Miss Empire’s female family has already found success with her sire, Empire Maker, thanks to Grade 1 winner and Kentucky Derby runner-up Pioneerof the Nile.

Empire Maker never ran worse than third in eight races, capturing the Belmont Stakes, Wood Memorial and Florida Derby, all Grade 1s.

The stallion is a son of Toussaud, a Grade 1 queen herself who produced three other Grade 1 winners and was honored as Broodmare of the Year in 2002.

Empire Maker has been just as, if not more, successful in the breeding shed as his dam, siring the likes of dual Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic champion Royal Delta; Grade 1 winners Bodemeister and Grace Hall; and three of the last four heroines of the Grade 1 Spinster in Mushka, Acoma and In Lingerie.

Like Pioneerof the Nile, Bodemeister also placed in the Kentucky Derby, while Grace Hall ran third in last year’s Kentucky Oaks.

Miss Empire is out of the Rajab mare Miss Excitement, who never faced stakes company while spending the majority of her career running on turf.

Unlike her dam, Miss Empire competed against stakes rivals in all but her maiden win last year, racking up a win, a Grade 1-placing and Grade 2 third against the boys.

Miss Excitement never showed much on track, but did hit a homerun in the shed when foaling Group 1 sprinting hero Bordonaro. She is a half-sister to multiple Grade 3-placed stakes victor Seahawk Gold as well as Group 2 second Beyond the Waves, herself the dam of Grade 3 vixen Emerald Beech.

This female line also includes dual champion sprinter Decathlon.