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Jimmy Creed’s Private Creed Upsets Sharp Aza Tack In Global Tote Juvenile Sprint S.

After breaking his maiden on debut at Ellis Park July 30, Private Creed shipped to Saratoga to contest the Skidmore S., checking in third just two lengths behind winner Oxymore (Astern {Aus}). Back in Kentucky, the 5-2 second choice behind overwhelming favorite Sharp Aza Tack, racing with blinkers for the first time, utilized a similar racing style from his first two starts–tracking in third behind pacesetter Revere Note (Revolutionary) with the favorite racing between them. Tipped to the inside of his rival past the quarter pole, Private Creed engaged Sharp Aza Tack into the final sixteenth and got the better of him close to home for the three-quarter length upset.

“The one horse (Sharp Aza Tack) had so much speed,” said winning jockey Joel Rosario. “My horse was comfortable, he was happy where he was. He settled nicely going into the turn. For a second, I didn't know, as it took him a little time to get going. He just found another gear. He broke good and I was right there. Just a good trip.”

A $155,000 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale grad (:10.3), Private Creed has a yearling half-brother by Vino Rosso and a weanling half-brother by Complexity. South Andros was bred back to Jimmy Creed for a full-sibling to Private Creed in 2023. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

GLOBAL TOTE JUVENILE SPRINT S., $500,000, Kentucky Downs, 9-8, 2yo, 6 1/2fT, 1:18.19, fm.
1–PRIVATE CREED, 120, c, 2, by Jimmy Creed
                1st Dam: South Andros (SW, $207,125), by Sky Mesa
                2nd Dam: Misty Rain, by Rubiano
                3rd Dam: Vigorous Search, by Vigors
($45,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP; $155,000 2yo '22 EASMAY).
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-Mike McCarty; B-Sierra Farm (KY);
T-Steven M. Asmussen; J-Joel Rosario. $310,000. Lifetime
Record: 3-2-0-1, $364,000.
2–Sharp Aza Tack, 122, c, 2, Sharp Azteca–Que Chulo, by
Bernardini. ($72,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP; $100,000 2yo '22
OBSMAR). O-R3 Racing LLC; B-Joe & Emily Cowles (KY);
T-Doug F. O'Neill. $100,000.
3–Accident, 118, g, 2, Tale of Verve–Not Java (Fr), by
Not Bourbon. ($3,000 Ylg '21 FTKOCT). 1ST BLACK TYPE.
O-Tommy C. Short & Robert Heyer; B-C. F. Farms Ltd. (KY);
T-Tommy C. Short. $50,000.
Margins: 3/4, 3HF, 2. Odds: 2.79, 0.26, 27.39.
Also Ran: Bourbon Therapy, Revere Note. Scratched: Bourbon Spirit, Fadethenoise, Half a Chance.

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Weather Forces Kentucky Downs Cancellations (Updated)

Extreme weather forced Kentucky Downs to cancel the last four races on Saturday's card, including the $1-million GIII WinStar Mint Million S. Lightning caused a weather delay prior to the cancellation. The Franklin, Ky. track will determine any rescheduling at a later date.

The track has also decided to delay Sunday's card by 24 hours due to the inclement weather. Kentucky Downs will run the entirety of what was Sunday's card on Monday, Labor Day, which was originally scheduled as a dark day. Tickets for Sunday will be transferred to Monday. Any updates to the schedule will be announced by 5 p.m. CT Sunday.

The next scheduled regular race date for Kentucky Downs is Thursday, Sept. 8.

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Chop Chop Becomes City of Light’s First Stakes Winner at KYD

No wind, no rain, no summer storm was stopping Chop Chop from securing a first career stakes victory for herself and her freshman sire (by Quality Road) in the Aristocrat Gaming Juvenile Fillies S. She was also the second winner on the card for City of Light, following in the hoofsteps of impressive graduate Gaslight Dancer.

A stalk-and-pounce winner on debut at Ellis Park Aug. 14, Chop Chop rated kindly from third here and drafted into the turn behind a pair of dueling leaders through :24.11 and :49.99 splits. Shifting out and making a three-wide rally leaving the turn, she locked horns with Towhead as the fillies battled to the wire in the driving rain. Chop Chop was on the winning end of the bob as the pair nine lengths ahead of C C Cruise Control.

“We've always liked her a lot,” Cox said by phone. “We had a lot of confidence in her today. [Jockey] Reylu [Gutierrez] didn't have much experience there, but, hey, it worked out. He had a lot of confidence in the filly. He actually breezed her last week as well and thought that she was set up for a big effort and she gave us one.”

A half to one other to the races, Chop Chop is the first stakes horse for her young dam, a half-sister to GISW, and track-record setter Rail Trip (Jump Start). She has a yearling half-sister by Omaha Beach and a 2022 half-sister by Constitution. She went to Liam's Map for 2023. This is the female family of MGISW Palace Malice (Curlin) and GISP Justin Palace (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}).

