Pink Star

{{Infobox racehorse

| horsename = Pink Star

| image = 200 px

| caption = Pink Star after his 1907 Kentucky Derby win with jockey Andy Minder.

| sire = Pink Coat

| grandsire = Leonatus

| dam = Mary Malloy

| damsire = Pat Malloy

| sex = Stallion, eventually Gelding

| foaled = 1904

| country = United States

| colour = Dark Bay

| breeder = J. Hal Woodford

| owner = J. Hal Woodford

| trainer = William H. Fizer

| record = 16: 3-1-2

| earnings = $5,750

| race = {{pb}}American Classics wins:
Kentucky Derby (1907)

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Pink Star (foaled 1904 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and was the winner of the 1907 Kentucky Derby. He was a grandson of 1883 Kentucky Derby winner Leonatus and his sire, Pink Coat, was an American Derby winner.Jim Bolus, Run for the Roses: 100 Years at the Kentucky Derby, Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1974.

Pink Star won the Kentucky Derby by two lengths over Zal on a very wet track, with the mud being a fetlock deep in some places. Ridden by Andy Minder, his win was a long shot victory and Pink Star was described by contemporary sources as a lumbering and ugly mount. Pink Star finished in last place for the 1907 Latonia Derby, developing a fever and respiratory infection shortly after the running that permanently impacted his breathing.{{cite news |last1=Staff |title=One Year Ago: Pink Star was a Derby winner, now he pulls a plow |work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |date=10 May 1908}}

By May 1908, Pink Star had been gelded and retired from racing due to poor performance and having a bad temperament. He lived the remainder of his life as a plow horse at the farm of J. Hal Woodford in Louisville, Kentucky.[http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=intnews;cc=intnews;g=news;xc=1;xg=0;q1=pink%20star;rgn=full%20text;idno=int1908051501;didno=int1908051501;view=pdf;seq=4;passterms=1 Interior Journal. May 15, 1908. pg 4] He was noted to be dead by 1914.{{cite news|last1=Staff|title=Stake dates are announced.|url=http://athena.uky.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=drf1910s;cc=drf1910s;g=drf;xc=1;q1=pink%20star;q2=died;op2=and;op3=and;rgn=articles;idno=drf1914041401;didno=drf1914041401;view=pdf;seq=2_5;node=drf1914041401%3A2.5;passterms=1|access-date=22 July 2014|work=Daily Racing Form|publisher=Triangle Publications}}