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Thursday’s Insights: $700k Munnings Daughter Debuts

1st-BEL, $90K, Msw, 2yo, f, 5fT, 3:05 p.m.
Belmont Park opens the week with a maiden sprint over the grass which includes $700,000 FTSAUG buy SAM'S TREASURE (Munnings). The Wesley Ward trainee with Irad Ortiz in the irons, counts second dam MSW Treasured Up (Medaglia d'Oro) and her half-sister GSW Choctaw Nation (Louis Quatorze) in her family.

Out of Ward's stable also comes a daughter out of Freshman Sire Advertise (GB), who was a multiple Group 1 turf sprinter in Europe. Chitarra (Ire), hammered down for 300,000 guineas at the Tattersalls October Yearling sale last fall, is a Stonestreet-owned bay filly ridden by John Velazquez.

Omaha Beach is also represented here with his first stateside entry. A $250,000 KEESEP purchase, Cynane hails from a female family which includes a number of prominent Grade I winners including Pleasant Home (Seeking the Gold), Pine Island (Arch) and Point of Entry (Dynaformer). Drawn to the far outside, the Tom Morley trainee will have the services of Javier Castellano. TJCIS PPS

2nd-CD, $120K, Msw, 2yo, f, 4 1/2f, 5:29 p.m.
Fresh off Derby Week, Churchill Downs returns to action on Thursday evening and entered is a $300,000 OBSMAR purchase, which set a high mark this year among 2-Year-Olds In-Training for those by sire Maclean's Music (video). Bred by Whisper Hill Farm, trained by Brad Cox and ridden by Florent Geroux, MUSICAL DIVA's second dam Shop Glack (Smoke Glacken) is a half-sister to both GI Personal Ensign heroine Miss Shop (Deputy Minister) and Shop Again (Wild Again), who produced GISW Power Broker (Pulpit).

Opposing her will be a pair of freshman Mitole's first-time starters V V's Dream, a $190,000 KEESEP purchase trained by Kenny McPeek, and homebred April Clover from Steve Asmussen's shedrow. World of Trouble, another young sire, is represented by Girls Weekend, also making her career debut. TJCIS PPS

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Wednesday’s Racing Insights: Into Mischief Juvenile Filly Working Bullets for Ward

5th-KEE, $80k, Msw, 2yo, f, 4 1/2f, 3:08 p.m. ET

Trainer Wesley Ward debuts another well-meant juvenile firster in this full field of 12. BARBTOURAGE (Into Mischief), a $425,000 FTKOCT yearling purchase by Stonestreet Stables, has posted three straight three-furlong bullets in Lexington, including a :35 flat move (1/14) from the gate Apr. 13. The bay was produced by Velvet Mood (Lonhro {Aus}), a 2-year-old stakes winner at Woodbine and half-sister to GI Frizette S. heroine Wicked Whisper (Liam's Map) and GSW & MGISP Point of Honor (Curlin). She is the 4-5 morning-line favorite. Ward and Barbara Banke's operation unveiled 'TDN Rising Star' American Rascal (Curlin–Lady Aurelia) to a buzzworthy debut victory at Keeneland last week. TJCIS PPs

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Curlin-Lady Aurelia Juvenile Colt Romps to Rising Stardom; Royal Ascot Next

Stonestreet homebred American Rascal (c, 2, Curlin–Lady Aurelia, by Scat Daddy), the first foal out of international superstar and two-time Royal Ascot winner Lady Aurelia, romped on debut in a jaw-dropping 'TDN Rising Star' performance for Wesley Ward over the Keeneland main track Thursday afternoon. A trip to Royal Ascot could be in the cards for the mighty Curlin's 24th 'Rising Star.'

“He's a super fast horse,” Ward said in the winner's circle on FanDuel TV. “The good thing about running at Ascot is that they go in and out of the races completely sound. That turf course there and at Keeneland are ideal–just so safe for all these fast 2-year-olds early in their career. We'll center in on the [G2] Norfolk [going five furlongs at Royal Ascot June 22]. Of course, we'll talk it over with Ian Brennan and Barbara [Banke]'s team and Barbara herself. That's what he was given to me for. His mother did so great over there. I really look forward to this guy. He's gonna be something.”

American Rascal fired a three-furlong bullet in :35 3/5 (1/13) at Keeneland Apr. 9 and was hammered down to 1-2 in this nine-horse field. He broke sharply beneath a whipless Joel Rosario and was content to back off and chase Loudermilk (Bernardini) from second through an opening quarter in :22.21. American Rascal began to wind up on the far turn and blasted off down the stretch in eye-catching fashion with just a shake of the reins to graduate by 10 1/4 lengths. Prints Money (Munnings) was second.

The Stonestreet-bred and Ward-trained Lady Aurelia, a $350,000 KEESEP yearling purchase  campaigned by Stonestreet, George Bolton and Peter Leidel, brought $7.5 million from Stonestreet to dissolve a partnership at the 2018 FTKNOV sale.

Lady Aurelia romped on debut with a 'Rising Star' performance of her own over the same course and distance in Lexington in 2016. She captured Royal Ascot's G1 King's Stand S. and G2 Queen Mary S., the G1 Darley Prix Morny in France and the Giant's Causeway S. over the Keeneland lawn. She fell just a nose short in the G1 Coolmore Nunthorpe S. at York. Lady Aurelia produced a filly by Into Mischief in 2022.

2nd-Keeneland, $79,675, Msw, 4-20, 2yo, 4 1/2f, :51.21, ft, 10 1/4 lengths.
AMERICAN RASCAL, c, 2, by Curlin
                1st Dam: Lady Aurelia (Hwt. Filly-Eng & Fr, G1SW-Eng & Fr, SW-USA, $834,945), by Scat Daddy)
                2nd Dam: D' Wildcat Speed, by Forest Wildcat
                3rd Dam: Velvet Panther, by Pentaquod
Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $47,120. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
O-Stonestreet Stables LLC; B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC (KY); T-Wesley A. Ward.

 

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Clairiere Nails Secret Oath on the Wire in Apple Blossom

It was billed a two horse race, and in the end, that's what it was as Clairiere (m, 5, Curlin–Cavorting, by Bernardini) called on her furious final kick to run down an equally game Secret Oath (Arrogate) on the wire to take the GI Apple Blossom H. and add her name to a prestigious list of winners. Hot and Sultry (Speightster) held on to third after putting up all the fractions early in a short four horse field. It was conditioner Steve Asmussen's fourth win on the card. The final time was 1:43.36.

O/B-Stonestreet Stables; T-Steve Asmussen.

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