Caravel

This Pennsylvania-bred filly started her career with three consecutive victories. She broke her maiden by 1 1/4 lengths on the turf at Penn National on June 24, 2020, then crushed a Pennsylvania-bred allowance field at the same track on July 29. On Aug. 24, she won her first stakes race, taking the Lady Erie Stakes at Presque Isle Downs by 3 1/4 lengths. After a third-place finish in the Hilltop Stakes at Pimlico, Caravel bounced back with a win in the Malvern Rose Stakes at Presque Isle on Oct. 22.

Caravel began her 4-year-old season with a third-place finish in the License Fee Stakes at Belmont Park on Apr. 30, 2021. However, she quickly found her best form after that. She won The Very One Stakes at Pimlico on May 14 and the Goldwood Stakes at Monmouth Park on June 25. On the strength of those two wins, she was the even-money favorite in the Grade 3 Caress Stakes at Saratoga on July 24. She stalked the pace and drew away to victory. It was the first graded stakes win for co-owner, trainer, and breeder Elizabeth Merryman. 

Caravel was transferred to Graham Motion after the Caress and finished third in her next start in the Grade 1 Highlander Stakes at Woodbine, but then went off form and finished off the board in her final two 2021 starts, including a last-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint.

In 2022, she began her 5-year-old season with trainer Brad Cox and won the listed Queen Stakes in wire-to-wire finish over Turfway Park’s synthetic track. After a sixth-place effort in a Grade 2 stakes at Churchill Downs in May, Caravel captured her second graded stakes with another pacesetting victory, this time in the Grade 3 Intercontinental Stakes at Belmont Park on June 10.