Giant Gizmo keeps rolling in Lone Star Park

Stronach Stables' homebred GIANT GIZMO (Giant's Causeway) broke outward at

the start and raced wide on both turns, but he still proved much the best in

Monday's $400,000

Lone

Star Park H. (G3), recording his third consecutive win with a two-length

decision. Trained by Bobby Frankel, the four-year-old colt has proven quite

versatile over the last nine months, winning on turf, synthetic, and fast and

sloppy dirt tracks. The Kentucky-bred moved his mark to 11-6-1-1, $508,685, when

completing 8 1/2 furlongs over the fast track in 1:43.

Encaustic (Broad Brush) broke alertly and established contested fractions in

:23 1/5, :46 4/5 and 1:10 1/5. Giant Gizmo was content to stalk in fourth during

the early stages before advancing to challenge on the final bend, and he cruised

to the lead at the quarter-pole. With jockey Garrett Gomez providing steady

encouragement through the stretch, the chestnut passed the mile mark in 1:36

and easily held to the wire. Zanjero (Cherokee Run)

rallied from last to garner runner-up honors, and it was two lengths back to

Stella Mark (Benchmark) in third.

Favored at 6-5, the winner paid $4.40, $2.80 and $2.80 while keying the $10

exacta with 3-2 second choice Zanjero, who returned $2.40 and $2.10. Stella Mark

was good for $4 at 7-1 after edging fourth-placer Encaustic by a nose. The

trifecta paid $43.60, and the 7-2-6-1 superfecta was $174.80. Next under the

wire came Beta Capo (Langfuhr), Cowtown Cat (Distorted Humor) and One Lucky Buck

(Thats Our Buck). Won Awesome Dude (Awesome Again) was scratched.

The first foal out of the multiple stakes-winning Golden Antigua (Hansel),

Giant Gizmo is from the same female family of three-time Grade 1-winning

millionaire Mi Selecto (Explodent); South African champion Blossoming Fields

(Badger Land); and multiple Grade 2 winner Bar Dexter (True Knight). He has an

unraced juvenile half-brother named Slick Pardoned Me (Skip Away); an unnamed

yearling half-sister by Golden Missile; and a 2008 half-sister by Ghostzapper.

Giant Gizmo was exiting a score in the Alysheba S. (G3) on the Kentucky Oaks

(G1) undercard.