Order of Australia was 73-1 on the board, but among the favorites on pedigree

Order of Australia was the longest-priced winner of the weekend at Keeneland, as he sprang a $148.40 upset in the Breeders’ Cup Mile. However, in terms of his pedigree, he sported perhaps more Breeders’ Cup purple than any runner.

Both of the colt’s granddams are Breeders’ Cup winners, as is his half-sister, placing his family in an elite club.

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Order of Australia was the first Breeders’ Cup starter for Australia, who won the Epsom Derby and Irish Derby and now stands alongside his sire, the great Galileo, at Coolmore’s Irish headquarters. Australia is out of the globe-trotting champion Ouija Board, who counted the 2004 and 2006 editions of the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf among her eight Grade 1/Group 1 victories.

Order of Australia is out of the unraced Danehill mare Senta’s Dream, whose own dam, Starine, won the 2002 Filly and Mare Turf. Senta’s Dream is the dam of Iridessa, who won three Grade 1/Group 1 races in 2019, including the Filly and Mare Turf.

With Order of Australia’s victory, Senta’s Dream became the sixth mare to produce multiple Breeders’ Cup winners. In alphabetical order, the mares to hold that distinction are Hasili, the dam of 2001 Filly and Mare Turf winner Banks Hill and 2005 winner Intercontinental; Leslie’s Lady, dam of three-time Breeders’ Cup heroine Beholder and Juvenile Turf winner Mendelssohn; Primal Force, the dam of 1998 Classic winner Awesome Again and 2000 Juvenile winner Macho Uno; Sweet Life, dam of 2004 Juvenile Fillies winner Sweet Catomine and 2009 Ladies’ Classic winner Life Is Sweet; and Win Approval, dam of a pair of Mile winners in Miesque’s Approval (2006) and World Approval (2017).