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		<title>The Sun Shines Bright On Weekend Graded Stakes</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I don't mean to tease any New York racing connections when I say this, but the real standout when it comes to racing this weekend might be the beautiful Fall weather. Graded-stakes action is happening at Keeneland and Woodbine on Saturday and both tracks should feature sunny skies and seasonal, if perhaps slightly below-average, temperatures.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don't mean to tease any New York racing connections when I say this, but the real standout when it comes to racing this weekend might be the beautiful Fall weather.</p>
<p>Graded-stakes action is happening at Keeneland and Woodbine on Saturday and both tracks should feature sunny skies and seasonal, if perhaps slightly below-average, temperatures. That leaves the racing to heat things up and Keeneland takes center stage with the GII Lexus Raven Run S. over seven furlongs for the 3-year-old fillies. A field of nine will line up led by the nearly undefeated <strong>Alva Starr</strong> (Lord Nelson). Her only two losses, if you can call them that, were both narrow second-place efforts when facing tough company at Oaklawn Park and Churchill Downs back in May. She's stepped up since, posting a 6 3/4-length win in Delaware's Dashing Beauty S. and topping that off with an 8 3/4-length romp in the GII Prioress S. at Saratoga Sept. 2. In her first work at Keeneland, she fired a best-of-18 bullet, going five furlongs in :58 Oct. 8 for trainer Brett Brinkman.</p>
<p>Situated just to the favorite's inside, <strong>Dazzling Blue</strong> (Into Mischief) went three-for-three to start her career before running second to Maple Leaf Mel (Cross Traffic) in Belmont's GIII Victory Ride S. July 8. Third but well beaten behind Alva Starr as the odds-on favorite in the Prioress, the $500,000 KEESEP grad will look to turn the tables on that rival for Juddmonte and trainer Brad Cox.</p>
<p>Charles Town Oaks winner <strong>Vahva</strong> (<a href="https://www.threechimneys.com/horse/gun-runner/" class="horse-link">Gun Runner</a>) also brings a run of recent good form in for Cherie DeVaux. Third in that Victory Ride at Belmont, she posted a career-best 92 Beyer Speed Figure in that Charles Town win and her only two major defeats both came at the hands of MGISW winner Pretty Mischievous (Into Mischief) at the Fair Grounds earlier in the year. She's also one of only two fillies in the field (the other being <strong>Lady Radler </strong>{<a href="http://www.hillndalefarms.com/kantharos/" class="horse-link">Kantharos</a>}) with experience over the Keeneland oval.</p>
<p>North of the border, Woodbine plays host to the GIII Ontario Derby with thrilling Breeders' S. winner <strong>Touch'n Ride </strong>(<a href="https://lanesend.com/candyride" class="horse-link">Candy Ride</a> {Arg}) coming back off short rest. Fifth after a troubled trip in the King's Plate Aug. 20, the 3-year-old gelding just out-dueled talented filly Elysian Field (<a href="https://www.darleyamerica.com/stallions/our-stallions/hard-spun" class="horse-link">Hard Spun</a>) on the grass to nab the third leg of the Canadian Triple Crown. Back on the Tapeta Saturday for his first try at 1 1/8 miles, he keeps leading rider Kazushi Kimura aboard.</p>
<p>Another Canadian Triple Crown race winner lines up just to inside with Prince of Wales S. victor <strong>Velocitor</strong> (Mor Spirit) turning back to the all-weather off that score in the slop at Fort Erie Sept. 12. And while the field won't have Elysian Field to contend with Saturday, they'll have another pair of fillies to test in GIII Selene S. winner <strong>Solo Album </strong>(<a href="http://www.hillndalefarms.com/curlin/" class="horse-link">Curlin</a>), who faces the boys for the first time, and last-out Ontario Damsel S. heroine<strong> Forever Dixie </strong>(<a href="https://lanesend.com/qualityroad" class="horse-link">Quality Road</a>), a respectable fourth in last year's GIII Grey S. against males, to the outside.</p>
