Dortmund sets track record in thrilling 3-horse photo for Los Alamitos Futurity

Dortmund sets track record in thrilling three-horse photo

for Los Alamitos Futurity

All three were motoring in tandem down the center of the track, with Mr. Z

repeatedly lugging out and bumping Firing Line. Dortmund appeared to be hanging

late and just finally got up to be on even terms in the shadow of the wire. The

trio hit the line together, but the photo managed to discern Dortmund in front

over Firing Line with Mr. Z another nose back in third.

Dortmund is now three-for-three in his career, having broken his maiden at

Santa Anita Park on November 2 before traveling cross-country to take a

Churchill Downs optional claimer 27 days later. Returning to Baffert's California-base for the Los Alamitos Futurity, the Big Brown colt has

now banked $359,400 lifetime.

Bred in Kentucky by Emilie Gerlinde Fojan, Dortmund sold twice at auction. He

brought $90,000 as a Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July yearling last year and then was

purchased for $140,000 as a Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Two-Year-Old in Training in

May.

The two-year-old colt is the first stakes scorer out of the Grade 3-placed

stakes-winning Tale of the Cat mare Our Josephina. His third dam is 1977

champion Lakeville Miss, who would go on in the breeding shed to produce Grade 1

hero Mogambo and Grade 1 runner-up Sea Breezer. This female family is also

responsible for 1942 Preakness second Requested.

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