Raging Sea
Raging Sea is a multiple Grade I winning American thoroughbred racehorse who won the Personal Ensign Stakes at Saratoga Race Course in 2024 and the La Troienne Stakes at Churchill Downs in 2025.
Background
Raging Sea is a chestnut mare that was bred in Kentucky by Jon Clay's Alpha Delta Stables. Alpha Delta Stables continues to own the mare. Her sire is Curlin, the 2007 and 2008 American Horse of the Year and stands at Hill 'n' Dale Farms in Kentucky. Her dam is Stormy Welcome, an unraced daughter of Storm Cat who had 9 named foals of which 8 were winners. Raging Sea's 2nd dam Welcome Surprise won the 2000 Grade III Dogwood Stakes at Churchill Downs. Raging Sea's 3rd dam Weekend Surprise was dam of 1992 American Horse of the Year A.P. Indy and 1990 Preakness Stakes winner Summer Squall and Kentucky Broodmare of the Year in 1992.Raging Sea is trained by Chad C. Brown.
Career highlights
As a three-year-old on November 25, 2023, Raging Sea won her first graded event at Aqueduct, the Grade III Comely Stakes.As a four-year-old on August 23, 2024, Raging Sea defeated the 2023 Champion Older Dirt Female Horse Idiomatic by a head in a major upset in the Grade I Personal Ensign Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.
In the Breeders' Cup Distaff at Del [Mar Fairgrounds|Del Mar], Raging Sea was gallant in defeat to the 2024 American Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna.
Raging Sea started her five-year-old season with a victory in the Grade I La Troienne Stakes at Churchill Downs, defeating Thorpedo Anna.
Statistics
Notes:An asterisk after the odds means Raging Sea was the post-time favorite.