The longest shot on the board at odds of 17-1, he caboosed the field of six early and was up a spot into fifth through an opening quarter in :22.40. Under a ride on the far turn, the bay had his work cut out for him a quarter of a mile from home. Steered out and into the clear by Jevian Toledo on the outside in deep stretch, he came rolling over the top to get the money by 1 1/4 lengths. Heavily favored Repo Rocks (Tapiture) was second; Expressman (Liam's Map) was third.

Doppelganger–previously campaigned by Bob Baffert and Tim Yakteen in Southern California–won his first two starts this term for trainer Brittany Russell at Laurel, a two-turn allowance Jan. 27 and a one-turn mile optional claimer last time Feb. 24. He earned a co-career high Beyer Speed Figure of 89 in his latest. Doppelganger was second in last year's GII San Felipe S. and third in the GIII Affirmed S. He concluded his sophomore campaign with a well-beaten fourth in the Los Alamitos Derby July 9.

“It's huge,” Russell said after recording her first Grade I victory as a trainer. “Especially this horse. This is the first horse that the group sent me last year. We opted to give him some time and let him develop, and it's nice to see that it pays off. It's a job well done to the whole team and rewarding to see the patience pay off.”

She continued, “The fact that were able to run him in the 'a other than' and then he comes back in the 'two other than'–this horse thinks he's on top of the world. He doesn't know what races he won in when he won at Laurel. He's just had a lot of confidence and trained well. I've been getting feedback in the morning from everyone that he's getting better and today it showed.”

The GI Hill 'n' Dale Metropolitan H. on June 10 at Belmont Park could be a potential target for Doppelganger going forward.

Pedigree Notes:

Doppelganger becomes the 15th Grade I winner and 64th graded winner for his all-conquering sire Into Mischief. Quiet American is now the broodmare sire of 18 Grade I winners. Doppelganger's SW & MGSP dam Twice the Lady, a $105,000 purchase by Offset Bloodstock at the 2022 Keeneland November sale, produced a colt by Improbable this year. She was previously a $350,000 purchase by Doppelganger's breeder WinStar Farm at the 2013 FTKNOV sale.

Saturday, Aqueduct
CARTER H. PRESENTED BY NYRA BETS-GI, $300,000, Aqueduct, 4-8, 4yo/up, 7f, 1:23.25, ft.
1–DOPPELGANGER, 118, c, 4, by Into Mischief
1st Dam: Twice the Lady (SW & MGSP, $312,204), by Quiet American
2nd Dam: Catherine's Crown, by Chief's Crown
3rd Dam: Catherine's Bet, by Grey Dawn II
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN, 1ST GRADE I WIN. 'TDN Rising Star'. ($570,000 Ylg '20 FTKSEL). O-SF Racing LLC, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables LLC, Robert E. Masterson, Jay A. Schoenfarber, Waves Edge Capital LLC, Catherine M. Donovan, Golconda Stable, Siena Farm LLC; B-WinStar Farm, LLC (KY); T-Brittany T. Russell; J-Jevian Toledo. $165,000. Lifetime Record: 10-4-1-1, $442,400. Werk Nick Rating: C+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree or free Equineline.com  catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Repo Rocks, 122, g, 5, Tapiture–Hawaiian Love, by Not For Love. 1ST G1 BLACK TYPE. ($35,000 Wlg '18 KEENOV; $70,000 Ylg '19 KEESEP). O-Double B Racing Stables; B-Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin (VA); T-Jamie Ness. $60,000.
3–Expressman, 117, c, 4, Liam's Map–Spangled Banner, by Tiz Wonderful. 1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE, 1ST G1 BLACK TYPE. ($145,000 Wlg '19 KEENOV; $140,000 RNA Ylg '20 KEESEP; $325,000 2yo '21 EASMAY). O-St. Elias Stable; B-Gainesway Thoroughbreds LTD & Bridlewood Farm, LLC (KY); T-Todd A. Pletcher. $36,000.
Margins: 1 1/4, NO, HF. Odds: 17.90, 0.80, 7.90.
Also Ran: Today's Flavor, Bold Journey, Little Vic. Scratched: White Abarrio.
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A 114 Beyer set a formal seal on that breakout, as the highest of the year so far, but it's been clear for a while that a Bill Mott master class is coming together with the maturity of Speaker's Corner. In his two previous starts he had extended his superiority over runner-up Fearless (Ghostzapper) from just over a length in the GIII Fred W. Hooper S., to 5 1/2 lengths in the GII Gulfstream Park Mile. Dropping back in trip at Aqueduct, he showed high energy throughout to dominate a solid field by 4 1/2 lengths, volunteering himself as a third dimension to the showdown everyone wants to see between Flightline (Tapit) and Life Is Good (Into Mischief). If all three happen to converge on the GI Met Mile, then the Triple Crown series may have to produce something pretty special to keep open the status of Horse of the Year.

