Serena's Song (foaled April 4, 1992) is an AmericanThoroughbredrace horse. She won 17 graded stakes races, including 11Grade I (some against males and older mares), in three seasons for $3,286,388 in earnings.

Serena's Song is a smaller than average, but athletically built bay mare.^[1] Her sireRahy was a Grade II winner on turf and Grade I-placed, but was more successful at stud and became notable primarily as a sire of broodmares and racemares. Rahy has also sired 2006U.S. Champion Two-Year-Old FillyDreaming of Anna,Breeders' Cup Turf winner andEuropean Horse of the YearFantastic Light, and the outstanding broodmareMariah's Storm, among other notable horses.^[2] Serena's Song's dam Imagining, a daughter of Northfields, won two of her 26 races but became a successful broodmare who also produced Grade III winner Vivid Imagination and graded stakes producers River Saint and Serena's Sister.^[1][3]

Serena's Song was bred inKentucky by Dr. Howard J. Baker.Hall of Fame trainerD. Wayne Lukas bought her at the 1993Keeneland July yearling sale for $150,000 forEclipse of Merit ownersRobert and Beverly Lewis.^[1]

In her two-year-old season, Serena's Song started 10 times and won four races. She also finished second twice and third once while compiling earnings of $597,335. In theBreeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, she finished second to the undefeated championFlanders by a head. In theGrade IHollywood Starlet Stakes, she beat Urbane.

In 13 starts at age three, Serena's Song won 9. One of her top performances was in the second jewel of theFillies Triple Crown, the $200,000 Grade 2Black-Eyed Susan Stakes. That race was run on May 19, 1995, over a mile and one eighth atPimlico Race Course. Serena's Song beat a field of seven stakes winners, including Conquistadoress and Rare Opportunity.

Serena's Song defeated males that year in theSpiral Stakes and theHaskell Stakes. She also defeated older females in theBeldame Stakes.

She then won theAmerican Champion Three-Year-Old Filly award, winning $1,524,920.

Serena's Song raced 15 times as a four-year-old and won 5, never coming worse than third, while running at eight different tracks. In May she won thePimlico Distaff, now called theAllaire duPont Distaff Stakes, on thePreakness Stakes undercard. She also came very close to winning theWhitney Handicap over males, and was second in theBreeders' Cup Distaff to bring her year's earnings to $1,164,133.

Serena's Song was sent to Denali Stud nearParis, Kentucky to become abroodmare. She produced 12 foals, 11 that raced, and nine who have won. Among her offspring are:

• Serena's Tune - 1998 bay filly byMr. Prospector - winner of 7 of her 14 starts, including three stakes victories, with career earnings of $337,260.^[4] She is the dam of Vocalised (byVindication), a Group 3 winner in Great Britain and Ireland.^[5][6] Serena's Tune also produced Serena's Cat, an ungraded stakes winner who produced 2015American Champion Older Dirt Male HorseHonor Code and Grade 2 winner Noble Tune.^[7] Serena's Tune died in 2006.^[8]
• Sophisticat - 1999 bay filly byStorm Cat - won 3 races in England, France, and Ireland, including theCoronation Stakes. She is the dam of Grade 3 placed Sefroua by Kingmambo, and Grade 1 placed Pursuit of Glory.
• Arbitrate - 2000 chestnut colt byDeputy Minister - 5 wins in 33 starts, with stakes placings. He earned $195,390, and is now a stallion in Mexico.
• Grand Reward - 2001 bay colt by Storm Cat - 4 wins in North America, England, and Ireland, including the Grade 2Oaklawn Handicap. He has earnings of $545,844, and entered stud at Hill 'n' Dale in Kentucky, later moving to Ghost Ridge Farm in Felton, Pennsylvania. As of 2018 he is standing at Haras La Quebrada in Argentina.
• Harlington - 2002 bay colt byUnbridled - 6 wins in North America including the Grade 2Gulfstream Park Handicap, and earnings of $370,000. He entered stud at Hill 'N' Dale Farm in 2009, and now stands at stud Saudi Arabia.
• Pure Symmetry - 2003 chestnut filly by Storm Cat - non winner but placed 2 times in 6 races. She produced the stakes winner High Stakes Player byA.P. Indy and stakes runner Miner's Cat byMineshaft. She also produced Divine Energy byTapit, who is now a stallion in Mexico.
• Colourful Score - 2004 Bay Horse by Storm Cat - 1 win in 3 starts, won by 7 lengths in the UAE.
• Spark Candle - 2005 Chestnut Horse byA.P. Indy - 9 wins in 22 starts. Raced in USA and Japan, $262,303
• Schramsberg - 2006 Chestnut Horse by Storm Cat - 6 wins at 4 and 5, 2011, $394,626, won Gr.III John B. Connally. Entered stud 2012 at Bar None Farm in Canada. Sire of 2017 Canadian Juvenile Stakes winner Remarkable Vintage.
• Stormberg - 2008 Chestnut Colt by Storm Cat - Winner in 7 starts. Entered stud at NexStar Ranch in California in 2015, and moved to Tommy Town Thoroughbreds in 2018.
• Night and Day - 2009 Bay Filly byUnbridled's Song - Ran once as a 2 year old, was unplaced. Dam of graded stakes winner Made You Look.
• Serene Melody - 2010 Bay Filly byStreet Cry (Ire) - Winner of the Wintergreen Stakes at Turfway Park- Retired, broodmare.
• UNNAMED - 2011 Bay Filly byMedaglia d'Oro - Died as a foal.
• Gold Serenade - 2014 filly by Medaglia d'Oro -Winless in 6 starts. She has retired and resides at Denali Stud.

After her 2014 filly was weaned, Serena's Song was retired from broodmare duties. She still resides at Denali Stud.

Serena's Song was inducted into theHall of Fame in 2002 at age ten.

• List of leading Thoroughbred racehorses

• "Champions, The Lives, Times, and Past Performances of America's Greatest Thoroughbreds, Revised Edition, Champions from 1893-2004," theDaily Racing Form
• Serena’s Song’s pedigree, racing stats, and photo
• Serena’s Song in the Hall of Fame

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