She only raced on three tracks in her career, but she won at each venue.

She was bred in New York, but competed thousands of miles away in Southern California.

Two of her three victories came in a Grade I, and she handled sprinting and routing between those triumphs.

And she was a bona fide closer who went all out in the stretch.

Fans first caught a glimpse of Weemissfrankie in a maiden special weight at Del Mar early in the 2011 meeting. Trained by Peter Eurton and ridden by Rafael Bejarano, Weemissfrankie was far back at first. But she roared to the front in the final furlong, devouring ground as she got to the wire in time to finish a very impressive debut. The performance was even more eye-catching because she only went five-eighths of a mile in that first start. Not exactly a friendly distance for closers.

After that smashing bow, the connections eschewed allowance company and went right to the top level. Asked to go seven furlongs in the Grade I Del Mar Debutante, Weemissfrankie responded to the assignment with aplomb. Again off the pace, she and Bejarano (who rode her in every start) took a wide run into the stretch as the chestnut filly moved powerfully to get to the front and claim a Grade I win in only her second career start.

The early class Weemissfrankie demonstrated on debut had been confirmed in the Del Mar Debutante. And that was only enhanced in Santa Anita's Grade I Oak Leaf Stakes. Not only was the daughter of graded stakes winner Sunriver trying a new track, she was also giving routing a try. Her sire won going long on both turf and dirt, and Weemissfrankie picked up distance running from her sire. She stayed a few lengths behind the leader in the mile and one-sixteenth Oak Leaf, but again made her move in the stretch. Once she got to the sixteenth pole, an amazing burst of speed came from her as she flew to the wire in front of a raucous crowd to becme a route winner like her father.

Another Grade I followed in the form of the Hollywood Starlet. The biggest race for two-year-olds at the Hollywood Park autumn meeting, Weemissfrankie was seen as the likely winner at 9-10 odds. But after staying well back for much of the race, Weemissfrankie came on late but ran out of track as she took fourth while going a mile and one-sixteenth again.

Weemissfrankie was retired after the Starlet due to injury, but she can be proud of what she accomplished during those few months she was in competition. To close from well back going five furlongs is not easy to do, and neither is making the jump from maiden special weight company to the Grade I ranks. And then Weemissfrankie proved she was more than a sprinter as she again took down the competition at racing's highest level. She may not have been at the races long, but she put on some tremendous performances during 2011.

In only four starts, Weemissfrankie made herself one of the top juvenile fillies in the Southland during her only season at the races. It would have been great to see what she could have done at three years of age and beyond, but Weemissfrankie needed little time to show how classy a racehorse she was.