The blossoming of Speaker's Corner will be all the more gratifying to the Jonabell team because his pedigree is royal blue top and bottom. The solitary dissent on the farm may come from Maxfield (Street Sense), who's entitled to feel nervous about a future rival bred on the same cross with such an abundance of commercial speed.

Regardless, it's good to see their sire now giving himself every chance of extending a line that for a while had a fairly tenuous look. To start with, he had appeared to emulate his own father Street Cry (Ire) by majoring in fillies. Without Street Sense himself, who famously exorcized the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile curse in the 2007 Derby, the legacy of Street Cry (Ire) would have been uncomfortably vested in his female legends Zenyatta and Winx (Aus). (Albeit Street Boss, also at Jonabell, has proved a stalwart at his level). And while Street Sense did come up with Hallowed Crown (Aus) and one or two others in Australia, his first five Grade I winners in the U.S. were fillies and he had to wait until his seventh crop for McKinzie to start redressing the balance.

But now Street Sense is finally scraping out a promising foothold in Kentucky for the extension of the line. Next year Speaker's Corner will presumably jump into the slipstream of McKinzie and Maxfield, respectively launched over the past two years at $30,000 and $40,000 by Gainesway and Jonabell.

If this momentum feels pretty timely for a stallion now 18-years-old, then we must remember how he was obliged to regroup after being loaned to Darley Japan in 2014, when at a real crossroads of his career. (Having also shuttled to Australia five times early on, Street Sense has a pretty tattered passport).

Fair enough, the Japanese migration he shared with Hard Spun served a valid wider agenda for their owner. And it actually created a lasting opportunity for Kentucky breeders in one of the last sons of Danzig: Hard Spun, standing at $60,000 before he left for Hokkaido, resumed here at just $35,000 and is again standing at that fee in 2022. But while Hard Spun at least matches the lifetime ratios of his buddy, across all indices, Street Sense will nowadays cost you more than double at $75,000.

That's how precious was the emergence of both McKinzie and Maxfield to win Grade I races at two. Hard Spun's diverse portfolio, in contrast, has seldom extended to precocity. As such, it reflects very well on Street Sense that both those horses, having unfortunately been sidelined during the Classics, continued to do so well in maturity. (McKinzie even persevered into a fourth campaign, albeit with mixed results).

Just like Maxfield, Speaker's Corner represents a deferred reward for the expensive recruitment of an aristocratic granddam. Maxfield is out of a daughter of Caress (Storm Cat), a $3.1 million graft from a Harbor View family at Keeneland in November 2000; while Speaker's Corner is the belated yield on an even bigger investment at Fasig-Tipton seven years later.

Round Pond (Awesome Again) entered that ring after a truncated third campaign, having won the GI Breeders' Cup Distaff by 5 1/2 lengths at Churchill in 2006. In giving as much as $5.75 million, Sheikh Mohammed perhaps felt a sentimental hook in her kinship to one of the more charismatic European colts to have carried his original, maroon-and-white silks.

