She's Back! Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna Returns a Wire-to-Wire Winner in the Azeri

Yesterday at 07:52 PM

Horse of the Year and 'TDN Rising Star' Thorpedo Anna (Fast Anna) set fractions of :24.27 and :48.59 and made every pole a winning one with a facile victory in her highly anticipated 4-year-old debut in Saturday's GII Azeri Stakes at Oaklawn Park. Last year's GI Breeders' Cup Distaff heroine stopped the timer for 1 1/16 miles in 1:44.02 over the wet fast going. Free Like a Girl (El Deal) was second. Recharge (Gun Runner) was third.

Sales history: $40,000 yrl '22 FTKOCT.

Lifetime Record: 11-9-2-0.

O-Brookdale Racing, Inc., Edwards, Mark, Hicks, Judy B. and Magdalena Racing (Sherri McPeek);
B-Judy Hicks (KY); T-Kenneth G. McPeek.

“She is poetry in motion. She is Thorpedo Anna!” @3coltshandicap

Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna is back in business with a win in the G2 Azeri! @b_hernandezjr@KennyMcPeek@Thorpedo_Annapic.twitter.com/peneCuiaAW

— TwinSpires Racing (@TwinSpires) March 8, 2025

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