Star Over The Bay

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Star Over The Bay


caption =
sire = Cozzene
grandsire = Caro
dam = Lituva Bay
damsire = Empery
sex = Gelding
foaled = February 5, 1998
country = USA (Florida) flagicon|USA
colour = Gray
breeder = Four Horsemen’s Ranch
owner = G. Racing
trainer = Mike Mitchell (trainer)
record = 42 Starts: 10-4-3
earnings= $917,353
race = Clement L. Hirsch Turf Championship Stakes (2004)
Del Mar Handicap (2004)
Sunset Handicap (2004)
Sunshine Millions Turf (2005) | awards=
honours =
updated= December 6, 2007

Star Over The Bay (bred and born in Florida on 2-5-1998; died in Singapore on May 15, 2005) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who rose from the claimer ranks for $80,000. Once he began winning his races, he earned more than $700,000. Before that, he was raced over and over in claiming races, often in the money, but never in a stakes event. (A claiming race is one in which any horse running can be claimed by accredited horse trainers for a stipulated sum. To race in a claiming event, an owner and trainer takes the chance his horse will be sold out from under him, but it also keeps horses of greater ability from racing against horses of lesser ability, thereby unfairly winning most of the purse money.)

The light gray's career did not really get going until he was claimed at Hollywood Park in early 2004 as a five-year-old. At that point, he began to be trained by Mike Mitchell. Mitchell found the speed and the talent in what had seemed an ordinary horse out of the claiming ranks. He quickly won three consecutive graded turf races for Mitchell. He wired the field in the 2004 Grade II Sunset Handicap.

Star Over The Bay’s biggest win was the January, 2005 run of the Sunshine Millions Turf at Santa Anita Park under the Eclipse Award winning jockey, Tyler Baze.

Star Over The Bay, at seven, seemed on his way to an important late-blooming successful career when he fractured his right fore leg (sesamoid). On May 15th, 2005, he was near the front of the field at the half mile pole in the Grade I 1.8 million dollar Singapore International Cup at Kranji Racecourse. To avoid causing him more pain, he was humanely euthanized on the track.

Mitchell said: ""I saw Tyler pulling him up and didn't realize how bad it was until he came back crying. If I could have just brought him back and retired him, I would feel so much better." (Cal Racing, 12-7-07)

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/star+over+the+bay Star Over The Bay’s pedigree plus photo]
* [http://www.calracing.com/stable_notes.php?f=rejuvenatedgomezcontinuesridingtear Mitchell responds to Star Over The Bay's death]
* [http://www.ntra.com/stats_bios.aspx?id=2414 Mitchell's NTRA bio]
* [http://www.ntra.com/stats_bios.aspx?id=12700 G Racing NTRA bio]
* [http://www.drf.com/drfNewsArticle.do?NID=65007&subs=0&arc=1 The Daily Racing Form on Star Over The Bay]