The 4-year-old Starspangledbanner filly overcame traffic to win the listed Astra Stakes on Jan. 21 at Santa Anita Park, highlighting a career that took a brief detour at the 2022 Keeneland April Horses of All Ages Sale.

“That particular filly was the last winner that Burt Bacharach had,” said trainer Michael McCarthy. “It was a big deal for him.”

McCarthy trained horses for Bacharach and his wife Jane for just under a year at the time of the musician's death, and he continues to condition the couple's horses for Jane, who remains active with the stable after Burt's death.

Bacharach had owned racehorses over the span of seven decades, including champion Heartlight No. One and Grade 1 winner Afternoon Deelites and Soul of the Matter

“He was a wonderful man, loved his horses,” McCarthy said. “He was very well-versed on the game.”

Duvet Day was already running for McCarthy and the Bacharachs prior to the 2022 Keeneland April sale, after the filly was purchased privately following a pair of runner-up efforts in her native Ireland. She went into the sale to dissolve the partnership, and when the ticket went to De Burgh Equine for $72,000, the Bacharachs remained part of the filly's ownership group. Elite consigned Duvet Day, as agent.

The time through the ring apparently did Duvet Day some good. She won her next two starts after the Keeneland April sale: first a 1 3/8-mile maiden special weight at Churchill Downs, and then an allowance optional claiming race at Del Mar.

McCarthy said the filly's gameplan changed after the sale, and the decision quickly paid dividends.

“Added furlongs and maturity,” the trainer said. “She'll come back and run next week going a mile and a half in the Santa Barbara (at Santa Anita Park). She's by Starspangledbanner out of a Montjeu mare, so there's plenty of stamina there. She gave me the impression she'd run all day. These races out here in California seem to get lighter and lighter all the time, so it's a good spot for her to be in.”

Duvet Day finished the season facing graded stakes competition, but she was still seeking her first black type victory at the end of 2022. The Bacharachs also took on a new partner in the horse in Richard Schatz.

That streak was quickly snapped at the start of 2023 in the 1 1/2-mile Astra Stakes on Jan. 21, where Duvet Day overcame a slow start, and getting bottled in on the rail to get free at the right time, swing six wide, and pull away by 1 1/4 lengths. She followed that effort with her first graded black type, when she was third in the G3 Santa Ana Stakes on March 12 at the same track.

Even though McCarthy didn't gain or lose a horse when Duvet Day went through the Keeneland April ring, he still had plenty of incentives to shop at the racing age sales, which he gladly takes when the opportunity is right.

“You get to see what you're getting your hands on, if they're a multiple starter,” the trainer said. “You get an idea of what their ability level is. You see some of those that look they might be good candidates for the 'Ship and Win' program, or maybe they could use a firmer turf course, something like that. You're always looking for angles. Buying some of those horses that come from New York or Kentucky and taking them out to California has served us well.”

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The son of Street Sense got off to a blazing start as a 2-year-old, winning on debut by 8 3/4 lengths in May at Churchill Downs, then running off with the Grade 3 Bashford Manor Stakes at the same track a month later for owner/breeder Stonestreet Farm and trainer Steve Asmussen.

Cazadero remained competitive as a 3-year-old in 2021, but he never quite found the same shine as he entered his 4-year-old season.

Intentions for a racehorse can vary from horse to horse, and from owner to owner, and sometimes, a horse with plenty of run left in him is entered in a racing age sale because he no longer fits the perceived window for certain time-sensitive races or to make a likely stallion prospect.

For $50,000, Fergus Galvin, acting as agent for owner Marc Detampel, was willing to take that bet at the Keeneland April sale that Cazadero still had some run left in him. After some time off, Cazadero was placed in the barn of trainer Brendan Walsh.

“If they've got some back form, it's always good, and you want to find a horse that's relatively sound and relatively fresh,” Walsh said. “The horse was still lightly raced.”

Whether it's a new 2-year-old or a horse from another barn, there is always an adjustment period when a horse enters a new trainer's program. When it comes to learning a horse with prior racing history, Walsh said knowing the barn they came from helps, but ultimately, each horse has their own discovery process.

“You've just got to try to figure him out yourself,” he said. “He came from a top barn, and you see if there's a way that you can bring him back to his old form, and thankfully, we did initially.”

