Taboo |
racing stats |
Registered Thoroughbred Mare
Gray Roan Y12 Born 16.0 Hands |
Race Record: 54-19-17-15
Prospect Race Record: 3-2-0-0 Dirt: Great Turf: Great Surface Supreme Applied 12/27/13 Distance: 6-10 Furlongs One F Dis. Ext. Applied 12/29/14 Leg Type: Mid-Runner Jockey: David Carter |
pedigree
personality
Well... Amber Black never said Taboo was sane during the sale that ultimately had Witch Creek Stable ending up with the Everyday Hero filly. The bay roan is as beautiful as any horse that has come through the barn doors of Witch Creek. Beautiful and not always there are two descriptions often used to describe Taboo. Ninety-nine percent of the time she is distant and dreamy, content in her own little world and not often listening to the instructions of her human handlers. The other one percent of the time Taboo is well... sinful. She'll bite and crowd her humans. She'll kick her door until the wood begins to chip away in sharp shards. She'll scream when left alone and dance through her pasture like a phantom haunting Witch Creek Stable. It is as though Taboo molds herself to her environment, becomes one with it and picks up the atmosphere faster than the emotions of the humans and horses around her. The filly is neurotic at times, spooking at shadows or things that aren't there at all. Her nature is not agreeable to training half of the time as though she has better things to do. If given the opportunity to escape work, Taboo will take full advantage of it. She'll sprint away on those snappy legs of hers, running herself so into the ground that to work her would almost be cruel. However, the filly is frighteningly fast if someone actually manages to catch her and put her on the racetrack. She simply glides as though she were floating over a lake instead of running over a hard dirt track. It does not matter the gait or environment, Taboo is nearly perfect every single ride with perfect smoothness. She gets washed out in the paddock, but unlike most horses, Taboo does not leave her race behind or before the race. Her ears are stuffed with cotton no matter if it is a simple workout or a major race. She becomes extremely fractious and dangerous to herself and others without the calming cotton. Once in the post parade, Taboo moves like liquid silver, charming the people watching her in person with her perfected gait and smooth going. Bettors will go to the window in order to lay something down on the mysterious filly and she will not let them down. In the starting gate, Taboo enters a whole other zone, completely different from the one she is in during the paddock. She focuses so sharply on the horses around her that it seems she is almost analyzing like her human jockey. The jockey, however, is not too much of a necessity. Taboo will break like a rocket and then suddenly drop back as if she has run into a wall until she has but a few horses beaten. The roan filly will either settle on the rail or just off of the rail for most of the race, taking suggestions from the jockey based on the pace scenario. As they enter the far turn, however, the jockey becomes a burr on the back of a flying horse. Taboo will drop inside or swing to the outside and take off as though her hooves have wings. She does not take prisoners as she runs her competition into the ground, flying until she has them all beaten by the top of the homestretch. Unlike most horses though, Taboo does not hold back in the stretch. The bay roan continues like a freight train, adding on to whatever lead she has created. There is no modesty in the mind of this fragile, neurotic filly. For her humans, her frightening speed and brilliance more than make up for whatever problems she causes in the barn.
major wins & awards
Raced on The Wire and Green Horse Fields.
Retired Grade One Major Races Won: Y14 Ontario Lassie Stakes Y14 Red Hedeman Mile Y14 Jazzman's Miler Challenge Y15 Coronation Stakes Y15 Miesque Stakes Y15 Evangeline Sprint Y15 Daisy Stakes Y15 Butter Cup Sprint Y15 A Lot To Live Up To Grade Three Turf Sprint Y16 The Wire Finish Cup Sprint Y16 Royal Red Richard Memorial Stakes Y16 Allen Lacombe Memorial Handicap Y16 Ontario Jockey Club Stakes Y16 Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf Sprint Awards: Y16 Encouragement Award workouts
