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Saturday Insights: Klaravich, Brown Debut Pricey Street Boss Filly

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8th-BEL, $80K, Msw, 3yo/up, f/m, 6fT, post time: 4:19 p.m. ET
CROWDING OUT (Street Boss), a $55K in utero purchase at Keeneland November in 2017, fetched $37K as a KEESEP yearling in 2019, but blossomed into a $230K OBS April breezer after working an eighth of a mile in a slick :9 4/5. That price was the second most expensive of this sire's 20 juveniles sold last year. The chestnut's dam Pride of Place (A.P. Indy)–who sadly passed away in 2020–is a daughter of French Group 3 winner Morning Pride (Ire) (Machiavellian), who accounted for two-time Grade I winner Flashing (A.P. Indy), the dam of French SW & MGSP Floodlight (Medaglia d'Oro). The filly's fourth dam Kamar (Key to the Mint) was champion 3-year-old filly in Canada in 1979 and U.S. Broodmare of the Year in 1990, having produced the likes of Canadian champion and MGSW Key to the Moon (Wajima), MGISW Gorgeous (Slew o'Gold) and 1990 GI Kentucky Oaks winner Seaside Attraction (Seattle Slew). TJCIS PPs

Jones Homebred 'Flying' Into Debut…
2nd-CD, $115K, Msw, 3yo/up, f/m, 1mT, post time: 11:01 a.m ET
FLYING GEM (Mineshaft) gets her career underway for breeder and part-owner Frank Jones and trainer Dale Romans, who conditioned half-sister Tapitsfly (Tapit) to a victory in the 2009 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies' Turf before she added Grade I turf victories in the Just A Game S. and in the First Lady S. Tapitsfly is the dam of Japanese champion and MG1SW Gran Alegria (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), while another half-sister Flying Tipat (Tapit) was stakes-placed. Joe Allen homebred Texas Shuffle (War Front) is out of French Group 2 winner Homebound (Dixie Union), a half-sister to Hong Kong champion stayer and G1SW Helene Super Star (ex Lines of Battle), GISW War Flag (War Front), SW & GSP Blue Exit (Pulpit) and G1SP Battle Paint (Tale of the Cat). TJCIS PPs

Curlin Firster Closes Out Derby Day Card…
14th-CD, $115K, Msw, 3yo/up, 6f, post time: 8:30 p.m. ET
CURLIN LANE (Curlin), a $500K KEESEP acquisition by Albaugh Family Stable in 2019, is the latest foal to the races from SW & GSP Harriett Lane (Giant's Causeway), the dam of SW & GSP Street of Gold (Street Sense) and SW Heiko (Mr. Greeley). Harriett Lane is herself a half-sister to Grade III-winning juvenile Cactus Ridge (Hennessy) and his SW & GSP full-brother Sebastian County. Bagboss (Speightstown), out of GI Kentucky Oaks winner Blind Luck (Pollard's Vision)'s half-sister Successful Luck (Successful Appeal), looks to improve on a debut second at Gulfstream Mar. 20. TJCIS PPs

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Sunday Insights: Practical Joke’s First Runner Looks Live

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4th-KEE, $60K, Msw, 2yo, 4 1/2f, post time: 2:45 p.m. ET
Tom Durant's TEJANO TWIST becomes the first starter for the much-hyped freshman sire Practical Joke for the potent 2-year-old barn of Bret Calhoun. A son of the Grade III-placed Haley's Lolipop (Cuvee), the homebred is a half-brother to Game Day Play (Violence), a second-out maiden winner last August and two starts later victorious in the Clevor Trevor S. at Remington Park. Second dam Two Foxie (Fair Skies) produced the fleet GSW & GISP Maddalena (Good and Tough), whose eight winners from nine to the races include Grade II-winning juvenile Bern Identity (Bernstein) and five other black-type performers. First-crop runners for Practical Joke have sold for up to $800,000 this year and a filly out of Purr and Prowl (Purim) topped this week's Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up on a bid of 360,000gns from Peter Brant. TJCIS PPs

Well-Bred Curlin Filly Gets Going…
2nd-SA, $61K, Msw, 3yo/up, f/m, 6 1/2f, post time: 4:38 p.m. ET
CURVETTE (Curlin) is the latest foal from the talented Fiftyshadesofhay (Pulpit), winner of the GII Black-Eyed Susan S. and GIII Iowa Oaks in 2013 while placing in the GI Las Virgenes S., GI Santa Anita Oaks and GI Alabama S. that season. She went on to capture the GII Ruffian S. the following season and was purchased by Stonestreet Farm for $1.3 million at Keeneland November that fall. The daughter of GISP Quiet Kim (Real Quiet) is already the dam of two winners from as many to the races. TJCIS PPs

