Ask the Moon - 2011 Personal Ensign Invitational S. (G1)
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Channel: The New York Racing Association · 2011 · Sports
Proving her score at 18-1 in the Ruffian Invitational Handicap on July 31 was no fluke, 6-year-old mare Ask the Moon notched her second Grade 1 victory of the Saratoga meet, leading from start to finish Saturday in the $300,000 Personal Ensign Invitational. This time around, in a field of six, Ask the Moon went off as the 9-5 favorite under jockey Javier Castellano and galloped through an opening quarter-mile in a quick 23.43 seconds and a half in 47.37 before repelling her lone challenge and sailing to victory by 2 ¾ lengths. Ask the Moon, claimed June 15 for $75,000 by Farnsworth Stables, drifted out toward the center of the track at the three-sixteenths pole but never was threatened in her first try in a 1 ¼-mile race. A tenacious Pachattack held second, a head in front of Tiz Miz Sue. Ask the Moon paid $5.90 for a $2 win bet and won in a final time of 2:04.21. Ask the Moon, a Maryland-bred daughter of Malibu Moon out of the Valid Appeal mare Always Asking, has breeding that suggests the Personal Ensign distance might have been beyond her scope.
