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Journeyman’s “Clockwork Fury” to Sell for Charity at OBS

A unique piece of art entitled “Clockwork Fury” will sell as the last hip of the day Tuesday, Mar. 16, during the OBS March 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale. The “steampunk” horse statue, made by Florida artist Mark Hershberger and owned by Ocala's Journeyman Stud, will be auctioned as a partnership with Horse Fever 20/20 and OBS to help raise funds for Florida Thoroughbred Charities (FTC) and Marion Cultural Alliance (MCA). Due to the fundraising challenges non-profit organizations have faced during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Journeyman co-owner Crystal Fernung was moved to offer the statue that has graced her farm for the past decade.

Clockwork Fury was on display in the lobby of OBS during the recent January Mixed sale and will again be on display in the OBS lobby before the March sale, beginning Mar. 11 at noon. Bidding must be in person in the pavilion or via agent/proxy. No pre-qualification is necessary. The Horse Fever committee and Creech Horse Transportation will assist with delivery to the new owner within the U.S.

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Feb. 28 Insights

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FULL-SIBLING TO CLASSIC EMPIRE DEBUTS

3rd-GP, $50K, Msw, 3yo, 6f, 1:08p.m.

China Horse Club and WinStar Farm's HARVARD (Pioneerof the Nile), a full-brother to champion Classic Empire, makes his career bow Sunday in Hallandale. Classic Empire was named champion juvenile colt of 2016 after victories in the GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity S. and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile. He captured the GI Arkansas Derby at three and was second in the GI Preakness S. before retiring to Ashford Stud. China Horse Club privately acquired his dam Sambuca Classica (Cat Thief) a short time later and her 2017 Candy Ride (Arg) filly summoned $775,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. Sambuca Classica is also the dam of stakes winners Uptown Twirl (Twirling Candy) and Anytime Magic (Fusaichi Pegasus); and SP Exclamation Point (Concord Point).

Klaravich Stables' Publicly Available (Liam's Map) debuts in this spot for Chad Brown. The $275,000 KEESEP purchase is out of a half-sister to Grade I-winning millionaire Dream of Summer (Siberian Summer), dam of Grade I winners Creative Cause (Giant's Causeway) and Vexatious (Giant's Causeway); and MGSW & GISP Destin (Giant's Causeway).

Robert and Lawana Low's $700,000 OBSOPN buy Dupuis (Distorted Humor) makes his second start in this test after finishing eighth in the slop over track and trip Feb. 6. TJCIS PPs

HALF TO COMMISSIONER MAKES CAREER BOW

6th-GP, $50K, Msw, 3yo, 1 1/16mT, 2:36p.m.

The well-related STATEN ISLAND (Carpe Diem) makes his first trip to the post in this event. Out of MSW & GSP Flaming Heart (Touch Gold), the chestnut is a half to MGSW & GISP Commissioner (A.P. Indy); GSW & GISP Laugh Track (Distorted Humor); GSP Intrepid Heart (Tapit); and the dam of champion Vino Rosso (Curlin). TJCIS PPs

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Monomoy Girl Makes Highly Anticipated Return in Bayakoa

Dual champion Monomoy Girl (Tapizar) makes her highly anticipated seasonal debut–albeit two weeks later than planned–Saturday in the delayed GIII Bayakoa S. at Oaklawn.

Named champion 3-year-old filly after a sensational 2018 season, the chestnut was a perfect four-for-four last term after spending all of 2019 on the sidelines due to colic and a hamstring injury. Returning from an 18-month layoff at Churchill May 16, Monomoy Girl scored a decisive victory in a sloppy optional claimer and captured Belmont's GII Ruffian S. next out July 11. A facile winner of the GI La Troienne S. at Churchill Sept. 4, she clinched her second Eclipse award with another victory in the GI Breeders' Cup Distaff at Keeneland Nov. 7. Sent through the ring across town at Fasig-Tipton the very next day, Monomoy Girl was the star of the show, topping the sale on a $9.5-million bid from Spendthrift Farm and was returned to the Brad Cox barn for a 2021 campaign. In the interim, original owner Sol Kumin of Madaket Stables bought back in as co-owner and My Racehorse has also joined in as a lease partner.

