Lucky Lucky Lucky (USA)
February 20, 1981 – August 25, 2005
Chieftain (USA) x Just One More Time (USA), by Raise a Native (USA)
Family 6-e
February 20, 1981 – August 25, 2005
Chieftain (USA) x Just One More Time (USA), by Raise a Native (USA)
Family 6-e
One of the better members of a top-class crop of American fillies, Lucky Lucky Lucky proved both talented and consistent. Unfortunately, she was not nearly as good as a producer as she was as a racer.
Race record
22 starts, 6 wins, 5 seconds, 5 thirds, US$847,126
1983:
1984:
Assessments
Rated at 117 pounds on the Experimental Free Handicap for American juveniles of 1983, 3 pounds below highweighted Miss Oceana and 2 pounds below the official divisional champion, Althea.
Rated at 122 pounds on the Daily Racing Form's Free Handicap for American 3-year-old fillies of 1984, 4 pounds below champion Life's Magic.
As an individual
A bay mare, Lucky Lucky Lucky was hardy and shipped well. She preferred to control the pace from the front end. She could be rather temperamental and inclined to fight her rider if not given her head to run her race in her own way.
As a producer
Lucky Lucky Lucky produced 12 named foals, of which 10 started and five won. Her important foals are as follow:
Connections
Foaled in Kentucky, Lucky Lucky Lucky was bred by Spendthrift Farm (Leslie Combs II) and was owned by Leslie Combs II and Equites Stable ( the nom de course of the partnership of J. L. Jackson, Bill Bricker, and Baron Vittorio DeNora of Switzerland). She was trained by D. Wayne Lukas. She was sold to Shadwell Farm for US$3 million at the 1986 Keeneland January mixed sale. Pensioned following the 2002 breeding season, she was humanely destroyed August 25, 2005, due to the infirmities of old age.
Pedigree notes
Lucky Lucky Lucky is inbred 4x5 to two-time American champion sire and eight-time American champion broodmare sire Princequillo, winner of the 1943 Jockey Club Gold Cup and Saratoga Cup. She is also inbred 4x5 to 1935 American Horse of the Year Discovery and 5x5 to 1923 French champion sire Teddy. She is a half sister to multiple listed stakes winner Fast Forward (by Pleasant Colony).
Just One More Time, the dam of Lucky Lucky Lucky, won three of her seven starts and placed in two minor stakes events as a 4-year-old. She was produced from juvenile stakes winner Talent Search (by Sir Gaylord), a half sister to stakes winner Water Blossom (by Nashua). Talent Search is also a half sister to stakes-placed Bonavista (by Dead Ahead), dam of French Group 2 winner Exclusive Order (by Exclusive Native) and restricted stakes winner Athenia (by Mr. Prospector); second dam of 1997 Two Thousand Guineas (ENG-G1) winner Entrepreneur, 1998 Coronation Stakes (ENG-G1) winner Exclusive, and Grade 3 winner Athenia Green; and third dam of 1987 American Derby (USA-G1) winner Fortunate Moment, 1999 Thorndon Mile Handicap (NZ-G1) winner Macavelli Miss, 2007 Matron Stakes (IRE-G1) winner Echelon, multiple English Group 2 winner Chic, and Grade 3 winner Irish Wings. In addition, Talent Search is a half sister to Football Widow (by Hawaii), dam of multiple stakes winner Sarof Jr. (by King's Bishop), and to Maniace (by Lorenzaccio), dam of restricted stakes winner Lord Maniac (by Lord Gaylord).
Talent Search and her siblings were produced from the Ribot mare Ribotina, whose dam French Polish (by Sicambre) is a half sister to 1949 Lancashire Oaks winner Eyewash (by Blue Peter) and to 1958 English/Irish champion sire Mossborough (by Nearco), himself a multiple stakes winner. The next dam in the tail-female line, All Mooonshine (by Bobsleigh), is a daughter of the great matriarch Selene and a half sister to the great English sire Hyperion (by Bobsleigh's sire Gainsborough), to the important American sires Sickle and Pharamond II (both by Phalaris), and to the important South American sire Hunter's Moon (by Hurry On).
Fun facts
Last updated: March 8, 2025
Race record
22 starts, 6 wins, 5 seconds, 5 thirds, US$847,126
1983:
- Won Matron Stakes (USA-G1, 7FD, Belmont)
- Won Gardenia Stakes (USA-G2, 8.5FD, The Meadowlands)
- Won Alcibiades Stakes (USA-G2, 8.5FD, Keeneland)
- 2nd Demoiselle Stakes (USA-G1, 9FD, Aqueduct)
- 3rd Frizette Stakes (USA-G1, 8FD, Belmont)
- 3rd Rancho Santa Fe Stakes (USA-L, 6FD, Del Mar)
1984:
- Won Kentucky Oaks (USA-G1, 9FD, Churchill Downs)
- Won Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (USA-G2, 8.5FD, Pimlico)
- Won Arlington Oaks (USA-G3, 9FD, Arlington Park)
- 2nd Spinster Stakes (USA-G1, 9FD, Keeneland)
- 2nd Alabama Stakes (USA-G1, 10FD, Saratoga)
- 2nd Del Mar Oaks (USA-G2, 9FT, Del Mar)
- 3rd Hollywood Oaks (USA-G1, 9FD, Hollywood)
- 3rd Test Stakes (USA-G2, 7FD, Saratoga)
- 3rd Railbird Stakes (USA-G3, 7FD, Hollywood)
Assessments
Rated at 117 pounds on the Experimental Free Handicap for American juveniles of 1983, 3 pounds below highweighted Miss Oceana and 2 pounds below the official divisional champion, Althea.
