Gold Standard Racing Stable's HOOSIER PHILLY (f, 2, Into Mischief–Tapella, by Tapit) wasn't off to the most alert of beginnings in Sunday's $200,000 Rags To Riches S. at Churchill Downs, but the gray sat a cushy inside trip and responded when asked by Edgar Morales to post a facile first stakes success. Off a half-step slowly, the $510,000 Keeneland September graduate nevertheless raced in close attendance to moderate fractions of :24.08 and :48.38 set by Peacock Lass (American Pharoah) with T Max (Connect) in close attendance. Steered away from the inside and out of the sloppy-track kickback as the field raced around the turn, Hoosier Philly launched a three-wide bid while well in hand approaching the quarter pole, put pay to the pacesetter soon after and got to playing a bit late, but proved the no-doubt-about-it winner. T Max edged course-and-distance GIII Iroquois S. heroine Fun and Feisty (Midshipman) for second. The time over a fast-deteriorating track was 1:46.90. The 116th black-type winner for her all-conquering sire, Hoosier Philly is a granddaughter of SW Princess Arabella (Any Given Saturday) and is the second Into Mischief stakes winner out of a Tapit mare. Sales history: $510,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP. O-Gold Standard Racing Stable LLC; B-Candy Meadows LLC (KY); T-Tom Amoss.
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