Year Thirteen
untamed and unbroken unwieldy power written November Week One Year Fourteen sinners ain't saints written January Week One secret heroine written January Week Four crooked secret written March Week One tell me a secret written March Week Five secret hunter written May Week One optimum secrecy written July Week Four secret admirers written August Week Three frequent flyers written September Week Two don't cross me written October Week One sleeping giants written November Week One dirty little secret written December Week One the witch's time keeper written December Week Four Year Fifteen hidden pride: Spring Workout show your ambition: Summer Workout prime time: Fall Workout tactical secrets: Daisy Stakes Workout speed of light: Butter Cup Sprint Workout secret getaway: Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf Sprint Year Sixteen a new year, a new day: Spring Update welcome back: Maintenance Workout |
racing results
Year Thirteen
1st in TW Basketnut Prospect - Sept. Week 1[P] 1st in TW Letmego Prospect - July Week 3[P] 4th in GHF's Next Top Racehorse Race Six - June Week 1[P] Year Fourteen 1st in TW Jazzman's Miler Challenge* - Oct. Wk 2 [8F/T/G5+] 1st in TW Red Hedeman Mile* - August Week 3 [8F/T/G5+] 1st in I'm Special Stakes - June Week 1 [7F/T/G5] 1st in TW Ontario Lassie Stakes* - Mar. Week 3 [8F/D/G5+] 1st in Golden Start Stakes - Feb. Week 1 [7F/D/M] 2nd in TW Executioner's Apprentice Classic* - Sept Week 2 [10F/T/G5+] 2nd in TW Arizona Juvenile Fillies Stakes - Sept Week 1 [9F/T/G5+] 2nd in TW Maryland Juvenile Fillies Turf - August Week 1 [9F/T/G5+] 2nd in TW Remington Springboard Mile* - May Week 3 [8F/T/O] 2nd in February Juvenile Dirt Faceoff - Feb. Week 2 [7F/D/O] 2nd in Dirty Duck Stakes - Jan Week 1 [8F/D/M] 3rd in Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf* - Dec. Week 4 [9F/T/G5+] 3rd in TW Gorgeous George Stakes* - Dec. Week 2 [10F/T/G5+] 3rd in TW Ms. Striking Motion Stakes* - Nov. Week 2 [9F/T/G5+] 3rd in TW East View Stakes* - Apr. Week 3 [10F/T/G5+] 3rd in January Maiden Dirt - Jan. Week 2 [10F/D/M] 5th in Magic Millions Fillies Turf* - Apr Week 1 [10F/T/O] Year Fifteen 1st in TW Glissade Stakes - Dec Week 2 [7F/T] 1st in Remarkable Cup - Oct Week 1 [8F/D] 1st in ALTLUT Grade 3+ Turf Sprint* - Sept Week 3 [6F/T] 1st in Butter Cup Sprint* - Sept. Week 1 [7F/T] 1st in Daisy Stakes* - Aug Week 2 [6F/T] 1st in TW Evangeline Sprint* - June Week 1 [7F/D] 1st in TW Miesque Stakes* - Apr. Week 2 [7F/T] 1st in Coronation Stakes* - Feb. Week 3 [8F/T] 2nd in Winter Cup Grade Two Turf Sprint* - Oct Week 4 [6F/T] 2nd in Star Festival* - July Week 2 [7F/T] 2nd in Ruffian Handicap* - Mar. Week 4 [8.5F/D] 2nd in TW Black Caviar Stakes* - Mar. Week 3 [8F/T] 3rd in Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf Sprint* - Dec Week 4 [7F/T] 3rd in Handsome Mile* - Aug Week 1 [8F/D] 3rd in Girl's Party* - June Week 3 [6F/D] 3rd in TW Fast and Furious Stakes - Jan Week 3 [7F/T]' 4th in Top Speed Stakes* - Apr Week 3 [7F/T] Year Sixteen 1st in Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf Sprint* - Dec Week 4 [7F/T] 1st in TW Ontario Jockey Club Stakes* - Oct Week 2 [6F/T] 1st in TW Allen Lacombe Memorial Handicap* - July Week 2 [7.5F/T] 1st in GHF Royal Red Richard Mem. Stakes* - Jun Week 2 [7F/T] 1st in TW Finish Cup Sprint* - Mar Week 2 [6F/T] 1st in GHF Green Horse Turf Sprint - Jan Week 3 [6F/T] 2nd in TW City of Laurel Stakes* - Nov Week 1 [7F/T] 2nd in TW Sen. Ken Maddy Stakes* - Sept Wk 3 [6F/T] 2nd in GHF Summer Cup Grade 1 Turf Sprint* - May Wk 4 [6F/T] 2nd in GHF Queen Cup* - Mar Week 3 [8F/T] 2nd in TW Test Stakes* - Feb Week 3 [6F/D] 2nd in TW Striking Motion Stakes - Feb Week 1 [8F/T] 2nd in GHF New Year Dirt Sprint - Jan Week 1 [7F/D] 3rd in TW Fall Highweight Handicap* - Dec Week 1 [7.5F/T] 3rd in BSD Ballet Pacifica Stakes* - Nov Week 3 [6F/T] 3rd in TW Mid-Afternoon Derby* - Sept Week 1 [7F/T] 3rd in TW California Flag Stakes* - Aug Week 3 [6.5F/T] 3rd in TW Nearctic Stakes* - July Week 4 [6F/T] 3rd in TW Monrovia Stakes* - June Week 4 [7F/T] 4th in BSD Sunshine Millions Distaff* - Apr Week 1 [9F/D] |