Sambuca Classica (foaled February 21, 2004, in New York) is a Thoroughbred mare best known as the dam of 2016 Champion Two-Year-Old Colt Classic Empire.
[2] She was an unsuccessful race mare, not winning in eight career starts and even starting once in a Maiden Claiming, but has proven to be more successful as a broodmare, with all five of her foals to race to date being winners.
[3] Sambuca Classica is a small chestnut mare with a star, strip, a sock on her right front and left rear leg, and a coronet mark on her right rear.
[4] She was raced by her breeders, Anstu Farm, for her three career starts in 2006, with her best finish being fourth-place.
She was purchased by Steven and Brandi Nicholson, but did not race again until August of her three-year-old season.