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Bishops Bay Skips Over Heels and On To ‘Rising Star’-dom at the Fair Grounds

Bishops Bay (c, 3, Uncle Mo–Catch My Drift, {SW & GISP, $280,540}, by Pioneerof the Nile) posted a noteworthy 97 Beyer Speed Figure on debut Feb. 18 at the Fair Grounds, defeating next-out 'Rising Star' First Mission (Street Sense) in the process and showed his own 'TDN Rising Star'-worthy determination Sunday at the venue in his first trip at two-turns.

Breaking in line with First Defender (Quality Road) and keen to go with that one, the Triple Crown-nominated bay was forced to take back when that early leader crossed over in front of him and wound up clipping heels going into the first turn. In an excellent display of athleticism to stay on his feet, he overcame the early trouble to recover and return to applying pressure from two wide in that leader. The colts locked horns around the far turn and Bishops Bay eventually got the best of that one inside the furlong grounds. Inching away from that challenge, he had to fend off a second from stablemate Demolition Duke (Good Magic) as that one loomed large in the late stages. Rising to meet yet another question, he gamely provided an answer and held off the charge by a neck on the line.

The year younger half-brother to 2021 $825,000 KEENOV procurement Strava (Into Mischief), MSP, $282,340 hails from the female family of GSP Mindy Sue (Pleasantly Perfect), who herself produced MSP Malibu Max (Malibu Moon). Bishops Bay commanded a handsome tag of $450,000 at KEESEP from the BSW/Crow Colts Group back in 2021. Dam Catch My Drift hit the board in the GI Beldame S., and as a broodmare has also produced a 2-year-old colt by Constitution as well as a yearling filly by Improbable. She's due to Not This Time for 2023.

6th-Fair Grounds, $51,000, Alw (NW2L)/Opt. Clm ($80,000), 3-19, 3yo, 1m 70y, 1:43.77, ft, neck.
BISHOPS BAY, c, 3, by Uncle Mo
                1st Dam: Catch My Drift {SW & GISP, $280,540}, by Pioneerof the Nile)
                2nd Dam: Drift to the Lead, by Yonaguska
                3rd Dam: Drifa, by Tobasco Cat
Sales history: $450,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $72,600. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
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, and WinStar Farm, LLC; B-WinStar Farm, LLC (KY); T-Brad H. Cox.

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Racing Insights: Big Pedigrees Shine On Saturday

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10th-SA, $67K, Msw, 3yo, f, 6 1/2f, 8:01 p.m.

The first of a pair of Juddmonte fillies racing for Bob Baffert, PLEASANT (Munnings) is the latest filly to make the races out of Fair Lady (Medaglia d'Oro), herself a daughter of GISW Honest Lady (Seattle Slew) making her a half to GISW First Defense (Unbridled's Song), SW & GSP Honest Mischief (Into Mischief), SW Phantom Rose (Danzig), and SW Honest Quality (Elusive Quality). Pleasant's third dam is none other than Toussaud (El Gran Senor), the broodmare of the year responsible for the likes of MGISW and late sire Empire Maker (Unbridled), GISW Chester House (Mr. Prospector), MGSW & GISP Decarchy (Distant View), GISW Chiselling (Woodman), and the dam of MGSW Honorable Duty (Distorted Humor). The bay worked a sharp five-furlongs in :59.1 (3/32) Mar. 6 and picks up veteran John Velazquez.

Her un-coupled stablemate breaking from the inside gate, Enclosure (Arrogate) is the first foal out of Juddmonte's $500,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga purchase Cognitive (Uncle Mo). This is the extended family of $3.3m Fasig-Tipton Night of the Stars pick up MGISW Dream Rush (Wild Rush) and her daughters: GISW Dreaming of Julia (A.P. Indy) and MGSW Dream Pauline (Tapit).

“They are both nice fillies,” Baffert said Friday morning of the Juddmonte pair. “The Arrogate (Enclosure) is probably going to need a race and I think she wants two turns. The Munnings (Pleasant) is quicker.”

Also of note in this field is the outside runner Ruby Nell (Bolt d'Oro), purchased for $1.2m as a 2-year-old at the Gulfstream Sale last year. She was last seen in second behind SW Ag Bullet (Twirling Candy) when debuted on the grass Jan. 22. TJCIS PPS

7th-FG, $50K, Msw, 3yo, 1 1/16m, 5:15 p.m.

Triple-Crown nominated PURSUIT OF POWER (Gun Runner) brought $875,000 from Courtlandt Farm at the 2021 Keeneland September Sale. Distorted Lies (Smart Strike), herself a daughter of GI Kentucky Oaks runner up Broadway's Alibi, is a half-sister to newly-crowned Eclipse champion sprinter Elite Power (Curlin), MGSW Golden Lad (Medaglia d'Oro), and MSW & GISP R Gypsy Gold (Bernardini). This is also the family of Armed Forces S. winner Lights of Broadway (City of Light).

