Daring Kathy to Get a 'Little Vacation'

Daring Kathy, winner of November’s My Charmer (G3) at Gulfstream Park West, is set to receive a freshening and will forego a winter campaign, according to trainer David Fawkes.

A newly turned 4-year-old daughter of Wildcat Heir, Daring Kathy has been sent to Ocala. The David Fawkes trainee will spend her time off at Summerfield Farm, run by Francis and Barbara Vanlangendonck.

“We probably want to give her two or three months,” Fawkes said. “Just a freshening. She needed it. It was just time, time for a little vacation. Nothing major, just kind of a few little nagging things that we wanted to give her a freshening for.”

Daring Kathy emerged as a rising turf star this summer and fall, winning the Honey Ryder and Starfish Bay stakes at Gulfstream and the Cellars Shiraz at Gulfstream Park West in addition to the My Charmer, and she has yet to lose on the turf in South Florida. The My Charmer was her first graded stakes victory.

In nine 2014 starts, the speedy chestnut filly also finished third in both the Lake George (G2) at Saratoga and the Ontario Colleen Stakes (G3) at Woodbine. As of now, no plans have been set for a spring campaign.

“We’ll just kind of let her tell us when,” Fawkes said. When she comes back, we’ll put her back in training and see where she goes. There’s plenty for her.”

Source: Gulfstream Park Communications