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Racing Insights for Saturday, Nov. 6

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8th-GP, $55K, Msw, 2yo, 7f, 4:02 p.m. ET
Some two years after his half-brother Spun to Run (Hard Spun) dominated the GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, Sabana Farm homebred Practical Way (Practical Joke) makes his debut for trainer Saffie Joseph, Jr. Also responsible for stakes winner Tap It All (Tapizar), SW dam Yawkey Way (Grand Slam) sold to Gainesway and Whisper Hill Farm for $600,000 last Keeneland November while carrying a full brother to Spun to Run. Joseph will also send out A. P.'s Secret (Cupid), a $95,000 FTKSEL yearling to $150,000 OBSAPR 2-year-old off a :10 2/5 breeze. He is a half to the precocious and stakes-placed Flying Aletha (Tiznow) and a grandson of MSW/MGSP Afleet Deceit (Northern Afleet). TJCIS PPs

8th-CD, $120K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f, 6:05 p.m. ET
Stonestreet Stables LLC's $600,000 Keeneland September 2020 acquisition Bombdiggity (Into Mischief) makes her first start here on behalf of conditioner Steve Asmussen. The daughter of stakes-placed Checkupfromzneckup (Dixie Union) is a half to five-for-five 'TDN Rising Star' Carribean Caper (Speightstown), who was most recently a six-length winner of the GIII Dogwood S. here Sept. 25; and to a Tapit yearling filly who sold for $990,000 at Fasig-Tipton Saratoga. She hails from the female family of A.P. Indy, et al.

The Brad Cox barn will send out a pair of well-related newcomers of its own. Godolphin homebred Hidden Wonder (Curlin) was produced by a Tapit half-sister to champion 3-year-old and late Darley stallion Bernardini (A.P. Indy). Savo Island (Quality Road), meanwhile, was a $220,000 KEESEP RNA who will carry the colors of Qatar Racing. She is a full-sister to Grade I-winning juvenile and freshman sire Klimt. MSP dam Inventive Dixie Union) sold for $380,000 at KEENOV '19 carrying a City of Light (Quality Road) colt who subsequently brought $435,000 this Keeneland September from the BSW/Crow Colts Group for which Cox will train. Savo Island is bred on the extremely potent Quality Road–Dixie Union cross also responsible for the likes of champion 2-year-old filly Caledonia Road and GISW Salty.

Lady Jeopardy (Liam's Map) was a productive pinhook, costing just $17,000 at KEESEP but $230,000 at OBS June after a :21 2/5 breeze. Eclipsed (Exaggerator) resurfaces after finishing second to subsequent Debutante S. heroine Behave Virginia (Unified) in a late May MSW here. That event also produced last weekend's Rags to Riches S. romper Sandstone (Street Sense). TJCIS PPs

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King Fury Gets 97 Brisnet Speed Rating For Bourbon Trail Win

Fern Circle Stable and Three Chimneys Farm's classy multiple stakes winner King Fury earned a stout 97 Brisnet speed rating for his scintillating 13-length victory Saturday in the first running of the $275,000 Bourbon Trail at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.

Trained by Kenny McPeek, King Fury's final 1 3/16 clocking was 1:56.01, which was just .04 off the track record set by Idol last November.

Also on Saturday's card, Columbine Stable's Carribean Caper earned a 93 Brisnet speed rating for her six-length romp in the $275,000 Grade 3 Dogwood, and SAB Stable's Everett's Song earned a 93 Brisnet speed rating for his closing win in the $275,000 Harrods Creek.

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Carribean Caper Captures Dogwood Stakes At Churchill

Columbine Stable's Carribean Caper swept three-wide on the turn to reel in the early leaders and drew away in the stretch for an easy six-length victory over Someone Said So in Saturday's 46th running of the $275,000 Grade 3 Dogwood at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., to remain unbeaten in five starts.

Carribean Caper ran seven furlongs in 1:22.57 over fast track under Colby Hernandez, who rode the winner for trainer Al Stall Jr.

“I was happy to see her leave the gate well and get to the outside,” Stall Jr. said. “She's a really classy animal. I'm really proud to train her.”

This was the first graded stakes win for Carribean Caper, who previously won the $100,000 Audubon Oaks at Ellis Park in Henderson, Ky., in her stakes debut.

“We'll probably take a look at the race at Keeneland ($250,000 Grade 2 Raven Run) on Oct. 23,” Stall Jr. said. “Even further down the road maybe we could look at something like the Grade 1 La Brea (on Dec. 26 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif.). Maybe in the future, I could see her stretch out but right now she's doing so well sprinting and we'll try to keep her on that track.”

The $60,570 first prize jumped Carribean Caper's earnings to $238,060 from a record of 5-0-0 in five starts.

Sent off as the odds-on 2-5 favorite in the field of six 3-year-old fillies, Carribean Caper paid $2.80, $2.20, and $2.10. Someone Said So, a 10-1 longshot ridden by Adam Beschizza, returned $6.40 and $3.00. Malloy, also at 10-1 with Joe Talamo up, was 2 ¼ lengths back of the runner-up and paid $3.20 to show.

Shesa Mystery, Patty H, and Coppelia completed the order of finish. Li'l Tootsie was scratched.