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Friday’s Insights: ‘Rising Star’ Resumes at Keeneland

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7th-Keeneland, $81K, Alw (N2L), 3yo, 6f, post time: 4:24 p.m. ET
THERIDEOFALIFETIME (Candy Ride {Arg}) sandwiched a 'TDN Rising Star'-worthy graduation over this strip last July between runner-up efforts to top juvenile Jackie's Warrior (Maclean's Music), finishing 2 1/2 lengths behind that one on Churchill debut in June and three lengths adrift in the GII Saratoga Special S. in August. Stretched out to the one-turn mile for the GIII Iroquois S. on the Derby undercard Sept. 5, the homebred was sent to the front and set a furious pace before retreating to fourth behind future GIII Lecomte S. winner Midnight Bourbon (Tiznow) and recent GI Arkansas Derby hero Super Stock (Dialed In). The 3-1 morning-line pick enters off a half-mile work that was clocked in :47 flat (2/114) Apr. 10. TJCIS PPs

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Saturday’s Racing Insights: Bros to Champions Make Second Starts

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11th-KEE, $79K, Msw, 3yo, 7f, 6:38 p.m. ET

A pair of Pioneerof the Nile brothers to high-profile champions look to go one better off of runner-up debuts to close out the Keeneland card Saturday. John Gunther homebred Stage Raider (Pioneerof the Nile) is half to none other than Triple Crown winner Justify (Scat Daddy) as well as the ill-fated GSW The Lieutenant (Street Sense). A $950,000 Keeneland September RNA, the Chad Brown trainee was beaten 8 1/2 lengths by super impressive 'TDN Rising Star' Prevalence (Medaglia d'Oro) going this distance at Gulfstream Jan. 23. Prevalence came back and did what he had to do to take an optional claimer next out, but he settled for sixth in last Saturday's GII Wood Memorial S.

WinStar Farm and CHC Inc.'s Harvard (Pioneerof the Nile), meanwhile, was second going a furlong shorter at Gulfstream Feb. 28, good for a field's-best last-out Beyer Speed Figure of 75. Bred by China Horse Club, the Rodolphe Brisset pupil is a full to 2016 champion juvenile and 2017 GI Arkansas Derby winner Classic Empire, who has first 2-year-olds himself this season. TJCIS PPs

4th-OP, $93K, Msw, 3yo, 6f, 2:42 p.m. ET

Bob Baffert brings in Following Sea (Runhappy) for a lucrative maiden special weight try a few races before he'll be represented by the two expected favorites in the GI Arkansas Derby. Spendthrift homebred Following Sea crossed the wire second on debut behind stablemate and subsequent GI Runhappy Santa Anita fourth Defunded (Dialed In) at Santa Anita Mar. 6, but he was moved back to third by the stewards for interference. The bay was a $230,000 in utero purchase at the 2017 Keeneland November sale. His stakes-winning dam has already produced one stakes horse and is half to SW and MGSP Qahira (Cairo Prince), who is also conditioned by Baffert.

Frank Fletcher Racing and Ten Strike Racing will be represented by Brad Cox-trained firster Amazing Rocket (Into Mischief). The $500,000 KEESEP buy is a grandson of MSW Amazing Buy (High Yield). Happymac (Runhappy) was a $360,000 KEESEP yearling who RNA'd last year at OBSAPR for $800,000 following a :20 3/5 bullet breeze. The half-brother to speedy GSW/MGISP Shancelot (Shanghai Bobby) was fourth in the Saratoga mud last August–two slots behind recent GII Toyota Blue Grass runner-up Highly Motivated (Into Mischief)–and was beaten a neck after setting the pace at Keeneland in October. He's one of two to be saddled by Steve Asmussen, along with $170,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred Arms an Armor (Laoban).

Rising Empire (Empire Maker) earned the same Beyer Speed Figure–64–when finishing fourth on debut that Happymac did at Keeneland one day earlier. The half-brother to MGSW marathoner and 'TDN Rising Star' Rocketry (Hard Spun) was a $275,000 KEESEP yearling turned $700,000 OBSAPR grad off a :10 1/5 move. Terawatt (Nyquist) was a $200,000 KEENOV weanling, $300,000 FTSAUG yearling and $295,000 FTMMAY RNA (:10 1/5). He's a half to GSW Native Bombshell (War Front). TJCIS PPs

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