Kumin buys interest in Fatale Bere

ARCADIA, Calif. – Sol Kumin’s Head of Plains Partners has purchased a 25 percent interest in Fatale Bere, who has been pre-entered for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Del Mar on Nov. 3.

Kumin and trainer Leonard Powell said the transaction was finalized earlier this week. Ownership of the filly includes Mark Mathiesen, Gerald Benowitz, and Mathilde Powell, the trainer’s wife.

Fatale Bere won the Surfer Girl Stakes at a mile on turf for 2-year-old fillies at Santa Anita on Oct. 9 in her American debut. She was third in the Criterium de l’Ouest at Craon, France, on Sept. 2 in her third start.

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Kumin said he was angling to buy Fatale Bere then.

“I saw the horse in Europe and I went after the horse and [Powell] beat me by a day,” Kumin said on Thursday morning. “She been on my radar since then. It was her turn of foot that caught my eye.

“I loved her race in the Surfer Girl. I thought the field was sneaky better than anyone else thought.”

Fatale Bere will be ridden by Kent Desormeaux in the Juvenile Fillies Turf, run at a mile.

A French-bred by Pedro the Great, Fatale Bere has won 3 of 4 starts and earned $92,274. She won a maiden race and an allowance race at minor tracks in France in July and August.

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