Nasty Widow set a determined pace near the inside rail and earned a 1 1/4-length win on Sunday in the ninth race at Timonium to become the first career winner for Grade 1 winner and freshman sire Ten Most Wanted, the runner-up in the 2003 Belmont Stakes (G1).
Trained by John Robb for owner Morgan Wayson Jr., Nasty Widow won the four-furlong maiden claiming race in :47.38 on a track rated as fast. The two-year-old filly is one of two winners from three starters out of the unplaced Synastry mare Widow Women.
The winner of the 2003 Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course, Ten Most Wanted stood the ‘08 breeding season for $7,500 at Sequel Stallions New York in Hudson, New York. An eight-year-old by Deputy Commander out of the placed Criminal Type mare Wanted Again, Ten Most Wanted has 81 two-year-olds in his first crop.
Ten Most Wanted compiled $1,718,460 in purse earnings and won five of his 13 career starts. He joined the ‘03 Triple Crown trail after earning his first stakes win in the Illinois Derby (G2) at Hawthorne Race Course. Ten Most Wanted finished ninth in the Kentucky Derby (G1) prior to finishing second to Empire Maker in the Belmont. He subsequently posted wins in the ’03 Travers and the Super Derby (G2) at Louisiana Downs.