Little Keilee

The recently recruited five-year-old Sioux Nation mare Little Keilee looks well placed to win races in the near future.

A half-sister to a pair of winners and closely related to the Gr.2-placed juvenile Bahamas, she has spent her entire career up to this point in Ireland and has shown ability from the start. She was fourth behind the high-class two-year-old The Antarctic on her second outing and then finished just two places behind the subsequent Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Victoria Road on her third run.

Allocated an opening handicap mark of 70 shortly afterwards, she went on to open her account in a 5½f Sligo handicap in the April of her three-year-old season. That win came on soft to heavy going, and she clearly thrives when there is juice in the ground, but she also won a 7f handicap on the all-weather at Dundalk later the same year and has showcased admirable versatility throughout her life.

Gradually stepping up in trip as she has got older, she gained her most recent victory in a 1m handicap at Dundalk in February of this year (with three subsequent winners in behind), and her overall record now stands at three wins and six top-three finishes from 39 starts, for career earnings in excess of £30,000.

Her latest published ratings in Ireland are 67 on the turf and 68 on the all-weather, both of which are below her peak winning mark of 69. In fact, she has even placed from as high as 75 in the not-too-distant past, so she looks primed to win almost immediately now that she has transferred across the water.

Her appeal is boosted by residual potential as a broodmare. Her sire, Sioux Nation, is an enormously popular young Coolmore stallion, whose mares have sold for up to 750,000gns at public auction in recent months.

Little Keilee looks to have plenty more to offer, and we can’t wait to get this talented and consistent mare out on the track soon.