Rated at 122 pounds on the Daily Racing Form's Free Handicap for American 3-year-old fillies of 1984, 4 pounds below champion Life's Magic.
As an individual
A bay mare, Lucky Lucky Lucky was hardy and shipped well. She preferred to control the pace from the front end. She could be rather temperamental and inclined to fight her rider if not given her head to run her race in her own way.
As a producer
Lucky Lucky Lucky produced 12 named foals, of which 10 started and five won. Her important foals are as follow:
- Mashair (1990, by Diesis) won one of her five starts. She produced multiple Brazilian Group 3 winner Hard Drivin (by Muhtarram) and is the third dam of Australian Group 2 winner Life Less Ordinary.
- Mahhdooda (by Forty Niner) was unplaced in two starts. She is the dam of Beautiful Crazy (by Capote), winner of the listed Hawthorne Oaks in 2003.
Connections
Foaled in Kentucky, Lucky Lucky Lucky was bred by Spendthrift Farm (Leslie Combs II) and was owned by Leslie Combs II and Equites Stable ( the nom de course of the partnership of J. L. Jackson, Bill Bricker, and Baron Vittorio DeNora of Switzerland). She was trained by D. Wayne Lukas. She was sold to Shadwell Farm for US$3 million at the 1986 Keeneland January mixed sale. Pensioned following the 2002 breeding season, she was humanely destroyed August 25, 2005, due to the infirmities of old age.
Pedigree notes
Lucky Lucky Lucky is inbred 4x5 to two-time American champion sire and eight-time American champion broodmare sire Princequillo, winner of the 1943 Jockey Club Gold Cup and Saratoga Cup. She is also inbred 4x5 to 1935 American Horse of the Year Discovery and 5x5 to 1923 French champion sire Teddy. She is a half sister to multiple listed stakes winner Fast Forward (by Pleasant Colony).
Just One More Time, the dam of Lucky Lucky Lucky, won three of her seven starts and placed in two minor stakes events as a 4-year-old. She was produced from juvenile stakes winner Talent Search (by Sir Gaylord), a half sister to stakes winner Water Blossom (by Nashua). Talent Search is also a half sister to stakes-placed Bonavista (by Dead Ahead), dam of French Group 2 winner Exclusive Order (by Exclusive Native) and restricted stakes winner Athenia (by Mr. Prospector); second dam of 1997 Two Thousand Guineas (ENG-G1) winner Entrepreneur, 1998 Coronation Stakes (ENG-G1) winner Exclusive, and Grade 3 winner Athenia Green; and third dam of 1987 American Derby (USA-G1) winner Fortunate Moment, 1999 Thorndon Mile Handicap (NZ-G1) winner Macavelli Miss, 2007 Matron Stakes (IRE-G1) winner Echelon, multiple English Group 2 winner Chic, and Grade 3 winner Irish Wings. In addition, Talent Search is a half sister to Football Widow (by Hawaii), dam of multiple stakes winner Sarof Jr. (by King's Bishop), and to Maniace (by Lorenzaccio), dam of restricted stakes winner Lord Maniac (by Lord Gaylord).
Talent Search and her siblings were produced from the Ribot mare Ribotina, whose dam French Polish (by Sicambre) is a half sister to 1949 Lancashire Oaks winner Eyewash (by Blue Peter) and to 1958 English/Irish champion sire Mossborough (by Nearco), himself a multiple stakes winner. The next dam in the tail-female line, All Mooonshine (by Bobsleigh), is a daughter of the great matriarch Selene and a half sister to the great English sire Hyperion (by Bobsleigh's sire Gainsborough), to the important American sires Sickle and Pharamond II (both by Phalaris), and to the important South American sire Hunter's Moon (by Hurry On).
Fun facts
- Lucky Lucky Lucky won Lukas's second edition of the Kentucky Oaks (a race he had previously won with Blush With Pride in 1982) just three days after he remarried, causing jockey Angel Cordero Jr. to quip that the victory was his wedding gift to his good friend. Since Lucky Lucky Lucky, Lukas has won the Oaks with Open Mind (1989), Seaside Attraction (1990), and Secret Oath (2022), typing Woody Stephen's Oaks record of five winners.
- Lucky Lucky Lucky's price of US$3 million at the 1986 Keeneland January mixed sale set a sales record for a broodmare. She was in foal to Northern Dancer at the time.
Last updated: March 8, 2025