KARAKONTIE’s Sweet Karat Cake visited the stakes winner’s circle on Saturday with a Mary Ruyle S. victory at Lone Star Park for her first stakes win.
Racing over five furlongs on the turf, Sweet Karat Cake had no interest in going for the lead early and raced in last for the early stages. Racing three wide in the turn, she went out even wider into the stretch to find herself in the seven path when racing home.
Sweet Karat Cake needed every inch of the track to get the win, deadheading in the end with the third placed horse 1 ½ lengths behind.
Bred by Abel Ramirez-Rodriguez for Erin Gaarz, this was the fifth career victory and 10th top three finish in 21 starts for the 5-year-old mare.
Bred in Texas by Melanie Marie Peterson, Sweet Karat Cake is a half-sister to the multiple stakes placed Sixties Music and out of winning More Than Ready mare Apple Strudel. Apple Strudel has produced six winners from seven to race with one of her unraced daughters the dam of stakes winners African Heat and Higher Ed and the stakes placed Buy Local.
Apple Strudel is one of three stakes producers and dam of stakes producers with her sisters and their daughters producing horses such as Grade 2 winners Ubiquity and Elaborate and Grade 3 winner and Grade 1-placed Yahilwa.
KARAKONTIE sired two winners and Cape Henlopen S. second Soileil Volant on Saturday for a strong day for the stallion.