Wicked Halo

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 is out of the Tapit mare Just Wicked, who won the Adirondack for Winchell Thoroughbreds and Asmussen in 2015.