2nd-SAR, $105K, Msw, 2yo, f, 5 1/2fT, 1:39 p.m.

Making her first start Thursday for trainer Wesley Ward, PLAYLIST (Uncle Mo) was a $400,000 KEESEP yearling purchase for Coolmore's M. V. Magnier. Out of the GISP Bon Jovi Girl (Malibu Moon), herself a half-sister to champion older horse & sire Gio Ponti (Tale of the Cat) and a $950,000 pick up for Denali Stud from the 2010 Keeneland January Horses of all Ages Sale, Playlist is a half-sister to GSW You're To Blame (Distorted Humor). Coolmore also purchased Playlist's 4-year-old half-brother Prince of Verona (American Pharoah) as a yearling out of the 2019 Saratoga Sale for $950,000. Jockey John Velazquez gets the call.

A homebred for Al Shaqub Racing, Essaouira (Super Saver) is a daughter of GI Las Virgenes S. winner Eden's Moon (Malibu Moon), who herself brought $1.5 million from Mandore International Agency at the 2012 Fasig-Tipton November Sale. Further back, third dam North of Eden (Ire) (Northfields {Fr}) is responsible for champion grass horse Paradise Creek (Irish River {Fr}), GISW Forbidden Apple (Pleasant Colony), GISW & leading Brazilian sire Wild Event (Wild Again), and MGSP I'm Very Irish (Pleasant Colony). Jockey Jose Ortiz picks up the mount for trainer Graham Motion.  TJCIS PPs

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