The 2-year-old filly CAUGHT DREAM’N is on her way to making big dreams come true after an easy maiden win at Laurel Park on Sunday, Oct. 15. Going six furlongs in her second start, the Phil Schoenthal-trained daughter of Blame waited patiently until Sheldon Russell tipped her out to make a run rounding the far turn. She took aim at the leader and dug in through the stretch to pull away for an impressive two-length score.

The win followed an eventful debut two weeks earlier in which she rallied to finish second after unseating Russell in the post parade, dropping nearly a dozen lengths back in the early running, being blocked and then having to alter course before outfinishing 10 others.

Bred and owned by Dark Hollow Farm, Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Davidov and Mr. and Mrs. David Schwaber, CAUGHT DREAM’N is the third winner from as many foals of racing age for the extremely talented homebred mare DREAM. A daughter of Malibu Moon, DREAM was a winner at 2 and graded stakes-placed runner at 3 who learned her early lessons with Cary Frommer, who also prepared her winning daughter. “I broke her mother in Aiken and this filly reminds me so much of her mom!” commented Frommer after the win. “I see black-type coming up.”

CAUGHT DREAM’N left Frommer in early August to join the Schoenthal barn at Laurel, and has been patiently handled by the trainer, who has had Russell working her regularly. She sure has proven to be a quick learner!