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Sunday Insights: Son Of City Of Light Debuts Over Gulfstream Turf

6th-GP, $70K, Msw, 2yo, 1mT, 2:34 p.m. ET.
I SEE YOU LOOKIN (City of Light) makes his first start Sunday for trainer Todd Pletcher. The $400,000 Keeneland September Sale grad is a half-sister to MGSP Lady Aces (Constitution), who was purchased for $200,000 at Keeneland November last year by the China Horse Club. Dam Economy of Motion (Pleasantly Perfect) is herself a half to MGISW Paradise Woods (Union Rags). Digging deeper into this extended female family, we find this debut runner's third dam is a half-sister to MGSW Mr. Greeley (Gone West). TJCIS PPS

8th-GP, $70K, Msw, 2yo, f, 1mT, 3:33 p.m. ET.
Hill 'n' Dale homebred and Josie Carroll trainee Royal Ascot (Justify) will look to get her dam off to a winning start as a broodmare. Second dam Chicquita (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}), winner of the G1 Irish Oaks and runner-up in the G1 French Oaks, is a half-sister to Irish Group 1 winner and globetrotting turf specialist Magic Wand (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). TJCIS PPS

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Turkish Expatriate El Corredor Dead at 26

GI Cigar Mile H. winner and former Hill 'n' Dale sire El Corredor (Mr. Greeley–Silvery Swan, by Silver Deputy) has died at the age of 26 in Turkey, according to Turkish news source Yaris Dergisi. El Corredor has stood since 2015 at the Turkey Jockey Club's Silivri Stallion Complex until reportedly passing away Tuesday, June 20.

A $110,000 Keeneland September yearling from the first crop of Mr. Greeley, El Corredor was purchased by Bob Baffert and raced in the colors of Hal J. Earnhardt III. The dark bay won the Cigar Mile and GII Del Mar Breeders' Cup H. at three before adding a second edition of the Del Mar Breeders' Cup and the GII Pat O'Brien H. at four. Often brilliant but frequently plagued by quarter cracks, the Needham-Betz Thoroughbreds/Liberation Farm-bred retired with a record of 10-7-1-0 and earnings of $727,920.

After standing several years in Kentucky, as well as stints at Questroyal North in New York and The Stallion Station at Copper Crowne in Louisiana, plus shuttling several seasons to Argentina, El Corredor was purchased to stand in Turkey for the 2015 breeding season. He has 33 black-type winners bred in the Northern Hemisphere, including Grade I winners Adieu, Backseat Rhythm, Crisp, and Dominican, and five other graded winners.

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Sunday Racing Insights: Well-Related Fillies Shine At The Spa

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2nd-SAR, $105K, Msw, 2yo, f, 1 1/16mT, 1:39 p.m.

A homebred for Alpha Delta Stables LLC, CONSEILLANTE (Quality Road) debuts Sunday out of the Chad Brown barn. Out of the unraced Forest Wildcat mare Wild Forest, Conseillante is a half-sister to MGISW Paradise Woods (Union Rags), SW Forest Chatter (Dixie Chatter), and to the dam of MGSP Lady Aces (Constitution). Forest Wildcat herself is a half-sister to GSW Tajaaweed (Dynaformer). This is also the extended family of GI Breeders' Cup Sprint runner-up Mr. Greeley (Gone West) and GISW Mona De Momma (Speightstown).

One gate to the inside is Shesjustanicegirl (Justify) who is out of a half-sister to GI Breeders' Cup Distaff winner and champion older mare Escena (Strawberry Road).

Breaking to the outside is Moma (Uncle Mo), the first foal out of a half-sister to GI Ogden Phipps victor Awesome Maria (Maria's Mon). Third dam GISW Pretty Discreet (Private Account) is also responsible for GISW Discreet Cat (Forestry) and GISW Discreetly Mine (Mineshaft). TJCIS PPs

6th-SAR, $105K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6f, 3:55 p.m.

A $260,000 OXO Equine purchase out of the 2020 Keeneland September Sale, UPPER CASE (American Pharoah) is out of a full-sister to the ill-fated GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner Battle of Midway (Smart Strike). Her dam is also a half-sister to MGSP Moretti (Medaglia d'Oro). TJCIS PPs

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