First Stakes winner for Desert Party

The party is here! Desert Party sired his first Stakes winner August 15 as two-year-old Party Pooper broke his maiden in the New Westminster Handicap at Hastings Park.

Sent off at 6-5, the colt traveled in second on the outside of the pace in the six-and-one-half-furlong race. With a quarter-mile to go Party Pooper took command of the lead and dug in in the stretch to hold of late challenge and capture the win.

Bred by Martha Bucker, Party Pooper is out of Radcliffe Yard, whose dam is multiple Graded Stakes winner Forest Fealty. The colt is a half to Stakes-placed runner Next Right Thing.

A Group or Graded-winning son of Street Cry at two, three, and four, Desert Party was a winner of the sire-making G2 Sanford Stakes at Saratoga as a two-year-old. He is the sire of four juvenile winners to date. His first two runners, Unlashthekracken and Rousanne, were debut winners for the sire in Italy and at Churchill Downs respectively. His third runner was daughter Heart's Song who posted a commanding Maiden Special Weight win at Churchill Downs as well.

As a sire, Desert Party has also been successful at auction with a $460,000 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky purchase last July and a $425,000 sale at this year's Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale of Two-Year-Olds In Training.