Shirl’s Speight

Shirl’s Speight


Speightstown / Perfect Shirl, by Perfect Soul, 2017, Bay
Fee: $5,000
Shirl’s Speight

  • A Rare Find in Kentucky: By a Breeders’ Cup-winning sire and out of a Breeders’ Cup winning mare.
  • His Champion sire Speightstown won the 2004 Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) and his dam Perfect Shirl was the winner of the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1) in 2011.
  • A Grade 1 winner when capturing the Maker’s Mark Mile S. (G1) in at Keeneland, earning a career-high 104 Beyer Speed Figure.
  • Finished a close second behind Champion Modern Games (Ire) in the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) at Keeneland, finishing ahead of eight G1 winners.
  • Finished second in the Woodbine Mile (G1) to Master of the Seas (Ire).
  • Versatile in pedigree and form and accomplished on all three surfaces
  • Earned Graded Black-type on dirt when third in the Salvator Mile (G3) at Monmouth Park, behind G1-winning multimillionaires Mind Control and Hot Rod Charlie.
  • Winner of his stakes debut in the Marine S. (G3) over the all-weather at Woodbine as a 3-year-old, recording a 91 Beyer.
  • An eight-length winner on debut over the turf at Woodbine.
  • A durable horse who retires sound and ran each year for the past five years
SPEIGHTSTOWN (USA)
ch. 1998
GONE WEST (USA)
dkb/br. 1984 [IC]
MR. PROSPECTOR (USA)
b. 1970 [BC]
RAISE A NATIVE (USA)
GOLD DIGGER (USA)
SECRETTAME (USA)
ch. 1978
SECRETARIAT (USA)
TAMERETT (USA)
SILKEN CAT (CAN)
ch. 1993
STORM CAT (USA)
dkb/br. 1983
STORM BIRD (CAN)
TERLINGUA (USA)
SILKEN DOLL (USA)
b. 1980
CHIEFTAIN (USA)
INSILCA (USA)
PERFECT SHIRL (USA)
b. 2007
PERFECT SOUL (IRE)
b. 1998
SADLERS WELLS (USA)
b. 1981 [CS]
NORTHERN DANCER (CAN)
FAIRY BRIDGE (USA)
BALL CHAIRMAN (USA)
ch. 1988
SECRETARIAT (USA)
A STATUS SYMBOL (USA)
LADY SHIRL (USA)*
b. 1987
THATS A NICE (USA)
ch. 1974
HEY GOOD LOOKIN (USA)
OUR BONNIE S (USA)
CANONIZATION (USA)
b. 1976
NATIVE HERITAGE (USA)
HEATHERGLOW (USA)

Race Record

Age Starts 1st 2nd 3rd Earned
3 4 2 0 0 $101,980
4 2 0 0 0 $1,000
5 8 3 1 1 $907,092
6 5 0 1 0 $425,232
7 6 0 1 0 $61,941
Total 25 5 3 2 $1,497,245
Won at 3:
  • Maiden special weight at Woodbine (7F, Turf, by 8 lengths, on debut)
  • Marine S. at Woodbine (G3, 8.5F, All weather, by 2 ¾ lengths)
3rd at 3:
  • Toronto Cup at Woodbine (8F, Turf, to Proven Strategies and Lucky Curlin)
Won at 5:
  • Maker’s Mark Mile S. at Keeneland (G1, 8F, Turf, by a nose, defeating Masen, Smooth Like Strait, etc.)
  • Tampa Bay S. at Tampa Bay Downs  (G1, 8.5F, Turf, by 1 ½ lengths, defeating Get Smokin, Floriform, etc.)
  • Allowance optional claimer at Tampa Bay Downs (8.5F, Turf, by 1 ¾ lengths, defeating Hidden Stash, Driftwood, etc.)
2nd at 5:
  • Breeders’ Cup Mile at Keeneland(G1, 8F, Turf, to Modern Games, defeating Kinross, Ivar, etc.)
3rd at 5:
  • Salvator Mile at Monmouth Park (G3, 8F, Dirt, to Mind Control and Hot Rod Charlie, defeating Phat Man and Mohaafeth)
2nd at 6:
  • Woodbine Mile at Woodbine (G1, 8F, Turf, to Master of the Seas, defeating Lucky Score, War Bomber, etc.)
2nd at 7:
  • Allowance optional claimer at Woodbine (8.5F, Turf, to Never Surprised, defeating Wicked Django, etc.)