Sugar Fix extends winning streak to 4 at the Spa

After winning her final two races at Tampa Bay Downs, then adding No. 3 following a trip to Delaware Park, Sugar Fix went further north and made it four in a row yesterday with a stylish victory at Saratoga, the premier racetrack in North America.

The 3-year-old Treasure Beach filly is in the midst of a rare streak after she was able to muster up just one second-place finish in her first four starts. Since breaking her maiden at Tampa on Jan. 22, Sugar Fix has rolled up a record of 6-2-0 in eight tries and her earnings have increased to $110,868.

The filly bred by Ballybrit Stable ran in her breeder’s colors for her first nine starts before she was claimed away for a bargain $20,000 at Tampa on May 2. Yesterday, after a wire-to-wire beauty on the grass at the Spa under Jose Ortiz, which she won by 2 3/4 lengths and collected $34,100, Sugar Fix was taken again, this time for $40,000 by trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. on behalf of the Mad Dog Racing Stable.

Treasure Beach has had five U. S. winners in the last seven days and with progeny earnings of $741,678, he’s less than $4,000 short of seventh place on Florida’s sire list. In addition, the Argentinian-bred 3-year-old filly, Moya Beach, broke her maiden at Hipodromo De Monterrico in Peru.