Horsename: | Lemons Forever |
Sire: | Lemon Drop Kid |
Grandsire: | Kingmambo |
Dam: | Critikola |
Damsire: | Tough Critic |
Sex: | Filly |
Foaled: | 2003 |
Country: | United States |
Color: | Chestnut |
Breeder: | Farfellow Farms Ltd. |
Owner: | Leon Willis, Terry Horton, Dallas Stewart |
Trainer: | Dallas Stewart |
Record: | 16: 4-1-2 |
Earnings: | US$648,940 |
Race: | Kentucky Oaks (2006) |
Awards: | Kentucky Broodmare of the Year (2017) |
Lemons Forever (foaled May 24, 2003 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the Grade 1 132nd Kentucky Oaks horse race on May 5, 2006. Her win was the biggest upset in the history of the Oaks.[1]
The Kentucky Oaks had a full field of fourteen fillies, with Lemons Forever posting the highest odds, at 47-1. She trailed throughout the race, only to rally late and win by 1½ lengths.
A $2 bet on Lemons Forever paid $96.20, and a $2 trifecta paid $12,186.60.[2]
Lemons Forever did not make a run for the Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing, the filly equivalent of the Triple Crown, as she did not compete in the second leg of the competition, the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, on May 19.
After winning the Oaks, Lemons Forever raced ten more times (eight in Grade 1 and Grade 2 races), only winning once in an optional claimer and running 3rd in the Grade 1 Alabama Stakes at Saratoga. She was retired in 2007.
Lemons Forever sold for $2.5 million at the 2007 Keeneland broodmare sale to geologist Charles Fipke.[3], she has produced five named foals, four of them winners:[4]
Lemons Forever was named 2017 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year for her foals Forever Unbridled and Unbridled Forever.[5]