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Hard Spun’s Two Phil’s Too Tough In Street Sense

Patricia's Hope LLC and Phillip Sagan's Two Phil's (Hard Spun) stalked, pounced and pulled away to take Churchill's GIII Street Sense S. Sunday while flattering the form of a pair of GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile contenders. Fifth in his local unveiling June 23, the chestnut broke through next out at Colonial the following month. He resurfaced to crush by 9 3/4 lengths in Canterbury's Shakopee Juvenile S. Sept. 17, but could only manage seventh on the stretch out in Keeneland's GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity Oct. 8. 'TDN Rising Stars' Forte (Violence) and Loggins (Ghostzapper), who finished one-two in that event, are among the list of formidable colts set to take on expected favorite Cave Rock (Arrogate) in this coming Friday's Juvenile.

Off at 7-1 over a rain-soaked surface and as the money poured in on Jace's Road (Quality Road), Two Phil's broke cleanly and bounced off a rival in the first-turn scramble before being put in a perfect spot by Jareth Loveberry to draft behind a trio of leaders down the backside. He continued to cruise along comfortably through a half in :48.21, and mounted an outside bid around the home bend as 27-1 Hayes Strike (Connect) mirrored that move up the fence. Two Phil's strode to the front still under confident handling past the quarter pole, and was always in command from there despite struggling a bit with his lead changes. Hayes Strike checked in 5 1/4 lengths back to complete the exacta, with another clear margin back to slow-starting Fliparino (Honor Code) in third. Jace's Road dropped back on the far turn after attending the pace and finished well back. The winner's final time of 1:47.31 was a bit slower than the 1:46.90 in which impressive unbeaten female Hoosier Philly (Into Mischief) covered the same 1 1/16 miles of the Rags to Riches S., though plenty of additional precipitation had fallen in between the two races.

“He's shown a lot of maturity in his last couple of starts,” said Loveberry, who has been aboard Two Phil's in every start but his debut. “He's started learning a lot more and settling early into the race. He got a little bounced around today, but down the backside I got him to settle nicely and at the half-mile pole we were in a good position. I tipped him out a little bit and he showed me a lot of run. This is my first graded stakes win at Churchill Downs and I'm very excited and thankful to [trainer] Larry [Rivelli] and [Patricia's Hope principal] Vince [Foglia] for giving me this opportunity.”

Rivelli added, “He's been roughed around a couple times but Jareth has really figured him out. He gave him a great ride today and has worked with him in each start to get to mature. He's learned to relax and he's a solid, sound horse. He ran great today and we're thrilled with his potential.”

Sunday, Churchill Downs
STREET SENSE S.-GIII, $199,800, Churchill Downs, 10-30, 2yo, 1 1/16m, 1:47.31, sy.
1–TWO PHIL'S, 122, c, 2, by Hard Spun
1st Dam: Mia Torri (MSW & MGSP, $314,720), by General Quarters
2nd Dam: Flip the Stone, by Birdstone
3rd Dam: Flippy Diane, by Aaron's Concorde
1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. ($150,000 RNA Ylg '21 KEESEP). O-Patricia's Hope LLC and Phillip Sagan; B-Phillip Sagan (KY); T-Larry Rivelli; J-Jareth Loveberry. $118,350. Lifetime Record: 5-3-0-0, $195,450. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree or free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Hayes Strike, 122, c, 2, Connect–Plaid, by Deputy Commander. 1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. O/B-Dixiana Farms LLC (KY); T-Kenneth G. McPeek. $38,500.
3–Fliparino, 122, c, 2, Honor Code–Swap Fliparoo, by Exchange Rate. 1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. O/B-Calumet Farm (KY); T-George R. Arnold, II. $19,250.
Margins: 5 1/4, 3 3/4, 3/4. Odds: 7.62, 27.29, 8.65.
Also Ran: Top Recruit, Red Route One, Honed, Frosted Departure, Jace's Road, Boppy O, Western Ghent. Scratched: King Ice.
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Pedigree Notes:

Two Phil's becomes the 36th Northern Hemisphere graded/group winner for Darley stalwart Hard Spun, who was second in Street Sense's Gi Kentucky Derby win as part of that vintage 2007 crop. He is the first graded winner out of a mare by hard-knocking and versatile MGISW General Quarters.

