Spendthrift Farm first-crop stallion By My Standards was represented by his first winner when the 2-year-old filly Sugaree won a $50,000 maiden optional claiming race July 12 at Colonial Downs.
Owned by David Bernsen, Dean Demaree, and Steve Crabtree, and trained by Kenny McPeek, Sugaree was bet to 3-5 favoritism Saturday on the merits of a debut head-heat second in an auction price-restricted maiden special weight June 29 at Churchill Downs.
Saturday at Colonial, she was in fifth after a quarter-mile and launched a steady, winning rally three wide on the turn. She got up shortly before the wire to win by three-quarters of a length. Final time for 5 1/2 furlongs on the dirt track rated fast was 1:05.39. Emmanuel Esquivel was aboard in both of her starts.
Sugaree was bred in Kentucky by Mullikin Thoroughbreds. She is the sixth foal and third winner out of the Birdstone mare Fly in for the Win. As agent, McPeek purchased her for $30,000 at the 2024 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, where Machmer Hall Sales consigned her. She did not race for a claiming price Saturday.
Multiple graded winner and $2.2 million earner By My Standards, by the Into Mischief son Goldencents , raced from ages 2 to 5. He won the 2019 Louisiana Derby (G2) as a 3-year-old and added wins in the New Orleans Classic Stakes (G2), Oaklawn Handicap (G2), and Alysheba Stakes (G2) the next year. At age 5, he won the Oaklawn Mile Stakes and finished second in the Metropolitan Handicap (G1).
By My Standards stood this year at Spendthrift near Lexington for a $5,000 fee. He has 48 named foals in his first crop.
