New Year's Day (horse)
| New Year's Day | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Street Cry |
| Grandsire | Machiavellian |
| Dam | Justwhistledixie |
| Damsire | Dixie Union |
| Sex | Colt |
| Foaled | 22 April 2011 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Clearsky Farms |
| Owner | Gary & Mary West |
| Trainer | Bob Baffert |
| Record | 3: 2-0-1 |
| Earnings | $1,154,000 |
| Major wins | |
| Breeders' Cup Juvenile (2013) | |
New Year's Day (foaled April 22, 2011) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Racing only as a two-year-old he won two of his three races including the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. His career was ended by injury in December 2013 and he was retired to stud.
New Year's Day is a bay horse with a narrow white stripe bred in Kentucky by Clearsky Farms. He was sired by the Irish-bred stallion Street Cry, who won the Dubai World Cup in 2002 before becoming a very successful breeding stallion. His other offspring have included Zenyatta, Street Sense, Whobegotyou and Shocking. New Year's Day's was the first foal of his dam Justwhistledixie, a high-class racemare who won the Grade II Davona Dale Stakes and finished second in the Acorn Stakes in 2009. As a descendant of the broodmare Bold Irish, Justwhistledixie came from the same branch of Thoroughbred family 8-c which also produced Ruffian, Pine Bluff and Fusaichi Pegasus.
In September 2012, the yearling colt was consigned to the Keeneland sales where he was bought for $425,000 by Ben Glass. The colt entered the ownership of Gary & Mary West and was sent into training with Bob Baffert.
On his racecourse debut, New Year's Day ran in a five and a half furlong maiden race on the Polytrack surface at Del Mar on August 18 2013. Ridden by Garrett Gomez, he started at odds of 4/1 in a field of nine runners. After racing towards the rear of the field he moved up on the outside entering the straight and finished third behind Indexical and Hi Fashioned. Two weeks later at the same track, New Year's Day contested another maiden race, this time over a distance of one mile and started the 0.9/1 favorite against eight opponents. Gomez tracked the leader Carson's Ten in the early stages before sending his mount into the lead two furlongs from the finish. New Year's Day went clear of the field in the straight and won by one and three quarter lengths from Bond Holder with a gap of three and a quarter lengths back to Cautious Giant in third.
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