Starship Jubilee (USA)
March 10, 2013 – Living
Indy Wind (USA) x Perfectly Wild (USA), by Forest Wildcat (USA)
Family 16-c
March 10, 2013 – Living
Indy Wind (USA) x Perfectly Wild (USA), by Forest Wildcat (USA)
Family 16-c
One of racing’s rags-to-riches stories, Starship Jubilee was a US$6,500 sales yearling and later a US$16,000 claimer. She rose from those humble beginnings to become a multiple champion and multimillionaire. Her career ended in disappointment when she lost jockey Florent Geroux at the start of the 2020 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (USA-G1), but she was nevertheless an encouragement to the dreams of small breeders and owners everywhere.
Race record
39 starts, 19 wins, 5 seconds, 3 thirds, US$2,093,069
2017
2018:
2019:
2020:
Honors
As an individual
A small bay mare, Starship Jubilee was known for her will to win. She generally came from off the pace in her races. The versatile mare won at distances from 5 to 10 furlongs.
As a producer
As of March 15, 2025, Starship Jubilee has produced one named foal, the Medaglia d’Oro gelding Starship d’Oro, who is unplaced in three starts.
Connections
Foaled in Florida, Starship Jubilee was bred by William P. Sorren, who had also bred and owned her dam. Sold for US$6,500 through the 2014 Ocala Breeders’ Sales August yearling sale, she started her racing career as the property of Lawrence Leavy’s Starship Stable and was trained at that time by Steven Dwoskin. She was claimed for US$16,000 twice in 2017, first in January 2017 by trainer Jorge Navarro for JN Racing Stables and again in February 2017 by trainer Kevin Attard, who owned her in partnership with Soli Mehta. After failing to meet her reserve on a US$425,000 bid at the 2018 Keeneland November mixed sale, she was sold privately to Blue Heaven Farm (Bonnie Baskin and Adam Corndorf) and remained in training with Attard. Following her retirement from racing, Starship Jubilee became a broodmare for Blue Heaven.
Pedigree notes
Sired by the stakes-winning A.P. Indy horse Indy Wind, Starship Jubilee is inbred 4x5 to two-time American Horse of the Year Secretariat and 5x5 to 1963 American co-champion 2-year-old male Raise a Native. She is out of unraced Perfectly Wild (by multiple Grade 3 winner Forest Wildcat, by Storm Cat), whose dam Perfect Arc (by the Alleged horse Brown Arc) won the 1995 Queen Elizabeth II Invitational Challenge Cup Stakes (USA-G1). Perfect Arc, in turn, was produced from 1987 Gran Premio Polla de Potrancas (Argentine One Thousand Guineas, ARG-G1) winner Podeica (by the Petingo horse Petronisi).
Podeica’s dam, Indian Order, was a winner in Argentina and was sired by the German-bred Ovid, whose sire Orsini was the 1958 German Horse of the Year and a four-time champion sire in Germany. The next dam in Starship Jubilee’s tail-female line, Indian Tonic, is by 1977 Argentine champion sire Incaico out of the winner La Liliana, by two-time Argentine Horse of the Year Yatasto.
Books and media
Footage of Starship Jubilee’s win in the 2020 Woodbine Mile can be accessed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QXi9140NWA.
