Joy running over with win by JOYRUNNER!

The streak of happiness continues! JOYRUNNER, from the first crop of the sensational Gun Runner out of Dark Hollow Farm-bred stakes winner JOY, won first time out when tackling seven juvenile fillies in a maiden special weight at Indiana Grand Race Course on Thursday, July 8.

Owned by the generous James “Mattress Mack” McIngvale, who purchased the chestnut filly for $145,000 as a yearling at last year’s Keeneland September sale, JOYRUNNER was also generous when giving her rivals a head start in the five and a half-furlong race! Nearly a dozen lengths back of the early leaders, the Laura Wohlers trainee began to pick up the pace heading into the far turn. Coming widest of all over the sloppy track, the blazed-faced mud-streaked filly passed one after the other, then kicked into another gear as she flew under the wire to win by one and a half lengths.