Cairo Consort chases third straight in Herecomesthebridge
At 0h47, on February 28, 2023 • By GULFSTREAM
Town and Country Racing and Repole Stable’s multiple stakes winner Cairo Consort, who earned graded credentials in dramatic fashion last time out, returns Saturday seeking her third straight victory in the $200,000 Herecomesthebride (G3) at Gulfstream Park.
The one-mile Herecomesthebride for 3-year-old fillies on the grass is the fourth of nine stakes, eight graded, worth $1.85 million in purses on a blockbuster 14-race card anchored by the $400,000 Fountain of Youth (G2) for 3-year-olds on the road to the $1 million Curlin Florida Derby (G1).
Post time is 11 a.m. The Herecomesthebride is carded as Race 9 with a post time of 3:01 p.m.
Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher, who previously won the Herecomesthebride with Pico Teneriffe in 1999 and Con Lima in 2021, has rarely had a more astonishing victory than that of Cairo Consort in the 1 1/16-mile Sweetest Chant (G3) Feb. 4 at Gulfstream.
The Sweetest Chant was just the second start for Cairo Consort – winner of the 6 ½-furlong Catch a Glimpse last summer at Woodbine – since being purchased for $875,000 in November following her third-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1). She won the one-mile Ginger Brew Jan. 7 at Gulfstream first time for her new connections.
Irad Ortiz Jr. was aboard for each of the last two starts, and gets the return call from Post 7 in a field of 12.
