As good as Mike Maker has been throughout his lengthy training career – he has saddled more than 3,600 winners – he understands it helps to be lucky sometimes as well.

That was the case when he won a shake on a $35,000 claimer named One More Freud at Saratoga on Aug. 1 off his debut. One More Freud won that race by 14½ lengths.

Now One More Freud is a stakes winner.

Able to surge late with horses on both sides of him in deep stretch, One More Freud scored a neck victory in Saturday’s $100,000 Sapling Stakes for 2-year-olds at Monmouth Park. The winner was ridden by Samy Camacho, who captured four of the nine races on the card, including the co-featured $100,000 Violet Stakes for trainer Miguel Clement aboard Breath Away.

One More Freud, a Kentucky-bred son of Tonalist, is now 2-for-2 lifetime. The winning time for the mile was 1:38.36.

“We claimed him (for Paradise Farms Corp.) because it’s Saratoga, where everyone wants to win a race, and I figured for $35,000 we could always keep him there and run him back for the same tag,” said Maker, who only had the colt for two works prior to Saturday.” Fortunately, we won the shake for him and now he’s a stakes winner. The horse had nice works and good conformation – a lovely horse – before we claimed him.

“Hopefully he continues to move forward. The water is only going to get deeper.”

One More Freud stalked the Mark Casse-trained Just Asap before Camacho asked his charge to go coming out of the final turn. He grabbed the lead and looked well on his way to an easy win before Just Asap re-rallied along the rail with Channel the Music closing on the outside.

“He wound up being close early because after I looked at the Daily Racing Form I saw my horse was second or third in :22 and :46 in his last race and I saw the pace (Just Asap) was trying to set at 24 seconds,” said Camacho. “To me, it was the same, so when I broke, (Just Asap and Channel the Music) broke a little better than me and I got the perfect spot in third and in the clear. I could watch everything in front of me.

“Coming out of the final turn my horse took himself to the lead. At first I thought the race was over but then I was a little worried at the quarter pole. I was able to push (Channel the Music) outside and he hung a little but then (Just Asap on the rail) came back. He was still green and he came back.”

Just Asap held for second, 1½ lengths ahead of Channel the Music.

One More Freud paid $2.80 to win.

“I liked his race,” said Maker. “I didn’t think he would be so close early but he got the job done. I was impressed with the way he finished with those other two horses right there with him.”

Camacho believes the horse has a promising future.

“This was a great claim by Mike Maker,” he said. “This horse is only going to get better. He was a little green. He’s a big horse with long strides. But he definitely has talent.”

Camacho had to rally from near the back of the pack in the six-horse Violet Stakes, nabbing 9-10 co-favorite Ribaltagaia in the final 100 yards of the mile and a sixteenth turf stakes for a half-length victory. Dream of Abba was another 1¼ lengths back in third.

Breath Away, a 5-year-old daughter of Bated Breath, had been competitive in Grade 3 turf routes but was on a seven-race losing streak before the Violet Stakes. Ribaltagaia, trained by Graham Motion, had been idle since Dec. 21.

“The instructions (Clement) gave me is that there was no speed in the race so I should try to take the lead. But when I broke there were two horses (Ribaltagaia and Tuck Check) who had the same idea so they shared the lead,” said Camacho. “At that point I said `I’ve got to grab hold of my horse. I can’t go with them.’ So I kept saving graving and when I wanted to go she gave me the key at the quarter pole and when she got clear she just exploded.

“The other horse (Ribaltagaia) was off for nine months so maybe that caught up to her late. There was just enough room left to catch her.”

The winning time over a firm turf course was 1:44.

Breath Away paid $3.80 to win.