Las Setas all the way in Beyond the Wire Stakes

It was family day at Laurel Park on Saturday as Las Setas was the second stakes winner on the card out of the mare Tanca. She galloped to a five-length victory in the $100,000 Beyond the Wire, two races after her older half-brother Cordmaker won the $100,000 Harrison Johnson Memorial.

Both horses were bred by trainer Katie Voss and her longtime partner, Robert Manfuso, a former owner of Laurel and Pimlico. Voss and Manfuso, who operate Chanceland Farm in Maryland, sold Cordmaker for $150,000 as a yearling but kept Las Setas for themselves.

The last three foals out of Tanca, a daughter of Polish Numbers, have now won stakes. Corvus won the 2015 Maryland Million Nursey in her debut for Voss, Manfuso, and Wayne Harrison.

Las Setas went right to the lead in the Beyond the Wire, a one-mile race for 3-year-old fillies, and set the pace with her ears pricked under jockey Jevian Toledo. Our Super Freak attempted to pressure her on the far turn but wasn't up to the task, and Las Setas widened her advantage in the stretch under mild encouragement from Toledo.

Crafty's Dream rallied from last to finish second, a half-length in front of third-place Our Super Freak.

Las Setas paid $4.20 in the seven-horse field and was timed in 1:37.82 following fractions of 24.78, 48.23, 1:13.01, and 1:24.84.

"She did it really easy," Toledo said. "She put her ears up and was waiting on horses and then just took off when I asked her."

Las Setas raced greenly in her career debut on Dec. 31 and weakened to finish sixth. She came back to win a seven-furlong maiden race by 1 3/4 lengths and then took the Wide Country Stakes going the same distance by 5 1/2 lengths in her prior start.

Voss said Las Setas was likely to make her next start in the $125,000 Weber City Miss Stakes at Laurel on April 20. The Weber City Miss is a Win and You're In for the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan in May at Pimlico.