It was a first stakes victory for To a Flame (3f Justify x Moth, by Galileo) on Friday with a win in the Wild Applause S. at Saratoga. Racing a mile on the inner turf, the Rusty Arnold-trained filly went off as the favorite in the race and tracked the leading Candy Moonshine while racing about a length behind the one throughout. In the stretch, jockey Jose Ortiz switched her to the three-path to give her the room she needed to make a run. Closing with every stride, the filly spent the final furlong securing the lead then running away from the field to win by 1 ¼ lengths. “She had trained really good into this, said Arnold. “She’s a filly we’ve been extremely high on and she kind of got off track in the spring. She left Florida doing great and then things didn’t go good. She took a step backwards and Alex Bregman called and said, ‘give her time and get her ready.’ We took two months and got her ready. Hopefully, it will pay off for the summer and the fall.” The Coolmore-bred raced by Bregman Family Racing has now won three of her six starts for $292,519 in earnings and was third in the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Fillies S. last year at two. To a Flame is one of six winners from seven to race out of the Gr.1 1000 Guineas third Moth. That mare is one of seven stakes performers out of Pieds de Plume, who also produced Group 3 winner Hearthstead Maison and stakes winner and Group 1-placed Rave Reviews. Moth has a 2-year-old by Epicenter to come. Justify has sired 11 stakes winners this year, the third best of any North American stallion, and 24 stakes performers.