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August 6 Insights: Justify Half-Brother to Commissioner Debuts

5th-DMR, $80k, Msw, 2yo, 5f, 7:04p.m. ET
Hronis Racing LLC, West Point Thoroughbreds, and Woodford Racing LLC have partnered up to unveil the latest blue-blooded colt by Justify, this one named HAWKER. Shelling out a cool $675,000 for him at KEESEP, his pedigree warrants the implied expectations: out of GSP Flaming Heart (Touch Gold), it makes Hawker a half to GISP & MGSW Commissioner (A.P. Indy), GISP & GSW Laugh Track (Distorted Humor), and to the dam of MGISW Vino Rosso (Curlin). All three of the colt's closest female line dams have black-type victories to their name as well as being producers of black-type earners. John Sadler sends him to post here. To Hawker's inside, and only slightly less expensive, is the Bob Baffert-trained Carmel Road (Quality Road). Out of a stakes-winner of over $435,000 in lifetime earnings, the colt is a half to stakes-placed Night Time Lady (Midnight Lute). The second dam, a full-sister to GIII Jaipur H. winner Multiple Choice (Mt. Livermore), produced GSP Silver City (Unbridled's Song) and Elope (Gone West). He brought $650,000 as a KEESEP yearling from 'The Avengers' partnership group. Dr. Soulfire (West Coast) will be the $300,000 EASMAY (:10 flat) flag bearer in this race for his freshman sire. TJCIS PPs

6th-SAR, $105K, Msw, 2yo, 7f, 3:24 p.m. EDT
Continuing the parade of glamorous juvenile debuts at the Spa, Godolphin will send out homebred WADSWORTH (Quality Road), the first colt to the races for GI Coolmore Jenny Wiley S. victress Dickinson (Medaglia d'Oro). Second dam Little Belle (A.P. Indy) won the GI Ashland S. before going on to a runner-up performance in the GI Kentucky Oaks and Coaching Club American Oaks. That one is the full-sister to the granddam of Munnyfor Ro (Munnings), Canadian champion 3-year-old filly of 2021. The partnership of Repole Stable and St Elias Stable will send out a one-two punch in coupled entries Crupi (Curlin) and Point Proven (Gun Runner) for Todd Pletcher. The latter was a $675,000 KEESEP buy, and the half-brother to GIII Beaumont S. winner Twenty Carat (Into Mischief) hails from the female family of Breeders' Cup winning mother-daughter duo Shared Account (Pleasantly Perfect) and 'TDN Rising Star' Sharing (Speightstown) through the second dam. Crupi ($275,000 KEESEP) claims half-relation Royal Spirit (Into Mischief), recently placed in the GIII Kitten's Joy, and second dam Caroni (Rubiano) produced GSW Mo Tom (Uncle Mo), MGISP Beautician (Dehere), and MGSW Red Ruby (Tiznow). TJCIS PPs

1st-SAR, $105k, Msw, 2yo, 1 1/16mT, 12:35p.m. ET
Calumet Farm unveils TRACK MATE (Union Rags) over the long grass contest here, the son of MGISP Teammate (A.P. Indy) going to post for D Wayne Lukas. The dam is a half to top sire War Front (Danzig) as well as two-time GIII Jaipur S. winner Ecclesiastic (Pulpit); MGSP Riviera Cocktail (Giant's Causeway); GSW North Dakota (Medaglia d'Oro); and GSP Jay Gatsby (Giant's Causeway). Track Mate has sibling shadows to outrun as the half to SW Team of Teams (Elusive Quality), MGSP Team Colors (Street Cry {Ire}), and SP Seven Away (Oxbow). Another well-pedigreed homebred in Red Route One (Gun Runner) goes to post here as well, this one for Winchell Thoroughbreds. The second to the races behind stakes-winning full-brother Red Run, the colt's second dam is Broodmare of the Year Fun House (Prized), who produced champion 3-year-old filly and GI Kentucky Oaks heroine Untapable (Tapit); millionaire GISW Paddy O'Prado; and the dam of GSW Majestic Eagle (Medaglia d'Oro). Freshman sire City of Light will be represented by $500,000 FTSAUG grad Battle of Normandy for West Point and Woodford Racing. TJCIS PPs

