At a glance
- Status: In training
- Filly, Ontario-bred, foaled March 12, 2023
- By Perfect Timber out of You’re Beingplayed
- Trainer: Kevin Attard
- Acquired at the 2024 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings Sale
Behind the name
The Tragically Hip’s Fully Completely is an album that plays like a greatest hits compilation. Twenty years after its release, Canada’s rock stations regularly spin the six hits it spawned: Locked in the Trunk of a Car, Fifty Mission Cap, Courage (for Hugh MacLennan), At the Hundredth Meridian, Looking for a Place to Happen, and Fully Completely. Born of a band firing on all cylinders, the album also boasts the song Wheat Kings which remain a staple on Canadian airwaves despite never being released as a single.
Capturing the rawness of a live set and lyrical brilliance, Fully Completely elevated the Tragically Hip from their bar band persona and established them as a true mainstream contender at the apex of their talent.
Nominated for album of the year in 1993 after selling more than a million copies in Canada, Fully Completely was the first album on which Gord Downie wrote all the lyrics. Focusing them heavily on national icons and history, he made it one of the most “Canadian” albums of all time.
The poetic finesse of the rightly revered album propelled the Hip’s frontman on the path to becoming Canada’s unofficial poet laureate. “The place of honor that Downie occupies in Canada’s national imagination has no parallel in the US,” The New York Times wrote upon his death in 2017, “Imagine Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and Michael Stipe combined into one sensitive, oblique poet-philosopher, and you’re getting close.”
The Tragically Hip released 15 albums and more than 50 singles over a 33-year career. Nine of their albums reached #1 on the Canadian charts. They earned 17 Juno awards (from dozens of nominations), a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, a National Arts Centre Award, a SOCAN National Achievement Award, and Humanitarian Award for raising millions of dollars for charities. The band was inducted into both Canada’s Walk of Fame (2002) and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame (2005), and each member was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada. Canada Post issued The Tragically Hip stamp in 2013.
Retaining its potency and timelessness, Fully Completely marks the moment when the iconic band from Kingston truly found its voice.
About the sire
A sire of four crops, Ontario-bred Perfect Timber is a Top 3 third crop-sire in Canada and a Top 5 second-crop sire. In 2024, 25% of his starters became stakes horses. As a racer, Perfect Timber placed second in the G1 Northern Dancer Turf Stakes in 2013 and in the G3 Singspiel Stakes the next year. In five of his 14 starts, he registered 3-digit eSpeeds, topping out at 106. He earned 94 to 97 eSpeed ratings in six other races.
Perfect Timber was sired by Ireland’s Perfect Soul, who won a Sovereign Award in 2003 as Champion Grass Horse and participated in the 2002 Breeders’ Cup. Out of a dam by Secretariat and sired by a son of Canadian legend Northern Dancer, Perfect Soul retired a multiple graded stakes winner after 21 starts with $1,527,764 in purse earnings from a record of 7-5-1. Registering 3-digit eSpeeds as high as 122 in his 18 races, Perfect Soul won the G1 Shadwell Keeneland Turf Mile Stakes, the G2 King Edwards Breeders’ Cup Handicap and the G2 Makers Mark Mile Stakes. He also finished second in the G1 Niagara Breeders’ Cup Handicap, the G1 Atto Mile stakes, the G2 Dixie Stakes, the G2 Firecracker Breeders’ Cup Handicap, and the G2 Chinese Cultural Centre Stakes.
Perfect Timber’s dam, Timber Ice, was sired by Woodman, a leading broodmare sire in Belgium and Spain who had sired 6,682 foals by 2024 of which 5,168 became runners (77%), 3,484 won (52%), and 275 became black-type stakes winners.
Also hailing from the Northern Dancer sire line, the dam of Timber Ice, Salchow was out of Coup De Folie, a high-class juvenile who went on to become an influential broodmare. Her sons include G1 winner and prominent sire Machiavellian whose progeny include Street Cry and Zenyatta.
About the dam
You’re Beingplayed was sired by Kentucky-bred Speightstown who raced 16 times to claim a record of 10-2-2, more than $1.2 million in winnings, and a 2004 Eclipse Award as Champion Sprinter. In nine stakes attempts, he only finished out of the money once and he was victorious in the G1 Breeders’ Cup Sprint, the G2 Chuchill Downs Handicap, the G2 True North Breeders Cup Handicap, and the G2 Alfred G Vanderbilt Handicap.
The dam of You’re Beingplayed was sired by Florida-bred multiple graded stakes winner Unbridled who won the 1990 Kentucky Derby and the Breeders’ Cup while finishing second in the Preakness. Along with just under $4.5 million in purse winnings from 24 starts (8-6-6), Unbridled captured a 1990 Eclipse Award as Champion 3-Year-Old colt.
