Late sire and Louisiana champion 3-year-old male Givemeaminit sired his first stakes winner when his daughter Platinum Minit captured the $125,000 Crescent City Oaks for state-bred sophomore fillies at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots March 23.
Plantinum Minit is from her sire's first and only foal crop of just three registered foals. Givemeaminit, a grade 1-placed son of Star Guitar , succumbed to EPM (equine protozoal myeloencephalitis) during his first season at stud. He stood at his breeder's farm, Clear Creek Stud, in Louisiana, before his death in 2020.
Platinum Minit's first black-type score was not without its share of drama. The 3-year-old Dallas Stewart trainee dueled stride for stride to the wire with Clearly a Test, only to be beaten a neck by that rival. She was inevitably declared the winner when stewards ruled she was hampered by Clearly a Test, who failed to keep a straight course the length of the stretch and repeatedly bore into Platinum Minit.
A homebred for Valene Farms, the same operation that raced Givemeaminit, Platinum Minit ($8.60) ran the one mile and 70 yards in 1:44.02 on a fast main track. She is out of Valene Farm's stakes-winning Half Ours mare Platinum Lady.
Platinum Minit earned her second career win in the Crescent City Oaks; she broke her maiden in her prior outing in a state-bred allowance contest at the Fair Grounds oval. The Crescent City Oaks bumped Platinum Minit's earnings to $136,525.