<p>The racing returns to Kentucky Sunday with just a single graded-stakes race on the card: the GIII Rood and Riddle Dowager S. The marathon 1 1/2-mile turf contest for fillies and mares attracted the top two finishers of the GIII Ladies Marathon S. in <strong>Vergara</strong> (Noble Mission {GB}) and <strong>Transient (GB)</strong> (Sea the Stars {Ire}). For the 5-year-old Transient, both of her prior starts over Sunday's distance were defeats to fellow entry <strong>Personal Best </strong>(<a href="https://gainesway.com/stallions/tapit/" class="horse-link">Tapit</a>) who also exits the Ladies Marathon from fourth. Only two of these fillies (the previously mentioned Vergara and <strong>Loved Reiko</strong> {<a href="https://gainesway.com/stallions/tapit/" class="horse-link">Tapit</a>}) have wins over this distance while there are several runners in the field trying the stretch out for the first time.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Dale P. Ladner's Alva Starr (Lord Nelson), a smashing winner over older female sprinters while making her stakes debut in the Dashing Beauty S. at Delaware Park July 8, negotiated the hike into graded stakes company with aplomb, routing four rivals in Saturday's GII Prioress S. at Saratoga. Sent off as the 7-2 third choice,</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dale P. Ladner's <strong>Alva Starr</strong> (Lord Nelson), a smashing winner over older female sprinters while making her stakes debut in the Dashing Beauty S. at Delaware Park July 8, negotiated the hike into graded stakes company with aplomb, routing four rivals in Saturday's GII Prioress S. at Saratoga.</p>
<p>Sent off as the 7-2 third choice, with GIII Victory Ride S. runner-up <strong>Dazzling Blue</strong> (Into Mischief) the pari-mutuel princess at 3-5, the bay&#8211;bred by Ladner in partnership with trainer Brett Brinkman&#8211;attended a sharp early pace while three wide, turned back a challenge from the heavy favorite nearing the stretch and ran away with authority in the final furlong to romp by 8 3/4 lengths.</p>
<p><strong>Jersey Pearl</strong> (<a href="https://www.darbydan.com/horse/bee-jersey/" class="horse-link">Bee Jersey</a>), a latest fifth in the GI Test S. Aug. 5, outfinished a disappointing Dazzling Blue for second.</p>
<p>&#8220;This filly had not missed a beat since the Delaware race and we just felt really good coming into the race,&#8221; Brinkman said.</p>
<p>&#8220;It doesn't put us into the winner's circle, but we felt good about it. A lot of times good horses make it look easy, but they are running fast and she's got a quick turn of foot from a high cruising speed and that's all I told Jose [Lezcano] when he worked her and when he got on her today. I said, 'Let her be who she wants to be, she is very manageable and use her assets.'&#8221;</p>
<p>A start in Keeneland's GII Raven Run S. Oct. 21 may be next for Alva Starr, who was narrowly defeated by the aforementioned Jersey Pearl by a neck in a Churchill optional claimer May 27.</p>
<p><strong>Pedigree Notes</strong>:</p>
<p>Alva Starr, already one of five stakes winners for Lord Nelson, becomes the first graded winner for her late sire. Into Mischief is now the broodmare sire of four graded winners, including Saratoga's GI Whitney S. winner White Abarrio (Race Day).</p>
<p>The winner's dam Sittin At the Bar, just a $30,000 BSCYRL yearling purchase, won 11 of 19 career starts&#8211;led by nine stakes victories in Louisiana&#8211;for Ladner and Brinkman.</p>
<p>Sittin At the Bar has also produced the 2021 Prioress heroine Cilla (California Chrome) for these same connections and two other stakes winners. She is responsible for a <a href="https://www.darleyamerica.com/stallions/our-stallions/frosted" class="horse-link">Frosted</a> filly of 2022 and a <a href="https://www.threechimneys.com/horse/gun-runner/" class="horse-link">Gun Runner</a> filly of 2023. She was bred back to Cyberknife.</p>
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<p><strong>Saturday, Saratoga</strong><br />
<strong>PRIORESS S.-GII</strong>, $242,500, Saratoga, 9-2, 3yo, f, 6f, 1:09.14, ft.<br />
1&#8211;<strong>ALVA STARR, 120, f, 3, by Lord Nelson</strong><br />
<strong>          1st Dam: Sittin At the Bar (MSW &amp; GSP, $705,896), </strong><strong>by Into Mischief</strong><br />
<strong>          2nd Dam: Fast Laner, by Mutakddim</strong><br />
<strong>          3rd Dam: Lois Laner, by Cutlass Reality</strong><br />
<strong>1ST GRADED STAKES WIN</strong>. O-P. Dale Ladner; B-Brett A. Brinkman &amp; P. Dale Ladner (KY); T-Brett A. Brinkman; J-Jose Lezcano. $137,500. Lifetime Record: 5-3-2-0, $268,900. *1/2 to Cilla (California Chrome), GSW &amp; GISP, $509,000; 1/2 to Jack the Umpire (Bodemeister), SW, $193,435; 1/2 to Club Car (Malibu Moon), SW &amp; MGSP, $677,265. <strong>Werk Nick Rating: </strong><strong>A+++. *Triple Plus*. Click for the </strong><a href="https://secure6.werkhorse.com/enicks/displayTDN.asp?alva_starr"><strong>eNicks report &amp; 5-cross</strong> </a><strong><a href="https://secure6.werkhorse.com/enicks/displayTDN.asp?alva_starr">pedigree</a> or </strong><a href="http://www.equineline.com/tdn/pedigree.cfm?tk=SAR&amp;cy=USA&amp;rd=09/02/2023&amp;rn=5&amp;de=D&amp;ref=10810531&amp;pid=4127"><strong>free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree</strong></a><strong>.</strong><br />
