Multiple Grade 2-winning millionaire Smooth Air got off the mark as a sire
when Electric Kiss made a winning debut in Sunday’s
1ST
race at Louisiana Downs. Bred, trained, and co-owned by Henry B. Johnson Jr.,
who races the filly with Mike McHalffey, the even-money favorite was up in time
by a nose. Electric Kiss completed the 4 1/2-furlong maiden special weight
for Louisiana-breds in :54 1/5 on the fast track with Juan Larrosa aboard.
The juvenile filly is inbred 4×3 to Storm Cat: sire Smooth Air is a Storm
Cat-line stallion by Smooth Jazz, and her dam is the Stormy Atlantic mare
Willowick. Electric Kiss is a half-sister to the stakes-placed Kapenta, and her
third dam is multiple Grade 2 heroine Wonders Delight.
Smooth Air won or placed in 12 stakes over three seasons of racing, compiling
a mark of 17-6-5-3, $1,117,200. His stakes victories include the 2008 Hutcheson
and Ohio Derby and the 2009 Gulfstream Park Handicap, while he also garnered
credits in such major events as the Florida Derby, Pennsylvania Derby and
Metropolitan Handicap.
Out of the French Deputy mare Air France, Smooth Air is a half-brother to
Overdriven, winner of the 2011 Sanford. Their second dam, multiple stakes queen
Twin Propeller, is in turn a half-sister to Grade 2 vixen Penny’s Reshoot. Also
in the immediate family is multiple Grade 2 winner Justwhistledixie, dam of last
year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner New Year’s Day.
The nine-year-old Smooth Air stands for $2,500, stands and nurses, at Gulf
Coast Equine near Sunset, Louisiana.
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