Silver Charm

Silver Charm
Silver Charm in 2006.
Sire	Silver Buck
Grandsire	Buckpasser
Dam	Bonnie's Poker
Damsire	Poker
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	February 22, 1994
Country	USA
Colour	Gray
Breeder	Mary Lou Wootton
Owner	Bob & Beverly Lewis
Trainer	Bob Baffert
Record	24: 12-7-2
Earnings	$6,944,369
Major wins
Del Mar Futurity (1996) San Vicente Stakes (1997) San Fernando Stakes (1998) Clark Handicap (1998) Dubai World Cup (1998) Kentucky Cup Classic Handicap (1998) San Pasqual Handicap (1999) Goodwood Stakes (1998) Strub Stakes (1998) American Triple Crown Race wins: Kentucky Derby (1997) Preakness Stakes (1997)
Awards
United States Champion 3-Year-Old Colt (1997)
Honours
United States' Racing Hall of Fame (2007) #63 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century
Last updated on May 30, 2006

Silver Charm (Foaled February 22, 1994) is an American Champion Thoroughbred race horse. Trained by Bob Baffert and ridden by Gary Stevens, he is remembered most for winning the 1997 Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes in the Triple Crown.

Late racing career and retirement

Silver Charm lost the third jewel of the Triple Crown by placing second in the Belmont Stakes to Touch Gold by half a length. He was voted the 1997 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Three-Year-Old Male Horse. Racing at age 4, Silver Charm won the 1998 Dubai World Cup. For some time, he stood at Three Chimneys Farm. Then, purchased by the Japan Breeders Association, Silver Charm was retired to stud in Japan. He stood at the Shizunai Stallion Station in December 2004. In 2008, he stood at the Shichinohe Stallion Station and in 2009, at the Iburi Stallion Station.

In the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th Century, Silver Charm was ranked #63.

In 2007, Silver Charm was elected to the United States' Racing Hall of Fame.

Stud career and retirement

When Silver Charm went to Japan to the Shizunai Stallion Station in 2004, a clause in his sales contract called a "buy-back clause" was included. Ever since the death of Kentucky Derby winner Ferdinand, who was sent to a slaughterhouse in Japan when his breeding days were done, the New York Owners and Breeder's Association, based in Saratoga Springs, New York, has begun asking for a small voluntary per-race charge (collected from owners of New York Breds) called the "Ferdinand Fee." These monies are intended for the Bluegrass Charities and the Thoroughbred Charities of America to help them fund racehorse rescue and retirement groups. Some owners are now including buy-back clauses within their stallion contracts. Silver Charm is one of those stallions, as is Roses in May.

On October 29, 2014, it was announced jointly by Three Chimneys Farm and Old Friends Farm that Silver Charm would return from Japan and be retired permanently at Old Friends Equine in Georgetown, Kentucky. Beverly Lewis and her son, Steve, paid to bring Silver Charm back to Kentucky.

Pedigree

Pedigree of Silver Charm

Sire Silver Buck gray 1978	Buckpasser bay 1963	Tom Fool bay 1949	Menow
			Gaga
		Busanda black 1947	War Admiral
			Businesslike
	Silver True gray 1964	Hail To Reason brown 1958	Turn-To
			Nothirdchance
		Silver Fog gray 1944	Mahmoud
			Equilette
Dam Bonnie Poker dark brown 1982	Poker bay 1963	Round Table bay 1954	Princequillo
			Knights Daughter
		Glamour bay 1953	Nasrullah
			Striking
	What A Surprise bay 1968	Wise Margin bay 1950	Market Wise
			One Ripple
		Militant Miss brown 1951	Faultless
			Miss Militant

References

• Silver Charm's Kentucky Derby
• Silver Charm's pedigree
• Preakness winners
• Silver Charm at Three Chimneys Farm: news, pedigree, conformation, racing record
• Silver Charm's offspring at the Triple Crown database by Kathleen Irwin and Joy Reeves

External links

• Silver Charm Racing Into History