Rarely do top-class racemares duplicate their efforts from the racetrack as broodmares. The odds are simply stacked against such a feat. It has been done, though, and if one were to rank mares who were the best in both careers, Miesque would undoubtedly be near the top of that list. She won 10 Grade or Group 1 races, including two editions of the Breeders’ Cup Mile, and her first two foals were classic winners.

It was a quiet Sunday morning at Churchill Downs Sept. 15, but you could feel the joy and excitement at the barn of trainer Phil Bauer as Iroquois Stakes inner Jonathan’s Way came out for his morning bath just after 7 a.m. ET.