Gamine

Gamine first earned headlines before she started racing as she was purchased for a sale-topping $1.8 million by owner Michael Lund Petersen at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training auction. The Into Mischief filly made her debut on March 7, 2020 for trainer Bob Baffert at Santa Anita Park, and romped by 6 ¼ lengths in a 6 ½-furlong maiden race.

She then shipped to Oaklawn Park during the COVID-19 pandemic and stretched out to 1 1/16 miles and two turns. Gamine set the pace and responded in the stretch when challenged, holding on for a game neck victory in the May 2 allowance/optional claiming race.

Baffert then elevated his unbeaten filly to top-level competition, and Gamine made her third career start at a third different track, taking on some other top 3-year-old females in the Grade 1 Longines Acorn Stakes on June 20 at Belmont Park. Sent off as the odds-on favorite, she made short work of six opponents in the one-mile race, setting the pace under John Velazquez and powerfully pulling away in the stretch to score a dominant win. Gamine set stakes records for both final time (1:32.55) and margin of victory (18 ¾ lengths) in the Acorn.

Kentucky-bred Gamine is out of the winning and stakes-placed Kafwain mare Peggy Jane.