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, 2021, 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. She did not race again until Nov. 6, 2021, at Del Mar, when she faced males in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint and rallied from last of 12 to finish seventh.

Kimari opened her 5-year-old season with a victory in an allowance-optional claiming race March 3, 2022, at Gulfstream Park before running third in her bid for a repeat win in the Madison Stakes. Unplaced in the Derby City Distaff Stakes presented by Kendall-Jackson Winery on the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve undercard, Kimari regained her elite form July 27 at Saratoga Race Course, where she rallied to edge Frank’s Rockette by a half-length in the Grade 2 Honorable Miss Handicap. Kimari followed with a 1 ¼-length score Sept. 25 in the Grade 2 Gallant Bloom during the Belmont at the Big A meeting.

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