Sister Troienne Tests Win Streak in Herecomesthebride (G3)

3-Year-Old Filly Owns Five Straight Victories, Three in Stakes

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Since finishing third in her unveiling last summer, Woodslane Racing 3-year-old homebred filly Sister Troienne has done nothing wrong. Five races, five wins, three straight stakes, all by 15 ½ combined lengths.

On Saturday, the chestnut daughter of Munnings looks to extend her streak while making her graded-stakes debut in the $200,000 Herecomesthebride (G3) at Gulfstream Park, where she already owns three wins during the 2025-2026 Championship Meet.

The 39th running of the Herecomesthebride for sophomore fillies scheduled at 1 1/16 miles on the grass is the third of nine stakes, eight graded, worth $2.025 million in purses on a blockbuster program anchored by the $425,000 Coolmore Fountain of Youth (G2) for 3-year-olds on the road to the $1 million Curlin Florida Derby (G1).

Post time for the first of 14 races is 11:30 a.m. ET.

Sister Troienne’s win streak has coincided with her move to the grass for a 4 ½-length maiden victory going one mile last fall. She followed up with a 1 1/16-mile open allowance win at Keeneland before finding stakes success in Gulfstream’s Wait a While, rained off the turf to the all-weather Tapeta course and contested at a mile and 70 yards on Thanksgiving Day, opening day of the Championship Meet.

This year Sister Troienne opened with a 1 ¾-length score in the one-mile Ginger Brew Jan. 3 and returned with a handy 2 ¾-length triumph in the 1 1/16-mile Sweetest Chant. She has been favored in each of her last four races, and is the x-x top choice again on the morning line.

“Whenever you’re going for six in a row you’re always worried about something, but if anything made me feel good about it, it was her work going into it,” trainer Brian Lynch said. “In between her last race and this one I kept her in a steady program but just haven’t really asked her for much in her works. [Sunday] we put her in company and there was a lot of horse there, so it just gives me a good feeling. We can give her a little light week going into it and she should be on tilt by the time we get [to] Saturday.”

Sister Troienne went four furlongs in 47.35 seconds on the turf at Palm Meadows, Gulfstream’s satellite training facility in Palm Beach County, ninth-fastest of 62 horses. As he has been throughout her career, Mario Gutierrez will be aboard Sister Troienne having drawn Post 9 outside all but one of her rivals. She drew post 8 of 10 for the Sweetest Chant.

“She worked really well the other day on the turf. She’s drawn somewhat of an outside post so that’s always a bit of a concern, but she seems to be tactical enough to where she can get over and get herself a good position,” Lynch said. “I think she’s just been a little bit better than the rest of them down here this winter and had them over a barrel. Let’s hope we can do it one more time.”

Lynch will also send out William Werner homebred Storm’s Wake, who ran third in the Ginger Brew and fourth in the Sweetest Chant behind her stablemate. She will break from Post 1 with Hall of Fame jockey Joel Rosario up.

“If she sort of gets the right pace to run at, I don’t think she can beat the filly but I think she can certainly be graded-stakes placed if we get lucky,” Lynch said.

Spicy Princess and Brat Pack, who respectively ran second and third in the Sweetest Chant, return for another try. KMN Racing homebred Spicy Princess was 1 ½ lengths clear of third while coming off a determined nose maiden victory going 1 1/16 miles on the Tapeta Jan. 18. Prior to that, she was beaten a neck when third in a one-mile maiden spot on the Gulfstream turf.

“She is by Tapit and she was a pain in the butt early on. She didn’t understand racing and she was pulling and she didn’t want to relax and she didn’t want to breeze,” trainer Patrick Biancone said. “Suddenly now she’s put together three really, really good races. I thought she ran very good last time and came out of the race very well. Brian Lynch’s filly is certainly the horse to beat, but we will be trying to beat her.”

Brat Pack, bred and owned by Alex Campbell Jr. Thoroughbreds, was making her stakes debut in the Sweetest Chant. She didn’t launch her career until late November at Laurel Park, graduating in a 1 1/16-mile maiden special weight Dec. 24 on the turf at Gulfstream.

“I thought she ran very well last time,” trainer Graham Motion said. “Brian’s filly is very tough. I was disappointed to see her back in there, but I think this filly keeps progressing and hopefully she takes another step forward.”

Rounding out the field are Spirit Doll, winner of the one-mile Our Dear Peggy on the Gulfstream turf Oct. 25 in her most recent start; Bossy Candy, winner of the Nov. 22 Shady Well sprinting six furlongs on Woodbine’s all-weather surface; last-out 7 ½-furlong maiden turf winners Lion Lake and Connect the Stars; Sapphire Beach, exiting an optional claiming triumph Feb. 5 at Gulfstream; and Bert’s Knoty Girl, fifth in the Ginger Brew and sixth in the Sweetest Chant.

The Herecomesthebride honors the daughter of Al Hattab, trained by Jimmy Cross Jr., that wo 12 of 16 starts including Gulfstream’s 1977 Bonnie Miss and the Columbiana (G3) and Poinciana at Hialeah.