014) |
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| Last updated on 10 November 2016 | |
Miss Grillo Stakes (2014)
Appalachian Stakes (2015)
Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes (2015)
Flower Bowl Stakes (2016)
Ladi Eli (foaled February 2, 2012 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2014 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. She extended her record to a perfect 6 wins from 6 starts in the 2015 Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes, but then stepped on a nail, which led to a life-threatening case of laminitis. After a lengthy recovery, Lady Eli finished second in her August 2016 return to the racetrack then won the Grade I Flower Bowl Stakes in October.
Bred by Runnymede Farm, Lady Eli is by Divine Park out of Sacre Coeur, both of whom were also bred by Runnymede. Martin O'Dowd of Runnymede Farm would later say: "[Lady Eli] was very independent, but also easy to live with. She was a big, strong filly. As a yearling she was agreeable prepping for the sale; she came out and did what you asked her to do and was very willing and well-behaved. She always had a kind of seriousness about her; she never balked at anything."
As a yearling in 2013, she was sold at the Keeneland September Sale for $160,000. In April 2014 as a two-year-old in training, she was resold at the Keeneland April Sale, again for $160,000. Her new owners are Nantucket contractor Jay Hanley and Boston Hedge Fund Manager Sol Kumin and a few of their friends, who called their stable Sheep Pond Partners after an area in Nantucket. She is trained by Chad Brown and her jockey is Irad Ortiz Jr.
Lady Eli made her racing debut at Saratoga on August 25 as the favorite in a maiden race at 1 1⁄16 miles on the turf. She settled in the middle of the field but was blocked when she tried to make her move on the turn. When she finally got clear with an eighth of a mile to go, she accelerated rapidly and won by a nose. "She was training up to her first race in Saratoga lights out, so we had very high hopes for her — even the layperson could watch her train and see she was training better than other horses there," owner Hanley would later say. "When she finally got through in her debut, she did, she showed her turn of foot and we saw in that last 100 yards what we were seeing in the morning.
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