Repole Stable's Zany (American Pharoah) picked up where she left off in 2025, taking a somewhat oddly run renewal of the $125,000 Suncoast Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs while making her seasonal return to action Saturday afternoon.
Racing between fillies in the second flight of runners as her stablemate Kadabra (Good Magic) went through the opening stages in a tepid :24.89, the $350,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga grad was set alight at about midway by Irad Ortiz, Jr. and took the overland route into the far turn around Life of Joy (Gun Runner). The latter, the only other member of the septet to jump at single-digit odds, went for an early run outside of horses after a slow beginning.
Zany, who most recently ran her record to two-from-two when romping in the GII Demoiselle Stakes in December, went up to make it a line of three approaching the quarter pole, dueled briefly from there with Life of Joy and wore that one down in the final 100 yards while lugging in noticeably. Life of Joy completed the chalky exacta and Kadabra held for third. Zany picked up 20 points on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks, the second pointsgetter in two days for American Pharoah, whose daughter Two Bits gutted it out in Friday's Ruthless Stakes at Aqueduct.
One of six winners from seven to the races out of the stakes-placed She's a Rebel Too, Mo' Green is also responsible for a now-juvenile Twirling Candy filly that sold for $450,000 at Keeneland September last fall. A matter of days after Zany broke her maiden impressively at Gulfstream Nov. 2, Repole Stable signed the ticket on Mo' Green at Keeneland November, going to $550,000 for the mare in foal to Vekoma.
SUNCOAST S., $100,000, Tampa Bay Downs, 2-7, 3yo, f, 1m 40y, 1:40.56, ft.
1–ZANY, 121, f, 3, by American Pharoah
1st Dam: Mo' Green (GSW, $279,420), by Uncle Mo
2nd Dam: She's a Rebel Too, by Two Punch
3rd Dam: Dixieland Queen, by Dixieland Band
($350,000 Ylg '24 FTSAUG). O-Repole Stable; B-D.J. Stable (KY); T-Todd A. Pletcher; J-Irad Ortiz, Jr. $60,000. Lifetime Record: GSW, 3-3-0-0, $221,500.
2–Life of Joy, 121, f, 3, Gun Runner–Jordan's Leo, by Malibu Moon. ($375,000 Ylg '24 KEESEP). O-Stroud, Will, Andrew Farm, Mountmellick Farm and For the People Racing Stable LLC; B-Springhouse Farm (KY); T-Brad H. Cox. $20,000.
3–Kadabra, 121, f, 3, Good Magic–Discreet Moon (GB), by Malibu Moon. 1ST BLACK TYPE. O/B-Wertheimer Et Frere (KY); T-Todd A. Pletcher. $10,000.
Margins: 2 3/4, 3HF, 4 3/4. Odds: 0.20, 2.60, 20.00.
Also Ran: Justamomentplease, Tremont Tammy, Lightscape, Y'allreadyforthis. Scratched: Fly Life.
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ZANY was lugging in some, but plenty good in the Suncoast S. and stays undefeated! ☀️
Todd Pletcher trains the 3YO filly and @iradortiz was aboard.
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