Freshman Sire's First Stakes Winner Arrives in Emphatic Fashion at Del Mar

Miss Monica made it clear early and never let the field back into contention, drawing off to a 6 1/4-length win in Saturday evening's Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante. The filly, by Early Voting, gave her sire his first stakes winner in his opening season at stud — a debut result that racing people notice, given how many freshman sires never see a runner reach this level of company, let alone dominate it. The Debutante is one of Del Mar's marquee tests for two-year-old fillies, and margins of that size in a field assembled for a Grade 1 are rare enough to make the placing sheet alone worth a second look.

With reporting from Thoroughbred Daily News.