A winter wedding in sunny Florida

Although she’d been away from the racetrack since April of 2014, Godolphin’s Wedding Toast, a five-year-old daughter of Street Sense, finished strongly to capture her third career stakes in the Listed Miami Shores Handicap at Gulfstream Park on January 7th.

Never worse than second in six career starts, Wedding Toast ran to form as she was right on the lead throughout the seven-furlong test over the main track. She had to turn back a gutsy second-place finisher down the lane but was able to slowly pull away as the field reached the wire.

Wedding Toast, a winner in four of six starts, previously annexed the G3 Comely Stakes at Aqueduct going nine furlongs as well as the Belle Cherie Stakes at eight and one-half furlongs.

Bred by Darley in Kentucky, Wedding Toast is out of the Coronado’s Quest mare Golden Sheba, who is a half-sister to five-time G1 winner Congaree and Stakes winner and G1-placed Sangaree.

Street Sense is also the sire of 2014 multiple G1 winner Sweet Reason along with the undefeated, now three-year-old colt Ocho Ocho Ocho who won the G3 Delta Downs Jackpot last year. Forty six other stakes horses include G1 winner Aubby K and the Australian G1 winner Hallowed Crown.

Street Sense will stand the 2015 breeding season at a fee of $35,000, stands and nurses.