Classified multi-stakes winners Cairo Memories died late last month, despite receiving intensive treatment, the family’s 3-year-old daughter had an infection that got out of control. Prince Cairo who was lobbied by owners Cathy and Paul Schroeder and David Bernsen.
“This is a humble game,” said Bob Hess Jr., who coached the dirty girl in Southern California after the Schroeders bought her for $50,000 at the September 2020 Annual Sale of the show. Keeneland through agent Davant Latham. The chubby dog was bred by Brereton Jones and sold by Airdrie Stud.
“It was about 20 days of challenge,” Hess continued. “The Schroeders and David Bernsen family did the right thing and put her first. They spared no expense and the clinic did a great job, just this time it didn’t work out.”
Cairo Memories showcased her abilities from the very first question when she won the women’s one-mile special weight class on the grass at Del Mar equal to 4 1/2 the length. She became the bet winner on the next start, taking the mile-long Surf Girl Bet on the lawn at Santa Anita . Park 2 1/4 of the length and earned the start in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T), where she finished in an out-of-place position.
A month after Breeders’ Cup, Cairo Memories proved she belongs in the 1st place company with a runner-up in Starlet Stakes (G1) on the main track at Racetrack Los Alamitos.
At age 3, Cairo Memories acquired Providencia Shares awarded by the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (G3T) and Honeymoon Stocks (G3T) in Santa Anita. Next, she will finish fifth in the Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes (G1T) and third in Del Mar Oaks (G1T). Then, Schroeders and Bernsen decided to offer Memories of Cairo through Fasig-Tipton’s November Sale, a select mixed sale on November 6 in Kentucky.
She made her final start on October 29 before selling in Autumn Miss Stakes (G3T) at Santa Anita, where she placed fifth. She won four of her 10 starts at the time and made $420,500.
Hess recalls: “She was back well, looking well and eating well.
The filth was loaded onto a FedEx plane bound for Indianapolis the Wednesday after the Miss Fall pageant and then shipped to the Fasig-Tipton Lexington mall. She was introduced to potential buyers but then developed a low-grade fever. Hess said initial blood tests did not show any problems. Two days later, that all changed. She was scratched after the sale and was sent to a clinic.
“Since then, it has been elucidated, noting that he has never seen the health of a horse decline as rapidly as Memories of Cairo,” says Hess.
According to Hess, the girl had developed pleurisy, had special problems in her right lung and was beginning to develop pleurisy.
“It’s a big loss,” he said. “Davant has found her for us at great value. She’s just someone below the best, but I really feel her 4th year could be her best year for her physique. her figure, her temperament and her lineage. But she never got there.”