2&#8211;<strong>Jersey Pearl</strong>, 120, f, 3, <a href="https://www.darbydan.com/horse/bee-jersey/" class="horse-link">Bee Jersey</a>&#8211;Jersey's Soul, by Perfect Soul (Ire). <strong>1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE</strong>. ($12,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP). O-Silverton Hill LLC; B-Charles Fipke (KY); T-Darrin Miller. $50,000.<br />
3&#8211;<strong>Dazzling Blue</strong>, 120, f, 3, Into Mischief&#8211;Blue Violet, by <a href="http://www.hillndalefarms.com/curlin/" class="horse-link">Curlin</a>. ($500,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP). O-Juddmonte; B-WinStar Farm, LLC (KY); T-Brad H. Cox. $30,000.<br />
Margins: 8 3/4, 2HF, 7HF. Odds: 3.50, 3.05, 0.65.<br />
Also Ran: Unsung Melody, Unified Alliance.<br />
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Billed as a showdown between unbeaten sophomore fillies Maple Leaf Mel (Cross Traffic) and Dazzling Blue (Into Mischief), with the added bonus of Red Carpet Ready (<a href="https://millridge.com/oscar-performance" class="horse-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oscar Performance</a>), who took down previously unbeaten Munnys Gold (<a href="https://coolmore.com/farms/america/stallions/munnings" class="horse-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Munnings</a>) in Churchill's GII Eight Belles S. May 5, Belmont's GIII Victory Ride S. didn't disappoint as Maple Leaf Mel</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Billed as a showdown between unbeaten sophomore fillies <strong>Maple Leaf Mel</strong> (Cross Traffic) and <strong>Dazzling Blue</strong> (Into Mischief), with the added bonus of <strong>Red Carpet Ready</strong> (<a href="https://millridge.com/oscar-performance" class="horse-link">Oscar Performance</a>), who took down previously unbeaten Munnys Gold (<a href="https://coolmore.com/farms/america/stallions/munnings" class="horse-link">Munnings</a>) in Churchill's GII Eight Belles S. May 5, Belmont's GIII Victory Ride S. didn't disappoint as Maple Leaf Mel turned back a stiff challenge from Dazzling Blue and stayed unbeaten in five starts.</p>
<p><strong>Interpolate</strong> (Into Mischief) bobbled out of the gate, but Maple Leaf Mel broke straight and true. The gray found her customary spot on the lead with ease, setting :22.54 and :45.52 fractions as Red Carpet Ready pursued her from second and Dazzling Blue followed closely in third. The trio stayed one-two-three until exiting the turn, when Red Carpet Ready dropped off and Dazzling Blue looked poised to strike. The latter tried to run down the easy-moving Maple Leaf Mel, but couldn't catch her and swapped to her wrong lead late as she tired.</p>
<p>&#8220;It definitely gives me a big relief,&#8221; said Melanie Giddings, a former assistant to the winner's previous trainer, Jeremiah Englehart, but now herself the trainer of record. &#8220;She's amazing. She's won at Aqueduct, Belmont, twice at Saratoga, and Pimlico. She's pretty incredible.&#8221;</p>
<p>The undefeated Victory Ride winner debuted last summer at Saratoga, took the state-bred Seeking the Ante S. and the state-bred East View S. with a seven-month hiatus in between, and made both her open company and graded company debut May 19 with a gate-to-wire, geared-down joyride in the GIII Miss Preakness S. at Pimlico. Never headed, Maple Leaf Mel has led at every call in all five starts. Giddings indicated the gray will target the GI Test S. Aug. 5 at Saratoga.</p>
<p>August Dawn Farm bought Maple Leaf Mel as a Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Spring 2-year-old last year for $150,000 after she worked in :10.2. The operation named her for Englehart's then-assistant Giddings, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2020. Englehart trained the filly for her first four starts, but Giddings took over as trainer of record after the Miss Preakness win.</p>
<p>&#8220;I've been texting Jeremiah all day about the filly and he wished me the best of luck,&#8221; said Giddings. &#8220;I wish he could have been here with me.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Pedigree Notes:</strong></p>
