Lil Champ took the lead at the quarter pole after pressing the pace and accelerated when asked by jockey Frankie Pennington to win his debut on Saturday in the first race at Philadelphia Park and become the first winner for freshman sire Domestic Dispute.

Lil Champ, the first starter out of the winning Cherokee Run mare No Bias, completed five furlongs in :59.62 on a track rated as a fast. She is campaigned by owner Prakash Patel and trained by Steve Klesaris.

Domestic Dispute, an eight-year-old by Unbridled’s Song out of the Grade 3-placed winning Magesterial mare Majestical Moment, stood the 2008 season for $7,500 at Northview Stallion Station in Chesapeake City, Maryland. He has 71 two-year-olds in his first crop.

Domestic Dispute won three of 21 starts during his four-year career and banked $703,115 in lifetime earnings. Domestic Dispute won a pair of graded stakes races—the 2003 Santa Catalina Stakes (G2) and the ‘04 Strub Stakes (G2). He also finished second in the 2002 Hollywood Futurity (G1) and tenth in the ‘03 Kentucky Derby (G1).