Kimari

Kimari opened her career with a sparkling 15-length runaway win at Keeneland in April 2019 and was sent as part of Wesley Ward’s Royal Ascot contingent to England in June. She ran second by a head in a 25-horse field the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes at the royal meeting.

Upon returning to the U.S., the Munnings filly won back to back stakes races at Saratoga Race Course and at Keeneland, both on the grass, before closing out her juvenile campaign with a fourth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint.

For her 3-year-old bow, Kimari returned to the main track for the first time since her first career race and won the Purple Martin Stakes by 1 ½ lengths on a sloppy track at Oaklawn Park in April 2020. She then shipped overseas for the Royal Ascot meet and ran second in the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup. Kimari made only one more start as a 3-year-old, finishing third in a stakes race in September at Kentucky Downs.

Kimari got her 4-year-old season off to a stellar start with a 4 ¼-length runaway victory in the Spring Fever Stakes Feb. 27 on a sloppy track at Oaklawn Park. She next earned a breakthrough Grade 1 win when holding off several late runners to post a three-quarter-length win in the $300,000 Madison Stakes April 3 at Keeneland.

Grade 3 winner Cozze Up Lady, by Cozzene, is the dam (mother) of Kimari.