<p>Maple Leaf Mel is one of four graded winners and 15 black-type winners for Spendthrift's Cross Traffic, an Unbridled's Song son who was also represented by GI Cental Bank Ashland S. winner Defining Purpose's win in the GIII Indiana Oaks about 30 minutes prior to the Victory Ride.</p>
<p>A New York-bred, Maple Leaf Mel has one younger half-sibling, a 2-year-old colt by Brody's Cause. Cole Bennett had bought the mare carrying that now-2-year-old for $4,000 at the 2021 Keeneland January sale. Florida-bred City Gift is by the unraced City Place, whose four stakes winners out of his daughters include 2020 Canadian Horse of the Year Mighty Heart (Dramedy).</p>
<p><strong>Saturday, Belmont</strong><br />
<strong>VICTORY RIDE S.-GIII</strong>, $175,000, Belmont, 7-8, 3yo, f, 6 1/2f, 1:15.74, ft.<br />
1&#8211;<strong>MAPLE LEAF MEL, 124, f, 3, by Cross Traffic</strong><br />
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<strong>               2nd Dam: For My Wife, by Not For Love</strong><br />
<strong>               3rd Dam: Heavens to Betsy, by Miswaki</strong><br />
($18,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP; $150,000 2yo '22 EASMAY). O-August<br />
Dawn Farm; B-Joe Fafone (NY); T-Melanie Giddings; J-Joel<br />
Rosario. $96,250. Lifetime Record: 5-5-0-0, $399,650. *1/2 to<br />
Eddie's Gift (El Corredor), SP, $167,950. <strong>Werk Nick Rating: A.</strong><br />
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2&#8211;<strong>Dazzling Blue</strong>, 120, f, 3, Into Mischief&#8211;Blue Violet, by <a href="http://www.hillndalefarms.com/curlin/" class="horse-link">Curlin</a>.<br />
<strong>1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. </strong>($500,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP).<br />
O-Juddmonte; B-WinStar Farm, LLC (KY); T-Brad H. Cox.<br />
$35,000.<br />
3&#8211;<strong>Vahva</strong>, 120, f, 3, <a href="https://www.threechimneys.com/horse/gun-runner/" class="horse-link">Gun Runner</a>&#8211;Holiday Soiree, by Harlan's<br />
Holiday. <strong>1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. </strong>($280,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP).<br />
O-Belladonna Racing, LLC, Edward J. Hudson, Jr., West Point<br />
Thoroughbreds, LBD Stable LLC, Nice Guys Stables, Manganaro<br />
Bloodstock, Runnels Racing, Steve Hornstock and Twin Brook<br />
Stables; B-Woodford Thoroughbreds, LLC (KY); T-Cherie<br />
DeVaux. $21,000.<br />
Margins: 2HF, 1HF, 7. Odds: 2.75, 5.60, 8.00.<br />
Also Ran: Interpolate, Downtown Mischief, Topsy, Red Carpet Ready, Adeliese's Smile.<br />
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A pair of Grade I events for 3-year-olds on grass will co-anchor a loaded 12-race program at Belmont Park Saturday. European invader The Foxes (Ire) (Churchill {Ire}), a narrow winner of the G2 Dante S. May 18 and fifth-place finisher after stumbling at the start in the G1 English Derby June 3, will make the</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A pair of Grade I events for 3-year-olds on grass will co-anchor a loaded 12-race program at Belmont Park Saturday.</p>
<p>European invader <strong>The Foxes (Ire)</strong> (Churchill {Ire}), a narrow winner of the G2 Dante S. May 18 and fifth-place finisher after stumbling at the start in the G1 English Derby June 3, will make the trip across the pond for trainer Andrew Balding for the GI Belmont Derby Invitational. The 7-2 morning-line favorite, drawn widest of all in post 11, will square off against 10 rivals, including GII Pennine Ridge S. one-two-three <strong>Kalik</strong> (<a href="http://www.airdriestud.com/horses/collected-39689.html" class="horse-link">Collected</a>), <strong>'TDN Rising Star' Far Bridge</strong> (English Channel) and narrow GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf runner-up <strong>Silver Knott (GB)</strong> (Lope de Vega {Ire}); and GII American Turf S. winner <strong>Webslinger</strong> (<a href="https://www.winstarfarm.com/horses/constitution.html" class="horse-link">Constitution</a>).</p>
<p>&#8220;He's a high-class horse,&#8221; Balding said. &#8220;He won the (G2 Juddmonte) Royal Lodge last year and this year he won our main Derby trial at York. He ran a good race in the Derby, but we felt he didn't get the mile and a half. Obviously, the option to drop back to 10 furlongs was attractive. Hopefully, it's a good fit for him.&#8221;</p>
