29 Facts About Lexie Lou

Lexie Lou has won three graded stakes in the United States and Canada, and finished second to American Horse of the Year California Chrome in the 2014 Hollywood Derby.

In 2019, Lexie Lou was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.

Lexie Lou's dam is Oneexcessivenite, a California bred mare who won 4 times in 18 starts, and whose three previous foals were all unraced.

Lexie Lou's sire, Sligo Bay, is an Irish bred son of leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland Sadler's Wells and has been a moderate success at stud in Canada.

Lexie Lou was sold to John Ross for $5,577 at the 2012 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society yearling sale.

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Lexie Lou was sold after her first start of 2014 to Gary Barber, the chairman and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, for $300,000.

Lexie Lou was then moved to the barn of Mark Casse, who at the time had already won six Sovereign Awards as outstanding trainer.

In 2013, Lexie Lou raced eight times, all at Woodbine racetrack, in races for Canadian-bred fillies.

Lexie Lou then finished second in both the Victorian Queen and Princess Elizabeth Stakes before winning the South Ocean Stakes by three lengths.

Lexie Lou started her three-year-old season by finishing fourth in the Star Shoot Stakes.

Lexie Lou made a strong move going three wide around the far turn, but could not quite catch the front-runners and finished third by just over half a length.

Rather than race in the second leg of the Tiara, the Bison City Stakes, Lexie Lou's connections decided to race her against the colts in the CDN$1 million Queen's Plate.

Lexie Lou broke from post position 14 and settled towards the back of the pack for the first half mile.

Lexie Lou then started to make up ground down the backstretch, moved to second around the far turn and hit the front heading into the stretch.

Lexie Lou's connections felt that she would be helped by the firmer turf in California compared to the conditions at Woodbine in the Canadian Stakes.

Lexie Lou finished second, just two lengths behind eventual American Horse of the Year California Chrome, who had earlier won that year's Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.

Lexie Lou was named the 2014 Canadian Horse of the Year, as well as winning Sovereign Awards as champion three-year-old filly and champion turf mare.

Lexie Lou broke well but reacted poorly when another horse sprinted in front of her for the early lead, causing dirt to be kicked in her face.

Lexie Lou then finished a disappointing sixth in the Grade III South Endeavour Stakes, at Tampa Bay, then finished third in another allowance optional claimer, this time at Woodbine.

Lexie Lou raced wide just off a quick pace, but could not keep up when asked for run in the stretch.

Lexie Lou went to the early lead and opened up a three length lead going into far turn.

Lexie Lou could run on the turf, she could run on the synthetic, and the one time I ran her on the dirt, she ran pretty good.

Lexie Lou received the 2016 Sovereign Award for Champion Turf Female Horse.

Lexie Lou was entered in the 2016 Keeneland November Sale as a prospective broodmare.

Lexie Lou sold for $1 million to KI Farm owned by Tomoyuki Nakamura.

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Lexie Lou was bred to Frankel in 2017 before being sent to Japan.

Lexie Lou was named into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2019.

Lexie Lou is inbred 4S × 5D to Nearctic, meaning Nearctic appears once in the fourth generation of the sire's side of Lexie's Lou's pedigree and once in the fifth generation of the dam's side.

Lexie Lou is inbred 4S x 5S to Hail to Reason, and 5S x 5S to Almahmoud.