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Summer Breezes: Aug. 14, 2022

Some of the most highly anticipated races during the summer racing season are the 'baby' races during the boutique meetings at both Saratoga and Del Mar and at Ellis Park, which attracts its fair share of high-priced offspring from a variety of top national outfits. Summer Breezes highlights debuting 2-year-olds at those meetings that have been sourced at the breeze-up sales earlier in the year, with links to their under-tack previews. Already this year at Saratoga, City Man (Mucho Macho Man), Mo Strike (Uncle Mo) and Empress Tigress (Classic Empire)–each a graduate of the 2-year-old sales–have already struck at stakes level, while the likes of juvenile purchases and 'TDN Rising Stars' Taiba (Gun Runner), We The People (Constitution) and Onesto (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) have also left their mark on graded/group competition this season. To follow are the horses entered for Sunday:

Sunday, August 14, 2022
Saratoga 1, 1:05 p.m. ET
Horse (Sire), Sale, Price, Breeze
Don't Let Me Down (Tourist), OBSJUN, $50,000, click
C-Blue Sapphire Stables; B-Wachtel Stables
Excalibrate (Mastery), FTMMAY, $40,000, see below
C-James Layden, agent; B-Amira Chichakly (PS)
Gods Glory (Collected), OBSMAR, $50,000, click
C-RiceHorse Stable (Brandon & Ali Rice); B-John Vaccaro
Rock Chalk (Cairo Prince), OBSAPR, $50,000, click
C-S G V T'breds (Steven Venosa), agent; B-James Politano

Ellis 3, 2:46 p.m ET
Sure Enough (Goldencents), OBSMAR, $70,000, click
C-Tom McCrocklin, agent; B-Brian Lynch

Saratoga 6, 3:55 p.m. ET
Firing Bullets (Firing Line), OBSAPR, $210,000, click
C-Grassroots Training & Sales, agent; B-TMC
Royal Poppy (Classic Empire), OBSAPR, $170,000, click
C-White Lilac; B-Oracle Bloodstock for John Ball
Ziaerati (Into Mischief), OBSMAR, $145,000, click
C-White Lilac, agent; B-John Grossi

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Saturday Insights: Seven-Figure OBSAPR Grad Introduced at Del Mar

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7th-DMR, $80K, Msw, 2yo, 6 1/2f, post time: 8:04 p.m ET
ULTIMATE GAMBLE (Medaglia d'Oro) cost reseller Nick de Meric $325K at last year's KEESEP sale and the colt hit it out of the park for the consignor at this year's OBS April Sale, hammering for $1.75 million after breezing an eighth of a mile in a very smooth :10 1/5. The March foal is the latest produce to the races from his dam Eltimaas (Ghostzapper), whose son Drefong (Gio Ponti) was this country's Eclipse Award-winning sprinter of 2016 and has since gone on to become last year's leading first-crop sire in Japan. Eltimaas is also the dam of $675K OBSMAR grad Sui (Candy Ride {Arg}). The opposition includes Cave Rock (Arrogate), a $210K KEENOV weanling turned $550K KEESEP purchase whose dam Georgie's Angel (Bellamy Road) won the 2011 GIII Schuylerville S.; and $300K OBSJUN purchase El Perfecto (Munnings), a half-brother to GSW/GISP turf distaffer Great Island (Scat Daddy) and out of a half-sister to MGISW sire Point of Entry (Dynaformer). TJCIS PPs

4th-CD, $120K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6f, post time: 2:27 p.m. ET
MOODY (Munnings) was hammered down to Maverick/Siena for $550K at KEESEP last fall, making her the most expensive of 82 (97 ring) of her outstanding sire's youngsters reported as sold in 2021. The bay is a maternal granddaughter of Interior Design (A.P. Indy), the dam of seven-time Western Canadian stakes winner Modern (Tiznow), and a full-sister to 2001 champion 2-year-old filly Tempera as well as MGSW/G1SP Equerry (St. Jovite). Zeitlos (Curlin) is the second foal out of Thyme For Roses (Aus) (Redoute's Choice {Aus}), a Group 3 winner in Melbourne, Australia, for the late Jon and his wife Sarah Kelly and Gai Waterhouse and acquired by Stonestreet for the equivalent of $595,200 at the 2017 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale. TJCIS PPs

5th-WO, C$126K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6f (AWT), post time: 3:12 p.m ET
TAG TEAM (Curlin) becomes the second starter for her dam Midnight Lucky (Midnight Lute), winner of the 2013 GI Acorn S. and the GI Humana Distaff S., two of her four victories from five trips to the post. Tag Team, whose female family includes fellow Pegram luminaries Hookedonthefeelin (Citidancer) and her talented MGIS daughter Pussycat Doll (Real Quiet) as well as Spendthrift sire Jimmy Creed, was a $140K KEESEP grad and hammered for $400K at OBSAPR after breezing in :10 2/5. TJCIS PPs

