Full Recovery, and A Big Surprise
In September 1993, before the injury had occurred, Mariah's Storm won the Arlington-Washington Lassie Stakes at Chicago's Arlington Park. This was a Grade III stakes for two-year old-fillies. After her injury healed, and she had fully recovered, she made a return to racing in 1994 and won the Arlington Oaks and, in 1995, the Arlington Matron Stakes. Since her record of winning all three stakes races at Arlington Park was a rare accomplishment, Arlington officials named the Mariah's Storm Stakes in her honor.
Racing at age four, in September 1995 Mariah's Storm won the Turfway Breeders' Cup Stakes at Turfway Park, in the process defeating the future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame filly, Serena's Song, also a daughter of Rahy. She went on to win the Falls City Handicap at Churchill Downs then competed in the Breeders' Cup Distaff where she finished ninth in a ten horse field.
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