High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Soaring Softly (foaled 1995 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse. She was bred and raced by Joan Phillips and her son John of the renowned Darby Dan Farm. Her sire is Darby Dan`s outstanding stallion Kris S., a son of the Darby Dan European star grass racer Roberto. Her dam is the farm`s own mare Wings of Grace, who was a daughter of the 1972 American Champion 3-Year-Old Colt, Key to the Mint.