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Lexie Lou
Lexie Lou (foaled February 26, 2011 in Ontario) is a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse. In 2014, she won the Queen's Plate and two legs of the Canadian Triple Tiara on her way to winning three Sovereign Awards. She has also won three graded stakes in the United States and Canada, and finished second to American Horse of the Year California Chrome in the 2014 Hollywood Derby. In 2019, Lexie Lou was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.
Lexie Lou was bred by Paradox Farm in Ontario. Her dam is Oneexcessivenite, a California bred mare who won 4 times in 18 starts, and whose three previous foals were all unraced. Lexie Lou's sire, Sligo Bay, is an Irish bred son of leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland Sadler's Wells and has been a moderate success at stud in Canada.
Lexie Lou was sold to John Ross for $5,577 at the 2012 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society yearling sale. Ross was her owner and trainer during her two-year-old campaign in 2013. She was sold after her first start of 2014 to Gary Barber, the chairman and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), for $300,000. She was then moved to the barn of Mark Casse, who at the time had already won six Sovereign Awards as outstanding trainer.
In 2013, Lexie Lou raced eight times, all at Woodbine racetrack, in races for Canadian-bred fillies. She won three times and finished second twice. On August 28, she was awarded the Muskoka Stakes by disqualification after finishing second by a nose. She then finished second in both the Victorian Queen and Princess Elizabeth Stakes before winning the South Ocean Stakes by three lengths. She was the favorite for the Ontario Lassie Stakes on December 14 but finished third, a neck and a nose behind the first two filles.
Lexie Lou started her three-year-old season by finishing fourth in the Star Shoot Stakes. Watching her that day was Barber, who was so impressed by the way she kept running after the finish line that he asked Casse to buy her. Racing for her new connections, Lexie Lou entered the 7-furlong Fury Stakes on May 10 as the favorite. She made a strong move going three wide around the far turn, but could not quite catch the front-runners and finished third by just over half a length.
On June 15, Lexie Lou stamped herself as one of the best three-year-old fillies in Canada by winning the Woodbine Oaks by 4+1⁄2 lengths. Her time of 1:49.77 for 1+1⁄8 miles was a full second faster than the colts had run earlier that day in the Plate Trial, the major prep race for the Queen's Plate. It was her first time racing without blinkers, a change that helped her relax during the race.
The Woodbine Oaks is the first leg of the Canadian Triple Tiara for three-year-old Canadian-bred fillies. Rather than race in the second leg of the Tiara, the Bison City Stakes, Lexie Lou's connections decided to race her against the colts in the CDN$1 million Queen's Plate. Later, she would bypass the second leg of the Canadian Triple Crown, the Prince of Wales Stakes, to enter the third leg of the Canadian Triple Tiara, the Wonder Where Stakes. The scheduling options meant she did not have a chance to win either the Crown or Tiara, though she would go on to win three Canadian classics that year.
For the Queen's Plate on July 6, Lexie Lou was the lone filly in a field of 15 and was made the 3-1 second choice by the bettors. Lexie Lou broke from post position 14 and settled towards the back of the pack for the first half mile. She then started to make up ground down the backstretch, moved to second around the far turn and hit the front heading into the stretch. She then held off Ami's Holiday to win by 1+1⁄2 lengths, becoming the sixth filly to complete the Oaks/Plate double.
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Lexie Lou
Lexie Lou (foaled February 26, 2011 in Ontario) is a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse. In 2014, she won the Queen's Plate and two legs of the Canadian Triple Tiara on her way to winning three Sovereign Awards. She has also won three graded stakes in the United States and Canada, and finished second to American Horse of the Year California Chrome in the 2014 Hollywood Derby. In 2019, Lexie Lou was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.
Lexie Lou was bred by Paradox Farm in Ontario. Her dam is Oneexcessivenite, a California bred mare who won 4 times in 18 starts, and whose three previous foals were all unraced. Lexie Lou's sire, Sligo Bay, is an Irish bred son of leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland Sadler's Wells and has been a moderate success at stud in Canada.
Lexie Lou was sold to John Ross for $5,577 at the 2012 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society yearling sale. Ross was her owner and trainer during her two-year-old campaign in 2013. She was sold after her first start of 2014 to Gary Barber, the chairman and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), for $300,000. She was then moved to the barn of Mark Casse, who at the time had already won six Sovereign Awards as outstanding trainer.
In 2013, Lexie Lou raced eight times, all at Woodbine racetrack, in races for Canadian-bred fillies. She won three times and finished second twice. On August 28, she was awarded the Muskoka Stakes by disqualification after finishing second by a nose. She then finished second in both the Victorian Queen and Princess Elizabeth Stakes before winning the South Ocean Stakes by three lengths. She was the favorite for the Ontario Lassie Stakes on December 14 but finished third, a neck and a nose behind the first two filles.
Lexie Lou started her three-year-old season by finishing fourth in the Star Shoot Stakes. Watching her that day was Barber, who was so impressed by the way she kept running after the finish line that he asked Casse to buy her. Racing for her new connections, Lexie Lou entered the 7-furlong Fury Stakes on May 10 as the favorite. She made a strong move going three wide around the far turn, but could not quite catch the front-runners and finished third by just over half a length.
On June 15, Lexie Lou stamped herself as one of the best three-year-old fillies in Canada by winning the Woodbine Oaks by 4+1⁄2 lengths. Her time of 1:49.77 for 1+1⁄8 miles was a full second faster than the colts had run earlier that day in the Plate Trial, the major prep race for the Queen's Plate. It was her first time racing without blinkers, a change that helped her relax during the race.
The Woodbine Oaks is the first leg of the Canadian Triple Tiara for three-year-old Canadian-bred fillies. Rather than race in the second leg of the Tiara, the Bison City Stakes, Lexie Lou's connections decided to race her against the colts in the CDN$1 million Queen's Plate. Later, she would bypass the second leg of the Canadian Triple Crown, the Prince of Wales Stakes, to enter the third leg of the Canadian Triple Tiara, the Wonder Where Stakes. The scheduling options meant she did not have a chance to win either the Crown or Tiara, though she would go on to win three Canadian classics that year.
For the Queen's Plate on July 6, Lexie Lou was the lone filly in a field of 15 and was made the 3-1 second choice by the bettors. Lexie Lou broke from post position 14 and settled towards the back of the pack for the first half mile. She then started to make up ground down the backstretch, moved to second around the far turn and hit the front heading into the stretch. She then held off Ami's Holiday to win by 1+1⁄2 lengths, becoming the sixth filly to complete the Oaks/Plate double.