High Cotton, Florida’s leading active sire of winners and by black type wins in 2017, got his latest stakes winner on July 29 when Pink Cotton battled his way to a three-quarter length score in the $50,000 Duke City Sprint S.
The 3-year-old colt now has three wins in five starts and has earned $66,750 for Tee Off Stable LLC.
The Duke City was a tussle from the outset. Pink Cotton got into stride quickly and had the lead after a handful of jumps from the gate. His main foe, Evolve, gave chase the entire trip, but Pink Cotton fended him off each time to secure the win as the even-money favorite (
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Pink Cotton is the first stakes winner out of his dam Lady in Pink, who won or placed in seven stakes in her career. Pink Cotton sold for $85,000 at the 2016 OBS Spring Sale of 2-year-olds in training.