Stay Hot took the overland route heading for home and came away a neck best in the $100,000 Cecil B. DeMille (G3) for 2-year-olds Sunday at Del Mar.
The winner, owned by the partnership of Burns Racing LLC, Exline-Border Racing, SAF Racing, the Estate of Brereton C. Jones, and William Dan Hudock, won by a neck and covered the one-mile turf test in 1:35.89 under Antonio Fresu. The Summer Front ridgling is trained by Peter Eurton.
Finishing second in the nine-horse field was Rothschild, who had a head on third-place finisher Miracle Mark.
Stay Hot was winning his first stakes, and the winner's share of the purse pushed his total earnings to $116,940. He's now been victorious in two of five starts and entered Sunday's race off a 10th-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) Nov. 3 at Santa Anita but rebounded with aplomb. In his race prior to the Breeders' Cup, he broke his maiden Oct. 7 at Santa Anita in his third outing.
Stay Hot paid $6.60 for the victory.
Bred in Kentucky by late Kentucky Gov. Brereton C. Jones of Airdrie Stud, Stay Hot is out of the Smart Strike mare Etsu and was sold by his breeder for $130,000 at the 2022 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Select Yearling sale.
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