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Blended Citizen to Oklahoma

Blended Citizen (Proud Citizen–Langara Lass, by Langfuhr), a three-time graded stakes winner, has been purchased by DMW Racing Stables and will enter stud in Oklahoma for the 2021 breeding season. Mike Recio brokered the transaction on the 5-year-old on behalf of owners Sayjay Racing, LLC, Greg Hall and Brooke Hubbard.

Blended Citizen’s resume includes wins in the 2018 GIII Peter Pan S. and GIII Jeff Ruby Steaks and also a win in this year’s GIII Louisiana S. via disqualification. He retires with a record of 22-5-1-2 and earnings of $558,230.

“Blended Citizen was an incredibly talented and versatile individual,” Hubbard said. “He showed tremendous ability to win on three different surfaces and to win graded stakes races on both dirt and synthetic against some of the top horses of his generation. We are excited about his future and to his first-crop of foals in 2022.”

Bred by Ray Hanson, Blended Citizen is out of the multiple stakes-winning Langfuhr mare Langara Lass. The $85,000 OBS March graduate is a half-brother to the stakes-winning millionaire Lookin At Lee (Lookin At Lucky), runner-up in the 2017 GI Kentucky Derby.

“We could not be more pleased to acquire an exceptional horse like Blended Citizen,” said Matt Wilkett
of DMW Racing Stables. “We think a horse with his depth of pedigree, paired with his ability to win as a 2-year-old and at the graded stakes level at three, makes him an attractive horse for breeders in Oklahoma at the southwest region.”

Blended Citizen will stand for an introductory rate of $2,000 at Collett Equine Veterinary Service.

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Into Mischief Filly Romps at the Fair Grounds

7th-Fair Grounds, $47,000, Msw, 12-18, 2yo, f, 1m 70y, 1:44.37, ft, 5 1/4 lengths.

DIVINE COMEDY (f, 2, Into Mischief–Via Strata, by Street Cry {Ire}) could only manage sixth in her 6 1/2-panel unveiling at Churchill Downs Sept. 17 and received Lasix for this first try at two turns. Going straight to the front, the 3-1 shot walked the dog through a half-mile in :48.40 and continued unchallenged into the lane, cruising clear to a 5 1/2-length success. Wicked Bisou (Wicked Strong), the half-sister to champion Midnight Bisou (Midnight Lute), was the runner-up. Divine Comedy is the first foal out of Via Strata, who has since produced a pair of colts by Into Mischief. She failed to get in foal to Ghostzapper this spring. Her second dam is MGSW & GISP Golden Velvet (Seeking the Gold), who produced graded winners Lucullan (Hard Spun) and Innovative Idea (Bernardini). The winner’s third dam is MGSW Caress (Storm Cat), who is the dam of Grade I-winning sire Sky Mesa (Pulpit). This is also the family of Grade I-winning sophomore Maxfield (Street Sense), who returns to action in NOLA Saturday. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $29,086. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

O/B-Godolphin (KY); T-Brad H. Cox.

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Blended Citizen To Enter Stud At Collett Equine Veterinary Service In Oklahoma

Blended Citizen, a three-time graded stakes winner, has been purchased by DMW Racing Stables and will enter stud in Oklahoma for the 2021 breeding season. Mike Recio brokered the transaction on the 5-year-old son of Proud Citizen on behalf of owners Sayjay Racing, LLC, Greg Hall, and Brooke Hubbard.

At two, Blended Citizen broke his maiden at Del Mar around two-turns, defeating eventual Grade 1 winner River Boyne. In his second start at age three, Blended Citizen picked up his first graded stakes score in the Grade 3 Jeff Ruby Steaks at Turfway Park, a qualifying points race for the Kentucky Derby. Just two starts later, switching back to the dirt in the Grade 3 Peter Pan Stakes, Blended Citizen overcame a six-wide trip to win by open lengths to defeat a field that included eventual graded stakes winner Core Beliefs.

This year, at the age of five, Blended Citizen added the G3 Louisiana Stakes at the Fair Grounds to his resume. He retires with five career wins and earnings of more than $558,000.