This event will likely be bet as a one-horse affair, but the second best horse on paper is Finite (Munnings). Winner of the GII Rachel Alexandra S. last term, the chestnut was shelved after finishing fourth in the GII Fair Grounds Oaks in March. Trying turf in her return to action in the Music City S. at Kentucky Downs Sept. 15, the $200,000 EASMAY buy showed the grass was not for her, finishing 11th. Missing by a neck to another daughter of Munnings in Venetian Harbor in Keeneland's GII Raven Run S. Oct. 17, Finite made amends with a win in the GIII Chilukki S. at Churchill Nov. 21 and rallied to be fourth in the GI La Brea S. at Santa Anita Dec. 26.

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Saturday’s Insights: Charlatan Half-Brother Gets Going at Gulfstream

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5th-Gulfstream, $55K, Msw, 3yo, 1m, post time: 1:24 p.m. ET
Given his name, it might be more fitting if Peter Brant's BENNYFROMTHEBRONX (Tapit) were making his first trip to the races at the Jersey Shore, but instead, the half-brother to GISW 'TDN Rising Star' and recent Saudi Cup runner-up Charlatan (Speightstown) gets his career started at Gulfstream Park Saturday afternoon. The bay, a $300,000 Keeneland September acquisition, is the latest to the races from his dam, two-time graded winner and three-time Grade I-placed Authenticity (Quiet American), who is also responsible for SW Hanalei Moon. The colt's third dam is Gallagher's Stud's Appealing Missy (Lypheor {GB}), who produced SW & GSP Statement (Seattle Slew) and the stakes-placed dam of GSW & GISP New York-bred Rahys' Appeal (Rahy). The Chad Brown trainee will have to deal with second-time starter Collaborate (Into Mischief), who was profiled in Steve Sherack's Second Chances column earlier this week. TJCIS PPs

Well-Related Shadwell Firster Kicks Things Off…
1st-Gulfstream, $55K, Msw, 3yo, f, 7f, post time: 11:30 a.m. ET
Trainer Todd Pletcher takes the wraps off Shadwell homebred SIBAAQ (Bernardini) in the Saturday lid-lifter in Hallandale. The Apr. 20 foal is out of the unraced Sablah (Distorted Humor), whose son Takaful (Bernardini) became a 'TDN Rising Star' with an eight-length debut romp in late 2016 and later–reinvented as a one-turn horse–took out the 2018 GI Vosburgh S. Sablah is also the dam of Haikal (Daaher), a maiden winner at second asking whose marquee victory came in the GIII Gotham S. in 2019. European champion Shadayid (Shadeed) and 2001 G1 English 1000 Guineas heroine is Sibaaq's third dam. TJCIS PPs

Oaklawn Debutant the Product of Champions…
9th-Oaklawn, $86K, Msw, 3yo, 6f, post time: 5:25 p.m. ET
Storm Song (Summer Squall), the Eclipse Award-winning juvenile filly of 1996, and Uncle Mo, champion of his generation in 2010, are the dam and sire, respectively, of Aaron Sones's homebred MY FAVORITE UNCLE. The May-foaled dark bay is a half-brother to GISP Trojan Nation (Street Cry {Ire}); MGSP Balladry (Unbridled's Song); and to the dam of the legendary European stayer and MG1SW Order of St George (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and GSWs Angel Terrace (Ghostzapper) and Asperity (War Chant). Lazaretto (Hard Spun) is a son of the fleet MSW Mother Ruth (Speightstown), a $420,000 purchase by Highland Yard out of the 2016 Keeneland January Sale. A half-brother to GSW Yuvetsi (Bodemeister), Lazaretto is bred on the same cross over Gone West-line dams responsible for this sire's GISWs Spun To Run and Out for a Spin and three other of Hard Spun's 41 worldwide graded/group winners. TJCIS PPs

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