Prairie Bayou

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Prairie Bayou


caption =
sire = Little Missouri
grandsire = Cox's Ridge
dam = Whiffling
damsire = Wavering Monarch
sex = Gelding
foaled = 1990
country = United States flagicon|USA
colour = Chestnut
breeder = Loblolly Stable
owner = Loblolly Stable
trainer = Thomas Bohannan
record = 12:7-3-0
earnings = $1,450,621
race = Count Fleet Stakes (1993)
Whirlaway Stakes (1993)
Jim Beam Stakes (1993)
Blue Grass Stakes (1993)

American Classic Race wins:
Preakness Stakes (1993)
awards=U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt (1993)
honours = Prairie Bayou Stakes at Turfway Park
updated= August 4, 2007

Prairie Bayou (1990-1993) was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse owned and bred by Loblolly Stable of Lake Hamilton, Arkansas.

Named for a bayou between Little Rock and Hot Springs in Arkansas, he was sired by Little Missouri and out of the mare, Whiffling. Owned by Loblolly Stable, after Prairie Bayou's success on the racetrack, Calumet Farm purchased Whiffling in foal to Danzig for $1,050,000 at the 1994 Keeneland November Sale.

Leading up to the 1993 Kentucky Derby, Prairie Bayou won four important stakes races for three-year-olds including the Grade I Blue Grass Stakes. Made the betting favorite for the Derby, as well as for all three of the Triple Crown races, Prairie Bayou was ridden by jockey Mike Smith. A come-from-behind horse, in the Derby he was caught far back in the large field for most of the race. In the final quarter, the colt had to move to the far outside in order to make a strong stretch run that earned him a second-place finish behind Sea Hero.

Prairie Bayou came back to win the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown but then broke down in the Belmont Stakes and had to be euthanized. He is buried at Longfield Farm near Goshen, Kentucky.

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/prairie+bayou Prairie Bayou's pedigree and partial racing stats]