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Edward A. Seltzer’s homebred Prize Doll, a 4-year-old chestnut daughter of Pure Prize, put the first black type on her resume at Calder Race Course on Saturday when she won the $50,000 Ms Brookski Stakes, finishing best of 11 fillies and mares going one mile on the turf.
Fifth choice at odds of 6-1 at post time, Prize Doll ran just off the pace in sixth position at the rail before rallying on the outside to take command inside the eighth-pole. She kept to her task under jockey Manoel Cruz to get the win for trainer Curtis Garrison by 1 1/4 lengths. The final time for the mile run the firm turf course was 1:36.22.
Prize Doll’s first stakes victory came in her second try in black-type company, after a last-place effort debuting in the fillies’ division of the O.B.S. Sprint Stakes in March 2011. She is now 3-1-1 from nine lifetime starts and has earned $59,645.
Co-bred by Edward Seltzer and David Cassidy and foaled at Waldorf Farm in North Chatham, Prize Doll is the first starter out of Doll Baby (Citidancer), also bred in New York David Cassidy.
Doll Baby, a $55,000 purchase by Richard Balfour at the 2004 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga preferred sale, went on to win Finger Lakes’ Niagara Stakes. Following her retirement, Edward Seltzer of Solera Farm northwest of Ocala acquired the mare at the 2007 Keeneland January sale for $65,000. Doll Baby also has a 3-year-old filly by Smarty Jones (Baby Doll) and a juvenile colt by Exchange Rate (E File).
Prize Doll was offered once for sale at public auction and did not meet her reserve when bid up to $17,000 at the 2010 OBS April sale.