<p>A field of nine will line up in the female counterpart in the GI Fasig-Tipton Belmont Oaks Invitational. Trainer Graham Motion will saddle 2-1 morning-line favorite and GIII Regret S. June 3 heroine <strong>Mission of Joy</strong> (Kitten's Joy) and Irish Group 3 winner <strong>Speirling Beag (Ire)</strong> (Mastercraftsman {Ire}), who makes her U.S. debut following a fifth-place finish in the G3 Prix Penelope in France Apr. 1. Trainer Chad Brown will seek his seventh Belmont Oaks trophy via undefeated Hilltop S. May 19 winner <strong>Aspray</strong> (<a href="https://lanesend.com/qualityroad" class="horse-link">Quality Road</a>) and GII Wonder Again S. June 11 heroine <strong>Prerequisite</strong> (<a href="http://www.airdriestud.com/horses/upstart.html" class="horse-link">Upstart</a>).</p>
<p><strong>'TDN Rising Star' </strong>and last year's runaway GIII Dwyer S. winner<strong> Charge It</strong> (<a href="https://gainesway.com/stallions/tapit/" class="horse-link">Tapit</a>), meanwhile, headlines a five-horse field in the GII Suburban S. Unbeaten sophomore fillies <strong>Maple Leaf Mel</strong> (Cross Traffic) and <strong>Dazzling Blue</strong> (Into Mischief) and GII Eight Belles S. winner <strong>Red Carpet Ready</strong> (<a href="https://millridge.com/oscar-performance" class="horse-link">Oscar Performance</a>) will do battle in a fantastic renewal of the GIII Victory Ride S.</p>
<p><strong>Derby Day at the Shoe&#8230;</strong></p>
<p><strong>Verifying</strong> (<a href="https://coolmore.com/farms/america/stallions/justify" class="horse-link">Justify</a>), second in both the GI Toyota Blue Grass S. Apr. 8 and GIII Matt Winn S. June 11, will be favored to break through at the graded level in the GIII Indiana Derby at Horseshoe Indianapolis. He dueled through a wicked early pace and paid the price, fading to finish 16th in the GI Kentucky Derby.</p>
<p>&#8220;He's doing really well,&#8221; trainer Brad Cox said. &#8220;I love how he came out of the Matt Winn. It will be back in 27 days, but he's a horse we felt we needed to get a race under his belt. He's run really well, just was narrowly defeated in the Matt Winn and the Blue Grass. His Derby was a throw out with the pace, going too quick too early. But he's a nice horse, he's doing well physically, looks amazing.&#8221;</p>
<p>The nine-horse field for the Indiana Derby also includes GIII Gotham S. winner <strong>Raise Cain</strong> (<a href="https://www.hillndalefarms.com/violence" class="horse-link">Violence</a>), grassy Hawthorne Derby winner <strong>Act a Fool</strong> (<a href="https://millridge.com/oscar-performance" class="horse-link">Oscar Performance</a>) and the highly regarded <strong>Cagliostro</strong> (<a href="http://www.airdriestud.com/horses/upstart.html" class="horse-link">Upstart</a>), a strong second behind the talented Scotland (<a href="http://www.hillndalefarms.com/good-magic/" class="horse-link">Good Magic</a>) in an optional claimer at Churchill Downs June 3.</p>
<p><strong>Taxed</strong> (<a href="http://www.airdriestud.com/horses/collected-39689.html" class="horse-link">Collected</a>), an 11-1 upset winner of the GII George E. Mitchell Black-Eyed Susan S. at Pimlico May 19, looks for her second straight win in the GIII Indiana Oaks. She'll face the Ken McPeek-trained GI Central Bank Ashland S. heroine <strong>Defining Purpose</strong> (Cross Traffic), purchased privately by Northern Farm since finishing seventh in the GI Kentucky Oaks.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.hillndalefarms.com/curlin/" class="horse-link">Curlin</a> Filly Headlines Delaware Handicap&#8230; </strong></p>
<p>Juddmonte homebred <strong>Idiomatic</strong> (<a href="http://www.hillndalefarms.com/curlin/" class="horse-link">Curlin</a>), a well-beaten second in the GII Ruffian S. at Belmont May 6 and wire-to-wire winner of the GIII Shawnee S. at Churchill June 3, is the clear cut one to beat in the GII Delaware H. The field of six also includes: <strong>Morning Matcha</strong> (Central Banker), second in last term's GI Cotillion S. and the local prep Obeah S. last time May 27; and GIII Royal Delta S. heroine <strong>Classy Edition</strong> (<a href="https://coolmore.com/farms/america/stallions/classic-empire" class="horse-link">Classic Empire</a>).</p>
<p><strong>Graded Duo Beneath the Lights at Prairie Meadows&#8230; </strong></p>
<p><strong>Imonra</strong> (<a href="https://www.hillndalefarms.com/violence" class="horse-link">Violence</a>) will make her stakes debut in the GIII Iowa Oaks at Prairie Meadows Saturday evening. The card also includes the GIII Prairie Meadows Cornhusker H. for older horses and the $250,000 Iowa Derby.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As has been said many times about the Thoroughbred industry: it is a business with highs and lows; more lows than highs; the highs are very high and the lows are very low.</p>
