Desert Party celebrates third winner at Churchill Downs

Two-year-old Desert Party filly Heart's Song posted a commanding win in only her second start June 15 in a Maiden Special Weight at Churchill Downs, becoming the third two-year-old winner for her sire.

In the five-and-one-half-furlong race Heart's Song settled along the outside just off the lead. Around the turn she began battling for the top position and got up in the final stages to pull away a winner.

Out of the Cryptoclearance mare Secret Psalm, herself a full-sister to multiple G1 winner Strategic Maneuver, Heart's Song is a half-sister to G2 winner Delosvientos, Stakes-placed Temple Yard, as well as the dam of Stakes winner Stole One. She was bred by Justice Farm & Greg Justice.

A Graded Stakes winner at two, three, and four including the G2 Sanford Stakes as a juvenile, Desert Party is the sire of two other juvenile winners to date. Unlashthekracken won on debut in Italy in May, and was followed by heavy favorite Rousanne who also won her first start later that month at Churchill Downs. Desert Party has also seen much success in the sales ring, with a $460,000 yearling at Fasig-Tipton's July sale last year, as well as a $425,000 two-year-old sale at Fasig Tipton's Midatlantic Sale of Two-Year-Olds In Training this year.

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