Oct. 8 Insights: From New York to California, Big Name Debuts

1st-BAQ, $90k, Msw, 2yo, 7f, 12:35p.m. ET
Whisper Hill Farm has been enjoying a fruitful year on the track and in the sales ring, and SPEED RUNNER (Gun Runner) looks to add his tally to the operation's banner year. A half-brother to the brilliant GISW Brilliant Speed (Dynaformer); SW & GSP Souper Speedy (Indian Charlie); and SP Bank (Bernardini), the Pletcher-trained chestnut comes into the race with a bullet move Sept. 27 over Belmont's training track–a five furlong work in a co-fastest minute flat. His dam Speed Succeeds is a half-sister to Canadian champion older mare GSW Serenading (A.P. Indy); that one's full-sister MSW & GISP Handpainted–herself dam of GSW Painting (Distorted Humor) and GSP Patena (Seeking the Gold); and the dams of Japanese runner GSW Touch Me Not (Jpn) and GISP Conquest Mo Money (Uncle Mo).

To the outside and carrying the colors of Juddmonte, Lambeth (Arrogate) goes to post from the barn of Bill Mott. Out of a half-sister to SW & G1SP Task Force (GB) (Frankel {GB}) and SW Elegant Verse (GB) (Galileo {Ire})–making her a daughter of European champion 2-year-old filly MG1SW Special Duty (GB)–Lambeth can also claim GI Breeders' Cup Mile victor Expert Eye (GB) (Acclamation {GB}) as a relation. TJCIS PPs.

1st-SA, $61k, Msw, 2yo, 6fT, 4:00p.m. ET
Jumping from in between a West homebred and a Don Alberto one is C R K Stable's Shear Magic (Good Magic). The $350,000 OBSAPR pick up from this past spring has been sighted religiously on the work tab for conditioner John Shirreffs. His dam, a half-sister to GSP Bo Cruz (Creative Cause) and out of a half-sister to GI Preakness hero Cloud Computing (Maclean's Music), was a winner and has produced three others from as many to the races. This is the family of MG1SP Marino Marini.

The West runner American Hope (American Pharoah) is out of MGISW Room Service (More Than Ready), a half-sister to SW & MGSP Oscar Party (Dixie Union) and full-sibling to GSW Major Gain. Don Alberto's Citadino (Runhappy) hails from the family of champion 3-year-old filly MGISW Surfside and her half-brother, track record-setting GSW Irish Surf via second dam, champion 2-year-old filly MGISW Flanders. TJCIS PPs.

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Sunday’s Racing Insights: Pricey In Utero Buy Gets Going

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11th-GP, $55K, Msw, 3yo, f, 6f, 5:48 p.m. ET

Giverny (Tapit) makes her first start here for Bill Mott and owner/breeder Alpha Delta Stable. She was being carried by her SW and MGSP dam Oscar Party (Dixie Union) when Jon Clay's operation purchased that one for $1.9 million at the 2017 Keeneland November sale. Giverny is the half-sister to MGISW Room Service (More Than Ready)'s second foal–a year-older Tapit colt RNA'd for $675,000 at the same KEENOV renewal.

Chad Brown pupil Goodnight Olive (Ghostzapper), a $170,000 Fasig-Tipton October yearling, is out of MGSW miler Salty Strike (Smart Strike). Sierra Farm homebred Mischiefful (Into Mischief) was second on debut to Goodnight Olive's well-regarded stablemate Boston Post Road (Quality Road) here Feb. 7. She's a daughter of MSW/GSP Shannon Nicole (Majestic Warrior). Likely longshot A Higher Love (Sky Mesa) didn't do much running in a rained-off race at Aqueduct Nov. 27, but she sports an upbeat local tab of late and gets first-time Lasix and blinkers. The dark bay Is half to GISW grasser Carrick (Giant's Causeway). TJCIS PPs

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