Capping a productive day for the team of Pegram, Watson and Weitman and trainer Bob Baffert, Desert Gate (Omaha Beach) powered away from his rivals with ease to score in the Texas Derby at Lone Star on Monday.<\/p>\n
The group was also represented by Usha (Tiz the Law<\/a>), winner of the GIII Winning Colors Stakes at Churchill Downs on Monday.<\/p>\n Pounded down to 1-5 favoritism while getting Lasix for the first time, Desert Gate broke sharply and put the screws to Vintage Cowboy (Essential Quality<\/a>), who carved out an opening quarter mile in :23.49. Assuming control on the backstretch, the chestnut cut out a half mile in :47.54 and began to increase his advantage from there. Solidly in control at the top of the stretch, Desert Gate ran clear late to win by 6 1\/4 lengths over Chad Allan (Union Rags<\/a>), who nosed out Maximum Effort (Maxfield<\/a>) at the wire.<\/p>\n
Victorious in his first two career starts, including Del Mar’s GIII Best Pal Stakes last August, he finished runner-up in his next two starts\u2013the GI Del Mar Futurity and Santa Anita’s GI American Pharoah<\/a> Stakes. Favored in his sophomore unveiling in the one-mile GIII Robert B. Lewis Stakes on Feb. 7, he finished fourth behind winner Plutarch (Into Mischief) before rebounding to post a flashy 9 3\/4-length win under Flavien Prat in the Hot Springs Stakes on Mar. 26.<\/p>\n The colt is out of MSW and MGSP Theogony, who is also responsible for a juvenile colt by Medaglia d’Oro. The 16-year-old mare most recently sold for $100,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Fall Mixed Sale while in foal to Mystic Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n TEXAS DERBY, $300,000, Lone Star, 5-25, 3yo, 1 1\/16m, 1:44.53, ft.
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1\u2013DESERT GATE, 124, c, 3, by Omaha Beach
1st Dam: Theogony (SW-Can, SW & MGSP-USA, $404,544), by Curlin<\/a>
2nd Dam: Upcoming Story, by Tale of the Cat
3rd Dam: Old Star (Arg), by Southern Halo
($125,000 Wlg ’23 KEENOV; $100,000 Ylg ’24 KEESEP;
$260,000 2yo ’25 OBSMAR). O-Michael Pegram, Karl Watson
and Paul Weitman; B-Twin Oaks Bloodstock (KY); T-Bob
Baffert; J-Irad Ortiz, Jr. $177,300. Lifetime Record: 7-4-2-0,
$549,300.
2\u2013Chad Allan, 124, c, 3, Union Rags<\/a>\u2013Bardot, by Candy Ride<\/a>
(Arg). O-Gentry Farms (A.P. Gentry); B-Gentry Farms (KY);
T-Robert A. Young. $59,100.
3\u2013Maximum Effort, 124, c, 3, Maxfield<\/a>\u2013Love Came to Town, by
Medallist. ($600,000 Ylg ’24 KEESEP). 1ST BLACK TYPE.
O-Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC; B-Gary Broad \u2013 Walmac Farm,
LLC (KY); T-Steven M. Asmussen. $32,505.
Margins: 6 1\/4, NO, 1 1\/4. Odds: 0.20, 5.50, 8.50.
Also Ran: Avery Place, Zilarro, Vintage Cowboy.
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