Joan Kardoo opened a 2 1/2-length lead in early stretch and posted a three-length win in the fourth race on Friday at Emerald Downs to become the first winner for freshman sire Waiting Game.

The two-year-old filly out of Diamond Venture, by Adventure Road, won the five-furlong race in :58 on a wet-fast track. Vince Gibson trains Joan Kardoo, and co-owns the bay filly along with Mr. and Mr. Elwin Gibson, who bred the filly in Washington.

Five-year-old Waiting Game stood the 2008 season for $1,000 at Gibson Thoroughbred Farm in Thorp, Washington. The unraced Carson City horse has  nine two-year-olds in his first crop.

Waiting Game is out of the winning Danzig mare Taking It Easy, a full sister to Grade 1 winner Easy Now and a half sister to classic winner and 1988 champion two-year-old male Easy Goer and Grade 1 winner Cadillacing. Other notable members of the family include 1981 champion older mare Relaxing, Grade 1 winner and sire Strolling Along, and multiple graded stakes winner Cat Cay.