7th-SAR, $105K, Msw, 2yo, 6f, post time: 4:29 p.m. ET
GENERAL JIM (Into Mischief) gets going for Hall of Famer Shug McGaughey and Don Adam's Courtlandt Farm, who went to $850K for the son of SP Inspired by Grace (Curlin) at last year's KEESEP sale. Second dam Harve de Grace (Boston Harbor) is also responsible for Inspired by Grace's GI Mother Goose S.- and GIII Schuylerville S.-winning sister Off The Tracks as well as MGSW Concord Point (Tapit). TJCIS PPs

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Ward Outlines Team Plans

Stonestreet Stables' Love Reigns (Ire) (U S Navy Flag) breezed a half-mile in :48.66 seconds Friday over the Oklahoma training turf in preparation for the 5 1/2-furlong Bolton Landing S. Aug. 21 at Saratoga. Trained by Wesley Ward graduated by 9 3/4-lengths in her April debut sprinting 5 1/2-furlongs over the Keeneland turf ahead of a close fourth last out in the G2 Queen Mary S. June 15 at Royal Ascot. Love Reigns lost some time after the Queen Mary due to illness but has now breezed four times over the Oklahoma training turf.

“She's doing great,” Ward said. “She's had no hiccups since Ascot and we're looking forward to getting her back. She's been up at Saratoga and had several breezes on the grass, including today, and she's ready to go.”

Stablemate No Kay Never (No Nay Never), also owned by Barbara Banke's Stonestreet Stables, is nominated to both the Bolton Landing and the Aug. 19 Skidmore S., a 5 1/2-furlong turf sprint against the boys. No Kay Never was an impressive maiden winner at Horseshoe Indianapolis May 30, but Ward said he may try to separate the fillies.

“We'll look at both races. She'll breeze Sunday on the grass,” Ward said. “Barbara owns them both. We may go against the boys. We'll have a little further discussion.”

Lael Stables' MGSW Arrest Me Red (Pioneerof the Nile) and Hat Creek Racing's Illegal Smile (Ire) (Camacho {GB}) also worked five-eighths in 1:00.94 Friday over the Oklahoma training turf. Arrest Me Red is targeting the GII Turf Sprint Sept. 10 at Kentucky Downs, while Illegal Smile is pointed to the Aug. 20 Smart N Fancy S. at Saratoga. Arrest Me Red, winner of last year's GIII Belmont Turf Sprint Invitational and GII Turf Sprint in May, was a close second last out in the GI Jaipur S. at Belmont June 11.

“He got a beautiful trip following us around there and then it kind of parted where he got a ground saving trip and got out. He was the best horse on the day,” Ward said.

Ward indicated Andrew Farm and For the People Racing's No Nay Hudson (No Nay Never) will make his turf debut in the Skidmore. The $190,000 Keeneland September Yearling Sale purchase graduated on debut in April in a 4 1/2-furlong maiden special weight at Keeneland prior to a fourth-place effort in Belmont's Tremont S. in June.

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Bar of Gold’s Justify Half-Sister Breaks Maiden With Flourish

1st-Saratoga, $88,000, (S), Msw, 8-12, 2yo, f, 5 1/2fT, 1:03.18, fm, 1 length.
IM JUST KIDDIN (f, 2, Justify–Khancord Kid {GSW, $167,343}, by Lemon Drop Kid) scored here at second asking for the same connections of GI Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint shock winner Bar of Gold (Medaglia d'Oro), GISW, $1,551,000, becoming the eighth winner for her freshman sire (by Scat Daddy). Breaking well from the rail as the 4-5 favorite, the Kimmel trainee was outrun early but content to track from fourth behind :22.36 and :45.34 splits. Swung to the outside for her rally, she took aim at frontrunner Highway Harmony (Mo Town) and greenly ran down that pacesetter despite swapping leads in deep stretch. Im Just Kiddin won with ears pricked after finishing second last out on debut July 15 sprinting this distance on the main track. Kingsley Creek (Lord Nelson) flipped behind the gate before the start, and was scratched. Conditioner John Kimmel reported later that she appeared to come out of the incident okay. Im Just Kiddin's aforementioned older half-sister is a graded stakes producer herself as the dam of GIII With Anticipation S. victor Coinage (Tapit), who the Bromans race in partnership with D. J. Stable after he passed through the ring for $450,000 at KEESEP. The victress also claims Land Mine (Mineshaft), SP, $158,342; and stakes-placed Homeland (American Pharoah) as half relations. Dam Khancord Kid (Lemon Drop Kid) claimed the GIII Herecomesthebride in Hallandale as a race-mare, and is half to MSP Crackerjack Jones (Smarty Jones). She produced a 2022 Uncle Mo filly and visited Medaglia d'Oro for 2023. Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, $66,000. Click for the eEquibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.
O/B-Chester Broman & Mary R. Broman (NY); T-John C. Kimmel.

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