Sky Mesa's My Impression Much Best in Christiana S.

My Impression scored for the third time in her last four trips to the post, overcoming the widest gate to annex Wednesday's Christiana S. at Delaware Park. With Jose Ortiz in on a dark day in New York to call the shots, My Impression was asked for a bit of speed from the outside stall and managed to get over to save some valuable ground from fifth upon settling. Allowed to improve a spot to be a stalking fourth down the backside, the homebred began to warm up to the task to form a line of three midway on the second turn. Able to sustain that momentum, My Impression circled three wide into the lane and quickened home to win with something in hand as Involuntary (City Zip) photoed Outsider Art (Five Star Day) for third. A maiden winner at odds of 17-1 over the Aqueduct turf course in her 2-year-old finale Nov. 27, My Impression outclassed a field of Tampa allowance foes Jan. 20 and was exiting a solid fifth-place effort behind GI Belmont Oaks hopeful Time and Motion (Tapit) in the Apr. 24 Memories of Silver S. at the Big A. The winner's second dam, GSW Sky Blue Pink (Strawberry Road {Aus}), is a half-sister to Freddie Frisson (Dixieland Band), the dam of MGISW First Samurai (Giant's Causeway). Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

CHRISTIANA S., $50,625, DEL, 7-6, 3yo, f, 1 1/16mT, 1:44.48, fm.
1–#MY IMPRESSION, 116, f, 3, Sky Mesa
1st Dam: Impressionism, by Broad Brush
2nd Dam: Sky Blue Pink, by Strawberry Road (Aus)
3rd Dam: Frisson, by Fappiano
O/B-Stuart S Janney III (KY); T-Claude R McGaughey III; J-Jose L Ortiz. $30,000. Lifetime Record: 5-3-0-0, $80,815.
2–Involuntary, 119, f, 3, City Zip–Invariable, by Invasor (Arg). O/B-Catherine M Wills (KY); T-Arnaud Delacour. $10,000.
3–Outsider Art, 116, f, 3, Five Star Day–Pepita, by Vicar. O-Delmar L Pettigrew; B-Martha & Del Pettigrew (KY); T-Jonathan E Sheppard. $5,500.
Margins: 3 1/4, NO, 1. Odds: 2.70, 2.70, 6.20.
Also Ran: April Gaze, Conscription, Strong Gale, Leafy Shade (Ire), It's the Truth, Channel Regatta, Arraign. Scratched: Gioia Stella, Miss Inclusive, Dreams to Reality.