Con Lima Never Looks Back Winning Ginger Brew At Gulfstream Sponsored by:
Con Lima, shown winning the Ginger Brew Stakes
Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Joseph Graffeo, Eric Nikolaus Del Toro and Troy Johnson s Con Lima continued to show her affinity for the turf with a front-running triumph in Saturday s $75,000 Ginger Brew at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.
The one-mile Ginger Brew for 3-year-old fillies was the fourth of five stakes worth $400,000 in purses on an 11-race program highlighted by Mutasaabeq s victory in the $100,000 Mucho Macho Man for 3-year-olds, the start of Gulfstream s road to the March 28 Florida Derby (G1).
It was the first career stakes victory for Con Lima ($6.20), a daughter of Commissioner who finished second in back-to-back stakes taken off the turf last fall – the P.G. Johnson at Saratoga and Our Dear Peggy at Gulfstream. The winning time was 1:35.23 over a firm turf course.