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Andthewinneris Leads Home Oscar Performance Exacta in Bourbon

Susan Moulton's Andthewinneris came flying late to win the GII Castle & Key Bourbon S. at Keeneland Sunday, leading home an exacta for his freshman sire while also becoming the Mill Ridge stallion's first stakes winner. The 4-1 shot broke from the far outside in the field of 12, angled over and settled near the back of the field. Still some 10 lengths back approaching the stretch, the bay made eye-catching progress leaving the turn and closed stoutly down the center of the course, hitting the front at midstretch and striding clear in stakes record time.

“100% [I thought he would turn in a winning performance],” said winning trainer Wayne Catalano. “The way the horse was training, I thought we were going to win the race. Obviously, it's horse racing and anything can happen, but I go in thinking we can win. The horses feel it. Everything went like I planned. Today we had pace and everything came together like it should. When you make a plan and everything comes together, it's a great time.”

The Bourbon victory awarded Andthewinneris an automatic berth in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf.

“He was born on my farm,” said owner/breeder Susan Moulton, who was winning her second graded race of the young Keeneland meet following Manny Wah's victory in the G2 Stoll Kennon Ogden Phoenix S. Friday. “I just bought my farm four years ago. Got my farm manager here, my husband [Shane Sellers], my trainer. We're so happy. What a beautiful race. And I'm still proud of 'Manny' from Friday.”

Andthewinneris became the first winner for his freshman sire Oscar Performance (by Kitten's Joy) when he captured his 5 1/2-furlong debut over the Keeneland lawn in April. Trying the main track in his next start, he was a well-beaten third behind Gulfport in the July 4 Bashford Manor S. Back on the turf and stretching out to 1 1/16 miles, he was outkicked when third as the favorite in the Aug. 31 GIII With Anticipation S. at Saratoga last time out.

Pedigree Notes:

A four-time Grade I winner, Oscar Performance now has 11 first-crop winners. With Deer District's runner-up effort, the stallion has three graded-placed runners, in addition to his graded winner Andthewinneris. His daughter G Laurie was third in the GI Natalma S. and his son Lachaise was third in the GIII Pilgrim S.

Acquired by Moulton for $30,000 at the 2018 Keeneland November sale, Run Like the Boss, in foal to Cupid, sold for $20,000 at last year's Keeneland November sale. Her now yearling colt by Enticed sold at that same sale for $42,000. The mare produced a filly by Cupid this spring and was bred back to Raging Bull (Fr).

Andthewinneris's third dam, Santona, produced 2003 GIII Pennsylvania Derby winner Grand Hombre (Grand Slam).

Sunday, Keeneland
CASTLE & KEY BOURBON S.-GII, $348,125, Keeneland, 10-9, 2yo, 1 1/16mT, 1:41.27, fm.
1–ANDTHEWINNERIS, 118, c, 2, by Oscar Performance
               1st Dam: Run Like the Boss, by Scat Daddy
               2nd Dam: Seekitana, by Unbridled's Song
               3rd Dam: Santona (Chi), by Winning
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. ($67,000
RNA Ylg '21 KEESEP). O/B-Susan Moulton (KY); T-Wayne M.
Catalano; J-Flavien Prat. $198,013. Lifetime Record: 4-2-0-2,
$282,243. Werk Nick Rating: C+. Click for the
eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree or the
free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Deer District, 118, c, 2, Oscar Performance–Eagle Sound,
by Fusaichi Pegasus. 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. ($140,000
Ylg '21 KEESEP). O-Bakster Farm LLC; B-Springhouse Farm,
Vision TBs, Bruce Pieratt & Patricia Pieratt (KY); T-Dale L.
Romans. $63,875.
3–Really Good, 118, c, 2, Hard Spun–Means Well, by Smart
Strike. 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. ($130,000 RNA Ylg '21
KEESEP; $125,000 2yo '22 OBSAPR). O-Paradise Farms Corp.,
David Staudacher, & Jason Ash; B-Colts Neck Stables LLC
(KY); T-Michael J. Maker. $31,938.
Margins: 2 3/4, 3/4, HF. Odds: 4.09, 5.28, 7.25.
Also Ran: Rarified Flair, Our Dream Rye'd, Boppy O, Reckoning Force, Accident, B Minor, Gigante, Panama (GB), Hendrickson. Scratched: General Jim, Mendel's Secret, Oscar Award, Zaici.
Click for the Equibase.com chart or the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

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Tiz the Bomb Takes Bourbon Stakes, Punches Ticket To BC Juvenile Turf

Tiz the Bomb overcame his premature pop at the starting gate to navigate through a full field of fourteen and find the winner's circle for the Grade 2 Bourbon Stakes at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky. With this victory, the 2-year-old son of Hit It a Bomb earns a spot in the starting gate for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf, the same race his sire won in 2016, on Nov. 5 at Del Mar.

An anxious Tiz the Bomb popped open the doors to his stall in the starting gate just after the last horse had loaded and only got a few yards down the lane before an outrider grabbed him. After a vet check, the Kenny McPeek trainee was loaded back into the gate with no trouble.

