Pedigree Look: One Dreamer

Name: One Dreamer
Year Born: 1988
Color: Gray
Sex: Filly
Sire: Relaunch
Dam: Creatively
Broodmare Sire: Pretense

Profile: Even though One Dreamer (Relaunch)'s 1994 Breeders' Cup Distaff win was an upset (she was after all, the longest shot on the board), her race record is actually not that bad. An early May foal, One Dreamer made her first start at 3 and it took three starts for her to break her maiden. Her stakes debut wasn't until August 1992 in the Cleopatra Stakes at Arlington. Before that she had won her past three allowance races. She finished 5th that day (the runner up Diamond City is the dam of Catienus and the third place finisher Til Forbid is the granddam of Sara Louise). She would win her first starts race, the 1993 Arlington Breeders' Cup Handicap at the same track the next year (one of the horses she would defeat on that day is Words of War, the dam to No Matter What (dam of Rainbow View and Just as Well) and E Dubai (sire of defending Classic winner Fort Larned)). She would also pick up her first graded placing, 2nd in the Churchill BC Handicap which was a G2.

1994 would be her final year of racing where she picked up wins in the Louisville BC Handicap, Office Wife and Arlington BC Handicap. After a third place finish in the Rachel Jackson on turf, she was sent to the BC Distaff where she would face the likes of Hollywood Wildcat, Heavenly Prize and Sky Beauty where she beat them all.

Here is her upset win




That would be her final start of her career. She would finish with 12 wins in 25 starts with just over $1.2 million in her career. Although she wasn't as successful in the shed as she was on the track, One Dreamer's highest earning foal is W L's Legend (Woodman).

Sire

Relaunch (In Reality) is a G3 winner and is G1 placed. As a sire, he has Cee's Tizzy (sire of Tiznow and all of his sibs such as Tizso (dam of Paynter) and Tizamazing (dam of Oxbow)), stakes placed Arromanches, as well as G1 winners Waquoit, With Anticipation and BC Classic winner Skywalker.

In Reality (Intentionally) was runner up in the Preakness in 1967 to Damascus. He won the Met Mile and Florida Derby in his career as well. As a sire he has G2 winner Dignitas, G1 winner in England Known Fact, and BC Sprint winner Smile (of course best known now as the broodmare sire of Smarty Jones) among his foals. His dam My Dear Girl (Rough'n Tumble) was Champion 2yo in 1959. She is also the dam to G1 winner Superbity (Groshawk) and G1 placed Return to Reality (Intentionally). Her dam Iltis (War Relic) is also the dam to stakes winner Treasure Chest (Rough'n Tumble). It's thorough In Reality's great grandson Tiznow that this sire line continues and is one of the only, if not the only sire line that has Man O War on the sire's side and not the dam's.

Foggy Note (The Axe II) won ten times in her career. Other then Relaunch, she is the dam to G2 placed Bell O Reason (Hail to Reason). Thorough her dam Silver Song (Royal Note) comes Tapit (Pulpit) and Rubiano (Fappiano) (thorough her daughter Moon Glitter (In Reality)), and Glitterman (Dewan) (dam is Moon Glitter).

Dam

Creatively (Pretense) won three times in twelve starts. Other then Dreamer, she is the dam to G2 placed Lonely Girl (Relaunch), the dam of stakes winner Four Plus Four (Major Impact).

Pretense (Endeavour (ARG)) was a stakes winner and Champion Handicap Male in 1967. He is the sire of G1 placed Cassaleria, G1 winner Anne's Pretender, and G1 winner Sham (who of course is best known as the arch rival to Secretariat). He is his dam Imitation (GB)'s (Hyperion (GB)) best foal.

Betty Sherrill (Bagdad) was unraced in her career. Creatively is her best foal. Betty is a 1/2 sister to stakes winner Hot Oil (Damascus) (in an unrealated note, Hot Oil is the sire of a mare by the name of Amanda Bry, now known as Limerick who is owned by a Twitter friend of mine Heidi to read more about Lim here is a link to an article written by Three Chimney's Jen Roytz).