1985 & 1986 Racing Seasons Carotene was trained by
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee
Roger Attfield and raced from a base at
Woodbine Racetrack in
Toronto. In 1985, the two-year-old filly won her only start. The following year, she won the
Toronto Cup Stakes, and the
Wonder Where Stakes. She ran second in the 1986
E. P. Taylor Stakes and after going to
California to race, finished third in the
Yellow Ribbon Stakes at
Santa Anita Park. In the 1986
Canadian Triple Crown races for three-year-olds dominated by males, she finished second to
Golden Choice in the
Prince of Wales Stakes on dirt, then under jockey
Richard Dos Ramos won the third and longest leg of the series run on
turf, the 1½ mile
Breeders' Stakes. Sent to
Japan for the 1986
Japan Cup, Carotene finished ninth to winner
Jupiter Ireland. Carotene's 1986 performances earned her two
Sovereign Awards for
Canadian Champion 3-Yr-Old Filly and the first of her three consecutive
Canadian Champion Turf Horse titles.
1987 Racing Season At her home base at Woodbine Racetrack, Carotene won the 1987
Nassau Stakes and was second in the
Niagara Handicap and the
King Edward Stakes. In the United States, she beat males in the
New Hampshire Sweepstakes Handicap at
Rockingham Park, won the
Matchmaker Handicap at
Atlantic City Race Course, and won the
Yellow Ribbon Stakes at Santa Anita Park. Carotene's performances earned her two more Sovereign Awards as the 1987 Canadian Champion Turf Horse and
Canadian Champion Older Female Horse.
1988 Racing Season After her 1987 season in Canada, Carotene's handlers sent her south to
Florida for the winter racing season, where jockey
Don Seymour rode the five-year-old to victory in the 1988 Grade I
Pan American Handicap at
Gulfstream Park. In that race, she defeated males and did it in a winning time that was one-fifth of a second off the course record. At home at Woodbine Racetrack, Carotene's best result was a second in the
Jockey Club Cup Handicap. In other races in the United States, she ran second in the
Santa Barbara Handicap and third in the 1988
San Juan Capistrano, the Matchmaker Handicap and the
Sword Dancer Invitational Handicaps. At the end of the 1988 racing season, she was voted her third straight Sovereign Award for Champion Female Turf Horse and her second straight Canadian Champion Older Female Horse. As a broodmare, Carotene had the first of her eight foals in 1990 and her last in 2003. ==References==