
Lemon Drop Dream Takes on Seven in Phoenix
Mike McCarty's Lemon Drop Dream tops a field of eight sprinters in the 162nd running of the $200,000 Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix (gr. III) Oct. 3, opening day of Keeneland's fall meet.
Steven M. Asmussen
Ricardo Santana, Jr.
Mike McCarty
Brookdale Thoroughbreds LLC
Lemon Drop Dream |
Lemon Drop Kid | Kingmambo |
Charming Lassie | ||
Dreamlike | Storm Cat | |
Flawlessly |
Sale / Hip / Type | Buyer / Consignor | Price |
---|---|---|
KEEAPR2012Hip 133 | Two-year-old |
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($335,000) |
KEEJAN2015Hip 1609 | Stallion |
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$85,000 |
Mike McCarty's Lemon Drop Dream tops a field of eight sprinters in the 162nd running of the $200,000 Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix (gr. III) Oct. 3, opening day of Keeneland's fall meet.
An evenly-matched field of eight will face off in the Alfred G. Vanderbilt Stakes (gr. I) on the Whitney undercard Aug. 2 at Saratoga, with seven of them already graded stakes winners.
Graded stakes winners Gantry and Sum of the Parts head a field of 10 sprinters in the inaugural running of the $300,000 Evangeline Downs Turf Sprint June 21 at Evangeline Downs Racetrack Casino & Hotel.
Sagamore Farm and Mel Paikoff's Happy My Way streaked wire to wire in the $150,000 Maryland Sprint Handicap presented by Jagermeister (gr. III) May 17 at Pimlico Race Course, securing his first graded stakes score.
Lemon Drop Dream and Action Andy are co-highweights at 115 pounds for the Maryland Sprint Handicap, with Lemon Drop Dream entering the race off a victory in the Count Fleet Sprint H. (gr. III) at Oaklawn Park.