Cavalieri

Cavalieri won her 3-year-old career debut in a maiden race at Del Mar on Aug. 29, 2024, and then concluded her two-race 2024 campaign with another victory in an allowance optional claiming race at Santa Anita on Oct. 12.

Cavalieri made her first start as a 4-year-old in the Grade 3 $100,000 La Canada Stakes going 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita on Jan. 19, 2025, and maintained her perfect record with a 1 1/2-length score atop a field of six fillies and mares.

Cavalieri remained unbeaten in her next start with another impressive effort with a three-quarters of a length victory atop a field of six in the Grade 1 $300,000 B. Wayne Hughes Beholder Mile presented by FanDuel TV March 8 at Santa Anita Park.

Following her fourth win in a row, Cavalieri was away from the track for nearly seven months, returning in the Sept. 28 Zenyatta Stakes at Santa Anita. She hopped at the start of the 1 1/8-mile race but recovered to press stablemate Richi through the backstretch and then moved up in the far turn. Under regular jockey Juan Hernandez’s urging, Cavlieri overtook Richi in early stretch and kept that foe at bay in the final strides to win by 1 ¾ lengths, her fifth consecutive win without a defeat. Cavalieri earned a “Win and You’re In” automatic berth in the Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff with the victory.

Cavalieri is trained by Bob Baffert. She was bred in Kentucky by the sire Nyquist out of the mare Stiffed by Stephen Got Even.