Explora

Explora won her career debut outing as a 2-year-old on Aug. 17, 2025, when she won a maiden race going 5 1/2 furlongs by 4 3/4 lengths. She immediately took on stakes competition in her second lifetime start and was second by a length in the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante on Sept. 6.

Explora stretched out for her third career start which came in the 1 1/16-mile Grade 2 $200,000 Oak Leaf Stakes presented by Oak Tree and was victorious by 4 1/4 lengths in a runaway atop a six-horse field. The Oak Leaf was a Breeders' Cup Challenge series "Win and You're In" race offering an automatic berth into the NetJets Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies.

Sent off as the favorite in the $2 million NetJets Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Oct. 31 at Del Mar, Explora finished willingly for second behind front-running winner Super Corredora.

Explora took a short break after the Breeders' Cup and began her 3-year-old campaign on Jan. 10, 2026, in the Grade 3 $100,000 Santa Ynez Stakes going seven furlongs at Santa Anita where she easily took care of business with a last-to-first closing 5 1/4-length victory atop a four-horse field. The filly followed that with a second-place finish to Meaning in the one-mile Las Virgenes Stakes at Santa Anita Feb. 8, and then trainer Bob Baffert shipped her to Oaklawn Park for the March 1 Honeybee Stakes, a Longines Kentucky Oaks prep. After pressing the pace, Explora spurted clear at the top of the stretch of the 1 1/16-mile Honeybee and kept late challenger Counting Stars at bay to notch her fourth career win in seven starts.

In the May 1 Kentucky Oaks, Explora set the early pace and tired in the stretch but still finished a solid fourth, defeated by 2 ½ lengths. She was shortened up to seven furlongs and one turn for her next start of 2026, and responded with a 1 ¼-length win in the Leslie’s Lady Stakes June 7 at Churchill Downs.

Explora was bred in Kentucky by the sire Blame out of the mare Collections Choice by Bernardini.