Ritzy Lass was a hard-knocking racemare who won 13 of 58 starts from 2YO through 7YO, placing in another 15 starts and earning a total of $279,766. She picked up open company black-type with a 3rd-place finish in the Winter Melody Stakes at Delaware Park as a 4YO, and won on dirt (wet and dry) and synthetic, from 6 furlongs to 1-1/16 miles, at such tracks as Keeneland, Oaklawn and Woodbine, while trained at times during her career by Mark Casse, Kenny McPeek, Robertino Diodoro, and Steve Asmussen. Among her victories were a maiden special weight at 2 and a pair of allowance races (including one by 8 lengths over eventual graded stakes winner Ultra Brat). Ritzy Lass was acquired at the end of her racing career as a broodmare prospect.
Ritzy Lass is a half-sister to three winners, and to the dam of stakes winner and graded stakes-placed Ritzy A.P. Her dam Ritzy Dame, was a multiple stakes-placed winning 2YO by Distorted Humor, who is herself out of the stakes-placed winning Stylish Aristocrat — a half-sister to Group 3 winner Triarius, to stakes winner and Group 3-placed Sharp Noble, and to the stakes-placed winner Layal.
Ritzy Lass’s sire, Old Forester, is a leading Canadian stallion and his offspring include the likes of Horse of the Year Pink Lloyd. He also happens to be a half-brother to Horse of the Year and multiple Grade 1 winner Catch a Glimpse. Old Forester is himself a son of the top broodmare sire Forestry, out of a stakes-winning daughter of the high class Irish River.
Ritzy Lass has been pronounced in foal off a single February cover to the precocious, under-rated Midshipman — read here why we think he’ll make an ideal first mate for her.
You can check out Ritzy Lass’s race record here and see more photos of her here. The replay from one of Ritzy Lass’s victories is available on Keeneland’s Twitter page below.
#4 Ritzy Lass gets the win in #Race3 at #Keeneland with Ricardo Santana, Jr. aboard pic.twitter.com/nexKoM988b
— Keeneland Racing (@keenelandracing) April 27, 2017