“Blended Citizen was an incredibly talented and versatile individual,” said co-owner Brooke Hubbard, who purchased Blended Citizen at the 2017 OBS March 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale for $85,000. “He showed tremendous ability to win on three different surfaces and to win graded stakes races on both dirt and synthetic against some of the top horses of his generation. We are excited about his future and to his first-crop of foals in 2022.”

By Proud Citizen, Blended Citizen is bred on the same cross that produced Kentucky Oaks winner Proud Spell, one of five champions sired by the graded stakes winning son of Gone West. He was bred by Ray Hanson out of the stakes winning Langfuhr mare, Langara Lass, a full sister to graded stakes winning filly Madeira Park. Blended Citizen is a half-brother to stakes winning millionaire and Kentucky Derby runner-up Lookin At Lee, and a full brother to stakes winning filly Battlefield Angel, who also placed in the G1 Darley Alcibiades, and is the dam of the graded stakes placed colt Manny Wah.

“We could not be more pleased to acquire an exceptional horse like Blended Citizen,” said Matt Wilkett of Tulsa, Okla.-based DMW Racing Stables. “We think a horse with his depth of pedigree, paired with his ability to win as a two-year-old and at the graded stakes level at three, makes him an attractive horse for breeders in Oklahoma at the southwest region.”

Blended Citizen will stand for an introductory rate of $2,000 at Collett Equine Veterinary Service. There will be a limited number of lifetime breeding rights available to the first 20 mares that are booked for Blended Citizen's first season.

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Mandatory Rainbow 6 Payout Set For Saturday At Gulfstream

A mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool will be offered Saturday at Gulfstream Park, where the Grade 3 Mr. Prospector and the $100,000 Via Borghese will be included in the six-race sequence of the popular multi-race wager.

Saturday's 11-race program will get underway at 12:05 p.m.

The Rainbow 6 went unsolved for the 13th day of the Championship Meet Friday, when multiple tickets with all six winners were each worth $398.54. A jackpot pool of $839,334.75 will be carried over to Saturday's mandatory payout.

The Rainbow 6 carryover jackpot is usually only paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 70 percent of that day's pool usually goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool. However, on mandatory payout days, the entire pool is paid out to the bettor or bettors with the most winners in the six-race sequence.

The Rainbow 6 will be kicked off in Race 6, a 7 ½-furlong turf race for $20,000 claimers that drew a field of 10 and a main-track-only entrant. Live Oak Plantation's Souper Highvoltage, who will race for a claiming tag for the first time, is rated as the 5-2 morning-line favorite in what may be widely viewed as a 'spread' race.

An optional claiming allowance for fillies and mares at six furlongs follows in Race 7. Ralph Nicks-trained Doll Collection, a daughter of two-time Eclipse Award champion Groupie Doll, is rated as the 5-2 morning-line favorite in a field of eight that includes Michael Stidham-trained Pago Querido, who broke her maiden at Laurel in her most recent start.

Chad Brown-trained Greyes Creek will seek his third straight victory in Race 8, a 1 1/16-mile turf race for 3-year-olds and up. The 4-year-old son of Pioneerof the Nile will be challenged by Graham Motion-trained Succeedandsurpass, who overcame traffic to win a Woodbine allowance last time out.

The Via Borghese, a 1 3/16-mile turf stakes for fillies and mares, is carded as Race 9. Todd Pletcher-trained Always Shopping, the only graded stakes winner in the field of nine, is favored in the morning line at 5-2. The 4-year-old daughter of Awesome Again, who won the 2019 Gazelle (G2) on dirt and finished second in a photo for win in the Dowager (G3) at Keeneland last time out, will be accompanied to the gate by Pletcher stablemate Cap de Creus. Brown-trained Great Island is scheduled to make her stakes debut in the Via Borghese while coming off back-to-back wins.

The $100,000 Mr. Prospector (G3), a seven-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds and up, will provide the stage for a clash of Firenze Fire, Mind Control and Diamond Oops, a trio of graded-stakes veterans in a talent-laden field of 12. Firenze Fire, who finished third in the Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) at Keeneland last time out, is the 5-2 morning-line favorite.

The Rainbow 6 sequence will conclude with a mile maiden special weight race on turf for 2-year-olds in Race 11. The field of 11 includes first-time starters trained by Pletcher, Mark Casse and Brian Lynch.

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