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First Foals Reported For Taylor Made Stallions’ Instagrand

Taylor Made Stallions' Instagrand sired his first reported foals when a filly out of Grade 1 winner Concrete Rose was born on Jan. 10, and a colt out of the Tiznow mare Siesta was born on Jan. 8.

Concrete Rose, a daughter of Twirling Candy out of the winning Powerscourt (GB) mare Solerina, was a $1.95-million Keeneland November acquisition in 2020 by OXO Equine LLC, which also bred the filly. Concrete Rose enjoyed a stellar racing career in which she annexed the $750,000 Grade 1 Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes, the G3 Edgewood Stakes, G3 Florida Oaks, and the Saratoga Oaks Invitational Stakes at Saratoga at three in 2019. At two, she won the G2 Jessamine Stakes at Keeneland. All told, Concrete Rose captured six of seven lifetime starts—five of them stakes—and banked $1,218,650.

Siesta, a daughter of Tiznow out of the Harlan's Holiday Miz Kella, is a half-sister to recent Zia Park Distaff Stakes winner Canoodling and hails from the immediate family of champion 2-year-old Shanghai Bobby, winner of the 2012 Breeders' Cup Juvenile and that year's G1 Champagne Stakes. Siesta was a $240,000 graduate of the 2018 OBS Spring Sale where she was purchased by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners. Siesta's colt was bred by Jay Goodwin, Michael Hore, DVM, and Doc Atty Stables.

Instagrand, a dominating son of Into Mischief, led gate to wire to win the 2018 G2 Best Pal Stakes at Del Mar by 10 1/4 lengths in just his second career start. Undefeated at two, Instagrand was named a TDN Rising Star after debuting a 10-length maiden special weight winner, running five furlongs in :56 flat and stopping the clock just .32 of a second off the Los Alamitos track record.

A $1.2-million Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream sale topper after breezing in :10 flat, Instagrand followed up his sensational juvenile season by placing in a pair of key Kentucky Derby preps at three. He placed in the G3 Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct and set the pace in the G1 Santa Anita Derby in his two-turn debut, finishing just behind Roadster and champion 2-year-old and Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Game Winner.

By perennial leading sire Into Mischief, Instagrand is produced from the winning Lawyer Ron mare Assets of War and is from the immediate family of Grade 1 winners Irish Smoke and Book Review. He bred 190 mares in his initial season at stud and he will stand the upcoming breeding season for $7,500 S&N.

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Gainesway Stallions McKinzie, Spun To Run Have First Foals

Gainesway residents McKinzie and Spun to Run each sired their first foals on Jan. 11, both of them fillies.

Grade 1 winner McKinzie's first foal came at Hill 'n' Dale Farms in Kentucky, out of the winning Midnight Lute mare Withholding Info.

The filly is the first foal out of Withholding Info, who won twice in three starts. She is herself the first foal out of the multiple Grade 1 winner Executiveprivilege, from the family of multiple Grade 1 winner Hoppertunity.

McKinzie, a 7-year-old son of Street Sense, stands for an advertised fee of $30,000 for the upcoming breeding season.

He retired with eight wins in 18 starts and earnings of more than $3.4 million, highlighted by victories in the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Cash Call Futurity, Pennsylvania Derby, Malibu Stakes, and Whitney Stakes, the G2 Alysheba Stakes and Triple Bend Stakes, and G3 Sham Stakes. He also finished in the money in six additional graded stakes, including a runner-up effort in the 2019 Breeders' Cup Classic.

Spun to Run's first foal was a filly born in Louisiana, out of the winning Scat Daddy mare L. A. Style.

It is the second foal out of L. A. Style, a three-time winner and half-sister to stakes-placed runners Gettysburg and Devine Charger. Grade 3-placed Funny Sunny is in the extended family.

Spun to Run, a 6-year-old Hard Spun horse, will stand the approaching season for $10,000.

He won five of 12 starts during his on-track career and earned more than $1.1 million. In addition to his triumph in the 2019 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, Spun to Run notched a victory in the G3 Smarty Jones Stakes and in-the-money efforts in the G1 Cigar Mile Handicap and Haskell Invitational Stakes.

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Neige Blanche Set For Marathon Trip In Monday’s Astra Stakes

Trainer Leonard Powell, him self a French native, will send out like favorite Neige Blanche (white snow) a 5-year-old French-bred mare, in Monday's Grade 3, $125,000 Astra Stakes at Santa Anita. For older fillies and mares with a hillside start at a marathon 1 1/2 miles on turf, the Astra has attracted a field of five.

