First Winner For Spendthrift’s Hit It A Bomb Comes At Santa Anita Park

News — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 13:38:03 +0000

Hit It a Bomb, the winner of the 2015 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf and resident of Spendthrift Farm, was represented by his first winner from his first starter on June 21 when Weston took a Santa Anita Park maiden special weight, BloodHorse reports.

Weston a bay gelding, got to the lead early in the 4 1/2-furlong race, and finished gamely to win by 1 1/4 lengths under jockey Drayden Van Dyke. Trained by Ryan Hanson for himself and Chris Drakos, Weston finished the race in :52.27 seconds over a fast main track.

Bred in Kentucky by EVADI Farm Team, Weston is out of the stakes-placed Dixie Union mare Elke. His third dam is the Grade 1 winner Trumpet's Blare.

Hit It a Bomb stands at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky., for an advertised fee of $5,000.

The 7-year-old son of War Front won three of seven starts during his on-track career for earnings of $626,476, highlighted by his Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf score at Keeneland. He also won the Star Appeal Stakes in Ireland as a juvenile. The horse came back at three to place in a pair of Irish group stakes races.

A Kentucky homebred for Evelyn Stockwell, Hit It a Bomb is out of the Irish Group 3-winning Sadler's Wells mare Liscanna, making him a full-brother to European champion Brave Anna.

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First Winner For Spendthrift’s Hit It A Bomb Comes At Santa Anita Park