The Endeavour Stakes Grade III

$175,000 Endeavour Stakes

Other Notes Continued: Cloud Scapes was the 100th lifetime stakes winner for her sire, Smart Strike. The 2013 winner, Old Tune, became the first Brazilian-bred distaffer to win the Endeavour and later added the Hillsborough; Old Tune’s trainer Todd Pletcher also won both races in 2007 with Cassydora. The 2012 Endeavour winner, Zagora, cemented her reputation as the nation’s top turf mare with subsequent victories in the Grade III Hillsborough and Gallorette, the Grade II Ballston Spa and the prestigious Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita. She won the year-end Eclipse Award as the best in her category. Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott won the Endeavour in back-to-back years: in 2005 with Delta Princess and 2006 with My Lordship. Dreaming of Anna, the 2006 Eclipse Award Juvenile Filly champion, edged Lear’s Princess by a nose under jockey Cornelio Velasquez in 2008, the first year the Endeavour was a graded stakes.