For PA-bred and PA-sired fillies and mares, the Disco Chick Stakes highlight the November 10th card at Parx Racing. For fillies and mares, three-year olds and up going seven furlongs, the race offers a $75,000 purse. The race drew seven entries by a variety of PA stallions including Kentucky Derby winner, Smarty Jones.
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The Disco Chick Stakes is named after a hard-knocking, tough, PA-bred filly named Disco Chick that earned over $735,000. She raced from 2014 through 2017 and retired with a record forty-two starts, ten wins, fourteen seconds, and six thirds. She raced throughout the Mid-Atlantic at Monmouth Park, Presque Isle Downs, Aqueduct, Laurel, Belmont, Saratoga and Parx with wins in the 2017 Regret Stakes at Monmouth Park, the 2016 Skipat Stakes at Pimlico, and the 2016 My Juliet and Foxy J.G. Stakes at Parx. Trained by Miguel Penaloza and owned by Yaroslaw Kolybabiuk, Disco Chick won the PA-Preferred: PA-Sired, PA-Bred female award for 2016.
Bred in Pennsylvania by Y. Kolybabiuk, Disco Chick is by five-time leading Pennsylvania sire, Jump Start, out of Disco Flirt by Disco Rico. The beautifully-bred Jump Start stood at Overbrook Farm in Kentucky before moving to PA. While in Kentucky, he shuttled to Argentina for five seasons where he sired three South American champions, Idolo Porteno, Uruguay’s 2017 champion, Sexy Reasons, and Argentina’s two-year old champion filly of 2015, Seresta. Jump Start was also the leading Mid-Atlantic sire for three consecutive years from 2015-2017. His progeny earnings were usually more than five million a year, and his top earners were Prayer for Relief, Rail Trip, Pants On Fire, and Icabad Crane.
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After the end of the 2017 racing season, Disco Chick was retired and sold at the 2018 Keeneland January sale for $180,000. She was sold again at the 2022 Keeneland November Sale for $35,000.
As a producer, Disco Chick produced two winners including 2025 Dwyer Stakes winner Disco Time. A winner on the race track and a success in the breeding shed, Disco Chick is worth remembering.
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