High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Shackleford (foaled February 25, 2008) is a chestnutThoroughbred race horse who won the 2011 Preakness Stakes. His pedigree traces to major sires of significance, including his grandsire Storm Cat and his damsire Unbridled as well as numerous fourth generation who were champion breeders. The colt was sired by Forestry out of the mare Oatsee, who was purchased in 2006 by Shackleford`s owners for $135,000, and after giving birth to Shackleford, was bred to A.P. Indy and sold, in foal, for $1.55 million. He was named after Shackleford Banks, a barrier island system in North Carolina. As a yearling, he was presented for sale at the Keeneland auction, but bidding failed to reach his reserved price of $275,000 so his owners, Michael Lauffer and W.D. Cubbedge, bought him back.