KY-Bred Ryans Charm Scores Repeat in Peru GI
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Kentucky-bred Peruvian champion Ryans Charm won the Gran Premio Pamplona (Per-I) for the second consecutive year June 26 at Hipodromo Monterrico near Lima.
The 6-year-old daughter of California-based sire Heatseeker , ridden by Victor Fernandez, stormed from off the pace and won by 1 1/2 lengths from Antonina while covering 2,000 meters (about 1 1/4 miles) in 2:02.50. Chicuela was third, another 2 1/4 lengths back in the field of 16 fillies and mares.
Peru's reigning champion turf female, Ryans Charm earned an automatic fees-paid berth in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf (gr. IT) Nov. 5 at Santa Anita Park.
Trained by Armando Filipuzzi for Stud Nautica, Ryans Charm posted a sixth consecutive victory, including the 2015 Pamplona, and 15th overall from 24 career starts. She also was runner-up in the 2013 Pamplona.
Ryans Charm was bred by Noreen O'Neill's Ann Marie Farm from the winning Lemon Drop Kid mare Lemon Fresh Tide. Her second dam is the unraced Storm Cat mare Tide Cat, a half sister to grade I winner Super May and multiple graded stakes winner and sire Ide.
Ryans Charm, who has earned more than $100,000, was offered by her breeder's agency at the 2011 Keeneland September yearling sale where she sold for $6,000 to JMUB Stables via agent Eqwos Bloodstock.