Behaving Badly is a

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foaled on April 5, 2001, in

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and a top sprinting distaffer. Sired by Pioneering, a Mr. Prospector son (going back to

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), out of Timeleighness (by Sir Raleigh), she was bred by Thomas and Lakin, and owned by Patti and Hal J. Earnhardt III. Behaving Badly is a half-sister to stakes-winning filly Lavish Numbers. Her dam, Timeleighness, is a full sister to stakes winner Timelessleigh. Trained by

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, she had been pointed to the $2 million TVG

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for 2006, but instead, Baffert decided to retire her after a disappointing effort in the Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes at

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. He said, "There have always been little things that bothered her, so I just didn't want to press her anymore. She'd done so much, what was there left for her to do?" Of her thirteen starts, Behaving Badly won nine, and placed in 2. This means she was out of the money only twice. Racing under jockey

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through her fifth year, she earned $749,224. At four she won the Grade III Rancho Bernardo Handicap. At five, she took five of seven starts, beginning with three straight wins at

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. She won the Grade I

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in January 2006 and the Grade III

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in February. She followed that by placing to Pussycat Doll in the Grade I

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, and then went on to win the Grade II Genuine Risk Breeders' Cup Handicap on July 3, the Grade III Rancho Bernardo for the second straight time on August 18, and then the Big Brush Stakes. After that came her fourth-place finish as the 9-to-10 favorite in Thoroughbred Club. Behaving Badly is now a broodmare at John Sikura's

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near

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Behaving Badly's pedigree and photo

Behaving Badly's NTRA stats
Racehorses bred in New York (state) Racehorses trained in the United States 2001 racehorse births Thoroughbred family A1