Fionn
Dark Bay or Brown Filly / February 6th, 2022 in KY / by Twirling Candy out of Gaelic Gold
$91,450
2026 earnings
108
speed figure
0%
2026 wins
racing Record
2026 Stats
Career Stats
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Firsts
7
1
Seconds
2
0
Thirds
1
3
Unplaced
4
4
Starts
14
$91,450
Earnings
$2,101,620
$22,863
Earnings / Start
$150,116
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Bio
Fionn won her maiden in her second lifetime start as a 2-year-old going 1 1/16 miles on the turf on Dec. 16 at Fair Grounds. That maiden win would prove to be the beginning of a three-race winning streak for Fionn that also encompassed the first two starts of Fionn's 3-year-old season. She shipped to Keeneland on April 8 to finish third in the Grade 3 Appalachian Stakes going one mile.
Fionn won her maiden in her second lifetime start as a 2-year-old going 1 1/16 miles on the turf on Dec. 16 at Fair Grounds. That maiden win would prove to be the beginning of a three-race winning streak for Fionn that also encompassed the first two starts of Fionn's 3-year-old season. She shipped to Keeneland on April 8 to finish third in the Grade 3 Appalachian Stakes going one mile.
Fionn earned her first career graded stakes race when she took the Grade 3 $275,000 Regret Stakes going 1 1/8 miles on the turf at Churchill Downs on May 31. Fionn raced behind in a nine-horse field in last for much of the trip until launching her rally in the stretch, getting up to win by a half a length.
Fionn scored the biggest win of her career to date when she knocked-off 2-5 favorite Nitrogen to win the Grade 1 $500,000 Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes going 1 1/8 miles at Saratoga on July 5. Using a perfectly timed closing move under jockey Flavien Prat, Fionn surged at the wire to prevail over Nitrogen by a nose atop a seven-horse field.
After that breakthrough Grade 1 win, Fionn took a little over two months off and returned in the $2 million, Grade 3 Blackwood Dueling Grounds Oaks Invitational Sept. 10 at Kentucky Downs. With Prat once again in the saddle, she rallied from off of the pace and out-finished Grade 3 winner Candy Quest to secure her third stakes win in a row.
Following a loss at the Keeneland fall meet in the Grade 1 QEII Challenge Cup, Fionn landed in yet another tough spot in the Grade 3 $350,000 Jockey Club Oaks going 1 3/8 miles on the turf at Aqueduct where she faced the likes of Laurelin, Scythian, and Evershed in an eight-horse field. Sent off as the 1.41-1 favorite at post time, Fionn settled back off the pace near the rear of the field and came with a strong rally wide in the stretch and won a battle wth Laurelin to score the win by a half a length with Prat aboard.
Fionn is trained by Brad Cox. She was bred in Kentucky by the sire Twirling Candy out of the mare Gaelic Gold by Giant's Causeway.
