5th-AQU, $85k, Msw, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f, 1:46p.m. ET
Purchased for an eye-catching $825,000 from KEESEP by Mike Ryan for CHP Racing, MODERN LOVE (Curlin) will look to justify that price here against a well-connected field of maidens. The half-sister to GISW Competitionofideas (Speightstown) hails from a winning family line–the second and third dams claim 17 winners immediately beneath them, combined, and six with black-type. Her Chad Brown-trained stablemate Ana's Gun (Gun Runner) will also carry a flashy pedigree in her maiden voyage; being the half sister to GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner Structor (Palace Malice) and GSP Always Carina (Malibu Moon). The Three Chimneys homebred is out of a half-sister to GII Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf victress More Than Real (More Than Ready), who in turn produced her own branch of black-type performers including SW Miss Debutante (Aus) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) and her daughters MGSW Queen of the Ball (Aus) (I Am Invincible {Aus}); and GSW Platinum Jubilee (Aus) (Zoustar {Aus}). Rounding out the field will be the $400,000 FTFMAR pick-up for Repole Stables Give Me Kisses (Street Sense), the newest to the races for the dam, GISP Agave Kiss (Lion Heart) and hailing from the Pletcher training program. TJCIS PPs
6th-AQU, $85k, Msw, 3yo/up, f, 1mT, 2:16p.m. ET
Whisper Hill Farm will send out a filly with an enviable pedigree in WAR PRINCESS (War Front), a daughter of Betterbetterbetter (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), herself half to Irish High-weight filly Yesterday (Ire) (Sadler's Wells) and that one's full-sister and multiple Irish High-weight Quarter Moon (Ire). The latter produced G1SW Diamondsandrubies (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}), who also claims a Graded-stakes performer to her tally, and her half-sister GISP You'll Be Mine (Kingmambo), the dam of MG1SP Eminent (Ire) (Frankel {GB}). Todd Pletcher will have the call for this 3-year-old debuting filly. TJCIS PPs
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