Kapoor did not just win the $100,000 Mari Hulman George Memorial at Horseshoe Indianapolis. She controlled it from the moment Júnior Alvarado hustled her away from the break, then kept the field at bay for 1 1/16 miles to stop the clock in 1:41.75, the second-fastest time ever recorded in the race.
The 4-year-old filly by Uncle Mo out of Kareena was never allowed to drift into a scramble. In the nine-horse field for fillies and mares 3 and up, Alvarado sent Kapoor to the front early in Race 9 on the Indiana Derby day card and let her dictate the terms. The track had been upgraded to fast earlier in the day after rain, but Equibase still labeled the race surface good, and Kapoor handled it without hesitation, turning for home with the race still in her grasp and staying clear through the lane.
That 1:41.75 mattered because it sat just behind Alpine Princess’s 1:41.24 in 2025, the only modern edition of the Mari Hulman George Memorial faster than Kapoor’s. Horse Racing Nation’s stakes history shows how much room there has been between the sharpest renewals and the rest of the list: Loved won in 1:42.44 in 2024, Soul Of An Angel in 1:44.81 in 2023, Semble Juste in 1:45.82 in 2022, Matera in 1:43.29 in 2021, and earlier winners such as Mylady Curlin, Tiger Moth, Brooklynsway, Quiet Success and Magic Hour all came home slower than Kapoor.
William I. Mott’s filly was making her mark on one of the most important afternoons at the Shelbyville, Indiana track. Horseshoe Indianapolis, which opened in 2002 as Indiana Downs and is the state’s only Thoroughbred racetrack, put the Mari Hulman George Memorial alongside other stakes such as the Indiana General Assembly Distaff Handicap on a card built around the Indiana Derby. Kapoor’s performance fit that setting: a stakes filly with enough tactical speed to control a race and enough finish to back it up on the stopwatch.
For Kapoor, the question now is less about whether she can win on a route of ground and more about how far that kind of pace can carry her. A gate-to-wire stakes score in 1:41.75 does not just fill a line in the chart. It gives Alvarado and Mott a filly that has already shown she can make quality company run her race, and that is usually where the harder tests begin.
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