Note: Twice a week leading up to the DelCap, I will be featuring past winners and how they did/are doing as a broodmare. Today, it's Jameela.
Year Born: 1976
Color: Dark Bay/Brown
State/Country Born: MD
Sire: Rambunctious
Dam: Ashbury Mary
Broodmare Sire: Seven Corners
Profile: Unraced at 2, Jameela began Pimlico winning her first 3 races there before winning an allowance at Delaware. After winning the Dogwood Stakes at Bowie, she suffered her first loss up at Saratoga. That was to Bitley in the 1979 Test Stakes. She would then come back to Delaware to finish second behind It's in the Air co-2yo filly Champion in 1978 in the Delaware Oaks. She would go onto to win 4 more stakes races during the rest of the season.
As a four year old, she didn't get off to a good start with 7 straight losses (including a runner up finish in the Apple Blossom) before entering the winners circle in the Geisha Handicap at Pimlico. She would then go onto win her next three races before finishing fourth to Plankton in the Molly Pitcher. After losing in the Diana, she would win her next three races before ending her season with 5th, 3rd and a few 2nd place finishes.
Her five year old season started not well with wins in only a few allowance races, but did finish strong with wins in the Muhubah (at Saratoga), Maskette (now called the Go For Wand) and Ladies Handicap. She even took on the boys with a 7th place finish in the Meadowlands Cup. Her final year of racing was as a six year old, where she traveled out west to finish second to Targa in the Santa Maria Handicap and 4th to Ack's Secret in the Santa Margarita Invitational Handicap. After a stop at Oaklawn to win an allowance and finish third in the Apple Blossom behind Track Robbery (who would become the granddam to 1999 BC Classic winner Cat Thief), she came back east where she spent the rest of her career.
On July 5th, 1982 after finishing 4th as a 4yo and runner up the year before at 5, Jameela finally had won the Molly Pitcher at Momouth. Her next start would be the Delaware Handicap where she would defeat Zvetlana and Love Sign who had defeated her the year before in the Beldame. It turned out to be the last DelCap at Delaware Park for 3 years as the track closed shortly after her win and reopened in 1986. She ended her career with defending her Muhubah title at Saratoga. She started 58 times with 27 of them being wins and earning $1,038,704 in her career.
As a broodmare Jameela's career was sadly shortened when she was struck and killed by lightning in 1985. However, both of her foals where winners and one of them was a champion. That of course being Gulch (Mr. Prospector) who won the Met Mile, BC Sprint, Hopeful, Wood Memorial, and many other stakes. He of course also went onto become a profilic sire with Kentucky Derby and Belmont winner Thunder Gulch, BC Mile winner Court Vision, Kipling a full brother to Court Vision and the sire to one of my favorite horses BC Mile winner Kip Deville, Hong Kong winner Garcia Marquez (full to Court and Kipling), The Cliff's Edge, and Wallenda.
Bibliography
N.p., n.d. Web. 24 June 2012. <http://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse>.
"Hello Race Fans! – Ten Things You Should Know: Delaware Handicap." Hello Race Fans! – Ten Things You Should Know: Delaware Handicap. Hello Race Fans, 14 July 2011. Web. 24 June 2012. <http://helloracefans.com/races/ten-things/del-cap/>.
Special thanks for Mike Curry at NTRA/Jockey Club's America's Best Racing website (formally of a reporter at Thoroughbred Times) who helped me out with who Jameela defeated in the 1982 DelCap.
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