Speightstown’s two-time stakes winner Recepta got her first graded stakes victory on Saturday with a well-earned three-quarter length win in the $200,000 Noble Damsel S. (G3) on the Belmont Park turf course.
Recepta is Speightstown’s seventh graded stakes winner of the year and pushed the top-10 sire past the $7.6 million mark in progeny earnings in 2015.
With a fairly rapid half-mile in :46.31 seconds, Recepta was parked in sixth about five lengths from the front. Though the 4-year-old was forced four-wide around the turn, she came into the stretch with plenty of momentum and struck the front with a little more than a furlong to run, holding steady in deep stretch to get the mile in a very good 1:33.32 on the firm turf.
“I had a perfect trip. Three or four horses went to the lead,” winning rider Elvis Trujillo said of the trip. “At the three-eighths pole they started to stop and the horses next to me started putting pressure on them. When I turned for home, I asked her and she was gone. She’s a very nice horse.”
Recepta, who won the De La Rose S. at Saratoga in early August, is now 5-0-3 in 11 starts and has earned $381,200 after Saturday’s win worth $120,000. She is owned by Phillips Racing Partnership and Pam Gartin.
Bred in Kentucky by Phillips and Hank Snowden, Recepta is out of the Honor Grades mare Honor Bestowed, who also has produced Grade 3-winning sprinter Taqarub.
