Through a training career that began in 2005, trainer Nathan Squires' best horse has been Cairo Consort, this year's third-place finisher in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. The 2-year-old daughter of Cairo Prince was a $95,000 purchase at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearling Sale, and ran out earnings of $266,149 through six starts in 2022.
Two days after her big performance at 19-1 in the World Championships, Cairo Consort went back through the sales ring at Fasig-Tipton. The filly sold for an impressive $875,000 to U.S.-based horsemen Mike Repole and Town & Country Racing, a boon for owner William B. Thompson, Jr., but a tough blow for Squires as the filly would not return to his Woodbine-based stable. Instead, Todd Pletcher will likely get that job.
“I'm a small trainer trying to make it in a big world and she's the best horse I've ever had,” Squires told the Toronto Sun. “Obviously when a horse like that leaves your barn, it's a bit hard. But you've got to remember that sometimes you just have to turn the page and move on. She's going to good connections and we will be rooting for her.
“We move on and hopefully we can find another one or two like Cairo Consort and go to the Breeders' Cup again.”
Squires has saddled the winners of 110 races from 987 starters over the course of his career, for earnings of $2,625,298.
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