Fighting Mad (foaled February 18, 2016) is an American Thoroughbred mare and the winner of the 2020 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes.^[1]

Career

Fighting Mad's first race was on August 25, 2018, where she won a Maiden Special Weight race at Del Mar. This was her only race of the season.^[1]

She began her 2019 season with an April 30, 2019 Allowance race win at Churchill Downs. On May 17, 2019, she competed in her first graded stakes race - the 2019 Miss Preakness Stakes, but finished in a disappointing 7th place. She then did another Allowance Optional Claiming race on July 19, 2019, where she came in 2nd.^[1]

On August 17, 2019, at Del Mar, she won the Grade-3 Torrey Pines Stakes. Despite her lack of results at that point, she was the 2-1 favorite and defeated Hollywood Hills by six lengths.^[2] This was the final race of her 2019 season.

She began her 2020 season at the Grade-3 2020 Desert Stormer Stakes in May with a 4th-place finish. She rebounded just two weeks later though by winning the May 31st, 2020 Grade-2 Santa Maria Stakes. She came in as a large underdog behind 2-1 Hard Not to Love and the 3/5 favorite Ce Ce and won by 3 1/4th lengths.^[3]

On August 2, 2020, she got the biggest win of her career when she captured the Grade-1 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes. She came in as the 1-1 favorite and again defeated Hard Not to Love and Ce Ce.^[4] She got in front early with a strong break and beat Ollie's Candy by a half length. This win earned the horse a berth in the 2020 Breeders' Cup Distaff.^[5]

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