Merneith

After finishing second in each of her first two starts at Santa Anita Park as a 3-year-old in 2020, Merneith broke through with a 10 ¼-length romp April 12 on a sloppy track at Oaklawn Park. She subsequently finished a distant third in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Oaks.

Merneith next cut back to a sprint in July at Del Mar and finished second before trying turf at the Del Mar meet in an unplaced finish. She regained her winning form in a three-quarter-mile allowance race Oct. 11 at Santa Anita, where she pulled away to win by 3 ¼ lengths after dueling for the lead.

Shipped East for the Qatar Fort Springs Stakes at Keeneland Breeders’ Cup weekend, Merneith overcame trouble by rallying from seventh in the nine-horse field to prevail by a neck. She closed out her 3-year-old season with a third-place finish in the Grade 1 La Brea Stakes Dec. 26 at Santa Anita.

Merneith made her 4-year-old debut in the Grade 2 Santa Monica Stakes Feb. 13 at Santa Anita and set the pace under Edwin Maldonado with stablemate Golden Principal to her outside. She pulled away from that challenger, opened a commanding lead in early stretch, and powered to a dominant victory to secure her first graded stakes triumph.

Merneith won her first graded stakes race in more than a year on Feb. 5, 2022, when she won the Grade 2 Santa Monica Stakes by three lengths with Maldonado in the saddle.

Stakes winner Flattermewithroses, by Flatter, is the dam (mother) of Merneith.