First Dude has regained the second spot on Florida’s leading sire list, thanks to two sharp performances by the 7-year-old mare Baby Ice at Monmouth Park and the 2-year-old colt Fulton Street at Gulfstream Park.

    Baby Ice won her second straight and paid $9.60, collecting a check for $16,800. The 2-year-old Fulton Street, in just her third start, sat a good stalking trip despite having to check twice in the $75,000 Proud Man Stakes on the grass but was unable to run down the two leaders in deep stretch and finished third. She earned $7,350, and the two checks raised First Dude’s progeny earnings for 2021 to $1,669,738, pushing him past Brethren on the sire list. 

    Baby Ice went wire-to-wire, scoring by a neck in 1:10.91 for six furlongs and posting an Equibase ‘E’ speed figure of 85. That’s her third highest in 42 career races during which she has registered a record of 9-7-5 with earnings of $169,135. After the 2020 season, Baby Ice took a vacation of more than five months, returning to post a 2021 record of 3-1-0 in six tries with earnings of $43,100. 

    Fulton Street, owned and bred by Flying Finish Farm, had broken her maiden on June 20 and is now 1-0-1 in her three races with earnings of $53,800.