<p>It was an emotional weekend of racing for me. The highs have been the results of two races. The lows, the thoughts of those not here to celebrate with me.</p>
<p>First, Dazzling Blue ran her record to three-for-three Friday with a, well, dazzling performance at Churchill Downs. Then, Sunday, Weehawken broke her maiden by three lengths at Woodbine.</p>
<p>I planned the mating of Dazzling Blue's dam, the <a href="http://www.hillndalefarms.com/curlin/" class="horse-link">Curlin</a> mare Blue Violet, and I am the managing partner of Redd Road Stable, which, by design, owns exactly one horse&#8211;Weehawken.</p>
<p>Nineteen years ago, my late partner, Susan Knoll, after being a member of a partnership group, made the decision to begin her own small racing and breeding operation.</p>
<p>She was what the industry constantly needs, a person passionate about horses who, when they find themselves financially able, decides to race and breed.</p>
<p>At the 2004 Keeneland September yearling sale, trainer Larry Jones purchased three fillies for Susan. The least expensive of the group was a filly by Silver Deputy out of the Theatrical mare Gaslight, purchased for $12,000.</p>
<p>Though most yearlings sold at auction are not already named, that was not the case with this filly, who was named Speedy Edy, which Susan did not like.</p>
<p>Susan changed her name to Gasia, after Gasia Mikaelian, then a television newscaster in Houston, where Susan lived and practiced law. The name is actually pronounced goss-e-a, but those in the barn, and then track announcers, pronounced it geisha, so we let them have their way, and their say.</p>
<p>In Susan's colors, Gasia won six times, three of those races stakes: the Susan's Girl Breeders' Cup at Delaware Park, and the Bayakoa and Instant Racing Breeders' Cup Stakes, both at Oaklawn. She raced through age 4, earning $434.231.</p>
<p>Retired to Catherine Parke's Valkyre Stud near Georgetown, Ky., Gasia was mated to Pulpit, producing a colt in 2009. When it came time to breed her back, there was a new stallion taking up residence at Lane's End Farm. I begged Susan to breed to him. His name was <a href="http://www.hillndalefarms.com/curlin/" class="horse-link">Curlin</a>.</p>
<p>I loved everything about <a href="http://www.hillndalefarms.com/curlin/" class="horse-link">Curlin</a>: his pedigree, his race record, his conformation. I was totally convinced he would be a wonderful choice for Gasia.</p>
<p>Susan decided to breed Gasia to <a href="http://www.hillndalefarms.com/curlin/" class="horse-link">Curlin</a> (his first-year fee was $80,000) with the thought of selling the resulting foal if a colt and retaining to race if a filly.</p>
<p>Gasia produced a filly in 2010 Susan named Blue Violet. The name was chosen for three reasons: she had been sent poems that began &#8220;roses are red, violets are blue,&#8221; violets were her favorite flower or plant; and there is a crayon in the Crayola box named Blue Violet. Also trained by Larry Jones, Blue Violet won four races and $237,356, including the Lady's Secret Stakes at Monmouth Park.</p>
<p>Straight off the racetrack, Blue Violet was one of the first through the ring at the 2015 Keeneland November sale. She was purchased by WinStar Farm for $350,000. Though she produced two winners from her first three foals, Blue Violet was slated to be sold by WinStar at the 2023 Keeneland January sale. But a funny thing happened. Her third foal, Dazzling Blue, by Into Mischief, showing at the time the catalog was printed as unraced, had won her first two starts including a stakes.</p>
<p>WinStar withdrew Blue Violet from the sale, and she has since produced a colt by Bold d'Oro and been bred to the farm's newest stallion, <a href="https://www.winstarfarm.com/horse/life-is-good/" class="horse-link">Life is Good</a>, a grade I-winning son of Into Mischief.</p>
<p>In the fall of 2021, at a cocktail/anniversary party at the farm of Joe and Annie Markham, I was approached by Joe about forming a partnership among friends and acquaintances. Before the night was over, we had enough commitments.</p>
<p>I told Joe I wanted the stable to be named Redd Road because that is the location of his farm not far from the back entrance to Keeneland. He said that was fine as long as he could name the horse Weehawken, the name of the street in Frankfort, Ky., where our good friends Phil and Chris Perry grew up. Both are also partners in the filly.</p>
