The second time was the charm for SPUN TO RUN’s Respunzel on Sunday when the colt broke his maiden at Gulfstream Park. Other winners i
Trained by Nolan Ramsey for Paradise Farms, David Staudacher, and Kevin Hayes, the Coteau Grove Farms-bred was moving to turf in the five-furlong race and proved to take to it well. He pressed the pace throughout the early race with Edgar Perez urging him around the turn.
Racing into the stretch four paths wide, he was able to race up to a duo late and get his neck in front to upset the race favorite by a neck.
Respunzel is a half-brother to the multiple stakes winner Late September and Grade 3-placed Malloy from seven runners to race out of multiple stakes winner Hello Maggie May, who now has a 100% winner to runner rate.
Hello Maggie May is one of three stakes performers out of Canadian champion Fantasy Lake, who also produced multiple stakes winner and stakes producer South Bay Cove and Grade 3-placed Art Market.
Fantasy Lake has been a strong producer of producers as the dam or granddam of seven mares who produced stakes runners.
Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) winner SPUN TO RUN is the sire of four winners from his first crop, including the stakes-placed Midnight Humor.