5th-GPX, $40,000, Msw, 3yo, 6 1/2f, 1:16 3/5, ft.
RAGTIME (c, 3, Henny Hughes–Castanet, by El Prado {Ire}) closed to be third in his six-furlong unveiling at this oval Jan. 1. Sent off at 9-2, the Phipps homebred broke sharply and pressed the pace through an opening quarter in :22.50. He darted to the lead on the turn and drew clear down the lane to score by 3 1/4 lengths. Strong Stipulation (Lemon Drop Kid) closed strongly to be second. Sassicaia (Bernardini) was third. Ragtime is a fifth generation Phipps-bred. His second dam is GISP Dancinginmydreams (Seeking the Gold), the dam of GISW Dancing Forever (Rahy). His third dam, Oh What a Dance (Nijinsky II), is the dam of champion Heavenly Prize (Seeking the Gold) and GISW Oh What a Windfall (Seeking the Gold). Castanet has a 2-year-old filly by Bernardini and a yearling filly by Parading. Click for the brisnet.com chart or VIDEO. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-1, $28,200.
O/B-Phipps Stable (KY). T-Claude R McGaughey III.
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