Cara Rafaela
Cara Rafaela | |
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Kentucky Broodmare of the Year (2006) | |
Last updated on 30 December 2016 |
Cara Rafaela (March 30, 1993 – December 30, 2016) was a grey Kentucky thoroughbred
Race career
Cara Rafaela’s first start was a Maiden Special Weight, where she finished second. Trainer
In her three-year-old season, Cara Rafaela went winless in seven starts. Entered in the Grade III El Camino Real Derby as the favorite, she placed fourth, less than three lengths behind the winner. She then finished second to Antespand in the Grade I Las Virgenes Stakes and Santa Anita Oaks before meeting My Flag again in the Ashland Stakes. Cara Rafaela took the lead but faded to finish second to My Flag by three lengths, with the third-place finisher ten lengths back. She finished third in the Kentucky Oaks (ahead of Antespend and My Flag in fourth and fifth) and concluded her season by running second in the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes and third in the Mother Goose Stakes.
Cara Rafaela returned to the track in March at age four. In her debut in the Santa Lucia Handicap, she encountered traffic and finished eighth. She then finished fourth in an allowance race and seventh in the Grade I
Broodmare career
Cara Rafaela biggest accomplishment was achieved during her time as a broodmare. In 2003, she gave birth to a brown colt by
References
- ^ Thoroughbred Times Retrieved: January 23, 2012
- ^ Race Record Retrieved: January 24, 2012
- ^ Thoroughbred Times Retrieved: January 24, 2012
- ^ "pedigreequery.com". Retrieved 7 July 2017.
- ^ "Bernardini's Dam Cara Rafaela Dies". Blood Horse. Retrieved 6 July 2017.