Shared Account to be bred to Bernardini
Sagamore Farm announced today their recently retired 2010 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (GI) champion, Shared Account (Pleasantly Perfect – Silk N’ Sapphire by Smart Strike) will be bred to Bernardini (A.P. Indy – Cara Rafaela, by Quiet American). The winner of the 2006 Preakness Stakes, Bernardini has produced 335 foals of racing age with earnings totaling $7,316,863 over three years.
Registered progeny of Bernardini include seven graded stakes winners, ten stakes winners and eight stakes placers. Notable active thoroughbreds Bernardini has sired include three-year-old, Stay Thirsty, owned by Repole Stable and winner of the 2011 Travers Stakes with $1,475,000 in career earnings. Other top runners produced by Bernardini include To Honor and Serve, 2011 Cigar Mile Handicap (GI) winner with $1,146,340 in career earnings, and Wilburn, who has compiled $586,515 in career earnings and won the Indiana Derby (GII) this year.
In addition to winning the Preakness Stakes, Bernardini also won the Travers Stakes (GI) and Jockey Club Gold Cup (GI) en route to championship honors in 2006. That year, he placed second to Invasor in the Breeders' Cup Classic (GI) at Churchill Downs. Bernardini was foaled on March 23, 2003 at Darley Stable in Kentucky. A son of A.P. Indy, he is out of Cara Rafaela, who won almost a million dollars over the course of her racing career. Her sire was Quiet American, who also produced Real Quiet, a horse that came within a nose of winning the 1998 Triple Crown. In eight career entries, Bernardini holds a record of 6-1-0 and earnings of $3,060,480.
Shared Account arrived at Sagamore Farm in 2007 and was among the first of four yearlings bloodstock agent, Bob Feld purchased for the farm under owner, Kevin Plank. She was purchased during the fall sales at Keeneland Association Inc. for $170,000. Her racing career was guided by 2011 Kentucky Derby winning trainer, H. Graham Motion, and she was based at Fair Hill Training Center in Elkton, Md. until she returned to Sagamore Farm for retirement.
As a two-year-old, Shared Account won her first career start to break her maiden at Laurel Park on Oct. 31, 2008. The following year during her three-year-old campaign, she hit the board seven times in nine starts earning $334,600 with a win at the Lake Placid Stakes (GII), and finished second in the Garden City Stakes (GI) and Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes (GI). As a four-year-old, she won the All Along Stakes (GIII) and finished second in the Diana Handicap (GI), in addition to winning the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (GI).
