FRANKLIN, Ky. – A month after their meeting in the off-the-turf Waya Stakes at Saratoga, conditions were different when Tricky Escape and Mom’s On Strike reunited Thursday in the $360,000 Ramsey Farm Stakes on a firm Kentucky Downs turf course. The result remained the same, however. For the second straight time, Tricky Escape got the better of Mom’s On Strike – though this time in a closer finish. Unlike at Saratoga, when Tricky Escape scored a decisive 3 3/4-length victory, on Thursday the two fillies traded punches down the long Kentucky Downs stretch before Tricky Escape inched away for a head victory. The finished seemed a result of tenacity from the winner, as well as a bit of complacency from the runner-up, who had taken a narrow advantage in the stretch from pacesetting Tricky Escape, only to wait on her rival upon hitting the front. The error proved costly, allowing Tricky Escape, intentionally kept out in the middle of the course in search of the firmest ground, a chance to come back.  “My filly never quits – I think she knows where the wire is,” said winning rider Chris DeCarlo. The Ramsey Farm marked the third consecutive stakes victory for Tricky Escape following the Waya and the Grade 3 Robert Dick Memorial at Delaware in July. She finished second in last year's Ramsey Farm Stakes on yielding ground. “She takes her racetrack with her,” said trainer Lynn Ashby, who trains the 5-year-old daughter of Hat Trick for Jon Marshall. Tricky Escape she set splits of 52.86 seconds for a half-mile and 1:17.78 for three-quarters in the 1 5/16-mile race, completing the distance in 2:13.40. She returned $6. Res Ipsa finished third, 3 1/4 lengths behind the runner-up. Angaston holds on in Franklin-Simpson A race before the Ramsey Farm on the closing-day Kentucky Downs card, Angaston continued his rise within the turf ranks by lasting for a neck victory over Majestic Dunhill in the $257,125 Franklin-Simpson Stakes for 3-year-olds. A maiden $16,000 claimer at Indiana Downs as a 2-year-old in the summer of 2017, Angaston began to develop over the winter months at Turfway Park on that track’s synthetic Polytrack surface before raising his game further in the spring once moved to turf. He rattled off a pair of allowance victories sprinting on the Churchill Downs grass course before closing that meet with a runner-up finish against older allowance foes. In early August, he finished sixth when again facing older at Ellis Park in the Kentucky Downs Preview Turf Sprint Stakes. The Franklin-Simpson provided a turf-sprinting opportunity against strictly 3-year-olds, and Angaston relished the opportunity. Stalking the pace in fourth under Brian Hernandez Jr., he took aim at the leaders at the top of the long Kentucky Downs stretch, and, after taking command in midstretch, had just enough left to withstand a surging Majestic Dunhill. “He’s been running against older horses all year and holding his own,” said winning trainer Lon Wiggins. “So we thought it would be a good time to test the waters.” Shangroyal, who set the pace with spits of 23.10 and 47.20 seconds, lasted for third, a length farther back. The winner, a 3-year-old gelded son of Denman owned by Twin Magnolia Farm, completed 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:17.45. He paid $8.80 as the second choice. “Since Lon’s switched him over to the grass, he’s really blossomed into himself,” said Hernandez. “It’s a great credit to the job he’s done with him, cause he’s had this race circled since back at Churchill in the spring."