It was a second win for SILVER STATE’s stakes placed Savage State on Monday with an Allowance victory.
Racing in a five-furlong dirt race at Finger Lakes, Savage State took advantage of the inside horses going to the front and switched to a path closer to the rail when racing in midpack.
Savage State raced a few lengths off the top three runners, a move that paid off when they left an inside path fully open for him coming into the stretch. The 3-year-old slipped through it undetected to get his head in front before anyone saw him.
Another horse spotted him late and moved to the path just to his outside to engage, but Savage State was in full stride and pinned his ears back to keep that one at bay. In the end, the Jacqueline Falk trainee won by a nose for his fourth top three placing in six starts.
Falk races the New York-bred with Gold Bear Farm, who enjoyed a third-place finish in the Tin Cup Chalice S. with the gelding to end his juvenile season.
Tuscany Bloodstock and S.F. Bloodstock bred the son of the Grade 3-placed Jungle Tale, who has produced five winners from eight runners. She is one of three stakes performers out of the stakes winner and Grade 3-placed Mary Kies, who also produced Gospel Gal and Twelve Kies. There are eight more stakes performers under Savage State’s stakes winner and Grade 1-placed Flying Girl.
SILVER STATE is the winner of the stallion-making Metropolitan H. (G1) and earned five 100+ Beyers during his racing career before seeing his first crop sell for $335,000 as juveniles.