First Mission (Street Sense), a Godolphin homebred from the family of Argentinian champion 3-year-old filly Forty Marchanta (Arg) (Roar), will try to improve off his three-quarter length defeat on debut Feb. 18. TJCIS PPS

3rd-GP, $84K, Msw, 3yo/up, 1m, 1:38 p.m.

A $460,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearling purchase, MAGICAL POWER (Good Magic) enters his debut off a pair of bullet drills Feb. 26 and Mar. 11 for trainer Todd Pletcher and owners AMO Racing USA and Stonestreet Stables. The colt is out of a half-sister to MSW More Moonlight (More Than Ready). TJCIS PPS

9th-GP, $84K, Msw, 3yo, 1 1/8m, 4:37 p.m.

A homebred for Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm, UNION TAP (Union Rags) is from the family of champion 3-year-old colt Afleet Alex (Northern Afleet) and MGSP Unforgettable Max (Northern Afleet).

Making his second start for Todd Pletcher and Repole Stable, Phipps Stable and St. Elias Stable after a close third over the all-weather track Feb. 16, Clever Thought (Quality Road) is out of a daughter of champion 3-year-old filly Dancinginmydreams (Seeking the Gold). His dam is a half to GISW Dancing Forever (Rahy) and the to the dams of GSP Miss Yearwood (Will Take Charge), GSP Tuggle (Point of Entry), and GSW & GISP Carrumba (Bernardini). Under his third dam is another champion 3-year-old filly in Heavenly Prize (Seeking the Gold), MGISW Good Reward (Storm Cat) and GISW Oh What A Windfall (Seeking the Gold). TJCIS PPS

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Good Magic Colt Swiftest at OBS

A colt by Good Magic (hip 546) turned in the fastest furlong through three sessions of the four-day under-tack show for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's March Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training when covering the distance in :9 3/5 Thursday in Central Florida. The bay juvenile, out of Hoppa (Uncle Mo), is consigned by Top Line Sales.

“He had prepped in :10 flat over here, so we knew if the track was back to its original condition, that he had every shot of going :9 4/5,” said Top Line's Torie Gladwell. “We really didn't expect the :9 3/5, but we knew he was extremely fast and he's a very efficient mover and tries really hard anytime we turn him loose.”

The colt, part of the Gladwell family's pinhooking partnership, was purchased for $190,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale.

“A lot of people liked this horse at the sale,” Gladwell said. “There were quite a few people that we knew were bidding on him besides us. He is a little light on page and he still brought a lot of money even with Good Magic not being really hot yet.”

Since the September sale, Good Magic has been represented by graded stakes winners Curly Jack, Blazing Sevens and Dubyuhnell, while his son Reincarnate, winner of the GIII Sham S. in January, is on the Derby trail following a third-place finish in the GII Rebel S. last month.

Top Line was also represented Thursday by a first-crop son of Maximus Mischief (hip 421) who worked a furlong in :9 4/5. The graded-stakes winning sire, who has 24 juveniles catalogued in the March sale, also had a filly (hip 456) work the furlong in :9 4/5 for the Dark Star Thoroughbreds consignment Thursday.

“We have quite a few of those,” Gladwell said of Maximus Mischief. “He's really stamping them, the four or five of them that we have. They have the big white flashy blaze, which I love. They are good sized and put together well. The thing that I love about them the most is their personalities. They are pretty chill, laid back Into Mischief-type horses who just go out and do their job. They have a very strong hind leg and good muscle.”

With three days in the book and one session still to go, Gladwell was asked to rate the consistency of the OBS surface this week.

“The first day was probably, I want to say, the best day for buyers to sit up there and watch horses go,” she said. “It was fair all day long. The second day, they thought it was going to be too fast because of the cold weather that came in that night, so they actually slowed it down for the first page. And there were a lot of aggravated consignors. They tightened it back up for the second and third pages. The first-page horses yesterday didn't really get a fair shake, but I think all of the people sitting up there watching had a pretty good idea. They could tell the horses were trying a little bit harder, laboring almost, on the first page. Today, they didn't change anything from yesterday after they started tightening it back up and there was definitely a huge difference today. It was maybe a little too fast. But if the track is fast and the horses come back good, then I don't care. Our horses are all coming back really good.”

Four horses shared Thursday's bullet quarter-mile time of :20 4/5: a filly by Goldencents (hip 469, video) consigned by Galvan Brothers Equine; a filly by Arrogate (hip 526, video) consigned by Tom McCrocklin; a colt by Valiant Minister (hip 531, video) consigned by Golden Rock Thoroughbreds; and a filly by Munnings (hip 558, video), also consigned by McCrocklin.

Asked if she expected demand for horses to remain high during next week's first juvenile sale of the season, Gladwell said, “The viewing stands are full, the parking lot is full. We are showing from 2 o'clock until almost 4. We have been showing non-stop, so I think it's going to be a great sale.”

The final session of the under-tack show gets underway at 8 a.m. Friday. The March sale will be held next Monday through Wednesday with bidding commencing each day at 11 a.m.

