My Juliet

My Juliet
Sire	Gallant Romeo
Grandsire	Gallant Man
Dam	My Bupers
Damsire	Bupers
Sex	Filly
Foaled	1972
Country	United States
Colour	Dark Bay/Brown
Breeder	J. R. Bettersworth
Owner	George Weasel, Jr.
Trainer	1) Leland G. Ripley, 2) Eugene Euster
Record	36: 24-4-2
Earnings	US$548,859
Major wins
Pocahontas Stakes (1974) Anne Arundel Stakes (1975) Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (1975) Cotillion Handicap (1975) Dogwood Stakes (1975) Next Move Handicap (1975) Test Stakes (1975) Ta Wee Handicap (1976) Vagrancy Handicap (1976) Vosburgh Handicap (1976) Las Flores Handicap (1977) Michigan Mile And One-Eighth Handicap (1977) Neshaminy Handicap (1977) Endine Stakes (1977)
Awards
American Champion Sprint Horse (1976)
Honours
My Juliet Stakes at Philadelphia Park Racetrack My Juliet Café in the Picnic Grove at Philadelphia Park Racetrack
Horse (Equus ferus caballus)

My Juliet (1972-2001) was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse who defeated both male and female competitors. Bred in Kentucky, she was out of the mare, My Bupers. Her sire was Gallant Romeo, the multiple stakes winning son of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Gallant Man. Gallant Romeo also sired Gallant Bob who earned 1975 Champion Sprint Horse honors.

Two year-old season

My Juliet was initially trained by Leland G. Ripley until Eugene Euster took over during her three-year-old season. Both raced her from a base at Keystone Racetrack (now known as Philadelphia Park Racetrack). She began her career in racing as a two-year-old in 1974, making her debut at Fonner Park in Grand Island, Nebraska. She went on that year to earn her first important win in the Pocahontas Stakes.

Three year-old season

On May 16, 1975 My Juliet's connections owner George Weasel, Jr. and trainer Eugene Euster decided to run her in the defacto second jewel of the filly triple crown, the Grade II $65,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico Race Course. That day in Baltimore, Maryland My Juliet beat a strong field of six stakes winners including favorite Gala Lil and Funalon. She completed the one and one sixteenth mile race on dirt in 1:44.00 under jockey Alan Hill. As a three-year-old in 1975, she also won the then Grade 1 Cotillion Handicap at and ended the year winning nine of fifteen starts and established herself as one of the top sprinters of either sex racing in the United States. ^[1]

Four year-old season

In early May of 1976, four-year-old My Juliet suffered a fracture to her left foreleg while winning the Vagrancy Handicap for fillies and mares at New York's Belmont Park. Out of racing for more than five months, she came back to beat Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Bold Forbes and other males in winning the Vosburgh Stakes, also at Belmont Park. ^[2] At a time when there was only one Eclipse Award for horses of either sex in the Sprint category, My Juliet was voted the American Champion Sprint Horse of 1976.

My Juliet returned to race at age five. She began her campaign on January 1 in California with a win against a field of females in the Las Flores Handicap at Santa Anita Park. ^[3] She went on to win the 1977 Endine Stakes at Delaware Park, again against a field of females, plus defeated males in winning both the Neshaminy Handicap at Keystone Racetrack and in the Michigan Mile And One-Eighth Handicap at Detroit Race Course.

My Juliet retired a winner of twenty-four races, of which seventeen were stakes. As a broodmare in Kentucky, she notably produced two daughters by U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Alydar who met with racing success:

• Tis Juliet (b. 1986) - won the Shuvee Handicap
• Stella Madrid (b. 1987) - won the Frizette, Spinaway, Matron and Acorn Stakes.

My Juliet died at age twenty-nine in November of 2001. ^[4] She raced for most of her career from a base at Philadelphia Park Racetrack (formerly known as Keystone Racetrack). In 1979, the track created the My Juliet Stakes and built the My Juliet Café in the Picnic Grove in her honor.

Pedigree of My Juliet

Sire Gallant Romeo	Gallant Man	Migoli	Bois Roussel
			Mah Iran
		Majideh	Mahmoud
			Qurrat-al-Ain
	Juliet's Nurse	Count Fleet	Reigh Count
			Quickly
		Nursemaid	Luke McLuke
			Wonderful One
Dam My Bupers	Bupers	Double Jay	Balladier
			Broomshot
		Busanda	War Admiral
			Businesslike
	Princess Revoked	Revoked	Blue Larkspur
			Gala Belle
		Miss Muffet	Challedon
			Bona Via

References

• My Juliet's pedigree and partial racing stats

1. ^ Bloodhorse.com - May 20, 2004 article titled Phlashback: A Phew Philly Phenoms
2. ^ New York Times - October 31, 1976 article on the Vosburgh Stakes titled "My Juliet Beats Colts"
3. ^ Los Angeles Times - January 2, 1977
4. ^ Philadelphia Inquirer - November 16, 2001