Gamine (foaled February 16, 2017) is a multiple graded stakes-winning American Thoroughbred racehorse. She has won nine races from eleven career starts, including the 2020 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint and four other Grade One events. She was named 2020's champion female sprinter. Background Gamine is the daughter of 2007 Los Alamitos Futurity champion, Into Mischief and non-stakes winner, Peggy Jane. She was purchased as a yearling for $220,000 in 2018. The following year she was sold for $1,800,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year Olds sale. Racing career 2020: Three-year-old season Gamine made her debut as a three-year-old on March 7 at Santa Anita Park in a Maiden race. She won this race by going straight to the front and winning by 6¼ lengths. Her next race was an Allowance Optional Claiming on May 2 at Oaklawn Park. As in her last start, she went straight to the front. At the end of the race, she slowed down but won by a neck. Shortly after the race, Gamine tested positive for lidocaine. The Arkansas Derby (Div. 1) winner Charlatan also tested positive. Bob Baffert said in a statement that he believes both horses were “unknowingly and innocently” exposed to lidocaine by one of his stable employees. The employee had broken his pelvis and was suffering from back pain in the days leading up to May 2. He applied a pain-relieving patch, which contained small amounts of lidocaine, according to Baffert's statement. Gamine ran next in the Acorn Stakes on June 20 at Belmont Park. She ran fast fractions right from the start and opened up in the stretch to win by 18 ¾ lengths. She broke You's race record by 1.55 seconds and was 0.31 seconds slower than the track record. After the Acorn, Gamine became the favorite for the Kentucky Oaks and got 50 points for the 2020 Road to the Kentucky Oaks. She was then taken to Saratoga for the Test Stakes on August 8. She won by 7 lengths and again set a stakes record. On September 4, Gamine started at Churchill Downs in the Kentucky Oaks, where she met Alabama Stakes winner Swiss Skydiver, who was the 2nd favorite after Gamine. Again Gamine went to the front but slowed down in the stretch and was overtaken by long shot Shedaresthedevil and Swiss Skydiver. Gamine finished third. After the Kentucky Oaks, Gamine tested positive again, this