Sippin Pretty leads 1-2 finish for Yaupon in Victory Ride S. (G3)

Sippin Pretty surged past Goodall in the final sixteenth to win Friday’s Victory Ride S. (G3) by 1 ¼-lengths and complete a Yaupon-sired exact in the 6 ½-furlong sprint for 3-year-old fillies.

Sippin Pretty is one of three graded stakes winners for leading Second-Crop sire Yaupon. The Spendthrift stallion also has seven stakes winners and 14 stakes horses, both also best among his peers.

After getting off just a beat slow from her inside post, Sippin Pretty hustled up the rail to be fourth and two lengths from the lead after a quarter-mile. Jockey Ricardo Santana Jr. kept his filly on the inside around the turn, then swung three-wide coming into the stretch. Meanwhile, Goodall took command at the top of the lane and opened up a two-length lead with a furlong to go. Sippin Pretty was just hitting her best stride at that point and reeled in the leader late to stop the timer in 1:17.59 on a fast track.

“Break good and then ride the race,” trainer Ian Wilkes told Santana prior to the race. “The only thing I asked him was to break good. If she was on the lead, that’s fine–if she’s sitting second or third–I wanted her in the race, that’s her style. She’s naturally quick.”

Sippin Pretty is owned by Randall L. Bloch, Six Column Stables LLC, Mike Davis and Gene Rice and was bred in Kentucky by Clarkland Farm LLC. The dark bay filly is now 3-1-0 in five starts and has earned $257,190.

On a potential next start in the $500,000 Test S. (G1) Aug. 8, Bloch said, “We hope so. Assuming she comes out of this in good shape, absolutely.”