Built Different: Hard Spun Colt Romps in Gun Runner Stakes

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Built (Hard Spun), a maiden winner at second asking at Keeneland Oct. 6, stretched to two turns in style with a daylight victory in Saturday's Gun Runner Stakes at Fair Grounds, good for 10 points on the Road to the GI Kentucky Derby.

Off at odds of 7-2, the rail-drawn Built showed the way through fractions of :24.64 and :49.23 and dropped the hammer in the stretch to win by seven lengths. Magnitude (Not This Time) was second; Render Judgment (Blame) was third.

Built becomes the 109th stakes winner for Hard Spun.

It's been a fantastic recent run for winning owner Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners following 'TDN Rising Star' and GISW Locked (Gun Runner)'s win in the GII Cigar Mile H. Dec. 7 and Journalism (Curlin)'s win in the GII Los Alamitos Futurity last Saturday.

Sales history: $82,000 yrl '23 KEESEP; $260,000 2yo '24 OBSAPR.

Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-1.

O-Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners; B-Robert & Lawana Low (KY); T-Wayne M. Catalano.

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