Gee She Sparkles Gets First Stakes Win for Race Day
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Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt
Race Day at Spendthrift Farm
GFB Racing and Danny Pish's Gee She Sparkles took her record to 2-for-2 when she won the $109,167 Texas Thoroughbred Futurity for Texas-accredited and TTA Sale-graduate 2-year-old fillies by 5 1/4 lengths July 14 at Lone Star Park.
She also became the first black-type stakes winner for her sire, Race Day .
Taking on a field of 10 others going 5 1/2 furlongs, Gee She Sparkles stalked a pair of dueling leaders who set fractions of :22.41 and :46.35 through a half-mile. Improving her position three wide on the turn, she was able to overtake the leaders in upper stretch and pulled away under jockey Danny Sorenson. The final time on a fast track was 1:06.15.
The filly, who was bred in Texas by Inside Move, is out of the Indian Charlie mare Pata Fresca and is trained by Pish. She was also the stallion's first winner, breaking her maiden on debut by 10 1/2 lengths.
Race Day, who stands at Spendthrift Farm for a fee of $6,000, is a multiple graded stakes-winning son of Tapit . Beginning his career at 3, Race Day won three in a row, the last for owner Matthew Schera and trainer Todd Pletcher.
He returned as a 4-year-old to win the Razorback Handicap (G3) and Oaklawn Handicap (G2) at Oaklawn Park and added the Hagyard Fayette Stakes (G2) at Keeneland before his final start, a fifth-place finish in the Clark Handicap (G1) at Churchill Downs.
Retired with a record of 6-1-2 from 12 starts and earnings of $748,000, Race Day was sent to Spendthrift for the 2016 breeding season.