ARISTOCRAT GAMING JUVENILE FILLIES S., $500,000, Kentucky Downs, 9-3, 2yo, f, 1mT, 1:43.86, yl.
1–CHOP CHOP, 120, f, 2, by City of Light
1st Dam: Grand Sofia, by Giant's Causeway
2nd Dam: Sweet Trip, by Carson City
3rd Dam: Stellar Affair, by Skywalker
($230,000 Ylg '21 FTKJUL). 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-Selective, LLC; B-Cobra Farm & MRJ Thoroughbreds (KY); T-Brad H. Cox; J-Reylu Gutierrez. $300,700. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $336,700.
2–Towhead, 118, f, 2, Malibu Moon–Smartly Agree, by Smart Strike. ($100,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP). 1ST BLACK TYPE. O-Deuce Greathouse; B-DJ Stable, LLC (KY); T-Michael J. Maker. $97,000.
3–C C Cruise Control, 120, f, 2, Cross Traffic–Alpaca Fina, by Big Brown. 1ST BLACK TYPE. O/B-David Menard (KY); T-Kenneth McPeek. $48,500.
Margins: NO, 9, 3/4. Odds: 4.11, 5.61, 7.86.
Also Ran: Knockyoursocksoff, Mustang Lady, Chiquita Mosca, Janis Joplin, Callie's Grit. Scratched: Up to Something.
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Sunday Insights: Debuting Carla Bred On Wildly Successful Cross

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1st-DMR, $80K, Msw, 2yo, f, 5 1/2f, post time: 4:00 p.m. ET
Michael Petersen and Willow Grace Farm, who campaign last year's GI Del Mar Debutante winner Grace Adler (Curlin) in partnership, team up for the Sunday opener at Del Mar with $950K Keeneland September acquisition CARLA (Medaglia d'Oro). The February foal is the first produce from Naples Princess (Distorted Humor), a full-sister to SW Banker's Buy and a half to SW City Dweller (Carson City) and SW Glacken's Gal (Smoke Glacken), the dam of GII Davona Dale S. victress Live Lively (Medaglia d'Oro). The hugely productive cross of Medaglia d'Oro over Distorted Humor mares has yielded the likes of two-time Hong Kong Horse of the Year Golden Sixty (Aus) and additional Grade I winners Elate and New Money Honey, while extending to Forty Niner-line dams brings in the likes of multiple champion Songbird and Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra. TJCIS PPs

2nd-KD, $150K, Msw, 2yo, 1mT, post time: 1:58 p.m. ET
The debuting Carnaby Street got American Pharoah on the board in the opening race of the meet Thursday afternoon and ON THE TEAR looks to continue the momentum here. A $350K KEESEP purchase, the Springhouse Farm-bred is a half-brother to this year's Star Shoot S. heroine Beautiful Empire (Classic Empire) and his dam, purchased by Springhouse for $260K in foal to Shanghai Bobby at Fasig-Tipton November in 2016, is a half-sister to successful young sire Practical Joke (Into Mischief). Life At Sea (West Coast) is the third foal to race out of Irish Jasper (First Defence), three times a graded winner sprinting on the main track. TJCIS PPs

6th-SAR, $105K, Msw, 2yo, f, 7f, post time: 3:20 p.m. ET
It's been an outstanding meet for Curlin and Stonestreet homebred PURE PAULINE will attempt to open her account at first asking Sunday. Inheriting the chestnut coloring of both her sire and of her GII Black-Eyed Susan S.-winning dam Keen Pauline (Pulpit), the Apr. 24 is bred on a variant of the cross over A.P. Indy-line mares that has tossed up Malathaat, Nest and Cody's Wish, each a Grade I winner during the current meet at Saratoga. Curlin is also represented by the rail-drawn third-time starter Take Charge Briana, whose dam Take Charge Tressa is a full-sister to MGISW and Spendthrift sire Omaha Beach (War Front). TJCIS PPs

7th-SAR, $105K, Msw, 2yo, f, 1 1/16mT, post time: 3:53 p.m. ET
PROUVER (Justify), a $310K graduate of last year's Keeneland September sale, is a daughter of Ready to Act (More Than Ready), who won her maiden at first asking sprinting over the local turf course and was well on her way to victory in the 2013 GII Natalma S. when she abruptly ducked in and unseated jockey Rajiv Maragh. The gray filly would go on to win the 2014 Sweetest Chant S. over the Gulfstream turf course and the GII Beaumont S. at Keeneland when the race was contested on the Polytrack. This is the extended female family of GI Hollywood Gold Cup hero and GI Pacific Classic third Mast Track (Mizzen Mast). Writteninthestars (Malibu Moon), a $110K KEESEP yearling turned $500K Fasig-Tipton Midlantic juvenile (:10 2/5, see below), is out of a half-sister to GSW Sparky Ville (Candy Ride {Arg}) and hails from the family of GISWs Harmony Lodge and Pinehurst and MGSW Graeme Hall. TJCIS PPs

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