The official distance for the 72nd running of the $71,800 East View was one mile and 70 yards, but Broadway Blue Stable’s Opus A ran much further than that en route to her first stakes score Sunday afternoon at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Equipped with blinkers for the first time, Opus A broke from post No. 10 and raced five wide nearly every step of the way.

Her trip had jockey Alan Garcia shaking his head – and his left hand – in the winner’s circle, and trainer Richard Violette, Jr., kicking chairs, but it worked.

“It was her first time with blinkers on and she was almost a little spooked – she wouldn’t turn,” Violette said. “At about the three-eighths pole, I kicked the chair. Then two seconds later I was like ‘Oh my God,’ and then the race was over.”

Opus A, a 2-year-old filly by Read the Footnotes, raced in sixth behind early fractions of 23.42 and 47.68 seconds while running extremely wide.

As the field turned for home, Opus A remained in the middle of the track, but had plenty left in the tank to blow past favorite Spirit of Rose and Myrtle’s Gray to win by 4½ lengths. She stopped the timer at 1:44.44 over the inner track labeled good.

“At the three-eighths pole, I didn’t think she had much of a shot, because she was so wide on the turns and on the backside,” said Garcia, who has ridden Opus A is all three of her career starts. “But at the quarter-pole, once she grabbed hold of the bridle and decided to run, it was all over. She was much the best today.”

The East View, for New York-bred juvenile fillies, was the second career win for Opus A, who finished sixth last out in the Grade 1 Spinaway at Saratoga. She exited that race needing surgery.

“She was entrapped in the Spinaway and we did the throat surgery there, but she trained as good as any two-year-old I had this year,” Violette said.

Opus A increased her lifetime earnings to $74,120 and paid $7.50 for a $2 win bet.

Despite stumbling badly coming out of the gate, Anstu Stables’ Ibboyee took the 31st running of the $69,850 Damon Runyon for trainer Todd Pletcher and jockey Ramon Dominguez.

Ibboyee settled in fifth after his troubled beginning behind slow early fractions of 23.95 and 47.96 seconds set by longshot Vital Argument. Down the backside, Ibboyee began to improve position down at the rail, but was then caught behind the tiring pacesetter and was forced to move outside of horses.

Once in the clear, the 2-year-old son of Medallist finished strongly to get up by 2½ over 8-5 favorite City Trooper and Shrimp Dancer. Ibboyee ran the one mile and 70 yards in 1:42.78 and returned $6.90 for a $2 win bet.

The Damon Runyon was the third career state-bred stakes win for Ibboyee, who increased his record to 4-0-0 from five starts.

“He’s done a lot of things right,” Pletcher said. “At some point we might experiment with open company, but right now the plan is to stay here this winter and take advantage of his New York-bred eligibility.”