Elkin Family Racing Adds Stakes Runner To The Fold In FT June Digital Topper Strada Del Sogno

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Strada Del Sogno (Street Boss), who topped the Fasig-Tipton June Digital Sale Tuesday on a final bid of $150,000, will ship north to join the Elkin Family Racing string in Kentucky racing for trainer Genevieve Londono. Consigned by Taylor Made Sales, the filly, from the family of 3-year-old champion filly Questing (GB) (Hard Spun), debuted running third in the Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies at Gulfstream Park May 10 behind Royal Ascot-bound Lennilu (Leinster).

“We just got to see her race that one time,” said Dwayne Elkin, who operates Elkin Family Racing with his wife. “I was a little bit [impressed]. My trainer is in Kentucky so she'll head there.”

Now in its fourth year of operation, Elkin Family Racing is a small operation numbering just eight horses but is coming off its best year to date with earnings over $130,000 in 2024 and already north of six figures just halfway through 2025. And with a stakes-placed runner joining the barn, Elkin was keen to keep Strada Del Sogno on an upward trajectory. He also added that, despite not purchasing the filly with an eye towards breeding, he would consider keeping her for such a purpose should she continue to run well.

“I would like to see how she does in another stakes,” he said. “We didn't get her to breed her, but you never know what the future holds. It depends on what kind of horse she is. If she's a good horse, then we'll probably breed her.”

And while he's more keen to race rather than to breed, Elkin added that a filly he purchased out of OBS April last year for $125,000, the unraced Practical Joke filly Nana's My Angel, was in foal in New York to Firing Line this year.

Elkin, who owns a welding fabrication company in Arkansas, got his start at Oaklawn Park.

“I've loved horses since I was in high school,” he said. “My first job was cleaning the track at Oaklawn after everyone went home. That's how I learned to be around [the horses]. And my wife loves loving on them, so we just put the two together.”

No stranger to the Fasig-Tipton Digital scene, Elkin Family Racing previously signed the ticket on Midnight Vengeance (Violence) for $75,000 at the January Digital Sale this year. The stable also added a pair of runners from last year's July Digital Sale–Publicity (Into Mischief) for $90,000 and Liar's Poker (Empire Maker), who races this upcoming Sunday at Churchill Downs, for $95,000.

Elkin acknowledged that the digital sales could be tricky to navigate.

“They have their ups and downs,” he said. “But that's just part of the game.”

As for the future, Elkin has no plans of going anywhere anytime soon.

“Depends how the money holds out,” he said with a laugh. “I don't have the billions like everybody else does. But we're going to keep going.”

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