<p>As the managing partner of Redd Road Stable, I asked another old friend, Mark Casse, if he would select us a horse at auction and become our trainer.</p>
<p>At the 2022 Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's March auction, Mark bought a filly for us by Daddy Long Legs out of the Forest Wildcat mare Wildcat Gold for $85,000.</p>
<p>With her pedigree, we figured Weehawken would prefer grass racing, but that proved difficult last year. We entered at Ellis Park and rain forced the race to the main track so we scratched. When that happened a second time, we ran and she finished a credible third in her maiden voyage.</p>
<p>After a good fifth at Kentucky Downs, twice we entered turf races at Keeneland and twice we were excluded. We finally ran on dirt, where she tired badly going seven furlongs.</p>
<p>With Churchill Downs not an option because of issues with its turf course, we opted for the synthetic surface at Turfway Park, where she was beaten a neck in her first start there, and then ran third and sixth.</p>
<p>Because she had been in training since the previous summer, we sent Weehawken to Casse's training center in Ocala, Fla., for a few months freshening, then, at my suggestion, shipped her to Woodbine, where he has a large stable and she would have the option of synthetic or turf.</p>
<p>Sunday, after three months off, Weehawken broke sharply as usual, eased her way up the lead and, under Kazushi Kimura, coasted home three lengths in front.</p>
<p>The Redd Road silks were in the winner's circle for the first time, representing 18 partners, nearly all newcomers to the sport.</p>
<p>Honestly, I was confident Weehawken would win, this being her first start since our founding member, Joe Markham, lost his battle with cancer.</p>
<p>Redd Road Stable plans to send Mark Casse to next month's OBS sale to find us another runner. The stable was fortunate to enlist the services of Casse, but also his assistants, Allen Hardy in Kentucky and Kathryn Sullivan in Toronto.</p>
<p>Everything Susan raced or bred was in her name, primarily because it was her money. But, also because I was working at the time for an industry trade publication and wanted no appearance of a conflict of interest (each year I supplied my superiors a list of her horses, matings, etc.).</p>
<p>In retrospect, maybe this isn't really a story of highs and lows. The deaths of Susan Knoll and Joe Markham aren't lows but reminders to us of how fragile life is, how much our hearts are broken when we lose those we love. How we should enjoy each day, each experience&#8230;truly celebrate the highs. How decisions made at auctions, in racing and training schedules, in planning matings&#8230;can lead us into the winner's circle.</p>
<p>Dazzling Blue looks like something special; Weehawken's future appears bright. One is owned by a leading stud farm; the other by a new partnership of friends.</p>
<p>The industry needs both. Through its many highs and lows, the industry needs both.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>2nd-Churchill Downs, $127,840, Alw (NW2X)/Opt. Clm ($125,000), 5-19, 3yo, f, 6f, 1:10.28, ft, 8 3/4 lengths. DAZZLING BLUE (f, 3, Into Mischief–Blue Violet {SW &#38; MGSP, $237,356}, by <a href="http://www.hillndalefarms.com/curlin/" class="horse-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Curlin</a>) broke her maiden on debut last fall at Churchill Downs when she won by 4 1/2 lengths and then shipped to her trainer's winter base in</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>2nd-Churchill Downs, $127,840, Alw </strong>(NW2X)/Opt. Clm ($125,000), 5-19, 3yo, f, 6f, 1:10.28, ft, 8 3/4 lengths.<br />
<strong>DAZZLING BLUE (f, 3, Into Mischief&#8211;Blue Violet {SW &amp; MGSP, $237,356}, by <a href="http://www.hillndalefarms.com/curlin/" class="horse-link">Curlin</a>) </strong>broke her maiden on debut last fall at Churchill Downs when she won by 4 1/2 lengths and then shipped to her trainer's winter base in December where she won the Letellier Memorial S. by 3 lengths at Fair Grounds before going to the bench. Off as the 4-5 favorite here, the bay filly seized the lead down the backstretch after a slow beginning. Rounding the far turn, Dazzling Blue set sail and into the stretch she dropped the hammer on previously unbeaten <strong>'TDN Rising Star'</strong> Sunday Shoes (Pioneerof the Nile) to declare victory by 8 3/4 lengths. The winner's dam dropped a new colt by Bolt d'Oro Feb. 24. Sales History: $500,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, $205,920. <strong>Click for the </strong><a href="http://www.equibase.com/premium/eqbPDFChartPlus.cfm?RACE=2&amp;BorP=P&amp;TID=CD&amp;CTRY=USA&amp;DT=05/19/2023&amp;DAY=D&amp;STYLE=EQB"><strong>Equibase.com chart</strong></a><strong> or </strong><a href="https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/race-replays/0/202305191827CHD2/"><strong>VIDEO, sponsored by TVG</strong></a><strong>.</strong><br />