Round Pond's mother, who was by the stamina influence Trempolino, had failed to break her maiden in 10 attempts, but the next dam Coral Dance (Fr) (Green Dancer) had not only been Group 1-placed as a juvenile in France but also produced no fewer than three elite scorers. Her second named foal was Nasr El Arab (Al Nasr {Fr}), a group winner in France exported to California where he harvested four Grade Is, three on turf and one on muddy dirt. At the other end of her breeding career, 13 years later, she produced a top miler for Ballydoyle in Black Minnaloushe (Storm Cat), winner of the G1 Irish 2,000 Guineas/G1 St James's Palace S. In between, however, she had produced the memorable Pennekamp, a champion juvenile for Andre Fabre before winning a famous duel with the odds-on Celtic Swing (GB) (Damister) for the G1 2,000 Guineas. Pennekamp proceeded to the Derby as hot favourite, but finished down the field and was not seen again. Sadly his stud career was also an anti-climax, and he ended up covering jumping mares in Ireland at €3,000.

As a half-sister to those three elite winners, Coral Dance's daughter by Trempolino was threatening to prove as mediocre in her second career as she had been in her first, and she was sold for $20,000 at Keeneland November in 2004. By then she was 15, and unfortunately the foal she was then carrying turned out to be her last-meaning that her new owners could not profit when her unraced 2-year-old filly by Awesome Again, much her best cover, emerged the following year to win the GI Acorn S. and then at the Breeders' Cup.

Round Pond's lucrative transfer to Darley represented a huge return for Fox Hill Farms, John Servis having signed for her as a $105,000 yearling. (Unfortunately for Servis, she was later switched to Michael Matz). After that kind of outlay, Round Pond was obviously guaranteed commensurate coverings, but she evidently had her troubles and was confined to the sporadic production of six named foals.

She made a fair start with Long River (A.P. Indy), a longshot third behind Tonalist (Tapit) in the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup before serving in Dubai as a veteran, actually coming up trumps in a G1 Maktoum Challenge at the age of seven. And her final foal by Dubawi (Ire) won at Saratoga last summer and is still chipping away at black type (one podium to date) at the age of five. Her Tapit was gelded after failing to build on a promising start, while two daughters by Bernardini never even made it to the starting gate.

Now all was not yet lost, clearly, for this pair. A Bernardini filly out of a Breeders' Cup winner by Awesome Again is about as resonant a formula as you can find, in terms of distaff branding. And one, Tyburn Brook, has promptly salvaged the whole investment in her dam by producing Speaker's Corner as her very first foal.

He must always have been a standout, as the Jonabell team doubled down and sent Tyburn Brook straight back to Street Sense. Actually the resulting sophomore, Town Branch, was also in action last Saturday, stepping up on his debut to run fourth in a Keeneland maiden. Tyburn Brook has since delivered colts by Maclean's Music and Nyquist.

And while Mott is hardly known for detonating newcomers, on debut Speaker's Corner was made odds-on in a sprint on the last day of Saratoga's “ghost” meet in 2020. Third that day, he then won a Belmont maiden that in hindsight warranted graded status: chased home by GI Arkansas Derby runner-up Caddo River (Hard Spun), GII Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth winner Greatest Honour (Tapit) and GI Runhappy Travers S. third Miles D (Curlin), with GII Wood Memorial S. winner Bourbonic (Bernardini) down the field on debut.

In a vexing coincidence, Speaker's Corner followed Maxfield and McKinzie in having to sit out the Triple Crown and was relaunched with an allowance win back at Saratoga. He took a backwards step in the GI Pennsylvania Derby and it was a similarly fitful story in New York last fall, when he blew apart an allowance field before being run down late over a ninth furlong. As we said at the outset, however, everything now seems to have fallen into place.

