Vision Racing LLC’s That’s How I Roll spurted to the lead and kept that position the rest of the way to win the $50,000 Maryland Filly Championship, the headline event on the opening day of the 2010 racing season.

The race was slated to be run Dec. 19, 2009 as the Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship, but that program was cancelled because of a blizzard. The race was renamed and redrawn for three-year-old fillies as all horses become officially one year older on the first day of the year.

Skipping over the muddy going in 1:32.37 for the 7-1/2 furlong distance, That’s How I Roll carried jockey Erick Rodriguez to a 3-1/4 length victory over 16-1 shot Star Anna. Spoken in French was third. The daughter of Speightstown paid $8.80 to win as the third betting choice and topped a $114.40 exacta and $818.80 trifecta.

“I was thinking about taking back but she wanted the lead,” Rodriguez said. “She got the lead so easily that when the other horses came at us she still had a lot left in the tank.”

The 29-year-old rider captured the 2009 fall riding title by winning 53 races, fourteen more than apprentice Joshua Navarro. A top ten rider in Maryland since 2003, Rodriguez had 15 multiple win days during the meet and won at a 27.2% rate.

“We have worked hard throughout the years and now ride for good trainers which means good horses,” added Rodriguez. “When you ride for good people, you win races.”

That’s How I Roll is trained in New York by Kiaran McLaughlin. In three previous stakes tries her best effort was a runner-up finish in the Junior Championship Stakes at Monmouth Park last summer.