Dalika (GER)

This German-bred daughter of Pastorius earned her first stakes win on September 7, 2020 at Kentucky Downs. She won the One Dreamer Stakes by a length, lasting on the lead after a long pace battle. Dalika won two stakes races at Fair Grounds during their 2020-'21 meet. She won the Blushing K.D. Stakes by 2 1/4 lengths on Dec. 19, then took the Albert M. Stall Memorial Stakes by a length on Feb. 13, 2021 by a length.

Dalika earned her first graded stakes win in the Grade 3 Robert E. Dick Memorial Stakes at Delaware Park on July 10. In that race, she battled on the early lead, setting a fast pace while battling for control. Despite setting fast fractions in the 1 3/8-mile contest, she had enough to hold on for the win. 

In September 2021, Dalika rallied gamely in the long stretch of the Grade 3 Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf Stakes but came up a half-length short of Princess Grace. She was unplaced in the Grade 1 First Lady Stakes Presented by UK HealthCare in the final start of her 5-year-old season.

Dalika returned from a 7 ½-month layoff in the Grade 3 Old Forester Mint Julep Stakes June 5, 2022, at Churchill Downs, where she set the pace and battled bravely late in a runner-up finish to Gam’s Mission. After an unplaced finish in the Grade 1 Diana Stakes, Dalika earned the first Grade 1 win of her career when she fought back after being headed by Princess Grade in the stretch of the $500,000 Beverly D. Stakes and took command late in a thrilling victory under Brian Hernandez Jr. Aug. 13 at Churchill Downs.

Dalika made her next start in the $750,000 Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf Stakes Sept. 10 and led from start to finish, holding off familiar foe Princess Grace late to prevail in the Grade 3 race for her second straight graded stakes victory.

In her next outing, Dalika threw in a rare clunker, finishing sixth in the $317,000 Fall Harvest Stakes at Keeneland on Nov. 5.  She got back on track, however, in her next race with a wire-to-wire win in the Grade 3 $300,000 Cardinal Stakes going 1 1/8 miles on the grass Nov. 25 at Churchill Downs.

Dalika is trained by Albert Stall Jr. She was bred in Germany by the sire Pastorious out of the mare Drawn to Run by Hurricane Run.