Songbird: All 15 Race Video Retrospective

Songbird- Mary Cage

Welcome Friends to The Turk and the Little Turk.  

Horses. Handicapping and Hijinks. That has been the subtitle of this blog for nine years.  While I focus quite a bit on handicapping, I am first and foremost a fan of the horses and the people that campaign them.

Fox Hill Farms, Mr. Porter and family, have given this horse racing fan much to cheer about.  Eight Belles. Old Fashioned. Kodiak Kowboy.  Harve De Grace.  Hard Spun. 

Songbird.

15 Starts.  13 Wins.  2 terribly close Place finishes.  A Breeders' Cup Champion.  Nine Grade 1 victories.  In an era where the word great has been watered down, she was great.  A great champion.

I wanted to remember her as the great Champion she was, and words aren't how I'll remember her but it's through the video of her game and determined efforts that she will live on for me.

Enjoy retirement big girl, you earned it.

Saratoga; 26 August 2017; The Personal Ensign Stakes G1



Delaware Park 15 July 2017;  The Delaware Handicap G1



Belmont Park; 10 June 2017; The Ogden Phipps Stakes G1



Santa Anita; 4 November 2016; The Breeders' Cup Distaff G1



Parx Racing; 24 September 2016; The Cotillion Stakes G1



Saratoga; 20 August 2016; The Alabama Stakes G1



Saratoga; 24 July 2016; CCA Oaks G1



Santa Anita; 18 June 2016; Summertime Oaks G2




Santa Anita; 9 April 2016; The Santa Anita Oaks G1



Santa Anita; 5 March 2016; The Santa Ysabel Stakes G3



Santa Anita; 6 February 2016; The Las Virgenes Stakes G2




Keeneland;  31 October 2015; Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies G1




Santa Anita; 26 September 2015; The Chandelier Stakes G1




Del Mar; 5 September 2015; The Debutante G1



Del Mar; 26 July 2015; MSW