Cazadero reemerged at Saratoga Race Course the summer after going through the ring at Keeneland, finishing third in an allowance optional claiming race.

Then, Cazadero headed north to contest the G2 Nearctic Stakes at Woodbine – his first graded stakes start since his 2-year-old season.

After holding back to last from the outside post, jockey Patrick Husbands kept Cazadero at the back of the pack while still several lengths wide heading into the turn of the six-furlong turf race. He was still well behind the rest of the field heading into the stretch, but Husbands swung his mount eight wide and rocketed down the straightaway to win by 2 1/4 lengths.

“He was a nice horse,” Walsh said. “He had some good back form, which is always good to see when you're trying to buy a horse that's moving along in age. We decided we'd take a shot on him, and thankfully it paid off in the Nearctic.”

After the victory at Woodbine, Detampel took on new partners on the horse – Galvin, Qatar Racing, and Barry Clohessy – and pointed toward the G1 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint. Then, the horse took his game to a global scale, starting his 2023 campaign with a start in the G1 Al Quoz Sprint on the Dubai World Cup card.

“We went to the Breeders' Cup with him, we went to Dubai with him, and we didn't do too good in either, but when you've got a horse that can legitimately show up to those kind of races, it's fun for everybody, and that's what it's all about,” Walsh said.

A year after selling at the Keeneland April sale, Cazadero is once again entered in this year's Keeneland April sale, set to take place Sunday, April 30. He is cataloged as Hip 14.

Walsh said the horse might not necessarily go through the ring on Sunday, but if his team decides another change of surroundings would be beneficial, an opportunity is on the table.

“We haven't totally committed to it yet, but we put him in there as an option,” he said. “He's still a very nice horse and a very sound horse, so we'll make a final decision closer to the time.”

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That morning, Callie Witt, an exercise rider for his barn, died from injuries suffered in a training accident. Her parents were flying in to meet Sharp, and he didn't plan on staying at the sale for long.

Hip 1 through the sale was Scarlet Fusion, a two-time winning son of Curlin with a deep page. Sharp landed the colt for $110,000 on behalf of owners Brad Grady and Carl R. Moore Management, and he got on with the rest of his day.

Scarlet Fusion proved worth the brief appearance, climbing the conditions ladder through the second half of 2022, and kicking off his 2023 campaign with his first stakes victory in the Grade 3 John B. Connally Turf Cup Stakes on Jan. 28 at Sam Houston Race Park. The win held a fair bit of extra weight in the Sharp barn.

“He was the only horse we purchased, so it's always held a bit of special energy for me, because of all we'd gone through as a barn that day, and then to acquire him and for him to turn out to be a good horse has been kind of neat,” Sharp said. “He's been a fun horse, and there's a lot of people that are pulling for him.”

A product of the Stonestreet Farm breeding program, Scarlet Fusion is out of the stakes-placed French Deputy mare Scarlet Tango, making him a sibling to Grade 1 winners Tara's Tango and Visionaire, as well as Grade 3 winners Scarlet Strike and Madison's Luna.

Sharp said browsing the sales with Grady and Moore tends to be a collaborative process, especially in racing-age sales, where buyers tend to have past performance to lean on to determine what a horse might be capable of achieving in their own barn. Scarlet Fusion was consigned at the Keeneland April sale by Eaton Sales, agent.

If Sharp could polish up the colt's resume to match his page, he surmised the return on investment could be significant. Furthermore, Scarlet Fusion had won on both dirt and turf, giving Sharp some options on his future.

“His pedigree on the bottom side, he has a stallion's pedigree, so that was super attractive,” Sharp said. “If you could get him to take some steps forward, you would have potentially residual value down the road. He would obviously have to take some significant steps forward, but based on what we've seen he has, and he looks like he'll continue to do so.”

Scarlet Fusion had previously raced as a homebred for Stonestreet, which campaigned the horse in partnership with e Five Racing, with Mark Casse handling the training duties. After he got the horse in his barn, Sharp said the colt's background with reputable connections made the transition to his program, and the feeling-out process to see where he might succeed, a simple one.