There's no question that the Street Sense legacy is a precious one with its elusive balance of brilliance and staying power. The brilliance is perhaps rooted in the dam of Street Cry's sire Machiavellian, Coup De Folie (Halo), who was a pretty smart miler herself but above all a genetic powder keg: the great Almahmoud matches up her daughters Natalma and Cosmah respectively as Coup De Folie's second dam and mother of Halo. But there's also plenty of dash along Street Sense's bottom line. Fourth dam Lianga (Dancer's Image) was a top-class sprinter in Europe, while his second dam is a half-sister to both Mr. Greeley (Gone West) and the granddam of Vekoma-whose own Carter success, a couple of years ago, arguably qualifies him as the briskest son of Candy Ride (Arg).

This dynasty has also produced a couple of very quick horses in Europe, but is leavened by some sturdy Classic influences. Machiavellian sired Street Cry from an Irish Oaks winner by Troy (GB); and Street Sense himself is out of a Dixieland Band mare, though again she was another to have run rather quicker than the label (just missed black-type in sprints on both surfaces). Obviously this brings Natalma back into the equation through her son Northern Dancer, as sire of Dixieland Band.

As we've already seen, the family of Speaker's Corner has itself been repeatedly seeded with two-turn depth: first four dams by Bernardini, Awesome Again, Trempolino and Green Dancer. But he has plainly drawn pretty lavishly on the strands of speed behind his sire. In other words, he will have something for everybody in his next job.

Street Sense capped off his Saturday with slow-burning sophomore Whelen Springs at Oaklawn becoming his 73rd domestic black-type scorer. These include 30 at graded level and eight (plus four in Australia) in the top tier. Bernardini, for his part, is now up to 14 Grade I winners already as a historically precocious broodmare sire.

One final footnote: among all the credit owing to the Sheikh's team, don't overlook the wit with which he was named. His dam Tyburn Brook was named for a stream, nowadays subterranean, through Hyde Park in London; and the combination with Street Sense prompted Speaker's Corner, as a longstanding platform for amateur “soapbox” orators in Hyde Park.

But it goes without saying that this horse is the result of some rather more important calls, from the choice of Tyburn Brook's first date to the forbearance of Mott. With such good people in his corner, here's a speaker only now warming to his theme.

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Hammered down to 3-5 favoritism, the Godolphin homebred was quickest away from the outside stall, but was quickly joined on the front end by a trio of rivals to his inside. Speaker's Corner spurted away to gain a clear lead after the first quarter went up in :23.17 with Reinvestment Risk (Upstart) tracking from second to his inside.

That foe backed up a bit as Speaker's Corner registered a :46.11 half-mile and Green Light Go (Hard Spun) ranged up to present a new challenge on the outside. That threat was quite brief however as Speaker's Corner shrugged off his competitors with ease at the top of the stretch, cruising home with ease under a hand ride from Junior Alvarado to win for fun. It was 4 1/2 lengths back to Reinvestment Risk in second and GISW Mind Control (Stay Thirsty) was third.

“We thought he was talented as a 2-year-old,” said winning trainer Bill Mott. “He had some little issues that we had to give him time for and then we had to give him more time than what we wanted to, but right now it looks like it's turned out well. That was a prime target [winning a Grade I]. That was the goal.”

On targeting the GI Met Mile June 11, “We've got to put that on the list of things. That would be a prime target. We've squeezed him pretty good the way it is. We've come back five weeks, four weeks, so he's had his races fairly close together already.”

“He is a horse who we have always been very high on,” Alvarado said “We figured out what he wants to do. He's a very good miler. Today, we had a great trip, and he was there the whole way around. He was very much the best horse. He took the lead around the half-mile pole and after that, he was just doing his thing. He ran them off their feet early. He was travelling comfortably and was faster than the other horses. He gave me the same kick at seven-eighths as a mile. He's on his 'A' game right now. He'll be a tough horse this year.”