Fun facts
Last updated: March 15, 2025
Race record
39 starts, 19 wins, 5 seconds, 3 thirds, US$2,093,069
2017
- Won Nassau Stakes (CAN-G2, 8FT, Woodbine)
- Won Dance Smartly Stakes (CAN-G2, 10FT, Woodbine; dead heat with Rainha Da Bateria)
- 3rd Canadian Stakes (CAN-G2, about 9FT, Woodbine)
2018:
- Won Canadian Stakes presented by the Japan Racing Association (CAN-G2, 9FT, Woodbine)
- Won Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf Stakes (USA-R, 8.5FT, Gulfstream Park)
- 2nd Mary Todd Stakes (USA-R, 8.5FT, Gulfstream Park)
2019:
- Won E. P. Taylor Stakes (CAN-G1, 10FT, Woodbine)
- Won Canadian Stakes presented by the Japan Racing Association (CAN-G2, about 9FT, Woodbine)
- Won Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf Stakes (USA-R, 8.5FT, Gulfstream Park)
- 2nd Nassau Stakes (CAN-G2, 8FT, Woodbine)
- 2nd Dance Smartly Stakes (CAN-G2, 10FT, Woodbine)
- 2nd Cardinal Stakes (USA-G3, 9FT, Churchill Downs)
- 3rd Woodford Reserve Ballston Spa Stakes (USA-G2, 8.5FT, Saratoga)
2020:
- Won Ricoh Woodbine Mile Stakes (CAN-G1, 8FT, Woodbine)
- Won Hillsborough Stakes (USA-G2, 9FT, Tampa Bay Downs)
- Won Ballston Spa Stakes (USA-G2, 8.5FT, Saratoga)
- Won Suwannee River Stakes (USA-G3, 9FT, Gulfstream Park)
- Won Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf Stakes (USA-R, 8.5FT, Gulfstream Park)
Honors
- Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (inducted in 2024)
- Sovereign Award, Canadian Horse of the Year (2019)
- Sovereign Award, Canadian champion turf female (2017-2019)
- Florida-bred Horse of the Year (2020)
- Florida-bred champion older female (2017, 2019, 2020)
- Florida-bred champion turf female (2017, 2019, 2020)
As an individual
A small bay mare, Starship Jubilee was known for her will to win. She generally came from off the pace in her races. The versatile mare won at distances from 5 to 10 furlongs.
As a producer
As of March 15, 2025, Starship Jubilee has produced one named foal, the Medaglia d’Oro gelding Starship d’Oro, who is unplaced in three starts.
Connections
Foaled in Florida, Starship Jubilee was bred by William P. Sorren, who had also bred and owned her dam. Sold for US$6,500 through the 2014 Ocala Breeders’ Sales August yearling sale, she started her racing career as the property of Lawrence Leavy’s Starship Stable and was trained at that time by Steven Dwoskin. She was claimed for US$16,000 twice in 2017, first in January 2017 by trainer Jorge Navarro for JN Racing Stables and again in February 2017 by trainer Kevin Attard, who owned her in partnership with Soli Mehta. After failing to meet her reserve on a US$425,000 bid at the 2018 Keeneland November mixed sale, she was sold privately to Blue Heaven Farm (Bonnie Baskin and Adam Corndorf) and remained in training with Attard. Following her retirement from racing, Starship Jubilee became a broodmare for Blue Heaven.
Pedigree notes
Sired by the stakes-winning A.P. Indy horse Indy Wind, Starship Jubilee is inbred 4x5 to two-time American Horse of the Year Secretariat and 5x5 to 1963 American co-champion 2-year-old male Raise a Native. She is out of unraced Perfectly Wild (by multiple Grade 3 winner Forest Wildcat, by Storm Cat), whose dam Perfect Arc (by the Alleged horse Brown Arc) won the 1995 Queen Elizabeth II Invitational Challenge Cup Stakes (USA-G1). Perfect Arc, in turn, was produced from 1987 Gran Premio Polla de Potrancas (Argentine One Thousand Guineas, ARG-G1) winner Podeica (by the Petingo horse Petronisi).
Podeica’s dam, Indian Order, was a winner in Argentina and was sired by the German-bred Ovid, whose sire Orsini was the 1958 German Horse of the Year and a four-time champion sire in Germany. The next dam in Starship Jubilee’s tail-female line, Indian Tonic, is by 1977 Argentine champion sire Incaico out of the winner La Liliana, by two-time Argentine Horse of the Year Yatasto.
Books and media
Footage of Starship Jubilee’s win in the 2020 Woodbine Mile can be accessed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QXi9140NWA.
Fun facts
- Starship Jubilee was the first Thoroughbred to win a Sunshine Millions event for three consecutive years, taking the Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf Stakes in 2018-2020.
- Starship Jubilee was the first Florida-bred filly or mare to win three state-bred championships in the older female division and in the turf female division. She is also the first Florida-bred to be voted a Canadian championship since Fatal Bullet took honors in the sprinter category in 2008.
Last updated: March 15, 2025