Tamahere (FR)

Tamahere was bred in France and began her career there, winning two of six starts and winning a stakes race before shipping to the U.S. to join the barn of trainer Chad Brown for the start of the second half of her 3-year-old campaign.

In her stateside debut, the Wootten Bassett filly was simply dominant when closing powerfully to open a commanding lead in early stretch of the Grade 2 Sands Point Stakes before coasting through much of the final sixteenth of a mile under Irad Ortiz Jr.

Tamahere made her 2021 debut in the Grade 1 Coolmore Jenny Wiley Stakes at Keeneland on Apr. 10. She finished second after rating off the pace on the inside. She earned her first stakes win of the year on Sept. 25, when she won the Violet Stakes at Monmouth Park going away.