More Than Real (foaled on April 15, 2008) is an American

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. Out of the mare Miss Seffens, More Than Real was sired by

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. She is owned by

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and trained by

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. More Than Real won the

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, where she beat the favourite

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who finished 2nd and it was a head back to the third finisher Kathmanblu. At two she also won her maiden race and she finished 2nd in the

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-Gr.3. In all three of her two-year-old races she was ridden by Garret Gomez. She made her first start as a three-year-old running in the Coronation Stakes at

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, where she finished eleventh in the field of 12 fillies. She was ridden there by Olivier Peslier for the first time.

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