(2016 bay mare by Tiznow out of Surging Storm, by Storm Creek)
C’est Mardi won six of her 24 career starts, placing in another six, and earned a total of $109,339 while running from 3 through 6YO. She scored three times on dirt (wet and fast) and three times on turf, at one mile and 1-1/16 miles. Her versatility also carried over to her running style, as she won both on the front end and coming from as far back as 7th.
She is by the Horse of the Year and two-time Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Tiznow, who was also a leading sire and is now a very solid broodmare sire. C’est Mardi is a half-sister to G3-winning 2YO Neversaidiwassweet and to the four-time black type-placed Ainsley, as well as to another winner and to the unraced dam of 2021 black-type earner My My Girl.
C’est Mardi’s unraced dam, Surging Storm, is a half-sister to the stakes winner and producer Elusive Sara, stakes-placed stakes producer Sudden Sensation, stakes-placed Paradise Princess, and four more winners. Under her next dam are Maryland-based stakes winners S.S. Hot Sauce and Richard’s Lass, plus the graded winners Louie Capote, Fast Catch and Onthedeanslist. C’est Mardi’s fourth dam is the top class Alfred Vanderbilt runner Cold Comfort. This is the extended female family of top class runner and sire Exclusive Native, plus Travers winner General Assembly and the multiple G1 winner Versailles Treaty.
C’est Mardi was claimed during her racing career by our friends at Wasabi Ventures Stables, and earned her final three victories in their colors. Bred for the first time in 2022, C’est Mardi gave birth to a Tacitus filly as her first foal in 2023. Because of a late foaling, she was not bred back in 2023, but will visit the proven veteran value sire Dialed In in 2024.
C’est Mardi wins at Tampa on turf
C’est Mardi wins at Monmouth on turf
C’est Mardi wins at Monmouth on dirt
C’est Mardi wins at Monmouth on turf
C’est Mardi wins at Monmouth in the slop
C’est Mardi breaks her maiden at Oaklawn