Adare Manor

Adare Manor, an Uncle Mo filly owned by Michael Lund Petersen and trained by Bob Baffert, finished second by a neck in her debut and then fourth in her two starts as a 2-year-old in 2021. She made her 3-year-old debut on Jan. 7, 2022, at Santa Anita Park and dominated a one-mile maiden special weight race by 12 lengths.

Petersen and Baffert sent Adare Manor next to the Grade 3 Las Virgenes Stakes at Santa Anita on Feb. 6. She once again excelled at the mile distance, dueling for the lead through the backstretch before drawing ahead and extending her margin through the far turn and into the stretch en route to a 13-length runaway.

Adare Manor's next start came in the Grade 2 Santa Anita Oaks on Apr. 9. As the odds-on favorite, she rated off the early pace, and although she fought gamely in the stretch, she could not hold off longshot Desert Dawn and ended up second. She had earned enough points to run in the Longines Kentucky Oaks but was instead pointed to the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes for her next start on May 20 at Pimlico, where she finished second. Adare Manor took much of the summer of 2022 off and eventually made her final start of her 3-year-old season in the Grade 1 Cotillion Stakes on Sept. 24 at Parx, where she finished sixth.

Adare Manor returned for the start of her 4-year-old campaign on Feb. 18, 2023, with a runner-up finish off the layoff in an allowance optional claiming race at Santa Anita. She was then victorious in her next start back at the same condition in a race at Santa Anita on March 31.

Adare Manor notched the second stakes victory of her career in her following race, which came on April 29, 2023, in the Grade 2 $200,000 Santa Maria Stakes. Sent off as the 3-5 favorite in a field of five in the Santa Maria, Adare Manor took control in front early and set a comfortable pace under only token pressure and cruised to victory by 4 3/4 lengths in a time of 1:43.10 for the 1 1/16 miles over a fast track.  

The next start for Adare Manor came in the Grade 2 $200,000 Santa Margarita Stakes at Santa Anita on June 10, and the result was more of the same. Adare Manor took control of the race from the get-go to get the lead as the 0.30-1 favorite in a field of five fillies and mares and went wire to wire to win with ease by 4 1/2 lengths. She ran the 1 1/8 miles on the main track in a winning time of 1:49.79.

Adare Manor continued her winning ways at Del Mar in her next outing, which came in the $400,000 Grade 1 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes on August 5. Sent off as the 3-5 favorite on the tote board in a five-horse field in the Clement Hirsch, Adare Manor pressed the pace all the way until taking charge at the top of the stretch and kicking onward for the wire to hold off a late-closing threat by a length in a 1 1/16-mile winning time of 1:43.33. The Clement Hirsch is a "win and you're in" race for the Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff, meaning that with her victory, Adare Manor locked up her spot in the starting gate in the World Championships Nov. 4 at Santa Anita.

In her next start, the Grade 2 Zenyatta Stakes Oct. 1 at Santa Anita Park, Adare Manor continued to dominate the southern California filly and mare division, coasting to a 5 ¼-length win over three outmatched opponents. Subsequently, Adare Manor completed her 2023 campaign with a seventh-place finish in the Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff on Nov. 4.

Adare Manor returned for her 5-year-old campaign in 2024 and started it off with a second-place finish in the Grade 1 Beholder mile on March 9, 2024 at Santa Anita.

Adare Manor was back in the winner's circle in her next start, which came in the $1.25 million Grade 1 Apple Blossom Handicap going 1 1/16 miles at Oaklawn on April 13. Sent off as the 3-5 favorite atop a nine-horse field in the Apple Blossom, Adare Manor powered away from the field in the stretch to earn a comfortable victory under jockey Juan Hernandez.

Adare Manor returned to southern California and continued her winning ways when scoring a victory in the Grade 2 $200,000 Santa Margarita Stakes, winning that feature for the second straight year. Adare Manor cruised wire-to-wire atop an overmatched four-horse field to win by 4 1/4 lengths as the prohibitive 0.05-1 favorite.

At Del Mar, Adare Manor added the third Grade 1 win of her career when she won the Grade 1 $400,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes for the second straight year. Sent off as the 3-5 favorite in a field of eight in the 1 1/8-mile Hirsch on Aug. 3, Adare Manor stalked the pace close up before surging to the lead in mid-stretch and drawing off to a 2 3/4-length win. The Clement Hirsch was a Breeders' Cup Challenge Series "Win and You're In" race, and with the victory, Adare Manor secured a qualifying spot in the field for the Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff to be run at Del Mar on Nov. 2.

Adare Manor is by the Grade 3-winning Giant Gizmo mare Brooklynsway, who earned more than $720,000 on the track.