Her World Rules Over All In Tyro

OCEANPORT, NJ – The Wesley Ward-trained and Irish-bred daughter of Caravaggio Her World proved to be a smoke show on debut, winning Saturday’s $100,000 Tyro Stakes at Monmouth Park.

“She is obviously a very nice filly,” said winning jockey Paco Lopez. “Wesley told me she’s the best filly he has now and maybe for many, many years at this stage of her career. She broke on top and was looking around a little, maybe trying to figure things out. She was very professional. I used her to get to the top right away because Wesley Ward told me she had that kind of speed. Sometimes you want to get out there second or third and relax, but she wanted to go. I looked behind after a while for the other horses, but no one was running at us. She was flying in the stretch. You have to be special to do something like this in your first start, a stakes race and a filly against boys, but Wesley was very confident. He told me he loves this filly and wants to take her to the Breeders’ Cup. Now that I have ridden her I know she can do it.”

“We’re excited, she did exactly what we thought she would,” Ward said. “We don’t have to change much after watching that race moving forward. We’re going to bring her next to Keeneland, and then we plan on bringing her to the Breeders’ Cup. With what she showed today winning in a stakes race against colts who had experience, it’s encouraging. We’re going to skip right along and continue from this. I look forward to her next couple of starts, but I also look forward to her being a 3-year-old, and I think (co-owner) Dick Brodie and the rest of the owners have a special one with her.”

Her World returned $3.80 to win, $3.20 to place, and $3 to show. Trust Our Journey brought back $6.80 to place and $4.80 to show. Baytown Warrior paid $10.80 to show.