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Thursday’s Racing Insights: Well-Bred 2YO Fillies Take to Belmont Turf

1st-BEL, $64K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6fT, 1:15 p.m.
Gary Barber’s Frankel At Ascot (Fr) (Frankel {GB}) is one of several well-bred juveniles set to square off in this turf dash. The Mark Casse pupil was a €535,000 Arqana August yearling purchase by Justin Casse. She is out of stakes-winning juvenile Ascot Family (Ire), making her a half to precocious MGSW and GISP Family One (Fr) (Dubai Destination). The bay has fired a couple of bullets over the local dirt in preparation for this first go. Steal My Sunshine (Distorted Humor) is Wesley Ward owned, trained and bred. She’s a half to GSW turf sprinter/miler Conquest Panthera (Kitten’s Joy) and a full to MGSW Happy Like a Fool, who sold for $1.85 million in the 2018 Fasig-Tipton November sale. Contained (Flintshire {GB}), from her sire’s first crop, is out of a half-sister to GISW In Lingerie (Empire Maker). Her third dam is champion 2-year-old filly Phone Chatter (Phone Trick). Wertheimer et Frere homebred Alda (Munnings) ran on well to finish a close third–beaten a nose for second–going a furlong shorter than this against males June 12. She’s a half to French Group 2 winner Alignement (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) out of a half to MGSW Exhi (Maria’s Mon). TJCIS PPs

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Shedaresthedevil Indiana Oaks Headliner

Shedaresthedevil (Daredevil), heroine of Oaklawn’s GIII Honeybee S. Mar. 7, is the clear-cut horse to beat in Wednesday evening’s GIII Indiana Oaks.

The bay followed a well-beaten third behind division heavyweights Swiss Skydiver (Daredevil) and Venetian Harbor (Munnings) in the GIII Fantasy S. May 1 with a powerful optional claiming tally at Churchill Downs last time June 5.

“She ran a huge one,” trainer Brad Cox said. “We were looking just to get a race in her between the Fantasy and wherever we ended up, which ended up being the Indiana Oaks. She worked well all winter when we picked her up, and she’s just continued to improve all winter, all spring and into the summer. If she shows up, she’ll be tough.”

Bayerness (Bayern), two-for-two during her juvenile season, enters this first two-turn test following a well-beaten third in the seven-furlong GIII Dogwood S. June 6.

Alandra (Blame), third after trouble at the start in last term’s GI Darley Alcibiades S., ships in for Hall of Famer Shug McGaughey off a facile allowance win in the Belmont mud June 11.

The Indiana Oaks carries 20-8-4-2 points on the road to the GI Kentucky Oaks.

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Evenly-Matched Group Contests Indiana Derby

It’s rare to see a GI Kentucky Derby prep on a weekday, much rarer to find it on a July weekday, but an evenly-matched field of 10 horses will contest the GIII Indiana Derby Wednesday at Indiana Grand with 34 qualifying points for the Run for the Roses up for grabs.

Lloyd Madison Farms’ Major Fed (Ghostzapper) looks for some racing luck after several wide trips along the Derby trail. A sharp maiden winner on New Year’s Day at Fair Grounds, the homebred was second in a division of the GII Risen Star S. and fourth after a wide journey while closing into a slow pace in the GII Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby. Hung out in the widest draw in the GIII Matt Winn S. last out May 23 at Churchill, he chased the pace before fading to finish last of 10.

Taishan (Twirling Candy) also looks to rebound while shipping in from the west coast for Richard Baltas. Fourth in the GII Sham S. and fifth in the GIII Southwest S. over the winter, the $150,000 OBS March buy scored in a sloppy Oaklawn optional claimer Mar. 14 with a field-best 92 Beyer before running a good third after moving early into a fast pace in the Oaklawn S. Apr. 11 in Hot Springs. He failed to build on those two efforts, however, when last in a division of the GI Arkansas Derby May 2.

Godolphin’s progressive Shared Sense (Street Sense) goes out for trainer Brad Cox. Sixth in the Smarty Jones S. and War Chant S. in his previous two stakes tries, he nevertheless earned the highest last-out Beyer when earning an 89 as runner-up to the promising Art Collector (Bernardini) last out in a Churchill optional claimer June 13.

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Wednesday’s Insights: Ward Runners Return at Keeneland

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8th-KEE, $80K, Alw, 3yo, 5 1/2fT, 4:57p.m.
Richard Ravin’s MAVEN (American Pharoah), sent overseas following a debut win at Aqueduct in April, 2019, makes his first start in just over a year for trainer Wesley Ward. The chestnut colt RNA’d for £725,000 at last summer’s Goffs London sale and, scratched from an expected start in the G2 Norfolk S. at Royal Ascot over ground concerns, was rerouted to win the June 29 G3 Prix de Bois at Chantilly. He was last seen finishing 10th at the Glorious Goodwood meet in the G3 Molecomb S. July 31.
Ward also saddles the returning Cambria (Speightstown), the lone filly in the field. A homebred for Stonestreet Stables, the chestnut filly opened her career with three straight wins, including the Sept. 7 Kentucky Downs Juvenile Turf Sprint S. and will be making her first start since finishing ninth in the GII Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint Turf last November. TJCIS PPs

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