Adore by a neck in Lone Star Park Turf Stakes

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas – Adore went over $500,000 in career earnings on Saturday, when she led throughout for a neck win over odds-on favorite Sensitive in the inaugural running of the $100,000 Lone Star Park Turf Stakes. It was another three lengths back in third to Terra’s Angel.

The Lone Star Park Turf Stakes was a mile race for fillies and mares. The course was firm.

Adore ($9.40) took the field through fractions of 23.24 seconds for the opening quarter, 47.07 for the half-mile and 1:10.71 for six furlongs. In the late stages, she held off a bid from Sensitive, while covering the distance in 1:34.65.

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“This filly is a really nice filly,” said Richard Eramia, who was aboard for trainer Steve Asmussen. “She loves the turf. She won at Remington very easy.”

Adore was winning the second turf stakes of her career behind the $75,000 Ricks Memorial last September at Remington Park. Overall, she is a three-time stakes winner for Winchell Thoroughbreds. Adore earned $58,000 on Saturday to improve her career record to 11 wins from 23 starts for earnings of $500,924.

Adore came into Saturday’s race off a third-place finish in an off-the-turf allowance at Lone Star. Asmussen said he looked for her to move forward as the start was her first since January. Adore is a daughter of Big Brown.