Soviet Song

Soviet Song  18 February 2000
By Marju out of Kalinka ((Soviet Star)

Soviet Song won 5 Group 1 races at 2, 4 and 5 yaers of age.  She recorded back to back impressive wins in the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes in 2004 and 2005.  She won the Group 1 Sussex Stakes at 4 and was an unlucky runner up in the same race in 2005.

She was kept in training as a 6 year old and repaid that faith by assserting her authority over rivals in the Group 2 Windsor Forest Stakes at Royal AScot.

She will perhaps best be remembered for twice beating Attraction in 2004, the year that filly won the English and Irish 1,000 Guineas.  I had Soviet Song on my list to follow in 2003 when she was a three year old and she actually failed to win that season when perhaps the James Fanshawe horses were not 100%.  She did finish 4th to Royal Rhythm in the 1,000 Guineas that year though and second to the same horse in the Coronation Stakes.

She was the world's highest rated female horse in 2004 and was eventually retired at the end of the 2006 season.