Wicked Halo
Gray or Roan Filly / March 10th, 2019 in KY / by Gun Runner out of Just Wicked
$725,550
2022 earnings
99
speed figure
50%
2022 wins
racing Record
2022 Stats
Career Stats
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4
Firsts
6
0
Seconds
0
3
Thirds
4
1
Unplaced
1
8
Starts
11
$725,550
Earnings
$870,200
$90,694
Earnings / Start
$79,109
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Bio
Wicked Halo, a Gun Runner filly homebred by Winchell Thoroughbreds and trained by Steve Asmussen, won his career debut impressively by two lengths in a five-furlong sprint at Lone Star Park on June 5, 2021. She was then shipped to Churchill Downs for the listed Debutante Stakes and finished third in the six-furlong race after bobbling at the start.
Wicked Halo, a Gun Runner filly homebred by Winchell Thoroughbreds and trained by Steve Asmussen, won his career debut impressively by two lengths in a five-furlong sprint at Lone Star Park on June 5, 2021. She was then shipped to Churchill Downs for the listed Debutante Stakes and finished third in the six-furlong race after bobbling at the start.
Asmussen then sent the gray or roan filly to Saratoga for a start in the Grade 2, 6 ½-furlong Adirondack Stakes on Aug. 8. With Jose Ortiz riding, Wicked Halo set a contested and fast early pace and found another gear in early stretch, shaking off pressure and drawing clear to a 3 ½-length win.
Wicked Halo went to the sidelines not long after her Adirondack win, and returned to the races with a fourth-place finish in the Dixie Belle Stakes at Oaklawn Park on Feb. 19, 2022. She won her first stakes race as a 3-year-old on June 12, when she took the Leslie's Lady Overnight Stakes at Churchill Downs by 2 3/4 lengths. A few weeks later, she made it two in a row with a victory in the Tepin Stakes at Churchill on July 2.
Wicked Halo made her next start at Saratoga in the six-furlong, Grade 2 Prioress Stakes on Sept. 2. The filly rallied from off of the pace under Tyler Gaffalione and posted a game neck win over longshot Sterling Silver to pick up her second career graded stakes victory, both at the Spa.
Wicked Halo won her fourth consecutive race (all stakes) when she ran away to a four-length victory as the 5-2 favorite in the Grade 2 $350,000 Lexus Raven Run Stakes at Keeneland on Oct. 22. She sat just off the pace in the field of nine 3-year-old fillies and took over the lead at the top of the stretch. Wicked Halo completed the seven furlongs in a time of 1:24.30.
Wicked Halo made her next start in the Grade 1 $1 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint at Keeneland on Nov. 5. In the Breeders' Cup she outran 14-1 odds in that seven-furlong spot to run third behind favored Goodnight Olive in a 12-horse field.
Wicked Halo is out of the Tapit mare Just Wicked, who won the Adirondack for Winchell Thoroughbreds and Asmussen in 2015.