“We go over them, but especially when they're coming from a great outfit like Mark Casse's, you know the horse has been well cared for,” Sharp said. “It's pretty much just evaluating them. I breeze a lot of my own horses, and you see if there's anything you can pick up on that you think they might be better suited for, or a little something here or there that could be altered, like distance or equipment. You're trying to take care of the horse and let them mature into themselves, and that's what we've done with him. Nothing drastic, just training him straightforward and letting him develop himself.”

Though the long-term goal was to develop Scarlet Fusion into a potential stallion prospect, the barn has taken a patient route to get there. After joining Sharp's shedrow, he spent most of the year racing at the allowance optional claiming level at Churchill Downs, highlighted by a 3 3/4-length win on Nov. 2.

That race was at 1 1/2 miles on the dirt, and Sharp said that much of the time spent racing at Churchill was used to tinker with finding the horse's ideal racing conditions. He'd been showing talent in the mornings, but the trainer said that began to translate over to the races when he removed the colt's blinkers and ran him long.

Scarlet Fusion's first stakes try came at the end of his 2022 campaign, where he finished third in the Tinsel Stakes at Oaklawn Park.

His 5-year-old campaign saw Scarlet Fusion face his biggest test to date in his first start, and he earned his biggest win. In the Connally, Scarlet Fusion settled in mid-pack under jockey Adam Bezchizza in the 1 1/2-mile turf race, and got up just in time to win by three-quarters of a length.

This year's Keeneland April Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale takes place Sunday, April 30.

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When the daughter of Lemon Drop Kid went through the ring in April 2021, she had a pair of wins on her record, along with a stakes-placing. After the hammer fell to Castleton Lyons for $210,000, Brooke Marie went on to become a Grade 2 winner and eventually secure that coveted spot in Flightline's first book during the 2023 breeding season.

Bred in Kentucky by Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Moss and David Ingordo, Brooke Marie initially raced for Jim Bakke and Gerald Isbister and was trained by Christophe Clement.

She competed in turf races in New York and New Jersey, breaking her maiden in her third career start at Belmont Park as a 2-year-old, then notching an allowance win at Monmouth Park at three. She finished her sophomore campaign with a runner-up effort in the listed Christiecat Stakes at Belmont Park, leading in the stretch but getting caught at the wire to miss by a neck.

Brooke Marie was sidelined for 17 months after the Christiecat, and she returned to make two starts for Bakke and Isbister before being entered in the 2021 Keeneland April sale; finishing fourth in her return at Turfway Park and winning a one-turn turf allowance at Keeneland. She was consigned in the April sale by Elite, agent.

Trainer Eddie Kenneally spotted Brooke Marie in the catalog as Hip 48, and when her physical inspection impressed him as much as her pedigree and race record, he was sold.

“She was one of the fillies in that particular sale that had recent form, and she was on the way up,” Kenneally said. “She was relatively lightly-raced. She was a perfect horse to pull out of that sale.”

Brooke Marie is out of the unraced Giant's Causeway mare Mamasez, from the family of Grade 1 winner Marylebone and Grade 2 winner Alpha Kitten.

With Castleton Lyons being a high-level breeding operation, Brooke Marie's residual value as a broodmare was certainly a factor in her appeal in the Keeneland April catalog. Broodmare value is not a unique factor to racing-age sales, compared to shopping at a yearling or 2-year-old sale, but the potential to act upon it is often much more immediate.

Comparing the process of shopping a racing-age sale to buying yearlings, Kenneally said there is a bit less mystery in what you have with an older horse, but that does not necessarily dictate what a horse could be under a new shedrow.

“The biggest difference is you've got past performances to look at,” he said. “That's what you go on, for the most part. You look at horses that have run and run well, horses that you think are maturing or improving. You have that guideline, and that really helps you, whereas, when you're looking at yearlings, none of them have obviously done anything, so you're going on conformation alone. Conformation is a part of the horses in training sales, but the main thing is pedigree, and probably number one is past performances.”

Brooke Marie returned to Keeneland for her first start under her new connections, and she led at every point of call to win a 5 1/2-furlong turf allowance by a half-length. She followed that effort with her first career stakes victory in the Pan Zareta Stakes at the Fair Grounds, where she closed hard in the stretch and got up to win by a head.

