Hawksmoor (IRE)

German classic winner Hawksmoor made her U.S. debut in October 2016 in the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes and finished third by a head. After an unplaced finish to close her 3-year-old season, she set the pace in her 4-year-old debut and held on gamely to win the Grade 3 Beaugay Stakes for owner Lael Stables, the racing stable of Roy and Gretchen Jackson, who bred and raced 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro.

Hawksmoor followed with a determined front-running victory in the Grade 2 New York Stakes in which she defeated  a field that included Grade 1 winners Sea Calisi and Dacita.

Following a  seventh-place effort in the Beverly D. Stakes, Hawksmoor rebounded with a good second-place finish in the Grade 1 First Lady Stakes at Keeneland, losing by 1 ½ lengths to Zipessa after leading the field into midstretch of the one-mile race. In her next start after the First Lady, Hawksmoor again took command in the stretch of the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes on closing day of Del Mar’s fall meet but could not hold off the closing kick of Off Limits, settling for second in a game effort.

Hawksmoor was winless in six starts in 2018, but she finished second in a Grade 3 and second in a Grade 2 race during her 5-year-old campaign.

In her first start as a 6-year-old, Hawksmoor halted a nice-race winless stretch with a victory in the Grade 3 Lambholm South Endeavour Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs on Feb. 9, 2019.