Cambier Parc, a $1.25-million KEESEP yearling purchase, stayed perfect on grass with a popular win in Saturday's GIII Herecomesthebride S. at Gulfstream Park.
The 4-5 favorite broke well from her outside draw and sat a perfect stalking trip in second through fractions of :24.48 and :49.67. She turned up the heat on the far turn, took a narrow advantage into the stretch and fought her way free late for a well-measured decision.
Fourth as the chalk after getting steadied at the start in her debut sprinting over a muddy Aqueduct main track Nov. 3, the bay switched to grass in style with a runaway maiden win over this course and distance Jan. 2.
“She's learned a lot with more experience and maturity,” said winning Chad Brown, who also captured this race with the talented Dayatthespa in 2012. “She's a horse that we've always liked and she's been looking better as she's gotten older. I think once we got her on the grass we found her niche and I think she has a bright future ahead of her. From here, we may go to the Belmont Oaks in July. I think she'll stay a mile and a quarter; how we get there, I'm not sure. We're very excited about the season coming up.”
Pedigree Notes:
Cambier Parc becomes the 60th graded/123rd black-type stakes winner for leading sire Medaglia d'Oro. She was the most expensive of 44 yearlings sold by her sire in 2017 when bringing $1.25 million from Larry Best's OXO Equine at the Keeneland September Sale. The winner's dam, a three-time Canadian champion, was bought by Bonne Chance Farm for $750,000 at Keeneland November in 2015 with Cambier Parc in utero. Sealy Hill, who also has produced Hillaby (Distorted Humor), Ch. Female Sprinter-Can & GSW, $282,265; Belle Hill (Sky Mesa), GSW, $180,725; and Gale Force (Giant's Causeway), GSW, $138,611, has another Medaglia d'Oro filly who went for $425,000 to Whisper Hill Farm at KEESEP in the fall, and she produced a colt by Into Mischief last spring.
Saturday, Gulfstream Park
HERECOMESTHEBRIDE S.-GIII, $150,000, Gulfstream, 3-2, 3yo, f, 1 1/16mT, 1:42.03, fm.
1–CAMBIER PARC, 115, f, 3, by Medaglia d'Oro
1st Dam: Sealy Hill (Horse of the Year, Ch. 3yo Filly & Grass
Mare-Can, MSW & MGISP, $1,747,081), by Point Given
2nd Dam: Boston Twist, by Boston Harbor
3rd Dam: Chou Chou, by Premiership
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. ($1,250,000
Ylg '17 KEESEP). O-OXO Equine LLC; B-Bonne Chance Farm LLC
(KY); T-Chad C. Brown; J-Jose L. Ortiz. $90,210. Lifetime
Record: 3-2-0-0, $120,210. *1/2 to Hillaby (Distorted Humor),
Ch. Female Sprinter-Can, GSW, $282,265; Belle Hill (Sky Mesa),
GSW, $180,725; Gale Force (Giant's Causeway), GSW,
$138,611. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for
eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Princesa Carolina, 116, f, 3, Tapit–Pure Clan, by Pure Prize.
O/B-Three Chimneys Farm (KY); T-Kenneth G. McPeek.
$29,100.
3–Belle Laura, 115, f, 3, Mucho Macho Man–Belle Chaussee, by
Giant's Causeway. ($32,000 Ylg '17 FTKOCT). O-GU Racing
Stable, LLC; B-Reeves Thoroughbred Racing (KY); T-Norm W.
Casse. $14,550.
Margins: 3/4, HF, 2 3/4. Odds: 0.80, 21.50, 8.40.
Also Ran: Primela (Fr), Vow to Recover, Golconda (Fr), Connectivity, My Gal Betty. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
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