Coppelia, breaking from the rail, and Patty H, from post No. 5, battled for the early lead down the backstretch through fractions of :22.42 and :44.88. Someone Said So rated just off the leaders and Carribean Caper rated in the clear in fourth. Midway around the turn, Carribean Caper dragged Hernandez to the front with a sweeping move. She poked her head in front at the top of the homestretch and easily put away her five rivals down the lane.

“She broke pretty well today and I was able to get her to the outside pretty easily,” Hernandez said. “I got her into a nice rhythm and she went on with it. Today's race was all her. All I had to do was hang on.”

Carribean Caper is a daughter of Speightstown out of the Dixie Union mare Checkupfromzneckup and was bred in Kentucky by WinStar Farm. She was purchased by Columbine Stable's Andrea Pollack for $250,000 at 2019 Keeneland September Yearling Sale from consignor VanMeter-Gentry Sales.

The Dogwood is named for the hardy, blooming tree that adds so much beauty to the spring landscape in Kentucky.

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Carribean Caper Stays Perfect in Dogwood

'TDN Rising Star' Carribean Caper ran her record to five wins from as many starts with a first victory at the graded level in Saturday's GIII Dogwood S. at Churchill Downs.

A midfield fourth through the opening exchanges, the $250,000 KEESEP grad was angled out into the clear with a bit less than a half-mile to race. Working her way into it nicely three wide approaching the quarter pole, Carribean Caper struck to the lead with a furlong and a half to go and sprinted home in complete command.

“She broke pretty well today and I was able to get her to the outside pretty easily,” pilot Colby Hernandez said. “I got her into a nice rhythm and she went on with it. Today's race was all her. All I had to do was hang on.”

An eight-length debut romper at Fair Grounds in February, Carribean Caper took the next step at Keeneland Apr. 2 before a brief freshening. She picked up where she left off in an Ellis allowance July 10, and earned a first stakes victory and career-best 89 Beyer Speed Figure when getting the job done in Ellis's Runhappy Audubon Oaks over this same distance Aug. 15.

“I was happy to see her leave the gate well and get to the outside. She's a really classy animal. I'm really proud to train her,” said trainer Al Stall, Jr. “We'll probably take a look at the [GII Lexus Raven Run S. at Keeneland] Oct. 23. Even further down the road maybe we could look at something like the [Dec. 26 GI] La Brea [at Santa Anita]. Maybe in the future I could see her stretch out, but right now she's doing so well sprinting and we'll try to keep her on that track.”

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DOGWOOD S.-GIII, $275,000, Churchill Downs, 9-25, 3yo, f, 7f, 1:22.57, ft.
1–CARRIBEAN CAPER, 120, f, 3, by Speightstown
1st Dam: Checkupfromzneckup (SP, $187,470), by Dixie Union
                2nd Dam: Unbridled Lassie, by Unbridled
                3rd Dam: Lassie Connection, by Seattle Slew
   1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. ($250,000 Ylg '19 KEESEP).
O-Columbine Stable LLC.; B-WinStar Farm, LLC (KY); T-Albert
Stall, Jr.; J-Colby J. Hernandez. $168,105. Lifetime Record:
5-5-0-0, $345,595. 'TDN Rising Star'. Werk Nick Rating: A+++
   *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Someone Said So, 118, f, 3, Texas Red–Inazuma, by Fusaichi
Pegasus. ($1,200 Wlg '18 KEENOV). O-Rosin, Tim W.,
Bluebreeze Racing, LLC and Kane, Mark E.; B-Christine Hansen
& Thoroughbred Acadiana, LLC (KY); T-Coty W. Rosin. $54,550.
3–Malloy, 118, f, 3, Outwork–Hello Maggie May, by Lemon
Drop Kid. ($130,000 Wlg '18 KEENOV; $175,000 Ylg '19
FTSAUG). O-Coffeepot Stables; B-Double O Bloodstock, Everest
Bloodstock, Gerty Blkoodstock & Dermot Ryan (KY); T-Wayne Catalano. $27,275.
Margins: 6, 2 1/4, 4. Odds: 0.40, 10.20, 10.60.
Also Ran: Shesa Mystery, Patty H, Coppelia. Scratched: Li'l Tootsie. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

Pedigree Notes:

Carribean Caper is the 62nd graded stakes winner for her stalwart sire, and one of 23 graded winners for good broodmare sire Dixie Union. The Gone West over Dixie Union cross has been particularly potent with another Gone West line sire in Quality Road, who is responsible for three top-level winners out of Dixie Union mares.

Carribean Caper was an $825,000 Keeneland November in utero purchase–her speedy stakes-placed dam owned a 102 Beyer top and hails from the extended female family of A.P. Indy, et al. Checkupfromzneckup's now 2-year-old filly Bombdiggity (Into Mischief) was a $600,000 KEESEP purchase by Stonestreet who has been working towards a debut in Kentucky. Carribean Caper's yearling half-sister by Tapit was a $990,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga buy by West Point Thoroughbreds, Scarlet Oak Racing and NBS Stable. Carribean Caper produced a Quality Road colt Apr. 27 before being bred right back to that Lane's End stallion.

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