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Friday Insights: Speedy $650K Bolt d’Oro Firster Unveiled At Fair Grounds

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8th-FG, $50K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6f, 5:45 p.m.

Purchased for $650,000 out of the OBS April Sale after a sharp :9.4 breeze, ROXY'S BALL (Bolt d'Oro) was the most expensive filly and the second-most expensive overall by her freshman sire (by Medaglia d'Oro) from the sale. From a heavily-Australian influenced family, her third dam produced MG1SW Toledo (Aus) (At Talaq). Closer up, her own dam is a multiple stakes winner and multiple graded-stakes placed in her native Australia before being imported in 2018. Conditioned by Keith Desormeaux, Roxy's Ball posted a pair of back-to-back bullet works at Fair Grounds, going five furlongs over a sloppy track from the gate in 1:01 4/5 (1/15) Nov. 26 and again in 1:00 (1/18) Dec. 3.

A homebred filly for Clearsky Farms and Three Chimneys Farm, Amisfield (Justify) is a half-sister to a pair of graded stakes winner in MGSW Handsome Mike (Scat Daddy) and GISW Union Strike (Union Rags). She posted a bullet of her own Nov. 25, going five furlongs in 1:01 1/5 (1/10) and checked in just behind Roxy's Ball Dec. 3 with a five-furlong work in 1:00 3/5 (3/18). TJCIS PPS

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Fair Grounds Turf Racing to Return Dec. 26

Turf racing will return to Fair Grounds for the track's “Road to the Derby Kickoff Day” card, to be held Monday, Dec. 26. Officials at Fair Grounds previously suspended turf racing Nov. 25 to allow the Stall-Wilson course to recover from damage to its inner portion.

With the portable rail set at 34 feet, fields will be limited to eight runners for the Blushing KD S.and Buddy Diliberto Memorial S. With the same parameters, turf racing will again be conducted Dec. 31 with the runnings of the Pago Hop S. and the Woodchopper S.

“Going forward from there, we will monitor the condition of the course and run a limited number of turf races as the course allows,” said executive director of racing Gary Palmisano, Jr. “If all goes well, as is expected, the racing office will look to add turf races to the new condition book, which starts Jan. 5.”

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Friday Insights: $525k Curlin Half To Creative Minister Opens Oaklawn Meet

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3rd-OP, $90K, Msw, 2yo, f, 1m, 2:26 p.m.

A daughter of prolific broodmare Tamboz (Tapit), MADLY DANCING (Curlin) is a half-sister to eight winners from as many to race including GI Preakness S. third Creative Minister (Creative Cause), MGSP Battalion Runner (Unbridled's Song), MGSP Oceanwave (Harlan's Holiday), GISP Dolder Grand (Candy Ride {Arg}), and MSP Late Nite Mischief (Into Mischief). Tamboz herself is a full-sister to GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile victor and sire Tapizar. Madly Dancing, a $525,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase, races for owners WSS Racing LLC and trainer John Ortiz. TJCIS PPS

8th-FG, $50K, Msw, 2yo, f, 1 1/16m, 5:45 p.m.

Another well-bred daughter of Curlin, CUSHEE debuts Friday after bringing $775,000 at Keeneland September from Lael Stables for trainer Michael Stidham. A half-sister to GI Maker's 46 Mile S. winner American Patriot (War Front) and MGSP Muqtaser (Distorted Humor), Cushee is out of a full-sister to G1 Emirates Airline Dubai World Cup winner Well Armed. This is also the family of GSW Witty (Distorted Humor), responsible for both GSW Bombard (War Front) and MGSP Amuse (Medaglia d'Oro). TJCIS PPS

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Tapit Shoes, Half To Cyberknife, Finds His Rhythm At Second Asking

7th-Fair Grounds, $54,000, Msw, 12-3, 2yo, 1 1/16m, 1:46.90, ft, 7 1/2 lengths.

TAPIT SHOES (c, 2, Tapit–Awesome Flower {MSW & MGSP, $556,593}, by Flower Alley) made the most of a troubled trip at first asking, tackling a sloppy track at Churchill Oct. 30 to wind up sixth after trailing most of the race. With the addition of both blinkers and Lasix Saturday, the half-brother to Cyberknife (Gun Runner), MGISW, $2,087,520 had the betting public's favor, going off at 8-5 over the same distance as his debut. Racing again off the pace in seventh, Tapit Shoes settled outside of horses up the back straightaway and began to pick rivals off into the turn. Put to a drive while four wide past the quarter pole, he drove clear despite racing greenly a furlong from home, hitting the wire much the best while wrapped up the final sixteenth to be 7 1/2 lengths ahead of More Than Five (More Than Ready). From the family of G1 Emirates Airline Dubai World Cup winner Well Armed (Tiznow) and GISW American Patriot (War Front), Tapit Shoes has weanling half-brother by Authentic who brought $575,000 from Whisper Hill Farm at this year's Fasig-Tipton Fall Mixed sale. Awesome Flower was bred back to Gun Runner for a full-sibling to Cyberknife in 2023. Sales History: $300,000 Ylg '21 FTKOCT. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $33,678. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

O-Spendthrift Farm LLC, Steve Landers Racing LLC, Martin S. Schwartz, Michael Dubb, Ten Strike Racing, Jim Bakke, Titletown Racing, LLC, Kueber Racing, LLC, Big Easy Racing LLC, Winners Win & Michael Caruso; B-Kenneth L. & Sarah K. Ramsey & Tapit Syndicate (KY); T-Brad H. Cox.

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