Holy Helena

Holy Helena ran second in her career debut at Aqueduct in April 2017 but came back and won her second race when stretching out to 1 1/16 miles at Belmont Park in May. A month later she won the Woodbine Oaks with only that maiden win under her saddle and then followed with a dominant victory over males in the Queen’s Plate, winning the first leg of the Canadian Triple Crown by 3 ½ lengths.

She switched back from the synthetic main track at Woodbine to the dirt main track at Saratoga for the Grade 1 Alabama Stakes and ran a disappointing eighth before closing out her 3-year-old season with a runner-up finish at Woodbine in the Grade 3 Ontario Derby.

Holy Helena tried turf for the first time in her 4-year-old bow and closed from off the pace to win an allowance/optional claiming race by a neck on Feb. 4 at Gulfstream Park. Clearly taking a liking to the grass, she followed with an even-more-impressive victory in the Grade 3 The Very One Stakes four weeks later at Gulfstream, where she drove clear late to win by 1 ¾ lengths.

Holy Helena continued to display stakes-winning turf form in her next start, closing with a four-wide rally to take the Grade 2 Sheepshead Bay Stakes by a half-length at Belmont Park on May 5. Holy Helena was winless in her final five starts of 2018, finishing third twice in graded stakes and second in the Via Borghese Stakes in her final race of the year.

She kicked off her 5-year-old season with a sixth-place finisg in the Grade 3 La Prevoyante Stakes at Gulfstream Park before regaining her winning form with a powerful closing rally to win the Grade 3 The Very One Stakes at Gulfstream on March 2.

By 2004 Horse of the Year Ghostzapper, Holy Helena is a half-sister (same dam [mother], different sire [father]) to Grade 2 winner Street Boss.