A surprisingly easy lead produced a surprisingly easy victory for Spinning Colors in the $200,000 Mount Vernon Stakes on a Stakes-packed Wednesday card that kicked off the Belmont Stakes Festival at Saratoga.
“She definitely has to have things her own way,” said trainer Mark Hennig.
In the Mount Vernon, Spinning Colors had things her own way, dictating the pace before sprinting clear to a 2 1/2-length win. It was her first stakes victory.
Silver Skillet finished with interest after stalking the pace from third but couldn’t come close to the winner, though she held second by 1 3/4 lengths over third-place Awesome Czech.
Spinning Colors, skipping over a firm course, was timed in 1:43.62. The mare campaigns for Hill and McMahon’s Bourbon Lane Stable and is by Hard Spun out of Kaleidoscope, by Elusive Quality. She´s also the latest Stakes winner Raised by Hidden Brook Farm
-edited from www.drf.com
