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Starspangledbanner continues to make his mark on the world stage, adding a new stakes-winner in North America on Saturday.

The 6YO gelding Great Wide Open (Starspangledbanner x Market Hill, by Danehill), second in the G1 Keeneland Turf Mile earlier this year, won the Buddy Diliberto Memorial Stakes at Fair Grounds over 1 1/16th mile on turf.

It was his first black type win taking his overall record to seven wins and 10 placings from 38 starts.

Great Wide Open is the best of two winners from Market Hill, a grand-daughter of stakes-winner Knighton House, whose descendants include G1 winners Hellenic, Islington and Melbourne Cup winner Fiorente.

Great Wide Open is the tenth stakes-winner by Starspangledbanner from just 96 runners giving him a strike rate of 10.4% stakes-winners to runners.

Starspangledbanner has his bigger foal crops coming to fruition and will have strong numbers to race for him in the Northern Hemisphere in 2019.

In Australia his current crop of Australian two year-olds includes boom filly Brooklyn Hustle, an early favourite for the G1 Blue Diamond Stakes.