After a third in the Frederick P. Aime Memorial Stakes at the Fair Grounds in her ensuing start, Kenneally shipped his mare west to run in the Grade 2 Monrovia Stakes at Santa Anita Park.

The Monrovia would be the site of Brooke Marie's biggest career victory. Throughout the trip down Santa Anita's downhill turf course, she did battle with Alice Marble, with each briefly conceding the lead to the other until jockey Juan Hernandez gained the advantage aboard Brooke Marie as the wire approached, and they finished with a half-length victory.

“She was a big, imposing filly,” Kenneally said about Brooke Marie. “A ton of class and quality. We liked her from the beginning. She won a listed stakes for us, and then she won the Monrovia, which was icing on the cake. Putting races like that on a filly's resume, a big, beautiful filly that's bred like her, she warrants a trip to Flightline.”

Brooke Marie retired with six wins in 20 starts for earnings of $480,647. She more than earned back her purchase price for Castleton Lyons on the racetrack, and after a visit to one of the most exciting incoming stallions in recent memory, Brooke Marie stands to continue rewarding her connections for their faith at the Keeneland April sale.

This year's Keeneland April Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale takes place Sunday, April 30.

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A year earlier, he caught the eyes of Marcus and Crystal Ryan in the back ring of the 2021 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, setting into motion the series of events that made him one of the young stars of the turf.

Based in Aiken, S.C., the Mason Springs operation has seen its reputation grow by leaps and bounds in recent years as a breaking and 2-year-old sales operation, and the horses they bought at last year's September sale have had a big hand in continuing that upwarougrd trend.

The Ryans met Private Creed at the Keeneland September sale when he was known only as Hip 3347, selling late in the marathon auction. Bred in Kentucky and consigned at the sale by Sierra Farm, the Jimmy Creed colt is out of the stakes-winning Sky Mesa mare South Andros.

“He was just a big, strong looking horse in the back ring,” Marcus Ryan said. “A little excited, but he looked like he was fast, and he looked like he could go long. He looked like a perfect buy on the day, in our price range, of course.”

The Ryans purchased the colt for $45,000, and made him part of the roughly 25 horses they'd have in training to start racing the following year, between horses destined for the sales and those headed straight to the track for clients.

Ryan said Private Creed had a colic surgery on his record prior to the sale that might have scared off potential buyers at a higher price bracket, but they were willing to take the chance after getting a passing grade from their veterinarian.

“He came down to the farm, and he was the same as everyone else,” Ryan said. “He just worked along with him, did a lot of field and hill work with him. My dad came over in the spring and complimented him, and said he was a beautiful horse. Everybody that rode him loved him.”

Mason Springs sent 11 horses to this year's Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, which was the most they'd ever brought to the May auction. Private Creed wasn't necessarily a standout among the group heading into the sale, but he generated some buzz after the under-tack show, where he covered an eighth of a mile in 10 3/5 seconds.

“Did we think he was going to win first time out, and do what he's been doing? Probably not at the time,” Ryan said. “We didn't drill on him real fast, but we did give him a lot of galloping. When he was at the sales and he had a good gallop-out, and everyone came to see him, we knew we were going to do well.”

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Ike and Dawn Thrash experienced this first-hand in 2021 when Turnerloose, a $50,000 purchase at the previous year's Keeneland September Yearling Sale, won the $500,000 Aristrocrat Juvenile Stakes at Kentucky Downs in just her second start.

For the Thrashes, owners of the Mississippi-based real estate development company The Thrash Group, the dividend was a hands-on success. The couple shops the sales on their own, and aside from a thumbs-up or thumbs-down from veterinarian Scott Hay after physical inspections, they make the final calls on which horses to pursue and buy once they hit the auction ring.

Over the course of three decades in the Thoroughbred industry, the Thrashes have had several big hits on the racetrack, including Grade 1 winners Line of David, Tell a Kelly, and Her Emmynency.

Their entry into racing was not the big splash at auction that many high-level owners start with, but a quartet of free horses they received as payment instead of cash to settle a debt in the early 1990s. Those horses were nothing spectacular, but it confirmed their long-term interest and commitment to the sport.

