Sarava

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Sarava


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sire = Wild Again
grandsire = Icecapade
dam = Rhythm of Life
damsire = Deputy Minister
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1999
country = United States flagicon|USA
colour = DarkBay
breeder = Timber Bay Farm
owner = New Phoenix Stable
trainer = Kenneth McPeek
record = 17: 3-3-0
earnings = $773,832
race = Sir Barton Stakes (2002)

American Classic Race wins:
Belmont Stakes (2002)
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honours =
updated= August 21, 2007

Sarava (foaled 1999 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 2002 Belmont Stakes. Sired by the 1984 Breeders' Cup Classic winner Wild Again, he was out of the mare Rhythm of Life, a daughter of Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee and two-time Leading sire in North America, Deputy Minister.

Sarava was purchased for $250,000 at the Fasig-Tipton sale. Sent to race in England, he failed to win in three starts as a 2-year-old. Returned to the United States the fall, under trainer Burk Kessinger, the colt won his American debut in November.

Given over to Kenneth McPeek for conditioning early in his three-year-old season, after a modest 2002 spring campaign he won the Sir Barton Stakes at Pimlico Race Course by an impressive four lengths under jockey Edgar Prado. Sarava and Prado then won the Belmont Stakes at record odds of 70:1, ending the bid by Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner War Emblem to capture the U.S. Triple Crown.

After meeting with limited success in further racing, in 2005 Sarava began stud duty at Cloverleaf Farms II in Reddick, Florida. Mated to the mare Watch Closely, whose grandsire was Mr. Prospector, his first foal, Avaras, was born in 2007.

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/sarava Sarava's pedigree and partial racing stats]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYcdUcjQNu4 Video at YouTube of Sarava winning the 2002 Belmont Stakes]