Incremental steps ahead all season lengthy paid off in a giant means at Keeneland Oct. 5, as Stonestreet Stables and Peter Leidel’s Zeitlos acquired her first graded stakes with a last-to-first win within the $340,125 Thoroughbred Membership of America Stakes (G2).
Beginning off the yr in allowance firm, coach Steve Asmussen labored the 4-year-old daughter of Curlin up the ranks, choosing up a pair of listed wins amongst her three earlier stakes victories.
“(Zeitlos) constantly will get higher,” Asmussen stated. “That is by far the most effective race (of hers) I consider.”
Breaking at the back of the sector of six, jockey Jose Ortiz bided his time behind stablemate Clearly Unhinged ‘s fast tempo of :21.54 and :44.57. The dust monitor at Keeneland had been taking part in noticeably fast over the primary two days of the meet, with a number of winners taking the sector gate-to-wire.
Ortiz picked off rivals across the far flip whereas touring alongside the rail, discovering himself simply behind the leaders on the quarter pole as the sector turned for house. Zeitlos shot by means of a gap inside Clearly Unhinged and Spirit Wind earlier than kicking away to win by 2 3/4 lengths on the wire. She accomplished the six furlongs in 1:09.52.
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“For her to run the race she did—what felt like towards the bias we watched from the dust races in two days—it was a exceptional efficiency for her,” Asmussen stated.
Zeitlos paid $9.46 for the win. Spirit Wind completed second and Brightwork , the lone 3-year-old within the discipline, completed third.
The career-high success for Zeitlos pushed her earnings previous the million-dollar mark, now proudly owning purse earnings of $1,031,305 with a report of 8-4-1 from 16 begins.
Asmussen will hope these incremental enhancements proceed yet one more race as she is going to face her hardest process subsequent within the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Dash (G1) at Del Mar Nov. 2. As a part of the Breeders’ Cup Problem Sequence: Win and You are In, her victory Saturday earned her an automated, fees-paid berth into the race.
The Breeders’ Cup will likely be held over seven furlongs, which Asmussen believes will play towards the filly’s operating type.
“She does shut very properly,” Asmussen stated. “She acquired a pleasant win at 6 1/2 (furlongs) this yr (within the Sept. 14 Open Thoughts Stakes at Churchill Downs), so I believe we will get the seven-eighths.”
Bred in Kentucky by Stonestreet, Zeitlos is out of Australian group 3 stakes winner Thyme For Roses (Redoute’s Alternative). She is the tenth graded stakes winner this season for sire Curlin, an inventory that features grade 1 winners Highland Falls , Raging Sea , and Idiomatic . Curlin stood the 2024 season at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms in Paris, Ky. for a payment of $250,000.
“Why would I doubt an older Curlin mare?” Asmussen stated, who additionally skilled Curlin’s a number of grade 1-winning distaffer Clairiere . “Curlin does one thing new-level on a regular basis.”
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