Chef Bobby Flay's Dame Dorothy wins again

Other than a second in a G1 and a third in a G3, it’s been nothing but firsts for Bernardini’s top-class daughter Dame Dorothy who won for the seventh time in nine starts on June 20 in the G3 Bed o’ Roses Handicap at Belmont Park.

The speed never developed in this seven-furlong event and Dame Dorothy found herself in the unusual position of pacesetter. Street Story, a daughter of past Darley sire Street Cry, challenged briefly in mid-stretch but Dame Dorothy was able to inch away again for a one and one-half length margin at the wire.

Purchased for $390,000 Keeneland September, Dame Dorothy is out of the Woodman mare Vole Vole Monamour, who has also produced G1 E.P. Taylor and G1 Prix Vermeille winner Mrs. Lindsay. Dame Dorothy was bred by Derry Meeting Farm.

Dame Dorothy is one of 10 G1 winners sired by Bernardini, also sire of other 2015 high-level winner Boban whose win in the Doomben 10,000 in May was his fourth career G1 win. Bernardini’s other runners include back-to-back G1 Travers winners Stay Thirsty and Alpha, and multiple G1 winner To Honor And Serve, whose full-sister, Angela Renee, won the G1 Chandelier Stakes.

Bernardini will stand the coming breeding season at Kelvinside at a fee of $27,500 inc. GST.