O-Juddmonte; B-WinStar Farm, LLC (KY); T-Brad H. Cox.</p>
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		<title>Into Mischief Filly Stays Unbeaten with Fair Grounds Stakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2022 23:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Dazzling Blue (Into Mischief–Blue Violet, by <a href="http://www.hillndalefarms.com/curlin/" class="horse-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Curlin</a>) came into the Letellier Memorial S. as the 1-2 favorite and ran to her odds, securing her second daylight score in two tries to remain unbeaten. The Juddmonte runner–a $500,000 purchase as a Keeneland September yearling from WinStar–rushed up to take the lead under Florent Geroux after being</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Dazzling Blue</strong> (Into Mischief&#8211;Blue Violet, by <a href="http://www.hillndalefarms.com/curlin/" class="horse-link">Curlin</a>) came into the Letellier Memorial S. as the 1-2 favorite and ran to her odds, securing her second daylight score in two tries to remain unbeaten. The Juddmonte runner&#8211;a $500,000 purchase as a Keeneland September yearling from WinStar&#8211;rushed up to take the lead under Florent Geroux after being bumped by her inside rival out of the gate and giving ground as she found her stride. She found it quickly and had measured control of the pace while registering a :22.18 first quarter and a :46.45 half. The bay drew clear in the lane for a commanding and frontrunning win as previously unbeaten three-time winner Condensation (<a href="https://www.darleyamerica.com/stallions/our-stallions/frosted" class="horse-link">Frosted</a>) closed to trail her home three lengths in arrears.</p>
<p>Trainer Brad Cox and Geroux had also teamed up to win the Sugar Bowl S. earlier on the Fair Grounds card with Corona Bolt (Bolt d'Oro).</p>
<p>The Letellier winner's only previous start was in a Nov. 16 maiden special weight at Churchill Downs, where she turned in a similar effort, also under Geroux, to score by 4 1/2 lengths as the favorite.</p>
<p>Dazzling Blue's dam has slipped the last two years, but was bred to current leading freshman sire Bolt d'Oro for next term.</p>
<p><strong>LETELLIER MEMORIAL S.</strong>, $99,000, Fair Grounds, 12-26, 2yo, f, 6f, 1:11.59, ft.<br />
1&#8211;<strong>DAZZLING BLUE, 116, f, 2, by Into Mischief</strong><br />
<strong>               1st Dam: Blue Violet (SW &amp; MGSP, $237,356), by <a href="http://www.hillndalefarms.com/curlin/" class="horse-link">Curlin</a></strong><br />
<strong>               2nd Dam: Gasia, by Silver Deputy</strong><br />
<strong>               3rd Dam: Gaslight, by Theatrical (Ire)</strong><br />
($500,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP). <strong>1ST BLACK TYPE WIN.</strong><br />
O-Juddmonte; B-WinStar Farm, LLC (KY); T-Brad H. Cox;<br />
J-Florent Geroux. $60,000. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0,<br />
$129,000.<br />
2&#8211;<strong>Condensation</strong>, 118, f, 2, <a href="https://www.darleyamerica.com/stallions/our-stallions/frosted" class="horse-link">Frosted</a>&#8211;Tiz Briska, by Tiznow.<br />
($40,000 Ylg '21 FTKOCT). <strong>1ST BLACK TYPE. </strong>O-Pravin A.<br />
Patel; B-William Humphries &amp; Altair Farms LLC (KY); T-Chris<br />
Hartman. $20,000.<br />
3&#8211;<strong>Miss Shipman</strong>, 118, f, 2, <a href="https://www.darleyamerica.com/stallions/our-stallions/midshipman" class="horse-link">Midshipman</a>&#8211;Kalistoga Girl, by<br />
<a href="https://gainesway.com/stallions/tapit/" class="horse-link">Tapit</a>. ($10,000 Ylg '21 FTKOCT; $100,000 RNA 2yo '22<br />
OBSMAR; $75,000 2yo '22 OBSOPN). <strong>1ST BLACK TYPE.</strong><br />
O-Norman Stables, LLC; B-University of Kentucky (KY);<br />
T-Lonnie Briley. $10,000.<br />
Margins: 3, NO, NO. Odds: 0.50, 14.00, 29.60.<br />
Also Ran: Twice as Sweet, Promise of Hope, Neutralize, Flamand, Gavinera.<br />
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