“If this were truly the sport of kings, I doubt they would let me into it,” Ike Thrash said. “We have been very fortunate with the horses we've had, but we have always played with a reasonable budget. When we get the predictable phone call that a horse is sick or hurt, or simply can't run, we just turn the page. We don't believe that a horse has to cost $1 million to compete.”

Turnerloose, a Nyquist filly out of the unraced A.P. Indy mare Goaltending, entered the Thrashes field of vision early on in the 2020 Keeneland September sale, offered as Hip 1787 out of the Woodford Thoroughbreds consignment. The filly was bred in Kentucky by William Humphries and Altair Farms.

“We really, especially Dawn, always look at the individual first as to how they're made and how they walk,” Ike Thrash said. “After that, we look at breeding. We thought Nyquist would be a great new sire, and we liked that she was out of an A.P. Indy mare.”

The hammer fell for the Thrashes at $50,000, which at the time, they thought was an incredible bargain. Thrash said he expected he'd have to pay three times that amount to secure the filly.

Turnerloose was placed in the barn of Eclipse Award-winning trainer Brad Cox, and she was preparing for her debut start with his string at Ellis Park. Her first start was a one-mile maiden special weight victory over the turf at Ellis Park, where she was engaged near the front throughout the race, and drew off to win by a length.

In hindsight, Turnerloose's debut went exactly as they'd drawn it up. At the time, Cox and the Thrashes just needed a race for their filly.

“I would love to say it was a stroke of genius on somebody's part, but it was strictly the way the condition book was written at Ellis Park,” Thrash said. “We either had to run five furlongs on the dirt or a mile on the grass. Brad figured she would at least like the distance.”

The team had a horse that they knew could handle the turf. Ellis Park is a popular place to prep for the turf-only Kentucky Downs meet, and Thrash knew that it takes the right horse getting good at the right time to take advantage of the boutique meet in southern Kentucky.

The Aristrocrat Juvenile Stakes appeared to be a “right place, right time” scenario for Turnerloose.

“You are always aware of a $500,000 race that early,” Thrash said. “We ran in that race twice before, with Cecile's Chapter and Katie's Reward. You really have only one shot to get there. They have to break their maiden in one or two starts.”

It was a small target, and Turnerloose hit it dead-center, drawing away early, and winning the one-mile race by five lengths under jockey Florent Geroux.

Turnerloose followed up that effort with a third-place finish in the G2 Jessamine Stakes at Keeneland, then she ran in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies at Del Mar.

The filly tried racing on dirt for the first time in her 3-year-old debut, and she racked up a victory in the G2 Rachel Alexandra Stakes en route to a start in this year's Kentucky Oaks.

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The latest issue of the PR Back Ring is now online, looking ahead to Book 1 of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

The PR Back Ring is the Paulick Report's bloodstock newsletter, released ahead of, and during, every major North American Thoroughbred auction. Seeking to expand beyond the usual pdf presentation, the Back Ring offers a dynamic experience for bloodstock content, heavy on visual elements and statistics to appeal to readers on all platforms, especially mobile devices.

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• Lead Feature Presented By Gainesway: Meredith Daugherty polls the decision-makers at major Kentucky stallion operations about which Grade 1 races for 3-year-olds hold the most weight when assessing potential stallion prospects.
• Stallion Spotlight: Sean Tugel of Gaineseway discusses young sire Karakontie, who is getting notable winners on both surfaces.
• Honor Roll Presented By Keeneland: Breeder Sabrina Moore reflects on the journey Knicks Go has taken from a $40,000 yearling at the Keeneland September sale to an earner of more than $5.3 million.
• Ask Your Insurer Presented By Muirfield Insurance: Bryce Burton of Muirfield Insurance goes into the details of covering yearlings, including notable dates and endorsements.
• Second-Crop Sire Watch: Stallions whose second crops of yearlings are represented in the Keeneland September catalog, including the number of horses cataloged and the farm where the stallion is currently advertised.

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The latest issue of the PR Back Ring is now online, ahead of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

The PR Back Ring is the Paulick Report's bloodstock newsletter, released ahead of, and during, every major North American Thoroughbred auction. Seeking to expand beyond the usual pdf presentation, the Back Ring offers a dynamic experience for bloodstock content, heavy on visual elements and statistics to appeal to readers on all platforms, especially mobile devices.

