Phipps Homebred Graduates at Gulfstream

5th-GPX, $40,000, Msw, 3yo, 6 1/2f, 1:16 3/5, ft. 
RAGTIME (c, 3, Henny Hughes–Castanet, by El Prado {Ire}) closed to be third in his six-furlong unveiling at this oval Jan. 1. Sent off at 9-2, the Phipps homebred broke sharply and pressed the pace through an opening quarter in :22.50. He darted to the lead on the turn and drew clear down the lane to score by 3 1/4 lengths. Strong Stipulation (Lemon Drop Kid) closed strongly to be second. Sassicaia (Bernardini) was third. “He was a little green today in the stretch,” trainer Shug McGaughey said. “He’s a good, sound horse and a little firmer track won’t bother him.” McGaughey added Ragtime’s future could be on the turf. “I never did [think of him as a turf horse], until he ran the first time and I saw he had a little more action than he had in the morning,” McGaughey explained. “It wouldn’t surprise me, being that he’s out of an El Prado mare and his pedigree on the bottom side. Henny Hughes was a dirt sprinter, but a lot of times, especially with the Phippses, they take after the mares a little bit more than the sires.” Ragtime is a fifth generation Phipps-bred. His second dam is GISP Dancinginmydreams (Seeking the Gold), the dam of GISW Dancing Forever (Rahy). His third dam, Oh What a Dance (Nijinsky II) is the dam of champion Heavenly Prize (Seeking the Gold) and GISW Oh What a Windfall (Seeking the Gold). Castanet has a 2-year-old filly by Bernardini and a yearling filly by Parading. Click for thebrisnet.com chart or VIDEO. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-1, $28,200. 
O/B-Phipps Stable (KY). T-Claude R McGaughey III.