Take Charge Lady
Mar 17, 2013 17:05:15 GMT -5
Post by Jon on Mar 17, 2013 17:05:15 GMT -5
A top-class racer, Take Charge Lady was such a standout at Keeneland racecourse that she just might have won the Derby if it had been run in Lexington, rather than Louisville. The filly did not race for the Derby but for the Oaks, where she was upset by the Broad Brush filly Farda Amiga.
Take Charge Lady, a bay daughter of champion juvenile Dehere, won half of her 22 starts, earned $2,480,377, and took the G1 laurels for victories in the 2002 Ashland and the 2002 and 2003 Spinster. She was also second four times in G1 stakes at other racetracks.
Sold as a broodmare carrying her first foal in 2004, Take Charge Lady brought $4.2 million, and the following spring produced Charming (by Seeking the Gold), who was a winner from three starts. Breeder Eaton Sales recouped much of the mare’s purchase price with the sale of Charming for $3.2 million as a yearling in 2006 and then sold the mare’s third foal, a filly by Storm Cat later named Elarose, for $800,000 in 2008.
In contrast to Take Charge Lady’s fillies, her first two colts did not generate much enthusiasm at the sales. The mare’s second foal, the Fusaichi Pegasus colt Love Pegasus, brought only $85,000 as a yearling at Keeneland September in 2007, and Take Charge Indy was bought back for $80,000 at the Keeneland auction in 2010.
Bred by Eaton Sales like the mare’s preceding foals, Take Charge Indy changed hands privately and races for Chuck and Maribeth Sandford. As the fourth foal of his dam, the Florida Derby winner puts her strike for stakes winners to foals at 25%, a nearly unattainable ratio for a stallion.
Take Charge Lady had a chestnut colt by Unbridled’s Song who sold for $425,000 at the 2011 Keeneland September sale, partly on the strength of Take Charge Indy’s second in the G3 Arlington-Washington Futurity. He is named Will Take Charge.
The mare did not have a foal in 2011, but she already has produced a filly by Indian Charlie this year.
The dam of Take Charge Lady, the unraced Rubiano mare Felicita, produced three stakes winners from 10 foals, eight to race, including Commendation (Capote) and Eventail (Lear Fan), who is the dam of G2 winner Straight Story (Giant’s Causeway).
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2002
Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt
Take Charge Lady, morning-line favorite for the Kentucky Oaks
Take Charge Lady (KY)
B , M, foaled February 4, 1999
( Dehere - Felicita, by Rubiano)
Best Racing Class Achieved:
Multiple Graded Stakes Winner
Breeders’ Cup Participation:
Breeders' Cup Distaff participant - 2003
Breeders' Cup Distaff participant - 2002
Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies participant - 2001
Top 100 Rankings (Since 2000):
Ranked 43rd by Earnings - 2003
Ranked 11th by Earnings - 2002
Career Statistics:
•Starts: 22
•Firsts: 11
•Seconds: 7
•Thirds: 0
•Earnings: $2,480,377
•Earnings Per Start: $112,744
Track Date Race Race Type Finish Chart Video
Churchill Downs 11/27/2003 10 Falls City Handicap - Gr. 2 5
Santa Anita 10/25/2003 2 Breeders' Cup Distaff - Gr. 1 6
Keeneland 10/5/2003 8 Overbrook Spinster Stakes - Gr. 1 1
Arlington Park 9/1/2003 8 Arlington Matron Handicap - Gr. 3 1
Delaware Park 7/20/2003 10 Delaware Handicap - Gr. 2 2
Belmont Park 6/21/2003 9 Ogden Phipps Handicap - Gr. 1 2
Oaklawn Park 4/5/2003 8 Apple Blossom Handicap - Gr. 1 2
Sam Houston 12/7/2002 6 NTRA Great State Challenge Distaff Invitational Stakes 1
Churchill Downs 11/28/2002 10 Falls City Handicap - Gr. 2 2
Arlington Park 10/26/2002 3 Breeders' Cup Distaff - Gr. 1 6
Keeneland 10/6/2002 8 Overbrook Spinster Stakes - Gr. 1 1
Belmont Park 9/7/2002 7 Gazelle Handicap - Gr. 1 2
Churchill Downs 5/25/2002 9 Dogwood Stakes - Gr. 3 1
Churchill Downs 5/3/2002 9 Kentucky Oaks - Gr. 1 2
Keeneland 4/6/2002 8 Ashland Stakes - Gr. 1 1
Fair Grounds 3/9/2002 9 Fair Grounds Oaks - Gr. 2 1
Fair Grounds 2/16/2002 9 Silverbulletday Stakes - Gr. 3 1
Churchill Downs 11/24/2001 9 Golden Rod Stakes - Gr. 2 2
Belmont Park 10/27/2001 4 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies - Gr. 1 6
Keeneland 10/5/2001 6 Walmac International Alcibiades Stakes - Gr. 2 1
Turfway Park 9/8/2001 9 Allowance 1
Keeneland 4/19/2001 2 Maiden Special Weight 1
www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=5052998®istry=T
Take Charge Lady, a bay daughter of champion juvenile Dehere, won half of her 22 starts, earned $2,480,377, and took the G1 laurels for victories in the 2002 Ashland and the 2002 and 2003 Spinster. She was also second four times in G1 stakes at other racetracks.
