Forever Unbridled

Forever Unbridled (foaled April 24, 2012) is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse who was named the Champion Older Mare of 2017 after winning the Fleur de Lis Handicap, Personal Ensign Stakes and Breeders' Cup Distaff. She also won two Group I stakes races in 2016 before finishing third in that year's Distaff.

Forever Unbridled was bred in Kentucky by Charles Fipke, a Canadian geologist and diamond prospector. She was sired by Unbridled's Song, who won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and Florida Derby but had his career cut short by soundness issues. Unbridled's Song became a successful breeding stallion known for transmitting speed, but his offspring sometimes lacked durability. His leading offspring include Arrogate, Liam's Map, Unrivaled Belle and Will Take Charge.

Fipke purchased Forever Unbridled's dam, Lemons Forever, as a broodmare prospect for $2.5 million after she won the 2006 Kentucky Oaks. Fipke bred Lemons Forever to Unbridled's Song in back-to-back years, producing Unbridled Forever in 2011 and Forever Unbridled in 2012, both of which became multiple graded stakes winners.

Forever Unbridled raced as a homebred for Fipke. She was trained by Dallas Stewart, who also trained Lemons Forever and Unbridled Forever. Although Stewart called her a slow developer when she was preparing for the Kentucky Oaks in 2015, he predicted she would get better with age.

On November 9, 2014, Forever Unbridled made her first start in a maiden special weight race for two-year-old fillies at Churchill Downs, finishing second. She then broke her maiden on December 12 at the Fair Grounds.

Forever Unbridled started her three-year-old campaign in the Silverbulletday Stakes on January 17, 2015, a race Unbridled Forever had won the year before. She settled in mid-pack in the early running then made a strong rally in the stretch to finish second to I'm a Chatterbox. She then finished third in both the Rachel Alexandra Stakes and Fair Grounds Oaks. This earned her enough points to qualify for the Kentucky Oaks, but she was well beaten in eleventh place.

Stewart gave her some time off then entered her in the Raven Run Stakes at Keeneland of October 17, in which she finished fifth. Forever Unbridled finally won her first stakes race in the Comely Stakes at Aqueduct on November 28.

Forever Unbridled began her four-year-old campaign in the Grade III Houston Ladies Classic on January 30, 2016 at Sam Houston Race Park. She settled in fourth place behind Cassatt, who set moderate opening fractions. Forever Unbridled began her move on the far turn and moved by a tiring Cassatt in the stretch to win by 1+3⁄4 lengths.