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Mutasaabeq Becomes Newest Rising Star For Into Mischief

Hammered down to 85 cents on the dollar off a worktab that shouted ready, Shadwell Stable’s Mutasaabeq (Into Mischief) was not the quickest out, but was fastest late as he raced away to score by 4 1/2 lengths and the ‘TDN Rising Star’ designation.

Drawn widest in the field of seven, the $425,000 Keeneland November weanling acquisition broke near the back of the pack and was under a hustling Luis Saez ride as American Gentleman (American Pharoah) showed the way through an opening couple of furlongs in :22.21. Responding to his jockey’s busy ride, Mutasaabeq rolled up four deep on the turn, challenged wide and hit the front in upper stretch and ran up the score from there. The Wesley Ward-trained filly Guana Cay (Air Force Blue) plugged on gamely late to be second.

While Mutasaabeq legged up for the debut over the Belmont training track in June and over the Oklahoma Training Track for his first couple of breezes in July, it was over the Saratoga main track that he truly showed some spark, working a best-of-17 five furlongs from the gate in :59 2/5 July 19 and capping his tab with a half-mile from the gate that was clocked in :46 2/5 (1/50) Aug. 1

A 16th Rising Star for Into Mischief, Mutasaabeq is out of a half-sister to MGSW Cool Cowboy (Kodiak Kowboy) who was acquired with this foal in utero for $180,000 at the 2018 Keeneland January sale. The winner has a yearling half-sister by California Chrome and a foal half-brother by Uncle Mo. Downside Scenario was most recently bred to Into Mischief’s GI Xpressbet Florida Derby-winning son Audible.

5th-Saratoga, $72,000, Msw, 8-8, 2yo, 5 1/2f, 1:03.55, ft.
MUTASAABEQ, c, 2, by Into Mischief
1st Dam: Downside Scenario, by Scat Daddy
2nd Dam: Grand Breeze, by Grand Slam
3rd Dam: Breeze Lass, by It’s Freezing
Sales history: $425,000 Wlg ’18 KEENOV. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $39,600. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
O-Shadwell Stable; B-BlackRidge Stables LLC (KY); T-Todd A Pletcher.

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TAA Spotlight: From Foaling Barn To Second Career, Wiley Has Been There For OTTB All Hundreds

On Feb. 24, 2013, Heather Wiley helped deliver the last foal born at Dare to Dream Farm that year. The foal was a son of Silver Tree out of the With Approval mare Wings of Approval.

Wiley kept tabs on the horse, now named All Hundreds, as he ran in the claiming ranks at Gulfstream Park and Gulfstream Park West throughout his 3- and 4-year-old seasons. Throughout 2018 and into 2019, he moved between Tampa Bay Downs and South Florida. And on May 4, 2019, he was claimed out of a Tampa Bay race and relocated to Camarero Race Track in Puerto Rico, making his next start a month later. Wiley continued to watch from afar as he ran regularly in claiming races at Camarero.

Through a mutual friend, Caribbean Thoroughbred Aftercare's Kelley Stobie was introduced to Wiley and knew she was trying her best to keep tabs on his whereabouts. When All Hundreds was retired in March of 2020, Stobie let Wiley know she had the grey gelding at her TAA-accredited organization, and arrangements were made for him to begin his quarantine and travel back to Wiley on the mainland. The gelding finished his career with a 7-7-7 record from 42 starts and $93,400 in earnings.

Now, Wiley and All Hundreds are happily reunited as they begin the next chapter in their lives, which will be filled with many trail rides.

“He is doing wonderful,” she said. “A real sweetheart as always.”

Read more at Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance.

This story has been reprinted with permission from the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance. Learn more about the TAA and its work at thoroughbredaftercare.org.

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Smooth Like Strait Returns in LaJolla

Cannon Thoroughbreds homebred Smooth Like Strait (Midnight Lute), winner of last year’s GIII Cecil B. DeMille S. during this track’s Bing Crosby meeting last December, returns to the seaside oval as the likely favorite in Sunday’s GII LaJolla H. The race is the middle leg of Del Mar’s 3-year-old turf series which concludes with the GII Del Mar Derby over nine furlongs Sept. 6.

Disappointing when no better than fourth as the 13-10 favorite in the Eddie Logan S. at Santa Anita Dec. 29, the bay colt was a pacesetting runner-up to Hariboux (GB) (Havana Gold {Ire}) in the Feb. 29 Pasadena S. The form of that race was franked when Hariboux doubled up in the Cinema S. in June, while Smooth Like Strait took his show to Churchill for a handy success in the May 23 War Chant S. Third home that day was Field Pass (Lemon Drop Kid), who has since added a pair of black-type scores, including Keeneland’s GIII Transylvania S. July 12.

Smooth Like Strait carries top weight of 124 pounds, as does Eclipse Award-winning juvenile Storm the Court (Court Vision), who makes his turf debut in the LaJolla. On the fringes on the Triple Crown trail this season, the bay was third to Authentic (Into Mischief) in the GII San Felipe S. in March and filled the same spot behind Dean Martini (Cairo Prince) when last seen in the GIII Ohio Derby June 27. He is bred to handle this surface switch, as his sire was the upset winner of the GI Breeders’ Cup Mile, while his dam sire Tejano Run–perhaps best known for his runner-up effort in the 1995 GI Kentucky Derby–defeated the likes of Sandpit (Brz) (Baynoun {Ire}) in the GIII Fort Harrod S. at Keeneland on the grass the following season. Storm the Court breezed five furlongs on the turf at Del Mar July 26 in an easy 1:02 flat around the dogs in the company of his Grade III-placed stablemate Royal Act (American Pharoah).

Kanderel (Candy Ride {Arg}), bred on the cross over Storm Cat responsible for the likes of Horse of the Year Gun Runner and champion Shared Belief, among others, defeated Ajourneytofreedom (Hard Spun) by a head in the June 13 Alcatraz S. at Golden Gate, but proved he could class up here with a solid runner-up effort to the very talented Hit the Road (More Than Ready) in the restricted Oceanside S. over a mile July 10.

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Tiz Tremendous in Travers, Empress Earns Breeders’ Cup Berth in Ballerina

It took 17 long years of waiting, but the moment was everything Jack Knowlton expected. Maybe it was even better. As Knowlton held a box with a trophy in reward for Tiz the Law’s decisive victory in the $1 million Runhappy Travers Stakes, the founder and operational manager of the group that owns the son of Constitution, had a smile that even a facial mask could not hide.