Hystericalady

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Hystericalady


caption =
sire = Distorted Humor
grandsire = Forty Niner
dam = Sacramentada
damsire = Northair
sex = Filly
foaled = 2003
country = USA flagicon|USA
colour = Chestnut
breeder = Abbott Properties
owner = Rancho San Miguel
Jerry Hollendorfer
George Todaro
trainer = Jerry Hollendorfer
record = 22 Starts: 11 – 4 - 2
earnings= $2,290,556
race = Juan Gonzalez Memorial Stakes (2005)
Hollywood Breeders' Cup Oaks (2006)
Humana Distaff Handicap (2007)
Molly Pitcher Stakes (2007, 2008)
Azeri Breeders' Cup Stakes (2008)
Fleur de Lis Handicap (2008)
Delaware Handicap (2008)
updated= July 13, 2008

Hystericalady (foaled April 2, 2003), is a multiple stakes winning American Thoroughbred race horse. Bred in Kentucky by Abbott Properties, Hystericalady is the best daughter of the leading sire Distorted Humor, a half sister to dual Classic winner Funny Cide, and still racing at five. She’s a daughter of 1991 Chilean champion older mare Sacramentada. A dual group I winner in her native country, Sacramentada also won the 1992 Hawthorne Handicap racing in the U.S. After producing six US-bred foals, Sacramentada returned to Chile in 2004. Sacramentada’s grandsire is Northern Dancer, therefore Hystericalady carries the blood of that great sire on her top line (sire) and bottom line (dam).

Sold as a weanling at the November 2003 Keeneland sales for $100,000, she was sold again as a yearling at Keeneland in September 2004 for $125,000, this time purchased by Jerry Hollendorfer (in partnership with Dr. George Tadaro and Tom Clark's Rancho San Miguel). Like Funny Cide, Hystericalady is a bright chestnut, and like Funny, who won all three of his two-year-old races, she was almost as impressive at two. But as she grows older, she grows more formidable. With her win in the 2008 Delaware Handicap, she became the richest horse in Hollendorfer's career and the richest horse to come from Northern California. (Hystericalady trains under Hollendorfer at Golden Gate Fields.) Now a mare (a filly becomes a mare when she reaches her fifth year), Hystericalady is set for a return to the Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic. It will be her second effort. In 2007, she lost by a neck to Ginger Punch.

Always a standout when she races with an explosive turn of foot, in her latest efforts she’s been sensational. In the 2008 Azeri Breeders' Cup Stakes she went off as the 7-10 favorite. She won the 2008 Fleur de Lis Handicap by seven and a half lengths, giving up nine pounds to her rivals. In the 2008 Delaware Handicap she romped home by four lengths, tackling the distance of 10 furlongs for the first time in her career. Also in August of 2008 she won the Molly Pitcher for the second time in back to back wins, taking it by nine lengths with great ease. In September 2008, running on a synthetic surface (her record stands at 0-for-5), she struggled the entire length of the stretch with the speed horse, Santa Teresita, as well as with the track and still got second.

She has, to date, won seven graded stakes and won 10 times on different tracks.

Racing Career

* 9/27/08, 2nd to Zenyatta in the $245,000 Grade I Lady's Secret Breeders' Cup Handicap at Santa Anita Park.
* 7/24/08, 1st in the $300,000 Grade II Molly Pitcher Breeders' Cup Handicap, Monmouth Park
* 7/13/08, 1st in the $1,000,000 Grade II Delaware Handicap, Delaware Park
* 6/14/08, 1st in the $300,000 Grade II Fleur de Lis Handicap, Churchill Downs
* 5/03/08, 3rd to Intangaroo in the $300,000 Grade I Humana Distaff Handicap, Churchill Downs
* 3/09/08, 1st in the $175,000 Grade III Azeri Breeders' Cup Stakes, Oaklawn Park
* 2/02/08, 4th to Intangaroo in the $250,000 Grade I Santa Monica Handicap, Santa Anita Park
* 10/27/07, 2nd to Ginger Punch in the $2,000,000 Grade I Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic, Monmouth Park
* 10/07/07, 2nd to Tough Tiz's Sis in the $250,000 Grade I Lady's Secret Breeders' Cup Handicap, Oak Tree At Santa Anita Park
* 8/25/07, 1st in the $300,000 Grade II Molly Pitcher Breeders' Cup Handicap, Monmouth Park
* 7/07/07, 3rd to Nashoba's Key in the $300,000 Grade I Vanity Invitational Handicap, Hollywood Park
* 6/03/07, 2nd to Nashoba's Key in the $175,000 Grade II Milady Breeders' Cup Handicap, Hollywood Park
* 5/05/07, 1st in the $300,000 Grade I Humana Distaff Handicap, Churchill Downs
* 2/24/07, 4th to Hello Lucky in the $100,000 Grade III Las Flores Handicap, Santa Anita Park
* 7/15/06, 5th to Adieu in the $500,000 Grade II Delaware Oaks, Delaware Park
* 6/11/06, 1st in the $150,000 Grade II Hollywood Breeders' Cup Oaks, Hollywood Park
* 2005, 1st in the $40,000 Juan Gonzalez Memorial Stakes, Alameda County Fair
* 2005, 1st in her maiden effort under Russell Baze, winning by three and a half lengths.

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/hystericalady Hystericalady’s pedigree, stats, and photo]