Breaking his maiden at second asking in October of 2020, Speaker's Corner was not seen again until August of 2021 when he romped in a Saratoga allowance. Off the board next out when extended to nine panels for the GI Pennsylvania Derby, he rebounded with a 6 3/4-length optional claimer victory going a sixteenth shorter at Belmont in October, good for a 109 Beyer Speed Figure. Setting the pace in Aqueduct's Discover S. Nov. 27, the homebred set the early pace, but was run down late, finishing second. Speaker's Corner kicked off this term with a front-running score in Gulfstream's one-mile GIII Fred Hooper S. Jan. 29 and led every step of the way for a decisive victory in the GII Gulfstream Park Mile last out Mar. 5.

Pedigree Notes:

Speaker's Corner has Godolphin pedigree top and bottom being by their stallion Street Sense and out of a daughter of their late Bernardini. He makes 12 Grade I winners for Street Sense and is also one of 37 graded winners and 85 black-type scorers for the Darley sire. Speaker's Corner is the 14th Grade I winner for Bernardini as a broodmare sire and one of 36 graded victors and 65 black-type achievers out of his daughters. The Street Sense/Bernardini cross has been successful for Godolphin in the past as it is the same breeding as their MGISW and new sire Maxfield.

Godolphin purchased the winner's second dam, MGISW Round Pond (Awesome Again), for $5.75 million at the 2007 FTKNOV sale. Speaker's Corner is the first foal out of her unraced daughter Tyburn Brook, who has since produced the 3-year-old colt Town Branch (Street Sense), a juvenile colt by Maclean's Music and a yearling colt by Nyquist. She was not bred back for 2022 after having that May 9 foal. Round Pond is also the dam of G1SW Long River (A.P. Indy) and GSP Lake Lucerne (Dubawi {Ire}).

Saturday, Aqueduct
CARTER H.-GI, $300,000, Aqueduct, 4-9, 4yo/up, 7f, 1:21.34, ft.
1–SPEAKER'S CORNER, 124, c, 4, by Street Sense
                1st Dam: Tyburn Brook, by Bernardini
                2nd Dam: Round Pond, by Awesome Again
                3rd Dam: Gift of Dance, by Trempolino
1ST GRADE I WIN. O/B-Godolphin, LLC; T-William I. Mott; J-Junior Alvarado. $165,000. Lifetime Record: MGSW, 9-6-1-1, $572,130. Werk Nick Rating: A+++. *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Reinvestment Risk, 117, c, 4, Upstart–Ridingwiththedevil, by Candy Ride (Arg). 'TDN RISING STAR'. ($140,000 Ylg '19 FTKJUL; $280,000 2yo '20 OBSMAR). O-Klaravich Stables, Inc.; B-Aschinger Bloodstock Holdings, LLC (KY); T-Chad C. Brown. $60,000.
3–Mind Control, 123, h, 6, Stay Thirsty–Feel That Fire, by Lightnin N Thunder. O-Red Oak Stable (Brunetti) and Madaket Stables, LLC; B-Red Oak Stable (KY); T-Todd A. Pletcher. $36,000.
Margins: 4HF, 2HF, 2 3/4. Odds: 0.75, 6.80, 4.30.
Also Ran: Green Light Go, Drafted, Bank On Shea, First Captain. Scratched: War Tocsin.
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A homebred for Al Fried, Jr. and trained throughout by Rich Schosberg, Affirmed Success won the first three starts of his career and was third to Awesome Again in the 1997 GII Jim Dandy S., but made his name as a top-class sprinter/miler on the dirt, winning the GI Vosburgh S. and the GI Carter H. at seven furlongs and the GI Cigar Mile H. In his first of eight appearances on the turf, Affirmed Success won the first of his two Pokers in 2000 and was beaten a neck and two noses behind War Chant, North East Bound and Dansili (GB) in that year's GI Breeders' Cup Mile. He became the oldest winner of the GIII Toboggan H. at the age of eight in 2003. He retired with 17 wins overall from 42 career starts and earnings in excess of $2.2 million. Affirmed Success was originally retired to the Kentucky Horse Park and featured in the daily 'Parade of Breeds' show, but when soundness issues precluded his continued participation, he was transferred to Old Friends.

