PHILLY BILLY (NY)

Philly Billy is a Thoroughbred mare foaled at Westerly Horse Farm in New York on February 14, 2013. She is chestnut in color and has an impressive lineage, being sired by Dublin (KY) and out of the mare Time for Karakorum (NY), who herself is the offspring of Fly So Free (KY) (March 3, 1988 – September 21, 2003) an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse. A grandson of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Damascus, he was owned by New York City Broadway theatre producer and music publishing company owner Tommy Valando and his wife Elizabeth.
In 1990, Fly So Free capped off a successful two-year-old racing campaign with a win in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. Voted 1990’s U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt, he went into the 1991 racing season ranked as a top contender for the U.S. Triple Crown series of races. En route, Fly So Free won the spring 1991 Hutcheson Stakes, the Fountain of Youth Stakes and Florida Derby in which he defeated two other top three-year-olds, Strike the Gold and Hansel. A few weeks later, in mid-April’s Blue Grass Stakes, Fly So Free finished second to Strike the Gold.
Fly So Free sired five Group/Graded stakes race winners, including the 1999 Canadian Female Turf Horse Champion Free Vacation and the 2001 Dubai World Cup winner, Captain Steve.
Philly Billy has participated in 9 races, achieving 1 first-place finish and 2 second-place finishes. Her total earnings amount to $10,484. Notable races for Philly Billy took place at Mountaineer, Charles Town, and Gulfstream Park.