West Coast First Winner Fit to Fly Soars at Hawthorne
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Fit to Fly breaks his maiden at Hawthorne Race Course
Gary and Mary West's freshman sire and multiple grade 1 winner West Coast sired his first winner when his son Fit to Fly won his career debut at Hawthorne Race Course by an impressive 7 1/4 lengths.
Bred in Kentucky by Woodford Thoroughbreds, the colt out of the stakes-placed Bernardini winner Kimono was sold as a yearling for $155,000 at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton The July Yearling Sale to Quarter Pole Enterprises. He was then pinhooked at this year's Ocala Breeders' Sales March 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale where Carolyn Wilson bought him for $570,000 out of Eddie Woods' consignment.
Fit to Fly is trained by Larry Rivelli, who made the colt's first test a 4 1/2-furlong maiden special weight on the dirt. He won gate-to-wire in a final time of :52.53.
Kimono is the dam of three other winners, including Canadian stakes winner Keke Kimono . She has a yearling colt by West Coast and was expecting a foal this year by Win Win Win that has not been reported yet.
West Coast, who stands at Lane's End for $15,000, compiled a 6-5-1 record from 13 starts and earned $5,803,800. He won or placed in eight graded stakes, getting victories in the Travers Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets (G1) and Pennsylvania Derby (G1). He also was second in the 2018 Dubai World Cup Sponsored by Emirates Airline (G1).