Caravel, the winner of the 2022 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, has been retired from racing and will be bred to Triple Crown winner Justify during the 2024 breeding season, Lancaster Farming reports.
The 6-year-old daughter of Mizzen Mast won 15 of 26 starts, earning $1,983,327 for the partnership of Madaket Stables, Qatar Racing, and Marc Detampel.
Caravel began her career racing as a Pennsylvania homebred for Elizabeth Merryman, who also trained the horse. After a quartet of non-graded stakes wins on the East Coast, celebrity chef Bobby Flay partnered with Merryman on the filly, and she was moved to the barn of trainer Graham Motion.
The new partnership's run was highlighted by a victory in the Grade 3 Caress Stakes before Caravel was sold to Qatar Racing and Detampel, joined later by Madaket Stables, for $500,000 at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton November Sale. She was then moved to trainer Brad Cox.
After moving to the Cox barn, Caravel tallied victories in the G3 Intercontinental Stakes and the G3 Franklin Stakes before defeating male competition in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint at Keeneland at odds of 42-1.
In 2023, Caravel started strong with consecutive victories in the G2 Shakertown Stakes, the listed Unbridled Sidney Stakes, and the G1 Jaipur Stakes.
Caravel was put through this year's Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, finishing under her reserve with a final bid of $2.4 million. She was retained by the ownership group, and she will be boarded at Hunter Valley Farm in Versailles, Ky.
Justify, an 8-year-old son of Scat Daddy, stands at Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., for a private fee. The 2018 Triple Crown winner and Horse of the Year was represented by a pair of Breeders' Cup winners this year, in Juvenile Fillies winner Just F Y I and Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Hard to Justify.
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