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• Lead Feature Presented By Gainesway: An in-depth conversation with Tony Lacy, Keeneland's new vice president of sales, about his duties in the position, his vision for the future of the auction company in the short-term and long-term, and his expectations for the upcoming Keeneland September Yearling Sale.
• Stallion Spotlight: Claiborne Farm's Walker Hancock discusses Catholic Boy, a dual-surface Grade 1 winner whose first foals are weanlings of 2021.
• Lesson Horses Presented By John Deere Equine Discount Program: Arapahoe Park announcer Jonathan Horowitz and Ashley Horowitz of Super G Sporthorses each explain the unique ways that the ever-patient Churchita has taught them about life.
• Honor Roll Presented By Keeneland: It didn't take long for Sheikh Hamdan Al-Maktoum of Shadwell Farm to decide he wanted the $1.05-million Malathaat at the 2019 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, and the filly has lived up to her late owner's confidence in spades on the racetrack.
• Ask Your Veterinarian Presented By Kentucky Performance Products: Dr. Scott Fleming of Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital explains the causes and issues of flat soles on the Thoroughbred foot, and the different methods of managing them.
• First-Crop Sire Watch: Stallions whose first crops of yearlings are represented in the Keeneland September catalog, including the number of horses cataloged and the farm where the stallion is currently advertised.

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The latest issue of the PR Back Ring is now online, ahead of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds In Training Sale.

The PR Back Ring is the Paulick Report's new bloodstock newsletter, released ahead of every major North American Thoroughbred auction. Seeking to expand beyond the usual pdf presentation, the Back Ring offers a dynamic experience for bloodstock content, heavy on visual elements and statistics to appeal to readers on all platforms, especially mobile devices.

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• Lead Feature Presented By Crane Thoroughbreds: As the world waits for the split sample results to come back on Medina Spirit's Betamethasone positive in the Kentucky Derby, bloodstock editor Joe Nevills looks back on the eclectic stud career of Dancer's Image, the first horse to be disqualified from first in the Derby for a failed drug test in 1968.
• Stallion Spotlight: Glenn Brok of Diamond B Farm on first-year stallion Rowayton.
• Lesson Horses Presented By John Deere Equine Incentive Program: Craig Bernick of Glen Hill Farm on the hard lessons about the Thoroughbred market taught to him by You Go West Girl.
• Honor Roll Presented By Uptowncharlybrown Stud: Wait For It is a homegrown “miracle horse” for Bob Hutt.
• Ask Your Veterinarian Presented By Kentucky Performance Products: Dr. Daniel Devis of Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital on LASER therapy.
• Pennsylvania Leaderboard Presented By Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association: Beren sets the pace among Pennsylvania program incentive earners through the first two months of 2021.
• Ask Your Insurer Presented By Muirfield Insurance: Bryce Burton of Muirfield Insurance explains how breeders can add more of a guarantee to a “no guarantee” stallion season.
• The Stat: Leading Maryland sires by increase in mares bred from 2019 to 2020.
• First-Crop Sire Watch: Stallions whose first juveniles are cataloged in the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale

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The inaugural edition of the PR Back Ring is now online, ahead of the Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale of Selected 2-Year-Olds In Training.

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• Remembering Dayjur, a watershed horse for Shadwell Farm and Taylor Made Sales Agency
• Stallion Spotlight presented by Kentucky Research: Spendthrift Farm's Mark Toothaker on Gormley
• Honor Roll presented by Breeze Up Consignors Association: War of Will's path from Europe to the Preakness
• The Stat presented by Kirkwood Stables: Leading third-crop sires of 2020 by average progeny earnings (without their top earner)
• Lesson Horses presented by Texas Thoroughbred Association: Bob Feld on Lucky Baldwin
• Ask Your Veterinarian presented by Kentucky Performance Products: How do crushed heels happen?
• On their own time: Kirkwood Stables' Gulfstream Gallop program continues to grow
• Ask Your Insurer presented by Muirfield Insurance: Considerations for your new 2-year-old
• Pennsylvania Leaderboard presented by Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association: Wait For It tops 2020 incentive earners
• First-Crop Sire Watch: First juveniles of Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream sale

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