Winning streak for Lush Lips continues in Honey Fox
Grade 1 winner Lush Lips brought her winning streak to three in a row on Saturday when successful in the Grade 3 Honey Fox Stakes at Gulfstream Park.
The daughter of Ten Sovereigns swooped from the back of the field under Tyler Gafflione to win by three-quarters of a length in impressive style.
Lush Lips was a private purchase last year by Avenue Bloodstock on behalf of Medallion Racing, Parkland Thoroughbreds, Hoffman Thoroughbreds, Mrs. Paul Shanahan and Mrs. M.V. Magnier. She began her career with Donnacha O’Brien, for whom she was second at Tipperary.
Lush Lips was purchased to go to the US following that run and having joined the barn of Brendan Walsh, went on to win the Listed Tepin Stakes and run second in the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks prior to her breakthrough in the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland.
It was after that performance that she sold for a sale-topping $3.7 million to Dixiana Farm at the Keeneland November Sale.
She returned after that to win the Grade 2 Mrs Revere Stakes at Churchill Downs.
Avenue Bloodstock also purchased her full-brother for 150,000gns on behalf of Parkland Thoroughbreds at this week’s Tattersalls December Foal Sale.
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Yearling purchase Sun Goddess impresses in G2
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