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.

On July 15, Gamine was disqualified from her May 2 win at Oaklawn Park due to testing positive for lidocaine.

Gamine returned to the racetrack Aug. 8 at Saratoga for the Grade 1 Longines Test Stakes and delivered another dazzling victory, completing the seven-eighths of a mile in an eye-catching 1:20.83 in a runaway win over Venetian Harbor.

In the Grade 1 Longines Kentucky Oaks Sept. 4 at Churchill Downs, Gamine was defeated on the racetrack for the first time. She set a solid pace in the 1 1/8-mile race before Shedaresthedevil surged past with a sustained rally into the stretch. Gamine faded to finish third behind 15-1 winner Shedaresthedevil and Alabama Stakes winner Swiss Skydiver. She was later disqualified and placed ninth due to a medication violation.

She rebounded in a big way Nov. 7 in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, tracking pacesetter Serengeti Empress from second behind a strong pace and taking control near the quarter-pole on her way to a 6 1/4-length victory in a track-record time of 1:20.020 for seven-eighths of a mile at Keeneland. In January 2021, Gamine received the award for 2020's champion female sprinter at the Eclipse Awards.

After five-month break, Gamine returned for her 4-year-old season in the six-furlong Grade 3 Las Flores Stakes at Santa Anita Park. Sent off at 1-20 odds against three oppoenents, she rolled to an easy five-length win with regular rider John Velazquez aboard, her fifth in seven career starts.

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