Lammas , purchased in England as a five-year-old, has been a good import for owners Ron Charles and Samuel Gordon. The now 7-year-old gelding took home his biggest prize on April 27 with a win in the $177,700 San Francisco Mile Stakes (G3T) at Golden Gate Fields.
The one-mile turf race for 3-year-olds and up takes place with a field of 11 and may be the last graded race ever to take place at Golden Gate, scheduled to end after the The current meeting ends June 9.
Charles and Gordon purchased Lammas for $55,327 at the 2022 Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-Up and Horses In Training sale. Placed with trainer Manuel Badilla, Lammas has found a new home on the turf and general track located in Northern California. The San Francisco Mile is his seventh victory in 18 starts in America, including wins in the 2023 Sam Spear Memorial Stakes and the 2022 Berkeley Handicap (G3), both at Golden Gate.
Lammas won by one and a half lengths from the Southern California shippers Red Air Force And Balnikhov , who won this race last year. Lammas paid $21.60 to win.
Lammas’ final time on hard courts was 1:34.30. He improved his career record to 10 wins in 30 starts and earnings of $342,618.
Via Heeraat and out of the mare Speightstown Spate increases , Lammas comes from an American female family. His third dam was the stakes-placed mare Spectacular Bid Add, a half-sister to the 1989 Gran Criterium (G1) winner and successful Japanese sire Jade Robbery and level 3 Countless and Check.
Videotapes: San Francisco Mile S. (G3T)
