Doll Baby, a 3-year-old daughter of two-time champion Groupie Doll, debuted with an impressive front-running victory Sunday at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.
Trained by Ralph Nicks for Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm LLC, Doll Baby broke alertly from the gate to assume the early lead in Race 4, a seven-furlong maiden special weight race for sophomore fillies and continued on to prevail by a length under Jose Ortiz.
“It was just awesome and it was at a distance mama liked,” Pope said of her homebred filly by Tapit. “Hopefully, she's Groupie Doll incarnated. It's only one race but a good start.”
Mandy Pope
Groupie Doll won the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) back-to-back in 2012-'13 at seven furlongs to be honored with the Eclipse Award as outstanding female sprinter both years. Bred by trainer Buff Bradley and his late father, Fred, Groupie Doll was purchased at the Keeneland November sale for $3.1 million by Pope. After finishing fourth against colts in the Cigar Mile, Groupie Doll closed out her career with a thrilling come-from-behind victory in the 2014 Hurricane Bertie (G3) at Gulfstream Park.
Doll Baby is Groupie Doll's third winner from her first five foals.
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Jose Ortiz rode five winners on Sunday's card at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla., scoring aboard Main Event ($27.20) in Race 3, Queen Calypso ($4.80) in Race 5 and Coleridge ($15.40) in Race 8 and Unprecedented ($12.40), as well as champion Groupie Doll's daughter Doll Baby ($7.60) in Race 4.
Ortiz, who rode Regal Glory to a victory in the inaugural $500,000 Pegasus World Cup Filly & Mare Invitational (G3) Saturday, relocated from Aqueduct to Gulfstream last week.
“Yesterday and today, we were supposed to be here anyway because we had some good calls,” Ortiz said. “I think here, I'm going to find better horses for down the road. I've been riding here for the last four or five years. My family had a lot to do with me staying there, but I wanted to be down here. I sat down with my wife, and she said, 'Go where you'll be happy. We'll make it work.'”
Leading rider Luis Saez notched his fifth straight multi-win day at Gulfstream, winning aboard Volte Face ($10.20) in Race 1 and Beside Herself ($3.60) in Race 6.
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A mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 pool wrapped up a memorable Pegasus World Cup weekend at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla., where multiple tickets with all six winners of the popular multi-race wager were each worth $25,194.88.
The Rainbow 6 had gone unsolved for 12 racing days in a row, generating a carryover pool of $727,306 heading into Sunday's 11-race program. An additional $5,348,491 was wagered into the pool of the multi-race wager that spanned Races 6-11.
The Rainbow 6 carryover jackpot is usually only paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 70 percent of that day's pool usually goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool. However, on mandatory-payout days, the entire pool is paid out to the bettor or bettors with the most winners in the six-race sequence.
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