Star Over The Bay (bred and foaled in Florida on 2-5-1998; died in Singapore on May 15, 2005) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who rose from the claimer ranks for $80,000. Once he began winning his races, he earned more than $700,000. Before that, he was raced over and over in claiming races, often in the money, but never in a stakes event. (A claiming race is one in which any horse running can be claimed by accredited horse trainers for a stipulated...
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Star Over The Bay (bred and foaled in Florida on 2-5-1998; died in Singapore on May 15, 2005) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who rose from the claimer ranks for $80,000. Once he began winning his races, he earned more than $700,000. Before that, he was raced over and over in claiming races, often in the money, but never in a stakes event. (A claiming race is one in which any horse running can be claimed by accredited horse trainers for a stipulated sum. To race in a claiming event, an owner and trainer takes the chance his horse will be sold out from under him, but it also keeps horses of greater ability from racing against horses of lesser ability, thereby unfairly winning most of the purse money.)
The light gray's career did not really get going until he was claimed at Hollywood Park in early 2004 as a five-year-old. At that point, he began to be trained by Mike Mitchell. Mitchell found the speed and the talent in what had seemed an ordinary horse out of the claiming ranks. He quickly...
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