Heart’s Song rocks it out in Indiana

It didn’t take Desert Party’s Heart’s Song long to get her picture taken having won in just her second career start at Churchill Downs on May 30th. Following a Stakes placing in a Listed event in her third trip to the post, she again returns to the winner’s circle with a solid win in the City of Anderson Stakes at Indiana Grand Racecourse.

In the six-furlong dirt event for two-year-old fillies, Heart’s Song sat in fourth down the backstretch, began to pick off rivals around the turn, set her sights on the leader at the top of the stretch, and blew past that rival in the final furlong to win easily by three lengths. 

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 in Kentucky by Justice Farm & Greg Justice.

Heart’s Song is the second Stakes winner from the first crop sired by freshman sire Desert Party. His other two-year-old winners include added-money winner Party Pooper, first in the New Westminster Handicap in Canada, the talented Saratoga maiden winner Can’t Happen Here, and the Churchill Downs Stakes-placed winner Rousanne.