Making his first start on a dirt track when the mile and a sixteenth maiden special weight came off Pimlico’s turf course on Friday, May 24, Earle I. Mack’s 4-5 favorite LIME DROP KID rallied from far back over the muddy surface and surged past the frontrunners to get up for a neck victory. The 4-year-old son of Lemon Drop Kid trained by Roger L. Attfield carried as many as 12 pounds more than his rivals and recorded his first win after hitting the board in starts at Woodbine and Gulfstream Park.

LIME DROP KID was bred by Dark Hollow Farm, Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey Brown and Arnold Davidov out of the stakes-winning Canadian mare TOUCHNOW. Purchased by the partners for $195,000 at the 2008 Keeneland November Breeding Stock sales with LIME DROP KID in utero, TOUCHNOW has had three foals sell for her connections. LIME DROP KID was purchased by Mack for $140,000 at the OBS Spring 2-year-old sale in 2011; the next year, the Stormy Atlantic filly Stormkeeper brought $100,000 at the OBS Select 2-year-old sale; and the Corinthian colt named Alittlebittouchy was a $50,000 yearling at the 2012 Keeneland September sale.

TOUCHNOW, a daughter of champion Pleasant Tap and half-sister to two stakes winners from the family of champion handicap horse Turkoman, had a Bluegrass Cat colt in 2012 and produced an Include filly that past April.