Neolithic filly makes her case at $31.80

Neolithic is less than $7,000 away from reaching the $1 million mark in 2025 progeny earnings after the huge upset by Willow Case in a $70,000 maiden special at Gulfstream Park.

The 2-year-old filly bred by the veteran breeding team of Sherry R. Mansfield and Kenneth H. Davis, in her second start, won a stretch duel by a neck over Drama, the prohibitive favorite at 20 cents to a dollar. It was 14 1/2 lengths back to the third finisher.

With Edgar Perez aboard, Willow Case chased Drama through fractions of :22.69 and :47.57, then out-gamed the favorite to the wire in :54.21 to pick up a check for $40,000. After a fourth-place finish in her debut in which she lost by 16 lengths at odds of 30-1, Willow Case paid $31.80 in this one. She became Neolithic’s 23rd winner this year, second best among all Florida sires. .