The well-traveled Sunday Sunrise outran his 7-1 odds to win the $55,000 Veteran Stakes at Zia Park on Saturday.

Racing for Mark Wagner and Bob and Cathy Zollars, Sunday Sunrise rallied off of moderate fractions of :26.18, :50.36, and 1:13.82 before covering his 1 1/16-mile trip in 1:44.31. Ken Tohill rode the 4-year-old Lemon Drop Kid colt for trainer Steve Asmussen.

Sunday Sunrise was bred in Kentucky by Flaxman Holdings Ltd., and the colt became the 48th stakes winner from seven crops sired by Lemon Drop Kid, a 14-year-old son of the Mr. Prospector stallion Kingmambo and the winner of five Grade 1 stakes from 1998-2000, including the ’99 Belmont Stakes (G1). The champion older horse in 2000, Lemon Drop Kid has sired the earners of more than $29.8 million from 387 starters, including his top earner, Richard’s Kid, the winner of the Grade 1 Pacific Classic Stakes at Del Mar the past two seasons. He stands for a $35,000 fee at Lane’s End at Versailles, Kentucky.

Sunday Sunrise is also one of two winners from four starters foaled by the 12-year-old Sunday Silence mare Sun Is Up (JPN). The colt’s half brother, the Mineshaft colt Bottega, won last year’s Criterium du Languedoc in France.

Sunday Sunrise’s second dam, Moon Is Up, is a stakes-winning and Grade 3-placed daughter of the Mr. Prospector stallion Woodman. Now 17, Moon Is Up has produced three winners from five starters.

Sunday Sunrise traces back to her third dam, Miesque, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Nureyev who won nine Grade or Group 1 stakes from 1986-88, including consecutive runnings of the $1-million Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) in 1987 and ’88. Miesque has foaled four graded stakes winners from 10 starters, including the late East Of The Moon, a filly by Private Account who won three Group 1 stakes in France in 1994.

Campaigned at 11 tracks in 10 different states, Sunday Sunrise has won four of 19 races, and the $33,000 winner’s share of the Veteran Stakes purse pushed his bankroll to $140,885. The colt was coming off of a seventh-place finish in the 1 1/16-mile Remington Green Stakes on the turf at Remington Park on October 10.

In addition to New Mexico and Oklahoma, Sunday Sunrise has raced in Illinois, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, New York, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia.

Imco Spirit (IRE), the 2-1 favorite, ran second, 1 ¾ lengths behind Sunday Sunrise. Quiet Again, Going Ballistic, Skip A Smile, and Shivers Me completed the order of finish.

A 4-year-old gelding, Imco Spirit earned $12,100 for J. Kirk Robison and trainer Henry Dominguez, who claimed the son of Invincible Spirit (IRE) for $12,500 at Del Mar on August 29. All told, Imco Spirit has banked $87,291 from four victories in 19 outs.

Quiet Again is a 5-year-old gelding by Grade 1 winner Real Quiet racing for Paul B. Thomason of Anthony, New Mexico. Quiet Again was coming off of a two-race win streak that included the 1 1/16-mile, $50,000 Ruidoso Thoroughbred Championship Stakes on September 6. The gelding has won 11 of 32 starts while racing primarily in New Mexico, and the $5,500 he earned from the Veteran Stakes boosted his bankroll to $381,668.