Runner-up going this trip beneath the Twin Spires when unveiled Oct. 29, Red Ruby donned cap and gown going 1 1/16 miles there Nov. 25. Second choice on the board, the gray brushed with a rival leaving the stalls, and soon rushed up to sit a very rank fourth through the early going. Sneaking in between horses on the far turn, Red Ruby took dead aim on the leader past six furlongs in 1:12.63 and skipped clear down the lane to win going away for her first black-type rosette.
“She's trained on an off track here in the last month and she handled that beautifully, so I wasn't concerned at all,” said winning trainer Kellyn Gorder. “It [Martha Washington] was our plan all along. We had an option to go in an allowance race earlier in the meet and she was training too well, so I decided, 'Let's go to the stake.'”
Already the half-sister to SW & MGISP Beautician (Dehere), SW Bella Castani (Big Brown), and GSW Mo Tom (Uncle Mo), Red Ruby is followed by a 2-year-old filly named Tobago (Pioneerof the Nile). Caroni, herself a half-sister to MGSW Kashatreya (Daring Groom), was covered by Uncle Mo in 2016 and Honor Code last term. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
MARTHA WASHINGTON S., $122,500, OP, 2-10, 3yo, f, 1m, 1:39.67, sy.
1–RED RUBY, 118, f, 3, by Tiznow
1st Dam: Caroni, by Rubiano
2nd Dam: Douce Carotte, by Caro (Ire)
3rd Dam: Kshesinskaya, by Nijinsky II
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. O-Sandra Sexton & Brandi Nicholson;
B-Hargus & Sandra Sexton & Silver Fern Farm, LLC (KY);
T-Kellyn Gorder; J-Robby Albarado. $75,000. Lifetime Record:
3-2-1-0, $123,000. *1/2 to Beautician (Dehere), SW & MGISP,
$636,175; Bella Castani (Big Brown), SW, $128,225; and Mo
Tom (Uncle Mo), GSW, $665,356.[bullet ad=”winstar-win-10000″]2–Sassy Sienna, 119, f, 3, Midshipman–Tap for Gold, by
Pleasant Tap. ($65,000 Ylg '16 KEESEP). O-Medallion Racing
& Jerry McClanahan; B-Haymarket Farm LLC (KY); T-Brad H.
Cox. $25,000.[bullet ad=”tm-medallion-double”][bullet ad=”vinery-sales-grad”][bullet ad=”eqb-yearlingpurchase”][bullet ad=”machmerhall-damrecommendedforprivatepurchase”]3–Cosmic Burst, 122, f, 3, Violence–Peggy Ring, by
Ghostzapper. ($20,000 Ylg '16 EASJAN; $25,000 Ylg '16
KEESEP). O-Norma Lee Stockseth & Todd Dunn; B-Pewter
Stable (PA); T-Donnie K. Von Hemel. $12,500.[bullet ad=”machmer-hall-raised-and-pinhooked”][bullet ad=”selectsales-shell”]Margins: 2HF, 4 1/4, 8HF. Odds: 2.50, 3.00, 2.50.
Also Ran: Tyfosha, Secret Passion. Scratched: Grats Road.
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