TWO YEAR OLD FILLY-WILD AGAIN - DEPUTY MINISTER - TORSION

Owner: aaafarms

Record: 10/ 6-1-1

Earnings: $1,257,705

Stakes:

1st: Breeders Bowl Juvenile Filly (G1), Frickazee Stakes (G1), Movieland Starlet (G1), Golden Red Stakes (G3)

By-Kingab

The world of horse racing is a strange and mysterious place, where one really has no idea what is about to happen next, or what is right around the corner, or over the next horizon. The truth in this statement is what keeps most trainers and many owners grinding away, rising early each morning, while hoping and even praying that things will get better -- that the ‘big horse’ just might be right over there in that last stall, quietly munching hay. And who knows? He just might be. After all, who could have foretold that Mother Story, the gorgeous, mahogany colored filly with four white stockings and the crooked white blaze would go from an ordinary allowance performer, to the queen of all racing in just nine short weeks? Who could have known that the winner of a simple allowance race and a maiden victory from her first six starts, would suddenly blossom into the most terrorizing two-year-old filly in the world, vanquishing every foe she faced for the rest of the year?

No, you didn’t know. No one did. She went from winning a modest $50,000 in her first six tries and off the board in two non-graded stakes attempts, to the winner of well over $1 million and the heroine of three Grade I championships. Now toss in victory in a Grade III contest and add in a faster speed rating than the male two-year old champion, around two turns, and you start to wonder. How could you know? You say you knew? No you didn’t. How could you? How could you possibly know that the filly who could not keep up through the stretch in Indiana’s 376 Stakes, would flash through the lane like frightened lightening to snatch victory in the final stride of a million-dollar race. This was a race that just happened to be the most important race of the year for two-year-old fillies. How could you know that she would have fans pushing each other to get a better look at her in the California paddock before her last start of the year? And that one hard-core New York writer would describe her rally in the G-I Frickasee Stakes, when she closed from 12th with a quarter-mile left to run to win going away, as the ‘single most exciting move of the year in New York’. You knew all this? Come on. Tell the truth. You didn’t know. Not even her trainer knew. All he knew for sure was that the beautifully bred daughter of Wild Again was not running to her pedigree. But give him credit. He stuck by his girl, telling all that would listen that she was better than she was showing, and that when the distances got longer, she would get stronger. He was right. Oh, how he was right. More right than even he dreamed.

Her story doesn’t really begin until she arrived in New York, a complete unknown and just another good looking lady, searching for an identity. She found that identity in the final quarter mile of the GI Frickasee Stakes. Dead last, with only two-furlongs to run, she closed like a runaway freight train to defeat 11 of the best juvenile fillies in the land. This victory sent her on her way to Florida to take on the world’s finest in the GI Breeders Bowl Juvenile Fillies. It was an instant replay. Again, she was twelfth and last with a quarter-mile left to run. She won - by inches, but she won. She passed 11 of the world’s finest fillies in a final gut-wrenching quarter mile to win in a heart-stopping photograph over the terrifically talented and dead game, Alone that Baby.

Now, widely recognized as perhaps the best young distaffer in the world, she again took her act on the road, this time to Kentucky. There she took on four out-classed foes in the G3 Golden Red Stakes and after again dropping back to last, she kicked in to overdrive in the stretch to win by an authoritative five lengths. Then came the showdown. The GI Movieland Starlet in California. Alone That Baby and Fig Belcher awaited. Her two top rivals for queen bee. The race was greeted with a packed house and all the tension one could possibly want in a horse race. More tension than the Breeders Bowl for all new that a champion would be crowned today. The race itself was merely a display of pure domination as Mother Story and Alone That Baby came to the top of the stretch together with a quarter-mile left in the season, as one would wear the crown of Miss America and the other would be first-runner up. As the pair hurtled past the eighth pole, Mother Story had another gear that Alone That Baby simply could not match, and she drew off to a most convincing four-length victory. Now she belongs to history. She is the queen of all the land. She has proved that she is a most deserving champion. And now the dream has been realized and it is over. Or is it? Surely, her trainer couldn’t dream of a long stretch in Kentucky, with 125,000 screaming fans cheering for their favorites to win the biggest prize in all of racing. Could he? If only one knew. And no one does. Besides, there is always another dream.