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Bloodlines Presented By Mill Ridge Farm: Letruska Made Mexican Racing History With Apple Blossom Win Sponsored by:
Letruska at Oaklawn
The brave victory of Letruska (by Super Saver) in the Grade 1 Apple Blossom Handicap over champions Monomoy Girl (Tapizar) and Swiss Skydiver (Daredevil) brought forward a couple of important issues. First, this result highlighted the excellent form the mare had shown in her early racing, which was in Mexico, and then her continued development here in the States.
A champion in Mexico and now the victor against a pair of champions at Oaklawn, Letruska has emphasized the quality of racing in Mexico, and she is not the only racer from Mexico to show her form in the more northerly part of North America.
Letruska Responds To Equipment Change With Victory In Rampart Sponsored by:
Letruska ran her Gulfstream Park record to 3-for-3 with a victory in the Rampart
St. George Stable s homebred filly Letruska shook off early pressure from Bajan Girl and opened up through the stretch to notch a popular front-running victory in Saturday s $100,000 Rampart Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.
The 42nd running of the one-mile Rampart for fillies and mares 3 and up was the first of five stakes, four graded, worth $575,000 in purses on an 11-race program headlined by the $200,000 Fort Lauderdale (G2), local prep for the $1-million Pegasus World Cup Turf (G1).