So Joyful (ARG)
August 23, 1976 – c. 1989
So Bold (ARG) x Shout for Joy (USA), by Court Martial (GB)
Family 20
August 23, 1976 – c. 1989
So Bold (ARG) x Shout for Joy (USA), by Court Martial (GB)
Family 20
So Joyful was a first-class race mare in her native Argentina and became the first winner of the Pellegrini Award as the champion of the 2-year-old filly division. She was a winner in the United States but made only two starts in North America and was an unsuccessful broodmare in a producing career plagued by reproductive problems.
Race record
12 starts, 8 wins, 0 seconds, 1 third, US$202,652 (includes converted Argentine earnings)
1979:
Honors
Pellegrini Award, Argentine champion 2-year-old filly (1979)
As an individual
A bay mare; no further information available.
As a producer
So Joyful produced four named foals. All four started and two won. Her best runner was German listed-placed Baby Bid, a son of Spectacular Bid.
Connections
So Joyful was bred by Diane Perkins’s Haras San Francisco de Pilar. Imported to the United States, she was first owned as a broodmare by David R. Calvert and Murty Farm. Covered by Conquistador Cielo, she was sold for US$850,000 at the 1983 Keeneland November mixed sale and became the property of Dr. & Mrs. G. G. Proskauer. She failed to make her reserve on a bid of US$5,000 at the 1989 Keeneland November mixed sale and thereafter disappeared from breeding records.
Pedigree notes
Sired by Argentine Group 2 winner So Bold (by the stakes-winning Bold Ruler horse Master Bold), So Joyful is inbred 4x5 to four-time American champion sire Sir Gallahad III and 5x5 to 1935 American Horse of the Year Discovery. She is out of the winning Court Martial mare Shout for Joy, whose half sister Lizzie Borden (by The Axe II) is the dam of minor stakes winners Daddy’s Next (by Boyar) and Arrivederci Daddy (by Boyar).
Shout for Joy, in turn, was produced from the unraced Hasty Road mare Unromantic, a half sister to 1960 Royal Palm Handicap winner Stratmat (by Lochinvar) and juvenile stakes winner Thither (by Easton). The siblings are out of the winning Alibhai mare Elsewhere. The next dam in So Joyful’s tail-female lineage, Band o’ Green (by Whichone x 1930 American champion 2-year-old filly Baba Kenney), is a half sister to 1943 Spinaway Stakes and Hopeful Stakes winner Bee Mac (by War Admiral), whose five stakes winners include the good racer and sire Better Self (by Bimelech).
Last updated: August 31, 2021
Race record
12 starts, 8 wins, 0 seconds, 1 third, US$202,652 (includes converted Argentine earnings)
1979:
- Won Gran Premio Cotejo Potrancas-Jorge Atucha (ARG-G1, Palermo)
- Won Gran Premio Eliseo Ramirez (ARG-G1, Palermo)
- Won Premio Polla de Potrancas (ARG-G2, La Plata)
- Won Premio Raul Aristegui (ARG-G3, La Plata)
- Won Premio Circulo de Proprietarios de Calballerizas Sangre Pura de Carrera (ARG-G3, Palermo)
- Won Premio Especial Caballerizas Argentina (ARG, Palermo)
- 3rd Gran Premio Saturnino J. Unzue (ARG-G1, Palermo)
Honors
Pellegrini Award, Argentine champion 2-year-old filly (1979)
As an individual
A bay mare; no further information available.
As a producer
So Joyful produced four named foals. All four started and two won. Her best runner was German listed-placed Baby Bid, a son of Spectacular Bid.
Connections
So Joyful was bred by Diane Perkins’s Haras San Francisco de Pilar. Imported to the United States, she was first owned as a broodmare by David R. Calvert and Murty Farm. Covered by Conquistador Cielo, she was sold for US$850,000 at the 1983 Keeneland November mixed sale and became the property of Dr. & Mrs. G. G. Proskauer. She failed to make her reserve on a bid of US$5,000 at the 1989 Keeneland November mixed sale and thereafter disappeared from breeding records.
Pedigree notes
Sired by Argentine Group 2 winner So Bold (by the stakes-winning Bold Ruler horse Master Bold), So Joyful is inbred 4x5 to four-time American champion sire Sir Gallahad III and 5x5 to 1935 American Horse of the Year Discovery. She is out of the winning Court Martial mare Shout for Joy, whose half sister Lizzie Borden (by The Axe II) is the dam of minor stakes winners Daddy’s Next (by Boyar) and Arrivederci Daddy (by Boyar).
Shout for Joy, in turn, was produced from the unraced Hasty Road mare Unromantic, a half sister to 1960 Royal Palm Handicap winner Stratmat (by Lochinvar) and juvenile stakes winner Thither (by Easton). The siblings are out of the winning Alibhai mare Elsewhere. The next dam in So Joyful’s tail-female lineage, Band o’ Green (by Whichone x 1930 American champion 2-year-old filly Baba Kenney), is a half sister to 1943 Spinaway Stakes and Hopeful Stakes winner Bee Mac (by War Admiral), whose five stakes winners include the good racer and sire Better Self (by Bimelech).
Last updated: August 31, 2021