| Star Over The Bay | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Cozzene |
| Grandsire | Caro |
| Dam | Lituva Bay |
| Damsire | Empery |
| Sex | Gelding |
| Foaled | 1998 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Gray |
| Breeder | Four Horsemen's Ranch |
| Owner | G. Racing |
| Trainer | Mike R. Mitchell |
| Record | 42: 10-4-3 |
| Earnings | US$917,353 |
| Major wins | |
| Clement L. Hirsch Turf Championship Stakes (2004) Del Mar Handicap (2004) Sunset Handicap (2004) Sunshine Millions Turf (2005) |
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| Horse (Equus ferus caballus) | |
Star Over The Bay (foaled February 5, 1998 in Florida - died in Singapore on May 15, 2005) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who rose from the claimer ranks for $80,000. Once he began winning his races, he earned more than $700,000. Before that, he was raced over and over in claiming races, often in the money, but never in a stakes event.
The light gray's career did not really get going until he was claimed at Hollywood Park in early 2004 as a five-year-old. At that point, he began to be trained by Mike Mitchell. Mitchell found the speed and the talent in what had seemed an ordinary horse out of the claiming ranks. He quickly won three consecutive graded turf races for Mitchell. He wired the field in the 2004 Grade II Sunset Handicap.
Star Over The Bay's biggest win was the January, 2005 run of the Sunshine Millions Turf at Santa Anita Park under the Eclipse Award winning jockey, Tyler Baze.
Star Over The Bay, at seven, seemed on his way to an important late-blooming successful career when he fractured his right foreleg (sesamoid). On May 15, 2005, he was near the front of the field at the half mile pole in the Grade I US$1.8 million (SGD $3 million) Singapore Airlines International Cup at Kranji Racecourse. To avoid causing him more pain, he was humanely euthanized on the track.
Mitchell said: ""I saw Tyler pulling him up and didn't realize how bad it was until he came back crying. If I could have just brought him back and retired him, I would feel so much better." (Cal Racing, 12-7-07)