It was another Saratoga Maiden Special Weight winner for MCKINZIE on Sunday when Quickick won in her second start.
A $275,000 weanling and $550,000 yearling – sold both times by Gainesway, Quickick had registered two bullets in her last five works at Churchill Downs and Saratoga. A good third at Saratoga on debut, the filly was urged from the gate in the seven-furlong dirt race and sat just about two lengths off the leader throughout the run.
Jockey Dylan Davis asked her to get serious about her running just outside the final quarter and she did what was needed to be set up for a good stretch run. Racing into the stretch three wide, she challenged the longtime leader with less than a furlong left to run and collared that one in the final sixteenth.
From there, the question was how far Quickick would win by with the filly crossing the line 2 ½ lengths in front and MCKINZIE’s Scottish Lassie in third.
QUICKICK, the 2YO daughter of @Gainesway stallion McKinzie, breaks her maiden in the seventh race with @DavisJockey aboard for trainer @TomAmossRacing. pic.twitter.com/lMyo94L11E
— NYRA (🎪) (@TheNYRA) September 1, 2024
Trained by Tom Amoss, Quickick runs for Gregory Tramontin and was bred by Gainesway and Whisper Hill.
This is the 10th winner out of Graeme Six with that mare producing TAPIT’s Grade 3 winner Delightful Joy and two other stakes winners from her 11 runners. Delightful Joy went on to produce her own stakes winner in Grade 2 winner Window Shopping.
Each of Quickick’s four dams on the page have produced at least one stakes winner.
MCKINZIE’s seven winners – three of those coming at Saratoga – puts him sixth among all first crop sires this season with 18 of his runners placing in at least one start.