After a clean break, Heaven Street was fastest to the front on the first turn, with Tiz the Bomb's outside post allowing him to settle behind the front four around the first turn. Sitting fifth, jockey Brian Hernandez, Jr. waited for the far turn to improve their position, going around horses to find a running lane for their stretch run.

In the Keeneland straight, Play Action Pass took over the lead from Heaven Street, as Tiz the Bomb ran down the center of the track and taking over the lead in the last furlong to win by a three-quarters of a length. Stolen Base came on late to take second, with Credibility third. The final time for the 1 1/16 miles over the firm turf was 1:43.69.

Tiz the Bomb paid $7.80, $4.60, and $3.80. Stolen Base paid $8.20 and $6.40. Credibility paid $20.40. Find this race's chart here.

The G2 Bourbon is part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge Series. Winners of Challenge Series events earn a fees-paid, guaranteed spot in the starting gate for the corresponding race at the Breeders' Cup World Championships Nov. 5-6 at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Del Mar, Calif.

Bred in Kentucky by Spendthrift Farm, Tiz the Bomb is out of the Tiznow mare Tiz the Key. Owned by Phoenix Thoroughbreds III Limited, the 2-year-old colt was consigned by Eaton Sales and sold to Kenny McPeek, agent, for $330,000 at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Select Yearlings Showcase. With his win in the Bourbon, Tiz the Bomb has three wins in four starts and career earnings of $447,841.

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McPeek Hopes Tiz The Bomb Can Copy Sire’s Win In Bourbon Stakes At Keeneland

Like father, like son?

Trainer Kenny McPeek hopes that is the case Sunday afternoon at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky., when he sends out Tiz the Bomb in the Grade 2 Castle & Key Bourbon, a “Win and You're In” race for the $1 million Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf to be run Nov. 5 at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Del Mar, Calif.

“He's a very good horse,” McPeek said about the son of Hit It a Bomb, winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf here in 2015. “I would have run him in the (Grade 1 Claiborne) Breeders' Futurity if the owner (Phoenix Thoroughbred III Ltd.) didn't have another one (Double Thunder) in there.”

Tiz the Bomb enters Sunday's Castle & Key Bourbon off a victory in the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Mile on Sept. 6 in his turf debut. Prior to that victory, Tiz the Bomb won an off-the-turf maiden race at Ellis Park by 14¼ lengths.

McPeek has won the Bourbon three times, most recently with Lawn Ranger in 2014.

In the race preceding the Bourbon, McPeek will send out Three Chimneys Farm and Walking L Thoroughbreds' Envoutante in the Grade 1 Juddmonte Spinster.

McPeek is seeking his third victory in the race, having repeated with Take Charge Lady in 2002-2003. “It's a tough race,” he said.

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Kentucky Downs Stakes Winner Tiz The Bomb Headlines ‘Win And You’re In’ Bourbon

Phoenix Thoroughbred III's Tiz the Bomb, winner of the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Mile in his most recent start, headlines a field of 14 2-year-olds plus two also-eligibles entered Thursday for Sunday's 31st running of the $200,000 Castle & Key Bourbon (G2) going 1 1/16 miles on the grass.

The Castle & Key Bourbon is a Breeders' Cup Challenge race with the winner earning a fees-paid berth into the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) to be run Nov. 5 at Del Mar. The Castle & Key Bourbon will go as the final race on Sunday's 10-race program with a 5:46 p.m. ET post time.

Trained by two-time race winner Kenny McPeek, Tiz the Bomb notched his first victory in his second start, a 14¼-length blowout going a mile on the dirt at Ellis Park. Brian Hernandez Jr. has the mount Sunday and will exit post position 12.

Another Kentucky Downs winner who figures to attract attention is Silverton Hill's Red Danger.

Trained by Brian Lynch, Red Danger has won two of three starts with his most recent score coming in the Global Tote Juvenile Sprint (L) going 6½ furlongs on Sept. 9. Luis Saez, who has been aboard for all three of Red Danger's starts, has the call Sunday and will exit post position 10.

The field for the Castle & Key Bourbon, with riders and weights from the inside, is:

Brit's Wit (David Flores, 118 pounds)
Stolen Base (Flavien Prat, 118)
Dowagiac Chief (James Graham, 118)
Martini'nmoonshine (Tyler Gaffalione, 118)
Rocket One (Julien Leparoux, 118)
Credibility (Edwin Gonzalez, 118)
Fast N Steady (Leonel Reyes, 118)
Waita Minute Hayes (Mitchell Murrill, 118)
On Thin Ice (Corey Lanerie, 118)
Red Danger (Saez, 118)
Heaven Street (Ricardo Santana Jr., 118)
Tiz the Bomb (Hernandez Jr., 120)
Lucky Boss (Irad Ortiz Jr., 118)
Play Action Pass (Edgard Zayas, 118).

Also-Eligibles: Vivar (Florent Geroux, 118), Red Run (Santana Jr., 118).

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