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OBS March bullet breezer (:20.2) Roger McQueen (Unified) fended of all challengers Sunday to become the second stakes winner for his freshman sire (by Candy Ride {Arg}). Third as the favorite on debut at Churchill May 22–one slot behind GII Saratoga Special S. runner-up Gunite (Gun Runner)–the dark bay stepped forward to air by five lengths here July 17. Displaying ample zip once again to attend the pace through a :46.99 half, Roger McQueen took over approaching the stretch but was immediately tackled by Lucky Boss (Street Boss). He continued to stiff arm that foe in the lane, and even-money Costa Terra (Gun Runner) joined the fray late, but there was no wearing down Roger McQueen. The winner is the most recent registered produce for his now 13-year-old dam, who was a stakes winner at two herself in New York. Unified has also been represented this year in Kentucky by Debutante S. winner Behave Virginia.

RUNHAPPY ELLIS PARK JUVENILE S., $124,750, Ellis, 8-15, 2yo, 7f, 1:23.67, ft.
1–ROGER MCQUEEN, 120, c, 2, by Unified
1st Dam: Promise Me a Cat (SW, $320,820), by D'wildcat
2nd Dam: Promise Me Magic, by Pentelicus
3rd Dam: Halo Ho, by Halo
($77,000 Wlg '19 KEENOV; $190,000 Ylg '20 KEESEP; $530,000
2yo '21 OBSMAR). 1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. O-Carolyn Wilson;
B-Gatewood Bell (KY); T-Larry Rivelli; J-Adam Beschizza.
$75,760. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-1, $112,640. *Second stakes
winner for freshman sire (by Candy Ride {Arg}).
2–Lucky Boss, 120, c, 2, Street Boss–Lucky Striker, by Van
Nistelrooy. ($35,000 Ylg '20 FTKSEL). O-Lucky Seven Stable
(Mackin); B-De Sousa Stable LLC (KY); T-Kenneth G. McPeek.
$24,600.
3–Costa Terra, 120, c, 2, Gun Runner–Teardrop, by Tapit.
O/B-Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC (KY); T-Steven M. Asmussen.
$12,300.
Margins: HF, HD, 6 1/4. Odds: 4.80, 8.10, 1.00.
Also Ran: Texas Red Hot, Desert Ruler, Candy Landing, Mr. Halftime.
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Randy Morse won a pair of 2-year-old maiden races at Ellis Park in Henderson, Ky., on July 11 with Randy Patterson's filly Verylittlecents prevailing by 2 1/4 lengths at five-eighths of a mile and Donna Clark's colt Texas Red Hot wresting victory by a head at seven-eighths of a mile. Both youngsters were making their second start.

Now Morse tries to pull off a sweep at the next level, with Verylittlecents the 2-1 favorite in the $125,000 RUNHAPPY Ellis Park Debutante and Texas Red Hot at fat 8-1 in the $125,000 RUNHAPPY Ellis Park Juvenile.

Morse is very high on Texas Red Hot, even if the Texas Red colt doesn't seem to get that much respect elsewhere.

“He's a really nice-moving colt,” he said. “I'm really high on him. He ran a really slow (speed figure) number the other day. But we'll see. I think he's pretty special. In his last race, it had rained that day. I think they'd opened (harrowed the track) up, and it still wasn't very fast, let's put it that way. It was really muddy out of the chute, and that race was seven-eighths.

“But bottom line is, he did it very professional, I thought. He was boxed in behind horses, nowhere to go. And when he did get a seam, he did what he needed to do.”

Texas Red Hot, who'd been second in his debut, made a leap forward between races. Morse expects another progression for this race, saying, “I think the farther they keep going he'll just get better and better.”

Verylittlecents finished fourth in her first start.

“She got away really bad,” he said. She had the one hole. But she's really quick. But she showed she had some class, because she kept finishing that day, where most of them when get away bad will just throw in the towel.”

Morse said she put it together in her last start. “A horse came up and hooked her, and when he asked her, she ran away from the field,” he said.

“The filly looks pretty good on paper,” Morse continued, speaking of the Debutante. “The colt, he's going to have to step up numbers-wise. But I think he's capable.

“Both of them, knock on wood, have done very well. Both of them had a really good breeze here, worked in a minute by themselves, just real easy. As hot as it's been, I haven't wanted to overdo anything with them. They're still just babies, still learning.”

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No matter what happens Sunday, Morse believes both babies have a bright future.

“This doesn't mean their whole future, this one race,” he said. “…. (but) you'd like to see them finish. This is seven-eighths of a mile. This will separate a lot of them. They're doing well. It's just a matter if they're good enough.”

Joe Talamo rides both horses.

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