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Thursday’s Insights: Constitution Colt Looks To Author Juvenile Score

10th-KD, $150K, Msw, 2yo, 1mT, 6:28 p.m.
The European-style grass course situated on the Kentucky side of the southern border with Tennessee cards a maiden finale which draws $450,000 Keeneland September graduate from last year, PUBLIUS (Constitution). Bred by Twin Creeks Farm, the bay colt debuts out of Sharp Instinct (Awesome Again), who is the dam of seven winners from nine to race. The Brad Cox trainee, ridden by Florent Geroux, is a half-brother to GIII Excelsior S. hero Send It In (Big Brown).

Also entered is the well-bred Tapitoro (Tapit), who was purchased by De Meric Sales for $170,000 at the Keeneland September Sale and was pinhooked for $300,000 during OBS April Sale. Trained by Brian Lynch and ridden by James Graham, the gray colt is a half-sibling to Canadian champion turf male and GI Ricoh Woodbine Mile winner El Tormenta (Stormy Atlantic), GIII Las Cienegas S. victor Zero Tolerance (Mizzen Mast) and Strut the Ring (Strut the Stage).

Out of an extended female family which includes Canadian Horse of the Year Dance Smartly (Danzig), multiple leading sire Smart Strike (Mr. Prospector) and champion 2-year-old colt trio Sky Classic (Nijinsky II), Regal Classic (Vice Regent) and Grey Classic (Grey Dawn II), Tapitoro's dam Torreadora (El Prado {Ire}) is a half-sister to MGSW His Race To Win (Stormy Atlantic) and the dam of MSW Galilean (Uncle Mo). TJCIS PPS

2nd-SAR, $136K, Msw, 2yo, f, 1m, 1:44 p.m.
Up at Saratoga, first timer Paradise Lane (Quality Road) will debut for Hall fo Fame trainer Bill Mott with regular rider Junior Alvarado up. Bred and part-owned by Pam and Martin Wygod, the bay filly is the first offspring out of GI Santa Anita Oaks and GI Zenyatta S. heroine and 'TDN Rising Star' Paradise Woods (Union Rags). Second dam Wild Forest (Forest Wildcat) is a half-sister to GSW and English GSW Tajaaweed (Dynaformer) and digging a little deeper under the fourth dam we find MGSW and GISP Mr. Greeley (Gone West) and GISW Mona de Momma (Speightstown). TJCIS PPS

 

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Monday Insights: Maiden Colts Headline Rescheduled Ellis Card

6th-ELP, $70K, Msw, 2yo, 1m, 3:18 p.m.

A trio of colts make their much-anticipated debuts Monday beginning with Stonestreet homebred BENVOLIO (Tapit). Out of GI La Troienne S. winner Molly Morgan (Ghostzapper) who was purchased by Stonestreet for $1.35m out of the 2015 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Mixed Sale, the bay is a half to $1.8m yearling Vintage Print (Curlin).

He'll face a pair of expensive yearlings including a stablemate in Army Officer (Not This Time), picked up for $475,000 out of last year's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Sale by Qatar Racing. His dam is a half-sister to MGSW/GISP Forbidden Kingdom (American Pharoah).

Steve Asmussen pairs with another Gun Runner colt in Dynamis, who sold for $450,000 at Keeneland September but most recently RNA'd for a more significant $875,000 at this year's OBS April Sale. He is out of a half to no more than three graded-stakes horses and tossed in a pair of back-to-back bullet works Aug. 7 and Aug. 14, going five furlongs in 1:01 and 1:01 1/5 respectively. TJCIS PPS

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Gun Runner Colt Breaks Through in Smarty Jones

Il Miracolo (c, 3, Gun Runner–Tapit's World, by Tapit), a longshot second in Saratoga's Curlin S. July 21, broke through with a career high in Tuesday's GIII Smarty Jones S. at Parx.

Drawn widest of all in post eight, the 7-2 chance was hustled from his outside draw and raced three wide around the clubhouse turn. He sat a perfect, stalking trip from an outside third, made his move on the far turn, kicked for home as the one to catch, and, despite drifting out badly down the lane,  was never in any serious danger late. It was three lengths back to Cagliostro (Upstart) in second; Daydreaming Boy (Goldencents) was third.