A winner of the G3 Santa Barbara Stakes going the same distance five starts back on May, 2021, Neige Blanche has maintained a consistent form, winning an ungraded stakes at 1 3/8 miles on turf three starts back on Aug. 14 at Del Mar, and winning her most recent assignment, the G3 Red Carpet Handicap at a mile and three eighths on turf Nov. 25.

A winner of three of her six starts in her native France, Neige Blanche has won three of her nine stateside starts with Powell, including winning three out of six last year and a career-best $204,168. Owned by Madaket Stables, LLC, Laura DeSeroux, Marsh Naify and Mathilde Powell, Neige Blanche took the Red Carpet in gate to wire fashion but has also proven effective stalking the pace in marathon scenarios. With an overall mark of 15-6-0-3, she's the leading money earner in the field with $315,280 and will be ridden for the seventh consecutive time by Juan Hernandez.

California-bred Reiwa, a winner of two consecutive allowance races on Oct. 30 and Nov. 20 at Golden Gate Fields, comes off a fourth place finish in the ungraded Miss America Stakes going a mile and one sixteenth on Dec. 12. Trained by Jonathan Wong, Reiwa, a 5-year-old mare by the El Prado stallion James Street, is 18-4-5-0 overall and will be looking for her first stakes win with Umberto Rispoli up.

THE GRADE 3 ASTRA WITH JOCKEYS & WEIGHTS IN POST POSITION ORDER

Race 7 of 9 Approximate post time 3:30 p.m. PT

Neige Blanche—Juan Hernandez—124
Disappearing Act—Flavien Prat—120
Frose—Mario Gutierrez—120
Reiwa—Umberto Rispoli—120
Scherzo—Kyle Frey–120

First post time on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday is at 12:30 p.m. In addition to holiday racing, there will be one dollar beers, sodas and two dollar hot dogs offered through the afternoon. Admission gates will open at 10:30 a.m.

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God Of Love Will Try To Transfer Tapeta Form To Dirt In Withers

Canadian-bred graded stakes-winner God of Love will look to transfer his good form from Tapeta to dirt when he ships to Aqueduct Racetrack for the Grade 3, $250,000 Withers on Feb. 5.

The nine-furlong test for 3-year-olds is the next local prep on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, awarding the top-four finishers 10-4-2-1 qualifying points toward the Grade 1, $3 million Kentucky Derby on May 7 at Churchill Downs.

Eclipse Thoroughbreds and Gary Barber's God of Love, trained by Hall of Famer Mark Casse, is already a stakes winner over turf and Tapeta in only four starts. Two starts after capturing the Cup and Saucer in October on the Woodbine turf, the chestnut colt provided his young sire Cupid with a first graded stakes winner when taking the 1 1/16-mile Grade 3 Grey on Nov. 28 on the Woodbine Tapeta.

“He's a pretty good horse. If he can have the same type of form on dirt that he does on the synthetic, he'll be a force. In his last race, he ran a 4.5 Thorograph number, which puts you right there,” Casse said.

One start prior to the Grey, God of Love finished a troubled fifth in the nine-furlong Coronation Futurity on the Woodbine Tapeta after having to steady several times.

“He was the favorite in his start before the Grey and I awarded him worst trip of the year of any horse I ran last year,” Casse said. “It was a terrible, terrible trip. He checked about three or four times.”

God of Love joined Casse's winter division at Palm Meadows Training Center in Florida, where he has worked three times since the Grey. The Withers will be God of Love's first race outside of his native Canada.

“I think he'll end up being champion 2-year-old in Canada. The reason I sent him to Toronto was because he was a Canadian-bred,” Casse said.

Bred in Ontario by William D. Graham, God of Love is out of the Three Wonders mare No Wonder, a half-sister to Grade 1-winner Weemissfrankie, who also produced Canadian-bred stakes-winner Muskoka Wonder.

God of Love was a $100,000 purchase at the OBS March Sale, where he was consigned by Golden Thoroughbreds Training and Sales.

Other probable candidates for the Withers include Courvoisier, Smarten Up and Cooke Creek – the top-three finishers of the Jerome – as well as January 2 maiden winner Constitutionlawyer.

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