“He was such an incredible race horse, and he had such a great personality,” said Schosberg. “Beside his obvious talent, he had class, was brilliant, and was a joy to train. He always put in his best effort. And with his high cruising speed and running style he was exciting for the fans to watch, too.

“You think of a horse like that as the iron horse, as indestructible,” Schosberg added, “but being in this business my entire life, you know that day is going to come. But he had an incredible life. He had a great life on the track and an incredible life in his aftercare at Old Friends.”

“I like my horses the way I like my people, honest and hardworking, and Affirmed Success completely embodied that,” said jockey Richard Migliore, who rode Affirmed Success to four victories, including the 2002 Carter. “He was as hard-working and tenacious as any horse that I've ever been around, and I am happy to have been a small part of his history. I take comfort in knowing that he had a great twilight of his life.”

“He was one of my first horses, and he was a great champion,” said owner-breeder Al Fried, Jr. “I am so sorry to lose him.”

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The marquee day of the meet takes place Saturday, Apr. 9, highlighted by the $750,000 GII Wood Memorial S., a final prep for the GI Kentucky Derby that offers a total of 170 qualifying points (100-40-20-10) towards a start in the 'Run for the Roses.' Should a Grade I or Group 1 winner be declared an official starter in the nine-furlong test, NYRA will boost the purse of the race by $250,000 to an even $1 million.

The Wood program also features the first Grade I of the New York racing calendar annually, the seven-furlong, $300,000 Carter H. Supporting races include the GIII Gazelle S., a qualifier for the GI Kentucky Oaks (100-40-20-10); the GIII Bay Shore S. for 3-year-olds at seven furlongs; and the GIII Distaff H. for older filly and mare sprinters at seven-eighths of a mile. The card also includes the $100,000 Danger's Hour S. for turf males, four years old and upward.

The meet concludes with a pair of 6 1/2-furlong races for sophomore males and females in the New York Stallion Stakes series, each worth $200,000 to be run Apr. 23 and 24, and the $100,000 Memories of Silver S. on closing day.

Click here for the entire schedule.

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Bred in Kentucky by WinStar Farm, Mischevious Alex was a $75,000 Keeneland September yearling and was acquired privately by Charles Zacney's Cash Is King LLC after failing to meet his reserve at $140,000 at OBS April in 2019. A debut winner at Parx that June for trainer John Servis, the bay announced his arrival with a 9 3/4-length thumping of his rivals in the Parx Juvenile S. following which LC Racing bought into the colt. Mischevious Alex stamped himself as the leading sprinter/miler of his generation in early 2020, winning the seven-furlong GIII Swale S. by seven lengths and the GIII Gotham S. going Aqueduct's one-turn mile.

Turned over to Saffie Joseph, Jr. for his 4-year-old season, Mischevious Alex annexed a pair of starts in Florida, including the GIII Gulfstream Park Sprint S. before validating 4-5 favoritism in the Carter, accounting for MGISW Mind Control (Stay Thirsty). A courageous third in the GI Hill 'n' Dale Metropolitan H. in June after battling Knicks Go (Paynter) on the front end, Mischevious Alex retires with a record of 15-7-1-2 and earnings of $734,355. According to the release from the JBBA, Mischevious Alex will leave for Japan in early November. Shizunai Stallion Station is also home to American imports Animal Kingdom, Declaration of War, Eskendereya and Noble Mission (GB).

Mischevious Alex, who is bred on the same cross as fellow Grade I winner Mia Mischief, is out of a winning half-sister to the fleet GSW Hebbronville (Majesticperfection) from the same Harlan's Holiday sire line and to SW & GSP Master of Disaster (Dance Master). Into Mischief, who just celebrated his 100th black-type winner, is the sire of 13 winners from 17 runners in Japan, including the Group 2-placed Delta Barows.

