Calumet Farm’s homebred Gin Gin, the longest price on the board at 38-1, shot to the front going into the final turn and drew off to a 5¼-length victory over Tarifa in the 30th running of the $350,000 Baird Doubledogdare (G3) for fillies and mares Friday afternoon.

Trained by Brendan Walsh and ridden by Jose Ortiz, Gin Gin completed the 1 1/16 miles on a fast main track in 1:45.15. It is the second victory in the race for Ortiz, who won the 2019 edition aboard Electric Forest.

Champion Just F Y I led the field of seven through fractions of :23.19 and :47.70 with Gin Gin tracking in second and Occult just to her outside. Approaching the final turn, Gin Gin and Occult moved to the front with Gin Gin owning a length advantage entering the stretch before pulling away.

The margin of victory is only surpassed by Dancethruthedawn’s 5½-length score in 2002.

Gin Gin is a 4-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Hightail out of the Hard Spun mare Before You Know It. In posting her first graded stakes victory, Gin Gin improved her record to 10-3-2-2 and increased her earnings to $461,596 with Friday’s $214,288 check.

Gin Gin rewarded her backers with payoffs of $79.76, $23 and $7.82 with the win mutuel being a record for the race. Tarifa rallied for second under Florent Geroux to return $5.82 and $3.70 with Candied finishing another half-length back in third under Irad Ortiz Jr. and paying $2.68 to show.

It was another three-quarters of a length back to Occult with Neon Icon and Dreaming of Mo following in order. Just F Y I did not finish.

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Click here for a video of Grammy Award-winning country music icon and Kentucky native Wynonna Judd singing the National Anthem today at Keeneland with her husband and musical partner, Cactus Moser. The couple spent the afternoon at the track.

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Racing continues Saturday with an 11-race program beginning at 1 p.m. ET and featuring two stakes: the $400,000 VisitLEX Elkhorn (G2) for turf marathoners going 1½ miles and the $350,000 Ben Ali (G3) run at 1 3/16 miles on the main track.

The VisitLEX Elkhorn is the afternoon’s ninth race at 5:16 p.m. with the Ben Ali following at 5:48 p.m.

Keeneland will offer a Pick 6 carryover of $82,329.