title: Perfect Sting
text: # Perfect Sting
  
  Perfect Sting (foaled 1996 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred Championracehorse and broodmare. Bred by Frank Stronach's Adena Springs Farm and raced by his Stronach Stables, she was sired by Red Ransom and out of the mare Valid Victress.
  
  Perfect Sting raced from age two through five during which time she won the 2000 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf for trainer Joe Orseno and was voted that year's American Champion Female Turf Horse. She was retired to broodmare duty after her 2001 campaign having won fourteen of twenty-one starts with career earnings of US$2,202,042.
  
  ## Pedigree
  
  Pedigree of Perfect Sting, bay mare, April 27, 1996 :
  
  | Sire Red Ransom | Roberto | Hail To Reason | Turn-To |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Sire Red Ransom | Roberto | Hail To Reason | Nothirdchance |
  | Sire Red Ransom | Roberto | Bramalea | Nashua |
  | Sire Red Ransom | Roberto | Bramalea | Rarelea |
  | Sire Red Ransom | Arabia | Damascus | Sword Dancer |
  | Sire Red Ransom | Arabia | Damascus | Kerala |
  | Sire Red Ransom | Arabia | Christmas Wind | Nearctic |
  | Sire Red Ransom | Arabia | Christmas Wind | Bally Free |
  | Dam Valid Victress | Valid Appeal | In Reality | Intentionally |
  | Dam Valid Victress | Valid Appeal | In Reality | My Dear Girl |
  | Dam Valid Victress | Valid Appeal | Desert Trial | Moslem Chief |
  | Dam Valid Victress | Valid Appeal | Desert Trial | Scotch Verdict |
  | Dam Valid Victress | Grecian Victory | Dr. Fager | Rough'n Tumble |
  | Dam Valid Victress | Grecian Victory | Dr. Fager | Aspidistra |
  | Dam Valid Victress | Grecian Victory | Greek Victress | Victoria Park |
  | Dam Valid Victress | Grecian Victory | Greek Victress | Heliostrings (family: 20-a) |
  