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2023 Mating Plans, Presented By Spendthrift: Tracy Farmer

With the 2023 season upon us, the TDN staff is once again sitting down with leading breeders to find out what stallions they have chosen for their mares, and why. Here is what Tracy Farmer had to say about his broodmare band for 2023.

We had a great few years on the track and we retired our GI Belmont Stakes Winner Sir Winston to Crestwood Farm in Lexington, KY this year, so we will offer him a lot of support both in the stallion barn now and in the sales ring in the future. We generally only keep about 10 mares, but we have bought some new mares to support Sir Winston as we plan to breed more than a dozen mares to him in 2023.

ALYDORABLE (m, 13, Arch–Esprit D'Escalier) booked to Sir Winston.

She is a stakes placed Arch mare that has already produced a nice stakes winner by Quality Road. She has a daughter by Ghostzapper that is the dam of multiple stakes winning 3-year-old Girl Trouble, and we want to support Sir Winston with some proven mares, and she is a great match for him. Awesome Again's son Ghostzapper has done great with Arch mares, with Grade I winners like Contested and Nucky.

TROPHY GIRL (m, 10, Warrior's Reward–Storm West) booked to Good Magic.

We generally do not breed to many first year stallions but a few years ago we really were excited about Good Magic and felt like Trophy Girl would be a very good fit. She is a big mare, about 16.3h, had a lot of talent, and broadly speaking, the Smart Strike line has done quite well over the El Prado line. We felt like Good Magic might benefit from a mare with some size to her and he could add speed while not sacrificing our chance to breed a classic horse. The resulting foal was Blazing Sevens, who won the GI Champagne S. this year. She will go back to Good Magic.

BAKSHEESH (f, 4, Summer Front–Spider Dust) booked to Sir Winston.

We bought this very good looking mare specifically to be bred to Sir Winston. She was a stakes-winning 2-year-old at Woodbine and Sid Fernando really liked her pedigree to match up with Sir Winston's. We wanted to buy some mares that were fast and precocious. Don't forget, Sir Winston was also a stakes-winning 2-year-old, so we expect him to sire precocity despite the fact that he trained on to win the Belmont and graded stakes later in his career.

SKYGAZE (m, 6, American Pharoah–Skyscape) booked to Tapit.

Skygaze was champion older mare in Canada in 2021 and we retired her in the middle of 2022. She actually won a Grade III as a 2-year-old but was disqualified, and we felt like she was worth going all the way to the top. Her dam has produced five black-type horses so the family is very strong. We felt like this mare could really use A.P. Indy, and Tapit has a great strike rate with Empire Maker line mares as he has three graded-stakes winners on that cross out of 12 attempts.

LA GRAN BAILADORA (m, 16, Afleet Alex–Affirmed Dancer) booked to Ghostzapper.

She is the dam of Sir Winston (Awesome Again) and also the grand-dam of One Timer (Trappe Shot), who won a Grade II last year. We had a Ghostzapper filly out of her that we felt was very talented but had an injury and we were forced to retire her early. If we can get another foal by Ghostzapper that showed her talent, by the same sire line as Sir Winston, we will be in great shape.

GILDED LILY (m, 9, Speightstown–Handpainted) booked to Sir Winston.

From the moment we retired Sir Winston, we wanted to find some fast fillies by Speightstown to breed to him. On paper, this filly has all the things we look for. She comes from the family of Touch Gold–which makes her 3×4 to Deputy Minister– historically strong inbreeding with Awesome Again as we see in horses like Goodnight Olive (Ghostzapper) and Hot Rod Charlie (Oxbow). Gilded Lily's dam is by A.P. Indy, and Awesome Again and his son Ghostzapper have done great with A.P. Indy line mares.

LA BOHEMIAN (f, 4, Tiznow–La Rambla) booked to Sir Winston.

This filly was a homebred of ours and she is a half sister to two very talented and fast stakes-level sprinters. Needless to say, Tiznow has done well under Awesome Again (Paynter/Oxbow/ Bravazzo etc) but, more importantly, her dam, La Rambla, is by City Zip, who is a half-brother to Ghostzapper. So we know the family has an affinity for Awesome Again.

IMMORTAL LIFE (IRE) (m, 11, Iffraaj {GB}- Pursuit of Life {GB}) booked to Not This Time.

This is a mare we are very high on. Her first foal is graded-stakes winner Neptune's Storm (Stormy Atlantic), who is $10K short of being a millionaire. The 3-year-old filly out of the mare is Fearless Angel (More Than Ready), who was beaten just a nose in a stake as a 2-year-old last year. Not this Time has sired Grade I winner Just One Time, who is out of a Gone West line mare, just like this one. Immortal Life's best foal is by a Storm Cat line as well, and although Not this Time is primarily a dirt stallion, he has gotten some very good horses from European families such as Epicenter.

Interested in sharing your own mating plans? Email garyking@thetdn.com.

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