Martin D. Wolfson’s charge Ask the Moon – one hit wonder or actually talented?
The Grade 1 Personal Ensign Invitational will be held at Saratoga on 26th August, 2012, and it can only be hoped that this year’s race is just as exciting as last year’s as, Ask the Moon notched the competition and completed
the 1 1/8 mile race first.
Ask The Moon was sent to the track as a 19-10 favourite, and she justified those odds well when she completed the race in 2 minutes and 04.21 seconds. The pace was slow, but she still managed to do it.
It did not seem to be her game, and she looked vulnerable but jockey Javier Castellano helped her and guided her to victory over, Pachattack, by a margin of 2 ¾ lengths.
The third place was secured by the Steve Hobby trained Tiz Miz Sue, who fell a head behind the runner-up.
The early lead in the race was taken by Acronym, who is trained by Bill Mott. The bay filly completed the quarter-mile in 23.43 seconds, half-mile in 47.37 seconds, and crossed the six furlong marker in 1 minute and 11.59 seconds.
Ask The Moon regained control after the eighth pole and it ended well for her.
Trained by Martin D. Wolfson for owners, Farnsworth Stables, she has an overall record of 10-5-7 in 34 starts.
The multiple graded stakes winner has her fair share of success in her career, because of which, she has earnings worth $ 713,640. Whelped on 26th March, 2005, the bay mare has finished in the money almost every time she raced.
As a juvenile, the daughter of Malibu Moon competed in six starts and aced three of those, including the maiden at Laurel Park in August, 2007.
She won an Allowance Race at Philadelphia Park in November, 2007 and ended the season with a grand victory in the Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship Stakes on 22nd
December, 2007.
The mare’s sophomore campaign had two victories in Allowance Optional Claimers, but she really blossomed as a five-year-old when she aced the Lighthouse Stakes in June, 2010.
Foaled by Valid Appeal mare Always Asking claimed a Grade 1 victory in the Ruffian Invitational Handicap on 31st July, 2011 and then went on to win the Personal Ensign Invitational.
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