My Sassenach may be kept to sprints in Florida Sire Series

My Sassenach, whose 8 1/4-length romp in the $100,000 Desert Vixen at Gulfstream Park on Saturday was her first win, will run back in the next race for fillies in the Florida Sire Stakes series for 2-year-olds, but trainer David Braddy is making no commitments beyond that.

My Sassenach ran second in her lone start before the six-furlong Desert Vixen. The Uncaptured filly, a $152,000 purchase earlier this year by the Champions Equine of Michael Sucher, now proceeds to the $200,000 Susan’s Girl, a seven-furlong race Aug. 28.

“I’m not so sure about the long race,” said Braddy, referring to the final leg in the series, the $400,000 My Dear Girl, a 1 1/16-mile race set for Sept. 25.

The win was the fifth in the Florida Sire Stakes for Braddy, but his first since 1998, when Sly Rajab won the Affirmed.

The colt-and-gelding counterpart to the Desert Vixen, the $100,000 Dr. Fager, resulted in a sweep of the exacta by trainer Michael Yates, who saddled Cajun’s Magic to a hard-fought neck victory over Dean Delivers. Both geldings are homebreds for the Stonehedge LLC of Gilbert Campbell, who now has won 16 races in the series, and both will run back in the $200,000 Affirmed on Aug. 28.