At a glance
- Filly, Ontario-bred, foaled March 13, 2024
- By Corniche out of Decor
- Trainer: Kevin Attard
- Acquired at 2025 Keeneland September Yearling Sale
- Owned in partnership with X-men Racing
Behind the name
Cattrall is named in tribute to Kim Cattrall, the Canadian-British actress whose career stretched across more than five decades – from blockbuster Hollywood movies to classical theatre productions on Broadway and in London’s West End.
Kim Cattrall’s family emigrated to Canada when she was just three months old and settled on Vancouver Island where she was raised. After studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art for a year, she graduated from Georges P. Vanier Secondary School in BC and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.
Beginning her acting career in the ’70s, Kim Cattrall covered miles of dramatic terrain. She made her Broadway debut in 1986 alongside Ian McKellen. By the late ’90s, she had already had compiled an impressive body of work, appearing opposite Jack Lemmon in the Oscar-nominated film Tribute and in Bonfire of the Vanities, Star Trek, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Quincy ME, Starsky & Hutch, The Incredible Hulk, Charlie’s Angels, and Police Academy .
Then came HBO’s Sex and the City. In 1997, Cattrall stepped into the role that made her internationally recognizable and permanently embedded in pop culture – the sizzling man-hungry Samantha Jones. She actually turned the role down four times before finally saying yes because she didn’t believe anyone would find her particularly sexy at 41 years of age. Proving her spectacularly wrong, audiences embraced her as the show’s most popular, iconic, and beloved character.
A driving force in making the biggest show of its time into “one of the best TV series of all time”, Cattrall’s performances helped power a massive pop-culture phenomenon that won seven Emmys and eight Golden Globes.
Over six seasons and two films, Catrall played a promiscuous bombshell PR mogul and fearless power player: sharp, assertive, glamorous, and completely in command. Ambitious and unapologetic with an infectious “IDGAF” attitude, she remained confident and true to herself in the face of any challenge. Nothing fazed her.
For embodying one of the most memorable and culturally seismic TV roles of her era, Cattrall was nominated for five Emmy Awards, seven Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Canadian Screen Awards, a People’s Choice Award, and four Golden Globes – winning one for Best Supporting Actress in 2002. Ranked number eight in TV Guide’s 50 sexiest stars of all-time list in 2005, the year she won the Theatre Actress of the Year in 2005 for her performances in Whose Life Is It Anyway? Cattrall also won two ensemble Screen Actors Guild Awards, a 2008 Ultimate Icon Award at Cosmopolitan’s Women of The Year Awards, and an Award of Distinction at the Banff World TV Festival.
Inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2009, Cattrall earned an honorary fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University in 2010 for her contributions to the arts. The next year, she was nominated for a Drama League Award for her role in the Broadway and West End productions of Private Lives.
The author of several books – including a New York Times best seller – Cattrall earned an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of British Columbia in 2018 for her contributions as an activist, advocate and humanitarian. Honoured at Variety’s Power of Women event in 2022, she later received The Hollywood Reporter’s inaugural ICON Award at the Women in Entertainment Canada summit.
While she remains one of New York’s most recognized faces today, Cattrall primarily resides on Vancouver Island in a waterfront home that she calls her “paradise”.
About the sire
Corniche was a $1.5-million sale topper at the 2021 OBS Spring Sale and backed that price up on the track. By Quality Road and out of six-time graded stakes winner Wasted Tears, he won his debut at Del Mar by 4 1/4 lengths, captured the GI American Pharoah S. by 3 1/4 lengths, and then took the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile to secure Eclipse Award honors as champion 2-year-old male. He retired with a 3-0-0 record in four starts and $1,263,500 in earnings. His first-crop 2-year-olds have sold for up to $1.35 million.
From the line of Quality Road and Elusive Quality, Corniche brings the kind of profile commercial breeders and buyers notice immediately: top-end American dirt speed, championship juvenile form, and real quality on the female side through Wasted Tears.
About the dam
Decor is an unraced daughter of Declaration of War out of Classic Neel, a stakes-winning daughter of El Corredor who won the Weekend Madness S., finished second in the Appalachian S., and was third in the GIII Sands Point S. That gives Cattrall a female family with black type close up rather than buried deep in the page.
The family underneath Decor has useful depth as well. Classic Neel produced Conquest Tsunami, a graded winner and multiple stakes winner who earned $787,539, along with the durable Stormy Pacific, an 11-time winner who earned $335,156.
For a young broodmare, Decor offers a practical and encouraging profile: immediate stakes quality in the first dam, proven runners in the family, and enough substance on the page to make the pedigree feel like more than window dressing.
