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Madcap Escapade

Bay Filly by Hennessy-Sassy Pants by Saratoga Six
Owner: Bruce Lunsford
Trainer: Frank Brothers

Last Start: Kentucky Oaks, April 30, 2004.
Next Start: Undetermined, back in training for a 2005 return.
Horsehat.com Fast Fact: Madcap Escapade’s unnamed sister by Awesome Again brought $2 million at the Barrett’s Two Year Old in Training Sale, the highest price ever paid for a juvenile filly at public auction.

At 3
WON Old Hat
WON Forward Gal G2
WON Ashaland G1
3rd Kentucky Oaks G1

After Madcap Escapade won her first start, they started to whisper the usual adjectives-“Spectacular”, “Awesome”, “Freak”. After she won her second start the comparisons started- Lady’s Secret, Winning Colors, even Ruffian. By the time Madcap Escapade hit the wire first in the G1 Ashland she was the most exciting three year-old in the country, male or female. But to be put in the pantheon of all-time great, this daughter of Hennessy would have to prove herself again over a distance of ground. She was put to the ultimate test in the ultimate race for sophomore fillies, the mile and one eighth Kentucky Oaks.

On April 30, 2003, Oaks Day, she tore around a muddy Churchill Downs surface, ripping off fractions of :46 for the half-mile and 1:09 4/5 for three quarters and 1:36 3/5 for the mile. But her early efforts cost her in the end and she would have to settle for third behind Ashado and Island Sand. So it appeared that the brilliant filly would have to be confined to shorter distances. Or maybe not. In the weeks following the Kentucky Oaks, it was discovered that Madcap Escapade had a hairline fracture of her hip.

"It probably started in the Oaks, although you couldn't really detect it," said trainer Frank Brothers at the time. "She just needs four months off, then we'll put her back in training. (Owner) Bruce (Lunsford) intends to run her next year. We don't have any timetable, but she'll probably be ready for winter racing at Gulfstream after the first of the year, or thereabouts. Then we'll look for having a good year with her next year."