The winner's dam was a MSW and MGSP sprinter for breeder and co-owner Philip Sagan and trainer Jorge Navarro. Two Phil's is her first foal. Her yearling colt by Omaha Beach RNA'd earlier in the week for $32,000 at Fasig-Tipton October. Next in the pipeline is a McKinzie colt. Mia Torri was bred back to Omaha Beach for 2023.

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Into Mischief’s Hoosier Philly Tons Best in Rags To Riches

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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Oscar Performance Filly Romps in the Slop at Churchill

4th-Churchill Downs, $114,370, Msw, 10-30, 2yo, f, 6f, 1:12.08, sy, 10 lengths.
RED CARPET READY (f, 2, Oscar Performance–Wild Silk, by Street Sense) proved to be just that with a splashy debut performance through the Churchill slop Sunday afternoon. Touching 37-1 at the off, the $180,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga purchase hit the ground running from her low draw and outsprinted the well-backed Bo Derek (Speightstown) to lead them through an opening quarter-mile in :21.74 over the rain-affected surface. With that 7-2 chance her shadow around the turn, Red Carpet Ready shrugged her off in upper stretch and kicked away to score by about nine lengths as much the best. Red Carpet Ready is the 13th individual winner from the first crop of her sire (by Kitten's Joy). Red Carpet Ready is out of an unraced daughter of SW Spun Silk (A.P. Indy), the dam of GI Vosburgh S. winner Joking (Distorted Humor), and hails from the family of MGSW/MGISP Fed Biz (Giant's Causeway). Wild Silk is the dam of a yearling full-sister and weanling half-brother to Red Carpet Ready and was most recently covered by Not This Time. Sales history: $180,000 Ylg '21 FTSAUG; $100,000 RNA 2yo '22 OBSAPR. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $69,000. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.
O-Ashbrook Farm & Upland Flats Racing; B-Lynn B Schiff (KY); T-George R Arnold II.

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Equinox Bridges The Gap In Thrilling Tenno Sho

Panthalassa (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}), who bravely dead-heated for the victory with defending champion Lord North (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) in this year's G1 Dubai Turf after making all the running, put on an even bolder show in Sunday's G1 Tenno Sho (Autumn) at Tokyo Racecourse. But after turning into the long straight with a double-digit advantage, he could not quite stave off favoured Equinox (Jpn) (Kitasan Black {Jpn}), who whistled home down the centre of the course to lead in the dying strides.

It was a third Tenno Sho in four years for the Silk Racing partnership, whose Horse of the Year Almond Eye (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}) won it in 2019 and 2020.

Off at a generous 21-1, Panthalassa bounced well from his low gate, but had some surprising early company in the form of North Bridge (Jpn) (Maurice {Jpn}), and that may have had a material impact on the race, as a keyed-up Panthalassa rumbled right along through early fractions of :23.5 and :46 for the opening 800 metres. Equinox, making his first start since just missing in the G1 Tokyo Yushun at this track in late May, settled kindly behind midfield and was content to allow the front-runner to do his thing, with no apparent panic from Christophe Lemaire.

Panthalassa led by the better part of 15 lengths as the Tenno Sho field hit the turn and carried that sort of advantage off the final corner, daring the market leaders to catch him if they could. Equinox was steered off the heels of Potager (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) at the 450m and began to progress, but still had around eight lengths to find entering the final furlong. Despite racing on his incorrect leg, Equinox gathered up Panthalassa late on, who gamely held for second ahead of Danon Beluga (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}). Equinox covered his final 600 metres in :32.7, a tenth of a second quicker than Danon Beluga. Jack d'Or (Jpn) (Maurice {Jpn}) was a further neck back in fourth, while 2021 Derby hero and this year's G1 Dubai Sheema Classic winner Shahryar (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) was fifth in a useful prep for the G1 Longines Japan Cup Nov. 27.

