Cash Control adds to dam's success

NEW ORLEANS – By winning the Tiffany Lass Stakes on Dec. 19, Cash Control gave her dam, the Mt. Livermore mare Hidden Assets, her fourth stakes winner.

Cash Control, a 4-year-old Pioneerof the Nile filly trained by Brad Cox for owners Richard and Bertram Klein, joined Due Date, Country Day, and Good Deed as stakes winners produced by Hidden Assets. The mare, now 18, earned $298,313 in 13 starts for the Klein family and won five races, including the Grade 3 Shirley Jones Handicap in 2001 at Gulfstream Park.

As a broodmare, all nine of Hidden Assets’s starters from 11 foals have won races, and her progeny have earned nearly $1.6 million. “It took her a couple of horses to get started, but she’s been a home run,” Richard Klein said.

Due Date, Country Day, and Good Deed were graded-stakes-placed runners, multiple stakes winners, and stakes winners at Fair Grounds. Country Day, a Speightstown horse, finished second in the 2011 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint.

In the mile-and-70-yard Tiffany Lass, Cash Control won with authority by 2 1/2 lengths. She was making her second stakes start. In her stakes debut, she finished third in the Grade 3 Eight Belles in 2014 at Churchill Downs. She was coming off an off-the-turf win in optional-claiming company Nov. 11 at Churchill Downs, where she had won on turf Sept. 17. Cox had cross-entered her for the Blushing K. D. on turf but chose the Tiffany Lass on dirt.

“She obviously ran well on the dirt,’’ Cox said. “She had good dirt form. It looked a little softer on dirt.’’

Cox said possibilities for Cash Control’s next race are the $100,000 Pippin, a 1 1/16-mile race Jan. 17 at Oaklawn Park; the $400,000 Houston Ladies Classic, a 1 1/16-mile race Jan. 30 at Sam Houston; and the $60,000 Marie G. Krantz Memorial at about 1 1/16 miles on turf Jan. 16 at Fair Grounds.

Cash Control is the second Hidden Assets runner to win for Cox at this meet. The 2-year-old Congrats filly Cash Back won a maiden sprint on turf Dec. 3 in her debut.