The Party has started!

Sent off as a prohibitive favorite at odds of 1-5, Desert Party’s two-year-old daughter Rousanne didn’t disappoint her backers in her first career start and drew away to win by a widening one and three-quarter lengths in maiden special weight company at Churchill Downs on May 22.

Quickest out of the gate in the five-furlong event, Rousanne was pressured at every call but never at any point relinquished the lead. As the field turned for home, two others launched a bid to overtake the frontrunner but Rousanne turned back both for the win.

Bred by Dr. and Mrs. Stuart E. Brown II in Kentucky, Rousanne is out of the mare Auntie Soph who was also victorious at Churchill in allowance company and whose two other foals to race are also winners.

Desert Party was a Group or Graded winner at two, three and four with victories that included the sire-making G2 Sanford Stakes as a juvenile. His only other starter, Unlashthekracken, was also a winner in his first start early this month in Italy.

In the sales ring, Desert Party has also achieved a large degree of success as well with a $460,000 yearling at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky last July and a $425,000 sale two-year-old earlier this week at Fasig-Tipton’s Midlantic Sale of Two-Year-Olds In Training.

Desert Party stands at Becky Thomas’s Sequel Stallions for a fee of $7,500, live foal, stands and nurses.