Surfside (horse)
Surfside (foaled January 21, 1997) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. She was one of the best juvenile fillies in North America in 1999, winning four of her six races including the Frizette Stakes and the Hollywood Starlet Stakes as well a finishing third in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. In the spring of the following year she won the Santa Ysabel Stakes, Las Virgenes Stakes and the Santa Anita Oaks and returned from injury to win the Clark Handicap. She was retired after two unsuccessful races as a four-year-old. Background Surfside is a big, imposing bay mare standing 16.3 hands high bred in Kentucky by her owner, William T. Young's Overbrook Farm. She was sired by Seattle Slew, who won the Triple Crown and was voted American Horse of the Year in 1977. He went on to become a highly successful breeding stallion and was Leading sire in North America in 1984. His other progeny included Swale, A.P. Indy, Landaluce and Slew o' Gold. Surfside was the first foal of her dam Flanders the American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly of 1994, whose racing career was ended by an injury sustained when winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. As a descendant of the broodmare Furlough, Flanders was related to several major winners including One Count, Mrs Penny and Hatoof. Surfside was sent into training with D. Wayne Lukas. She usually raced in a white hood. Racing career 1999: two-year-old season Surfside began her racing career in a maiden race over five and a half furlongs at Saratoga Race Course on 4 August in which she started favorite and led from the start to win by four and three quarter lengths from You And I Babe, who was in turn more than thirteen lengths clear of the six other runners. Sixteen days later over the same track she followed up with a win in an allowance race over six and a half furlongs, beating Dat You Miz Blue by one and a half lengths. Surfside ended her Saratoga campaign with a move up in class to contest the Grade I Spinaway Stakes over seven furlongs on September 3. Starting the 1.15/1 favorite ahead of the Bob Baffert-trained Miss Wineshine, she was always in contention but sustained her first defeat as she was beaten one and a quarter lengths into second by Circle of Life. On October 10, the filly was sent to Belmont Park to contest the Grade I Frizette Stakes and started third choice in the betting behind Finder's Fee and Darling My Darling, who had finished first and second in the Matron Stakes. Surfside took the early lead and recovered after being headed by Darling My Darling to regain the lead in the straight and won by a head with a gap of ten lengths back to March Magic in third. Surfside was one of nine fillies to contest the sixteenth running of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, run that year at Gulfstream Park on November 6 and started