5th-Tampa Bay Downs, $32,000, Msw, 3-19, 3yo, f, 1mT, 1:37.21, gd, nose.
CURLAINE (f, 3, Curlin–Demimondaine, by Tapit) was caught late and had to settle for second in her career debut going six panels on the Tampa dirt Jan. 11 and broke from the inside and never found her best stride, finishing fifth when adding a sixteenth of a mile Feb. 8. Sent off at 3-1 while stretching to a mile on the grass for the first time, the bay settled in an rail-hugging tracking third as Cottage Garden (Frosted) cut out tepid opening splits of :24.13 and :49.36. Mounting her attack three wide as the Chad Brown-trained firster Marketplaceofideas (GB) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) forged to the front in early stretch, the daughter of Curlin forged ahead of the favorite late and held off the other Brown first-time starter, Midway Memories (Cairo Prince), by a nose at the wire. Demimondaine, a $900,000 buy while in foal to Speightstown at Keeneland November in 2020, produced a filly by Street Sense in 2023 followed by a Munnings colt last year. She RNA'd for $485,000 at Keeneland in January of 2024. A daughter of GSW Colonial Flag (Pleasant Tap), the 9-year-old mare hails from the family of Grade I winners Shared Account (Pleasant Colony) and Sharing (Speightstown). Lifetime Record: 3-1-1-0, $25,920. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.
O/B-Manzanita Stables, LLC (KY); T-Christophe Clement.
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