Worthy Hunters Dream sends Treasure Beach over $3 million

A winner in a $5,000 claiming race is rarely worthy of making the news, but Hunters Dream’s score at Finger Lakes yesterday was without doubt one of the worthy ones.

First, the 3-year-old gelding by Treasure Beach earned a check for $5,640 and that lifted his sire’s career progeny earnings over the $3 million mark – $3,001,191 to be exact. Second, in becoming Treasure Beach’s 32nd winner of 2019, if it had come at Del Mar, he would have been eligible for Trevor Denman’s famous call, “They would need to sprout wings to catch Hunters Dream.”

With Luis Perez aboard in the race at one mile and 70 yards, Hunters Dream shot to the lead from the No. 5 post, opened up by daylight down the backstretch, and left little doubt as to the outcome. The gelding bred by Stonehedge Farm was coasting by 13 lengths in mid-stretch, and cruised to the wire in hand, 10 lengths in front. It was his second career victory, first of this year, and definitely noteworthy.