Punk Rock Princess First Winner for Bourbon Courage
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Photo: Jim McCue/Maryland Jockey Club
Punk Rock Princess scores a maiden win at Laurel Park
Anchor & Hope Farm's freshman sire Bourbon Courage added "first winner" to his résumé when his daughter Punk Rock Princess won a 4 1/2-furlong maiden special weight May 2 on Laurel Park's main track.
The bay juvenile co-owned by Trevor Johnson, Dan Slattery, and trainer Jeremiah O'Dwyer broke her maiden in her second start and has earned $40,560. O'Dwyer bought Punk Rock Princess for $25,000 at Fasig-Tipton's Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale out of Sally Thomas' consignment.
Thomas Teal bred Punk Rock Princess in Maryland out of Old Trieste's winning daughter My Little Monkey, who has produced six winners so far out of seven to race. Punk Rock Princess's third dam is Twenty Eight Carat, the dam of grade 1 winner A P Valentine, who was second in the Preakness Stakes (G1) and Belmont Stakes (G1).
Bred by Oscar and Eloise Penn, Bourbon Courage was sold by the Penns for $15,000 as a yearling at Fasig-Tipton's Kentucky July Selected Yearlings Sale to McMahon Bloodstock.
The Lion Heart colt raced for McMahon & Hill Bloodstock's Bourbon Lane Stable racing partnership and won or placed in nine graded stakes on his way to earning $1,129,187. Bourbon Courage won the Super Derby (G2), was runner-up in the Donn Handicap (G1), and finished third in the Clark Handicap (G1) and Cigar Mile Handicap (G1).
Bourbon Courage entered stud in Maryland and stands this year for $5,000.