Bless the Broken

Bless the Broken won her career debut by 10 ¾ length in July 2024 at Evangeline Downs. She was unplaced in the Demoiselle Stakes at Aqueduct in her final start as a 2-year-old in her first try on the Kentucky Oaks trail.

The Laoban filly showed improvement at 3 when running second to Simply Joking in the Fasig-Tipton Silverbulletday Stakes on a sloppy track in January and a distant third in the $300,000 Fasig-Tipton Rachel Alexandra Stakes. She earned a breakthrough win when rallying from off the pace to win by 2 ¾ lengths March 22 in the $300,000 Bourbonette Oaks on the all-weather Tapeta Footings surface at Turfway Park.

That victory set Bless the Broken up for a start in the May 2 $1.5 million Longines Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs. In the Oaks she ran a creditable third on the sloppy track while no threat to winner Good Cheer.

Bless the Broken continued to perform at a high level in classy races throughout her 4-year-old season in 2026. She recorded second-place finishes in the Grade 1 Beholder Mile at Santa Anita and in the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps Stakes at Saratoga in addition to a third-place finish in the Grade 1 La Troienne Stakes at Churchill Downs.

The 2026 breakthrough win came not on the dirt, but instead on the turf when Bless the Brown switched to the turf for the first time in her career and was successful in the Grade 2 $1.5 million Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf Sprint going one mile at Kentucky Downs on Sept. 5 when she topped a seven-horse field by a winning margin of two lengths.

Bless the Broken is out of the Tapit mare The Nightengale, who is a half-sister to $2 million earner and 2013 Kentucky Oaks winner Princess of Sylmar.