WATCH: Mischevious Alex runs them ragged in the Carter

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“I was a little concerned early in the race,” Joseph said. “He was a little far back and I know the track has been heavy and I didn't know if he could make up that much ground. Obviously, he was giving Irad some feel and he rode him with a ton of confidence. He ran well, but I didn't expect him to win a Grade I as easy as he did. I have a lot of respect for the competition.”

As for what's next, Joseph said, “[Part-owner] Chuck [Zacney] has always wanted to go to the [GI] Met Mile because we want to make him [Mischevious Alex] a stallion. Winning a Grade I today takes a lot of pressure off. In my opinion, he wants to sprint six or seven furlongs. Can he get a mile? Yes, against the right company. But it all depends on who shows up. The Met Mile is definitely under consideration and then the two Grade Is at Saratoga [Forego and Vanderbilt]. Hopefully, he comes out of it good and then we'll make a game plan.”

“He came to Saffie's barn in December and he took it from there,” Zacney said. “This was always our goal. We felt this horse deserved a Grade I. That's what we were shooting for, and now he has it.”

Romping by seven lengths in Gulfstream's GIII Swale S. in February of last year, Mischevious Alex followed suit with a facile score in Aqueduct's GIII Gotham S. a month later. With COVID-19 halting racing in much of the country, he did not make his next start until June 20, finishing fourth in Belmont's GI Woody Stephens S. Sixth next out in the GI H. Allen Jerkens S. at Saratoga Aug. 1, the $75,000 KEESEP buy was subsequently shelved for the season and transferred from John Servis to Joseph in the interim. Kicking off 2021 with a decisive optional claimer score at Gulfstream Jan. 10, Mischevious Alex captured the GIII Gulfstream Park Sprint S. last time Feb. 13.

Pedigree Notes:

Mischevious Alex is the ninth Grade I winner by leading sire Into Mischief and is also one of 39 graded winners and 92 black-type scorers by the red-hot stallion. He is also the fourth Grade I winner out of a daughter of Speightstown and one of 11 graded winners and 30 black-type victors out of mares by that WinStar stalwart. The winner is bred on the same Into Mischief/Speightstown cross as MGISW Mia Mischief and MGSW & MGISP Engage. His dam White Pants Night is a half-sister to GSW Hebbronville (Majesticperfection); MSW & GSP Master of Disaster (Dance Master) and SW A Day For Dancing (Dance Master). Mischevious Alex was her second foal and she has since produced the 3-year-old gelding Great Gasby (Tiznow); a juvenile colt by Outwork; and a yearling colt by Wicked Strong. White Pants Night was bred back to Audible last season.

Saturday, Aqueduct
CARTER H.-GI, $291,000, Aqueduct, 4-3, 4yo/up, 7f, 1:23.97, ft.
1–MISCHEVIOUS ALEX, 123, c, 4, by Into Mischief
                1st Dam: White Pants Night, by Speightstown
                2nd Dam: More d'Amour, by Tour d'Or
                3rd Dam: Love Connection, by Master Derby
1ST GRADE I WIN. ($75,000 Ylg '18 KEESEP; $140,000 RNA
2yo '19 OBSAPR). O-Cash is King LLC and LC Racing; B-WinStar
Farm, LLC (KY); T-Saffie A. Joseph, Jr.; J-Irad Ortiz, Jr. $165,000.
Lifetime Record: 12-7-1-1, $614,730. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ 
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2–Mind Control, 123, h, 5, Stay Thirsty–Feel That Fire, by
Lightnin N Thunder. O-Red Oak Stable (Brunetti) & Madaket
Stables, LLC; B-Red Oak Stable (KY); T-Gregory D. Sacco.
$60,000.
3–Souper Stonehenge, 118, g, 5, Speightstown–
Onepointhreekarats, by Medaglia d'Oro. O-Live Oak
Plantation; B-Live Oak Stud (FL); T-Mark E. Casse. $36,000.
Margins: 5HF, 1, HD. Odds: 0.85, 2.60, 18.00.
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