A well-beaten sixth in both the GII Fountain of Youth S. Mar. 4 and GI Curlin Florida Derby Apr. 1, Il Miracolo followed an optional claiming win at Gulfstream Park May 11 with a seventh-place finish in the GI Belmont S. June 10. He finished 3 1/4 lengths behind the GI Travers S.-bound Scotland (Good Magic) in the Curlin.

Pedigree Notes:

Il Miracolo becomes the 14th graded/20th stakes winner for leading young sire Gun Runner. The Gun Runner over Tapit cross is also responsible for GISW Society and GSWs Wicked Halo, Red Route One and Disarm. The winner's dam Tapit's World, a $175,000 purchase by Willow Oaks Farm at the 2015 FTKNOV sale, is also responsible for the 2-year-old colt Mister Cruiser (Catalina Cruiser) and a Vekoma filly of this year. She was bred back to Vekoma for 2024.

Tuesday, Parx
SMARTY JONES S.-GIII, $300,000, Parx Racing, 8-22, 3yo, 1 1/16m, 1:48.59, ft.
1–IL MIRACOLO, 121, c, 3, by Gun Runner
                1st Dam: Tapit's World (GSP, $154,179), by Tapit
                2nd Dam: Higher World, by Peaks and Valleys
                3rd Dam: Sarah's World, by Holy Bull
   1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. ($75,000 Ylg
'21 KEEJAN; $190,000 RNA Ylg '21 FTKOCT; $70,000 2yo '22
OBSOPN). O-Eduardo Soto; B-Willow Oaks Stable LLC (KY);
T-Antonio Sano; J-Luis Saez. $166,500. Lifetime Record:
13-3-4-0, $311,625. *1/2 to Steinar (Union Rags), SP-Swe,
$152,495. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*.
   Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Cagliostro, 121, c, 3, Upstart–A Rosefor Isabelle, by Hard
Spun. ($385,000 2yo '22 OBSAPR). O-David Ingordo, Talla
Racing, James Spry, West Point Thoroughbreds and Nice Guys
Stables; B-Lance Colwell & Janice Clark (FL); T-Cherie DeVaux.
$55,500.
3–Daydreaming Boy, 121, c, 3, Goldencents–Denali
Dreamscape, by Corinthian. 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE.
($15,000 Wlg '20 KEENOV; $31,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP; $15,000
2yo '22 OBSOPN). O-Bran Jam Stable & David Clark; B-Hinkle
Farms (KY); T-Louis C. Linder, Jr. $27,750.
Margins: 3, 1 3/4, 8HF. Odds: 3.80, 3.00, 9.80.
Also Ran: Adero, Ninetyprcentmaddie, Army Times, Victory Way, Movisitor. Scratched: Salute the Stars. Click for the Equibase.com chart and the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.

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Friday Insights: Million-Dollar Into Mischief Filly Debuts At Ellis

6th-ELP, $70K, Msw, 2yo, f, 7f, 3:18 p.m.

Live Oak Plantation's CHARLOTTESAPPROVAL (Into Mischief) makes it to the races Friday afternoon at Ellis Park in her first start since bringing $1,000,000 as a yearling at last year's Fasig-Tipton New York Select Yearling Sale. She is the second foal out of MGSW Curlin's Approval (Curlin). Racing out of the Mark Casse barn, she fired a bullet drill two back, going four furlongs from the gate in :47 3/5 (1/16) July 6 and most recently went another four furlongs in :48 4/5 (9/32) July 28. Charlottesapproval drew the inside gate and picks up Christian Torres for her debut.

In the middle of the gate, Courbe (Quality Road) is a Wertheimer and Frere homebred from the family of Honest Lady, herself a half-sister to late leading sire Empire Maker (Unbridled). Under that third dam is GI Forego H. winner First Defence (Unbridled's Song) and MSW/GSP Honest Mischief (Into Mischief). TJCIS PPS

4th-SAR, $136K, Msw, 3yo/up, 6f, f, 2:39 p.m.

A $550,000 Keeneland September yearling, Rhiannon (Medaglia d'Oro) makes the races for CHP Racing and trainer Chad Brown. Out of a graded-stakes winning mare who is a half to MGSW Divine Oath (Broken Vow), this is the family of GSW/GISP Ocho Ocho Ocho (Street Sense) and MGSW Interactif (Broken Vow).

Also making her first start back since March is Magical Song (Tapit), the second foal out of dual-champion mare Songbird. Jose Ortiz gets aboard for this filly's fourth start, her first for trainer Todd Pletcher who removes the blinkers in this spot. TJCIS PPS

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