TSP Enterprises’ Kentucky-bred Dotsy improved to 2-for-2 with a stalking score in the $500,000 Frizette Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park.

Dotsy, in her Aug. 26 debut, provided Finger Lakes-based John Grabowski with his first training win at Saratoga Race Course. In the Frizette, she provided the conditioner with his first career stakes win as a trainer–doing so at the highest level. Grabowski’s last stakes success at Belmont Park came as a jockey after guiding Impeachthepro to victory in the Hudson Handicap in 2001.

“This is the most incredible experience of my life, other than my two daughters being born. This is the greatest moment of my life. I know that’s from Rocky, but it is. I’ve got a stable of nine right now, all at Finger Lakes. I had a hell of a career riding, but this is it. This is the top,” Grabowski said.

The Frizette is a part of the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Dozen series for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) at Keeneland. A nominated winner of the Frizette receives a credit of $30,000 toward entry fees, with second and third-place finishers receiving credits of $15,000 and $7,500, respectively. The Frizette also offers qualifying points to the top five finishers on a 10-5-3-2-1 scale towards the Kentucky Oaks (G1) in May at Churchill Downs.

Dotsy a Prized Purchase for Grabowski

Dotsy was purchased by Grabowski for $37,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearling Sale.

“Josie Palmisano worked the sale for me and put together a short list, and she was on the short list. I loved how she looked–she was correct, she checked all the boxes, and she looked like we could afford her,” Grabowski said. “I bid on her, and when I was bidding, I was so nervous because I wanted her so bad. When I won the bid, I had a hard time signing the sheet [laughs]. I had $60,000 to spend, and I was prepared to go all the way up to that. When she started breezing the five-eighths and blowing away her competition–we were breezing her with older horses, and no one could even stay close to her.”

Carmouche said he was impressed with the stakes debut from Dotsy.

“The filly broke so good. I never took it away from her. I had horse the whole race,” Carmouche said. “Mr. John Grabowski has done such an amazing job with this filly, getting her back to the races after Saratoga. I’m just so proud of this filly. She relaxed good, when I asked her to quicken, she quickened. She can be anything. The further, the better. She’s a monster.”

Dotsy, a half-sister to multiple stakes-winner Dirt Monster, is out of the Fusaichi Pegasus mare Coqui, a half-sister to Grade 3-winner Voodoo. Her second dam is the multiple graded stakes-placed multiple stakes-winner Slide Show. Bred in Kentucky by Scott Pierce and Debbie Pierce, Dotsy banked $275,000 in victory.