Lady's Secret and Kip Deville have three things in common: They where both greys, they both won a BC race and they where both born in Oklahoma. Now I Know meets two of these criteria. However, if she keeps winning, she could join these two in Oklahoma racing royality.
Much like the Iron Lady and Kip, her sire Pure Prize hails from racing royality. His sire Storm Cat is one of the greatest sires around (his final crop will be 3 next year), his dam Heavenly Prize was one of the best when she was running winning several Grade 1's including the John Morris (now the Personal Ensign), Apple Blossom among others. Pure Prize won the Kentucky Cup Classic before going to stud. Her dam Now U Know was unraced, but her sire Maria's Mon was an Eclipse Champion and has sired 2 Derby winners (Monarchos and Super Saver).
On Saturday, Now I Know won the Grade Three Delta Downs Princess Stakes defeating G1 placed Candrea, as well as Hard Spun fillies Inny Minnie and Yvete Sangalo. She had already defeated the latter in an allowance race before winning the Oklahoma Classics Lassie in her first stakes try.
Here is her DDP win:
It's too early to tell weather she is a filly that could do well on the Oaks trail. The good news is she will be wintering at Oaklawn which has had very good success lately with 2 of the last 4 Oaks winners having their final preps there, plus 1 Derby runner up. It will be interesting what happens to what could be a very special filly.
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