Brittany Farms has enjoyed astounding success in racing a long string of brilliant homebred fillies and mares, but perhaps none has ever been as great, as courageous—or as fast—as the aptly-named American Jewel.

She won her first start as a 2-year-old in late June at the Meadowlands in a North American Season’s Record 1:52.3, a sure sign of the great things that would lie ahead. In the midst of what would become an 8-race winning streak, she equaled the World Record of 1:50.3 winning her She’s A Great Lady elim at Mohawk and made the mark all her own the following week, firmly establishing her identity with a 1:50.2 World Record score in the final and becoming the sport’s all-time fastest freshman pacing filly at the time.

Despite breaking a P-1 bone in her sesamoid in the final start of her freshman campaign—and still finishing a dead-game second in Lexington—she returned to the races at 3 with her same, steamrolling ability. She became the fastest 3-year-old filly pacer in history at that time with a gate-to-wire 1:48.2 win in the $642,000 Fan Hanover, and notched her fourth World Record winning the James Lynch elim at Pocono in 1:49.2. She won six major stakes races in all that season, capped with the ultimate triumph in the $500,000 Breeders Crown over the best of her adversaries.

Now a broodmare, American Jewel's first foal to sell at public auction is the Captaintreacherous colt U S Captain, who fetched $180,000 and is a stakes performer with $344,000 in earnings. Admiral Hanover, her 2-year-old of 2022, sold for $350,000 at the 2021 Harrisburg Yearling Sale.