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ridden by Jose Ortiz time to dazzle By means of a slim seam alongside the homestretch rail, he rallied from the again of the pack in Sunday’s skinny Grade 2 discipline to win by three and 1 / 4 lengths and earn $400,000 in prize cash. franklin stakes at Keeneland.
The 5-furlong 1/2 turf race for mares and mares misplaced its 2024 winner Sunday morning when morning favourite Future Is Now was upset. The 5-year-old filly was declared sick by Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Company veterinarians, a analysis that proprietor Tracy Mulroy vehemently disputed on social media.
Proprietor slams veterinarian for hurting Future Is Now.
In Our Time (5 wins, 1 loss) and favourite Luna Rouska (2 wins, 1 loss) opened the race with a pace battle, clocking 20.65 seconds for the primary 400 meters after a virtually 55-yard run-up. Time to Dazzle (3-1), skilled by Mark Casse for proprietor Tracy Farmer, ran up the backstretch on the finish of the seven-horse discipline.
?TIME TO DAZZLE ($8.06) raced down the rail to win the $400,000 Franklin Stakes (G2). @keenelandracing. My daughter from Not This Time was on board. @jose93_ortiz and skilled @Marquecas. pic.twitter.com/UFoViMPTgY
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After working the primary half-mile in 43.65 seconds, In Our Time pale out and edged out Luna Rouska, who would end final. Pondering (6-1) moved into second place, and Ortiz raced by Time to Dazzle in a straight line.
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“Clearly, the pace on paper regarded heavy,” Ortiz mentioned. “After I noticed Luna Rouska wasn’t in entrance of me, I knew they have been going fairly quick, so I rode patiently (on Time to Dazzle). I needed to brake a little bit bit across the flip and I adopted (Pondering). I knew (Pondering) was going to take me all the way in which to pole eight, so I did that. Then I discovered a gap on the within and she or he exploded.”
Time to Dazzle took the lead on the sixteenth pole and the highway widened with a margin to the end line. With the win, she avenges her slim loss to In Our Time at Kentucky Downs final month. Time to Dazzle was 1 minute 02.09 seconds on laborious grass, and prize cash was $8.06, $3.96, and $3.06.
In Our Time, ridden by Luis Saez and skilled by Safi Joseph Jr., completed second with returns of $5.24 and $4.02. Pondering, which changed Brendan Walsh with Tyler Gaffalione, took third place and paid $4.92 in screening charges. The Pipsys (5-2), who changed Will Walden with Irad Ortiz Jr. on the iron, completed in fourth place.
Time to Dazzle, a 4-year-old Not the Time filly bred in Kentucky by Dr. Rodney Orr, earned her first win for the reason that Ontario Colleen (G3) at Woodbine in July 2024. She ran twice in 12 days at Kentucky Downs, ending fourth within the Women Turf Dash (G2) on August thirtieth and second by a half-length to In Our Time within the $150,000 race on September tenth.
Time to Dazzle was bought on the September 2022 Keeneland Yearling Sale for $310,000. She is 14:4-2-1. Sunday’s first prize of $241,800 introduced her lifetime earnings to $682,877.
