Rags to Riches (horse): Difference between revisions

{{InfoboxShort thoroughbreddescription|American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse}}

| caption = Rags to Riches in the paddock area at [[Belmont Park]] during the day of the [[Belmont Stakes]]<br />(June 9, 2007)

| sire = [[A.P. Indy]]

| grandsire = [[Seattle Slew]]

| damsire = [[Deputy Minister (horse)|Deputy Minister]]

| sex = [[FillyMare]]

| record = 7: 5-1-0

| earnings = $1,340,028

| race = [[Las Virgenes Stakes]] (2007)<br />[[Santa Anita Oaks]] (2007)<br />[[Kentucky Oaks]] (2007)<br />

'''Rags to Riches''' (foaled February 27, 2004, in [[Kentucky]]) is ana [[Unitedretired champion States|American]] [[thoroughbredThoroughbred]] [[horse racing|racehorse]] who inwon the 2007 became[[Belmont Stakes]], the first [[filly]] to win the [[Belmont Stakes]]it in over a century.

Rags to Riches is a [[Chestnut (horse color)|chestnut]] mare sired by 1992 [[Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year|U.S. Horse of the Year]] and [[National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame|U.S. Racing Hall of Fame]] inductee [[A.P. Indy]]. She was out of the [[mare (horse)|mare]] [[Better Than Honour]], who also produced the 2006 [[Belmont Stakes]] winner, [[Jazil]].

Sent to the track at age two under trainer [[Todd Pletcher]], Rags to Riches made her first start at [[Churchill Downs]] in a 45½ -[[furlong]] sprint[[maiden race]] on June 10, 2006, finishing fourth.

====Belmont Stakes====

In the race, Rags to Riches stumbled out of the starting gate but recovered to move within striking distance of the pacesetters. At the top of the stretch, she dueled head-to-head with [[Preakness Stakes]] and eventual [[American Horse of the Year|Horse of the Year]] winner [[Curlin]]. Curlin put his nose in front briefly, but the filly fought back and beat him to the finish line by a head. Rags to Riches' win made her only the third filly to ever win the Belmont and the first since [[Tanya (horse)|Tanya]] in 1905. She was also the first filly to win the race at the current 1½ -mile distance at [[Belmont Park]]. (The race distance has varied: from 1867 until 1873, it was {{convert|1+5/8|mi|km}}. In 1874, the distance was reduced to {{convert|1+1/2|mi|km}}, and from 1890 to 1892, and in 1895, the distance was {{convert|1+1/4|mi|km}}. From 1896 until 1925, the distance was increased to {{convert|1+3/8|mi|km}}. In 1926, the race distance was set at the present {{convert|1+1/2|mi|km}}). Tanya's win came 38 years after [[Ruthless (horse)|Ruthless]] captured the inaugural running of the Belmont in 1867.

"Here comes Hard Spun. And Curlin is coming through in between horses! And Rags to Riches is coming with a four-wide sweep! And Tiago is in behind them. And at the top of the stretch, a filly is in front at the Belmont! But Curlin is right there with her! These two, in a battle of the sexes at the Belmont Stakes! It is Curlin on the inside &ndash;– Rags to Riches on the outside. A desperate finish: Rags to Riches and Curlin! They're coming down to the wire. It's gonna be very close! And it's gonna be. ... ''a filly in the Belmont''! Rags to Riches has beaten Curlin and a hundred years of Belmont history! The first filly to win it in over a century!"

====Later 2007 season====

[[ImageFile:Rags to Riches Horse at Belmont Park.JPG|thumb|right|275px|Rags to Riches in the paddock area at [[Belmont Park]]]]

Rags to Riches received several honors at the end of her three-year-old season. Among voters, she was a [[Teen Choice Awards|Teen Choice Award]] nominee for Choice Female Athlete <ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/07/03/teen-choice-nominees-announced |title = Yahoo}}</ref> in 2007. She was also named 2007 [[World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings|World Champion 3-year-old filly]] by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA).

===2008: Four-Year-Old Season===

==RetirementBreeding and studcareer==

SheRags to Riches was sent to [[broodmare]] duty at [[Ashford Stud]] in [[Versailles, Kentucky]], andwhere onshe March 9, 2009, gave birth tohad her first foal, aand fillywas byexported [[Giant'sto CausewayIreland (horse)|Giant'sin Causeway]] named Opulence2009. She was then bredreturned to [[Henrythenavigator]]America andfor onthe March2016 17,breeding 2010season. That year, foaledshe awas colt.bred Sheto foaledTriple aCrown colt bywinner [[GalileoAmerican (horse)|GalileoPharoah]], inbut Irelandshe did not get in 2011foal, andso she was bred back to Galileo.<ref[[Uncle name="2011Mo]] foal">{{citeinstead web|title=Chargingand toproduced thea Kentuckycolt Derby|url=http://csin 2017.bloodhorse.com/blogs/throughthelens/archive/2011/05/03/charging-to-the-kentucky-derby.aspx|publisher=Bloodhorse.com|accessdate=24 May 2011}}</ref>

|mm = [[Blush With Pride]]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070612113426/http://www.nyra.com/belmont/stories/Belmont.shtml "Girl Gone Wild! Rags to Riches Makes Belmont History"] [[New York Racing Association]] - [[Belmont Park]]

* [http://www.ntra.com/content.aspx?type=news&id=30511 January 21, 2008 NTRA article titled ''Rags to Riches is top 3-year-old filly'']

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100608204138/http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/ivp/index?id=2899138 ESPN video of the 139th Belmont Stakes]