MYSTIC LOVE got her first stakes win in one of racing’s most historic tests for 2-year-old fillies, the 83rd running of the Selima S. at Laurel Park on Saturday, Oct. 27. And she did it in spectacular fashion.
Breaking next to last in the field of 12, the dark bay daughter of Not For Love gradually settled into stride, then accelerated around the far turn and swept past her rivals to get up in time in the race worth $150,000, finishing 5½ furlongs over the firm turf in 1:02.23.
Trained by Frannie Campitelli for John Davison, who purchased the filly from the Dark Hollow Farm consignment for $21,000 at the 2011 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling sale, MYSTIC LOVE upped her career earnings to $114,760 in three starts. She broke her maiden in her debut in September by 4 lengths on the turf – now with two wins from as many starts on the grass, her trainer notes, “She just loves it.”
MYSTIC LOVE is the second foal bred by Dark Hollow Farm out of Memories of Mystic, a winning daughter of Dixie Union also bred Dark Hollow. Second dam Mystic Dance, a stakes winner of $102,908, produced stakes winners Dance Fee ($336,100, Justakiss S, etc.) and Chancellor M. H. The family traces back Christiana Stables’ famed producer Obeah.
MYSTIC LOVE got her first stakes win in one of racing’s most historic tests for 2-year-old fillies, the 83rd running of the Selima S. at Laurel Park on Saturday, Oct. 27. And she did it in spectacular fashion.
Breaking next to last in the field of 12, the dark bay daughter of Not For Love gradually settled into stride, then accelerated around the far turn and swept past her rivals to get up in time in the race worth $150,000, finishing 5½ furlongs over the firm turf in 1:02.23.
Trained by Frannie Campitelli for John Davison, who purchased the filly from the Dark Hollow Farm consignment for $21,000 at the 2011 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling sale,
MYSTIC LOVE upped her career earnings to $114,760 in three starts. She broke her maiden in her debut in September by 4 lengths on the turf – now with two wins from as many starts on the grass, her trainer notes, “She just loves it.” MYSTIC LOVE is the second foal bred by Dark Hollow Farm out of Memories of Mystic, a winning daughter of Dixie Union also bred Dark Hollow. Second dam Mystic Dance, a stakes winner of $102,908, produced stakes winners Dance Fee ($336,100, Justakiss S, etc.) and Chancellor M. H. The family traces back Christiana Stables’ famed producer Obeah.
