Sameeha Faces Stakes Company for the First Time in Regret

Shadwell Stable’s homebred Sameeha will try stakes company for the first time as she rides a two-race win streak into Saturday’s $100,000 Regret Presented by Cox’s Smokers Outlet (Grade III).

“She’s really been training great,” trainer Dan Peitz said. “She hasn’t run since April and we toyed with the idea of running her in another allowance race before the Regret but it would’ve been against older horses. So, we thought it would be fine to train her up to the race.”

Sameeha, a 3-year-old daughter by Street Cry (Ire), recorded her first career win by three lengths on the dirt in March at Oaklawn Park but impressed Peitz after recording a 2 ¼-length turf victory at Keeneland on April 23.

“She turned a few heads that day at Keeneland when she won on the grass,” Peitz said. “That race was a split division for those conditions and I thought overall our race was tougher than the other one. We breezed her in company Sunday (at Churchill Downs) with December Seven (trained by Paul McGee) and she handled everything great. December Seven is an older horse and has a lot of class but she held her own.”

Source: Churchill Downs