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Feb. 28 Insights

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FULL-SIBLING TO CLASSIC EMPIRE DEBUTS

3rd-GP, $50K, Msw, 3yo, 6f, 1:08p.m.

China Horse Club and WinStar Farm's HARVARD (Pioneerof the Nile), a full-brother to champion Classic Empire, makes his career bow Sunday in Hallandale. Classic Empire was named champion juvenile colt of 2016 after victories in the GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity S. and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile. He captured the GI Arkansas Derby at three and was second in the GI Preakness S. before retiring to Ashford Stud. China Horse Club privately acquired his dam Sambuca Classica (Cat Thief) a short time later and her 2017 Candy Ride (Arg) filly summoned $775,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. Sambuca Classica is also the dam of stakes winners Uptown Twirl (Twirling Candy) and Anytime Magic (Fusaichi Pegasus); and SP Exclamation Point (Concord Point).

Klaravich Stables' Publicly Available (Liam's Map) debuts in this spot for Chad Brown. The $275,000 KEESEP purchase is out of a half-sister to Grade I-winning millionaire Dream of Summer (Siberian Summer), dam of Grade I winners Creative Cause (Giant's Causeway) and Vexatious (Giant's Causeway); and MGSW & GISP Destin (Giant's Causeway).

Robert and Lawana Low's $700,000 OBSOPN buy Dupuis (Distorted Humor) makes his second start in this test after finishing eighth in the slop over track and trip Feb. 6. TJCIS PPs

HALF TO COMMISSIONER MAKES CAREER BOW

6th-GP, $50K, Msw, 3yo, 1 1/16mT, 2:36p.m.

The well-related STATEN ISLAND (Carpe Diem) makes his first trip to the post in this event. Out of MSW & GSP Flaming Heart (Touch Gold), the chestnut is a half to MGSW & GISP Commissioner (A.P. Indy); GSW & GISP Laugh Track (Distorted Humor); GSP Intrepid Heart (Tapit); and the dam of champion Vino Rosso (Curlin). TJCIS PPs

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Half-Brother To Tepin Set To Debut Friday In Ireland

Harvard, a half-brother to Eclipse Award winner Tepin, will make his debut on Friday at Leopardstown in Ireland, Racing Post reports.

The 2-year-old Galileo colt will race for the Coolmore partnership of Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier, and Michael Tabor, and he is trained by Aidan O'Brien. Wayne Lordan will have the mount.

The entries for the race can be viewed here.

Coolmore has invested heavily into the accolades of Tepin and her bloodline since the mare's Hall of Fame-caliber racing career. The group privately purchased her dam, the unraced Stravinsky mare Life Happened, in 2016. A year later, they dropped $8 million to take Tepin herself back to Europe, where both mother and daughter have joined the broodmare band of Coolmore's all-world sire Galileo.

In addition to Tepin, Life Happened is the dam of multiple Grade 2 winner Vyjack and Grade 2-placed Prime Cut. She was a finalist for Kentucky Broodmare of the Year in 2016.

Tepin, a 9-year-old Bernstein mare, was named champion turf female in 2015 and 2016, with notable victories in the 2015 Breeders' Cup Mile at Keeneland, as well as the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile, Jenny Wiley Stakes, First Lady Stakes, and Just a Game Stakes. Arguably her greatest achievement, though, came when she traveled to England for the world-class Royal Ascot meet and beat the world's best turf milers – male or female – in the G1 Queen Anne Stakes.

Tepin retired with 13 wins in 23 starts for earnings of $4,437,918. She sold to Coolmore in 2017 pregnant to leading sire Curlin, and she produced a filly for Coolmore the following year.

Harvard is the second Irish-born foal out of Life Happened to reach the racetrack, following the War Front filly Repossession, who sold to LNJ Foxwoods as a yearling for $750,000 and finished out of the money in her lone start as a juvenile last year.