Miss Andretti won five Group 1 races and held five individual track records

Miss Andretti was giant in the sport and considered one of the finest sprinters to ever come out of Australia.

She is a bay or brown mare that was foaled in August 2001 in Western Australia. Miss Andretti was by Ihtiram (IRE) (he had 58 starts for 9 wins, 10 seconds, 5 thirds and $257,379) from Peggie’s Bid by the imported Sydney Cup winner Marooned (GB). Peggie’s Bid has produced seven named foals, but her only other stakes-winner was Danny Beau, (by Zedrich) who has had 14 starts for 9 wins, 1 second and $436,075. In 2010 Peggie's Bid foaled an unnamed bay or brown half sister to Miss Andretti by the Australian sire, Oratorio

David Mueller selected Miss Andretti from a group of seven weanlings at Ray Cochrane's property. Miss Andretti was originally trained in Western Australia (WA) by David Mueller who had her win nine races in WA, including the Gr.2 Winterbottom Stakes, WATC Prince of Wales Stakes and the WATC Ruabon Stakes, while under his care. Mueller, sold a 75 per cent share in Miss Andretti to Melbourne businessman, Sean Buckley and partner Gabriella Guenzi before she was transferred to trainer Lee Freedman. Her former trainer still continued attending her races, including the trip to England, and collected a percentage of prize money. In Melbourne she won in top company in 10 of her first 13 starts for trainer Lee Freedman.

Amongst her major wins are the following Gr.1 races:

2006 Manikato Stakes and Age Classic, 2007 Lightning Stakes, VRC Newmarket Handicap and the Australia Stakes Miss Andretti’s other group wins were the 2006 Gr.2 MRC Schillaci Stakes (1000m), Gr.3 MVRC Ian McEwen Trophy and 2007 Gr.2 Schweppes (1200m).

On 30 May 2007 Miss Andretti travelled to the United Kingdom, winning, and smashing the course record in the 2007 King's Stand Stakes (now King Charles III Stakes) over 1006m during the Royal Ascot meeting. The winner of the previous year, an Australian horse, Takeover Target finished fourth. Choisir won the race in 2003 and Nature Strip in 2022. After this record win American and European syndicates made offers of up to $10 million for Miss Andretti, but were rejected.

On 26 Nov 2007 Miss Andretti was taken to Hong Kong after spending two weeks in quarantine in Melbourne before departure. She started in the Gr.1 Hong Kong International Sprint, which is run in a clockwise direction but could only finish tenth. After three weeks in Hong Kong, Miss Andretti returned to Australia served another three weeks' quarantine in Melbourne. Freedman believed that future racing plans for Miss Andretti in the first half of 2008 were all but ruined by the quarantine protocols she served as part of racing in Hong Kong. Miss Andretti was retired from racing on 30 August 2008 after finishing last in a listed race at Caulfield Racecourse.

RACE RECORD - 31: 19-3-2

EARNINGS - A$2,848,991

G2 Winterbottom Stakes (2005)

G3 Prince of Wales Stakes (2005)

G1 Manikato Stakes (2006)

G2 Schillaci Stakes (2006)

G3 Ian McEwen Trophy (2006)

G1 The Age Classic (2007)

G1 Newmarket Handicap (2007)

G1 Australia Stakes (2007)q

G1 Lightning Stakes (2007)

G2 Schweppes Stakes (2007)

G2 King's Stand Stakes (2007)