My Denysse scores $72.80 stunner in $300,000 My Dear Girl

My Denysse, still a maiden after her first four races, scored one of the biggest upsets in the many years of the $300,000 My Dear Girl Stakes, final leg of the Florida Stallion Stakes series for fillies.

The 2-year-old daughter of Neolithic, ridden by Jesus Rios, lit up the board at Gulfstream Park to the tune of $72.80, winning the 1 1/16th-mile race by a neck after a ding-dong stretch battle with unbeaten Stunner, who went off as the 1/5 favorite. It was 7 1/4 lengths back to the third-place finisher.

My Denysse, owned and bred by Ruben Sierra’s Just For Fun Stable, became the third black-type winner for Neolithic, and the check for $180,000 raised her total to $201,900. She had previously finished second once, third twice and fourth once in maiden specials. She also became her sire’s 44th winner of 2024, and moved him into second place on Florida’s general sire list, $75,000 clear of third.