Power Surge, Smuggler's Run boost Straight Fire's stock with California-bred wins

Straight Fire showed promise as a juvenile before being forced into a premature retirement, but some of the partners who raced him supported him as a stallion at Legacy Ranch in California. They are now reaping the rewards of doing so.

Straight Fire’s 3-year-olds swept a pair of California-bred stakes on the Santa Anita Derby undercard Saturday, with Power Surge springing a $155.20 upset in the Evening Jewel Stakes and Smuggler’s Run winning the Echo Eddie Stakes. Another son, What in Blazes, was third in the Echo Eddie.

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Power Surge, bred in the name of Straight Fire LLC, races for two of the partners that campaigned her sire – sports radio personality Jim Rome’s Jungle Racing and the Roth family’s LNJ Foxwoods. They are joined in campaigning the filly by Legacy Ranch, as well as Old Bones Racing Stable, Rigney Racing, and Jason Litt. Meanwhile, Smuggler’s Run races as a homebred for KMN Racing, another of the entities that owned his sire on the racetrack.

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Straight Fire did not miss the board in four career starts, all as a juvenile in 2016. He was second to Klimt in the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity before finishing third to Gormley and Klimt in the Grade 1 FrontRunner Stakes. The Dominus horse, now the sire of three career stakes winners, was California’s second-leading freshman by earnings in 2021, with 13 starters to leader Stanford’s 30. Remarkably, Straight Fire had 10 first-crop winners from that group.