Heavenly Prize was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse.
20 Facts About Heavenly Prize
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Heavenly Prize was a Grade I winner at ages two, three and four, and never finished out of the money.
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Heavenly Prize was named the American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly of 1994 after winning the Alabama, Gazelle and Beldame Stakes, plus finishing second in the Breeders' Cup Distaff.
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Heavenly Prize was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2018.
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Heavenly Prize was bred in Kentucky by Ogden Phipps, for whom she raced as a homebred.
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Heavenly Prize was sired by Seeking the Gold, another major stakes winner for the Phipps stable known for his gameness and consistency.
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Heavenly Prize's dam was the unraced mare Oh What a Dance, a full sister to Breeders' Cup Sprint winner Dancing Spree.
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Heavenly Prize made three starts at age two, winning twice.
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Heavenly Prize went off as the favorite in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, but finished third behind Phone Chatter.
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Heavenly Prize made her first start as a three-year-old on March 12,1994, finishing second in the What a Summer Stakes.
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Mike E Smith then gave up the mount on Heavenly Prize to ride the Hall of Fame champion Sky Beauty.
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Heavenly Prize finished the year with a second-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Distaff with Pat Day in the saddle, coming from off of the slow pace and coming up a neck short to longshot One Dreamer.
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Heavenly Prize then reeled off four straight Grade I wins.
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Heavenly Prize continued to draw away "effortlessly, relentlessly" to win by 11 lengths.
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Heavenly Prize finished the year by finishing second in the Beldame to Serena's Song and second in the Distaff to stablemate Inside Information.
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Heavenly Prize made one start at age five, taking on male horses in the Donn Handicap.
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Heavenly Prize finished third behind Cigar, who recorded his thirteenth win in a row.
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Heavenly Prize produced eight foals, seven of which were winners.
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Heavenly Prize died in 2013 at Claiborne Farm in Kentucky.
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Heavenly Prize was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2018.