Sold as a broodmare carrying her first foal in 2004, Take Charge Lady brought $4.2 million, and the following spring produced Charming (by Seeking the Gold), who was a winner from three starts. Breeder Eaton Sales recouped much of the mare’s purchase price with the sale of Charming for $3.2 million as a yearling in 2006 and then sold the mare’s third foal, a filly by Storm Cat later named Elarose, for $800,000 in 2008.
In contrast to Take Charge Lady’s fillies, her first two colts did not generate much enthusiasm at the sales. The mare’s second foal, the Fusaichi Pegasus colt Love Pegasus, brought only $85,000 as a yearling at Keeneland September in 2007, and Take Charge Indy was bought back for $80,000 at the Keeneland auction in 2010.
Bred by Eaton Sales like the mare’s preceding foals, Take Charge Indy changed hands privately and races for Chuck and Maribeth Sandford. As the fourth foal of his dam, the Florida Derby winner puts her strike for stakes winners to foals at 25%, a nearly unattainable ratio for a stallion.
Take Charge Lady had a chestnut colt by Unbridled’s Song who sold for $425,000 at the 2011 Keeneland September sale, partly on the strength of Take Charge Indy’s second in the G3 Arlington-Washington Futurity. He is named Will Take Charge.
The mare did not have a foal in 2011, but she already has produced a filly by Indian Charlie this year.
The dam of Take Charge Lady, the unraced Rubiano mare Felicita, produced three stakes winners from 10 foals, eight to race, including Commendation (Capote) and Eventail (Lear Fan), who is the dam of G2 winner Straight Story (Giant’s Causeway).
fmitchell07.wordpress.com/tag/take-charge-lady/
2002
Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt
Take Charge Lady, morning-line favorite for the Kentucky Oaks
Take Charge Lady (KY)
B , M, foaled February 4, 1999
( Dehere - Felicita, by Rubiano)
Best Racing Class Achieved:
Multiple Graded Stakes Winner
Breeders’ Cup Participation:
Breeders' Cup Distaff participant - 2003
Breeders' Cup Distaff participant - 2002
Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies participant - 2001
Top 100 Rankings (Since 2000):
Ranked 43rd by Earnings - 2003
Ranked 11th by Earnings - 2002
Career Statistics:
•Starts: 22
•Firsts: 11
•Seconds: 7
•Thirds: 0
•Earnings: $2,480,377
•Earnings Per Start: $112,744
Track Date Race Race Type Finish Chart Video
Churchill Downs 11/27/2003 10 Falls City Handicap - Gr. 2 5
Santa Anita 10/25/2003 2 Breeders' Cup Distaff - Gr. 1 6
Keeneland 10/5/2003 8 Overbrook Spinster Stakes - Gr. 1 1
Arlington Park 9/1/2003 8 Arlington Matron Handicap - Gr. 3 1
Delaware Park 7/20/2003 10 Delaware Handicap - Gr. 2 2
Belmont Park 6/21/2003 9 Ogden Phipps Handicap - Gr. 1 2
Oaklawn Park 4/5/2003 8 Apple Blossom Handicap - Gr. 1 2
Sam Houston 12/7/2002 6 NTRA Great State Challenge Distaff Invitational Stakes 1
Churchill Downs 11/28/2002 10 Falls City Handicap - Gr. 2 2
Arlington Park 10/26/2002 3 Breeders' Cup Distaff - Gr. 1 6
Keeneland 10/6/2002 8 Overbrook Spinster Stakes - Gr. 1 1
Belmont Park 9/7/2002 7 Gazelle Handicap - Gr. 1 2
Churchill Downs 5/25/2002 9 Dogwood Stakes - Gr. 3 1
Churchill Downs 5/3/2002 9 Kentucky Oaks - Gr. 1 2
Keeneland 4/6/2002 8 Ashland Stakes - Gr. 1 1
Fair Grounds 3/9/2002 9 Fair Grounds Oaks - Gr. 2 1
Fair Grounds 2/16/2002 9 Silverbulletday Stakes - Gr. 3 1
Churchill Downs 11/24/2001 9 Golden Rod Stakes - Gr. 2 2
Belmont Park 10/27/2001 4 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies - Gr. 1 6
Keeneland 10/5/2001 6 Walmac International Alcibiades Stakes - Gr. 2 1
Turfway Park 9/8/2001 9 Allowance 1
Keeneland 4/19/2001 2 Maiden Special Weight 1
www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=5052998®istry=T