“I'm happy that we were able to catch Panthalassa,” said Lemaire, winning his third Tenno Sho in four years and his 42nd Group 1 on the JRA circuit. “I saw him way in front of us after turning into the straight, the huge gap did worry me a bit, but my colt gave his best and displayed an incredible turn of foot. If he comes out of this race safe and well, he has every chance to do well in the Japan Cup or the Arima Kinen. This was his first Group 1 win but definitely not his last.”

Pedigree Notes:

Equinox is one of 54 winners to date for his second-crop sire and is his first top-level scorer. Kitasan Black, now responsible for three group winners following the victory of Ravel (Jpn) in Saturday's G3 Artemis S., is a son of Deep Impact's full-brother Black Tide (Jpn) and put together one of the great careers in recent memory.

Third to the late Duramente (Jpn) (King Kamehameha {Jpn}) in the 2015 G1 Satsuki Sho, Kitasan Black won that year's G1 Kikuka Sho (3000m) before adding his first G1 Tenno Sho (Spring) over two miles the following May. Named Horse of the Year after closing his 4-year-old season with a score in the G1 Japan Cup (2400m), he added the G1 Osaka Hai (2000m), a successful defence of his title in the Tenno Sho (Spring) in his next appearance and this race nearly five years to the day of Equinox's win. Run in heavy ground in 2017, Kitasan Black clocked 2:08.3. He retired as a dual Horse of the Year following success in the G1 Arima Kinen with 12 wins–seven at Group 1 level–from 20 starts for earnings of $16.5 million.

Out of Silk Racing colourbearer Chateau Blanche, Equinox is a half-brother to the operation's Group 3 winner Weiss Meteor, a 2-year-old colt by Just a Way (Jpn) and a yearling filly by Kizuna (Jpn). She did not produce a foal in 2022. Equinox is the second Group 1 winner out of a daughter of Dancing Brave son King Halo (Jpn), joining Sprinters' S. hero Pixie Knight (Jpn) (Maurice {Jpn}).

WATCH: Equinox catches Panthalassa in the Tenno Sho

Sunday, Tokyo, Japan
TENNO SHO (AUTUMN)-G1, ¥384,500,000, Tokyo, 10-30, 3yo/up, 2000mT, 1:57.5, fm.
1–EQUINOX (JPN), 123, c, 3, by Kitasan Black (Jpn)
1st Dam: Chateau Blanche (Jpn) (GSW-Jpn, $1,096,970), by King Halo (Jpn)
2nd Dam: Blancherie (Jpn), by Tony Bin (Ire)
3rd Dam: Maison Blanche (Jpn), by Alleged
1ST GROUP 1 WIN. O-Silk Racing; B-Northern Farm; T-Tetsuya Kimura; J-Christophe Lemaire; ¥203,150,000. Lifetime Record: 5-3-2-0, ¥403,242,000. *1/2 to Weiss Meteor (Jpn) (King Kamehameha {Jpn}), GSW-Jpn, $820,531. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*.
2–Panthalassa (Jpn), 128, h, 5, Lord Kanaloa (Jpn)–Miss Pemberley (Ire), by Montjeu (Ire). O-Hiroo Race; B-Hidenori Kimura; ¥80,900,000.
3–Danon Beluga (Jpn), 123, c, 3, Heart's Cry (Jpn)–Coasted, by Tizway. (¥160,000,000 wnlg '19 JRHAJUL). O-Danox Inc; B-Northern Farm; ¥50,450,000.
Margins: 1, NK, HF. Odds: 1.60, 21.80, 6.30.
Also Ran: Jack d'Or (Jpn), Shahryar (Jpn), Karate (Jpn), Maria Elena (Jpn), Uberleben (Jpn), Geoglyph (Jpn), Ablaze (Jpn), North Bridge (Jpn), Cadenas (Jpn), Potager (Jpn), Red Galant (Jpn), Babbitt (Jpn). Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Click for the JRA chart.

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