3rd-ELP, $60k, Msw, 2yo, 6f, 2:46p.m. ET
Three well-regarded colts will line up next to each other in the gate here, led by SUNDANCE (Quality Road), an $800,000 KEESEP procurement for WinStar, Siena Farm, and Gainesway Stable. Out of 'TDN Rising Star' Cherry Lodge (Bernardini), half-sister to GISW Stormello (Stormy Atlantic) and his full-brother GSW My Best Brother, the dam's full-sibling Gala Award annexed the GIII Palm Beach S. while half-sister Atlantic Voyage (Stormy Atlantic) produced Canadian champion 2 & 3-year-old filly Curlin's Voyage (Curlin). Sundance will be his dam's first to make it to the races and is in Rodolphe Brisset's tutelage. Quality Road's other pricey juvenile in here is Brad Cox's Jace's Road, a $510,000 KEESEP buy for the West Point and Albaugh Family Stables partnership. Splitting those two is another debuting Godolphin homebred in Face Value (Medaglia d'Oro). He's out of Face It (Tapit), who is a half-sister to MGISW It's Tricky (Mineshaft), herself dam of MGSW Enticed (Medaglia d'Oro). That mare also produced GSP Enliven (Ghostzapper). Face Value goes to post for Brendan Walsh. TJCIS PPs

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Gun Runner to Cover Mares on Southern Hemisphere Time

Gun Runner, the runaway leading second-crop sire in North America, will be available to cover a limited book of mares on Southern Hemisphere time in 2022, Three Chimneys has announced.

The son of Candy Ride (Arg) will be available to breeders in the Southern Hemisphere at a fee of US$75,000 (AU$109,700).

Since retiring to the breeding shed in 2018, Gun Runner has enjoyed a meteoric rise through the U.S. stallion ranks and with only two crops of racing age, he is already the sire of 12 stakes winners, spearheaded by five top-flight winners including GI Preakness winner Early Voting.

Doug Cauthen, the Vice Chairman of Three Chimneys, told TDN AusNZ he believed the stallion had all the attributes to make him a successful sire in the Southern Hemisphere.

“The decision to make the stallion available to cover Southern Hemisphere time is two-fold; firstly, there have been a lot of inquiries about him and we have some matings booked already,” he said.

“Secondly, on a limited basis, we want to try to introduce him into the market because we believe he has all the potential to be a successful Southern Hemisphere (sire) as well.”

Staggering start at stud

With 53 winners from 97 starters this far, three of which have come in Japan, Gun Runner's winners-to-runners strike rate stands at 54.6 per cent, while the 12 stakes winners means he fires at a staggering 12.4 per cent for stakes winners to runners.

The 30 winners, headed by six stakes winners, led him to be North America's leading first-crop sire of 2021 by both winners and earnings in 2021, with GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Echo Zulu his leading earner.

“We have a high respect for the market there and you don't want to go in half-cocked, so we felt that now he is fully loaded to be introduced properly.,” said Cauthen. “There has been demand already and that is encouraging and shows it is the right time.”

“We want to respect breeders' opinions on what they think will work with the stallion,” he continued. “When top breeders show interest, you can give them input, but you should let them decide what will work with the stallion in the market.”

Flawless pedigree

A son of successful sire Candy Ride, Gun Runner boasts a beautiful pedigree and importantly for Australian breeders, he is free of Danehill blood.

His dam is the GII Molly Pitcher S. winner Quiet Giant, by Giant's Causeway, and she is herself a daughter of Listed scorer and top-producer Quiet Dance (Quiet American).

Gun Runner proved a dominant force on a racecourse, winning 12 of his 19 starts including six at the highest level which saw him accrue $16,037,138 in earnings.

Determination and speed

Cauthen said Gun Runner was a brilliant racehorse himself and instils similar traits within his progeny, making his offspring very popular with trainers.

“He has a great pedigree and he himself was a magnificent racehorse who had very few limits,” he said. “He could come from off the pace, he had determination and he had speed,” he said. “In his progeny, you see lovely action. They are great walkers, they're great movers and they have great minds and they want to do it; these are primary aspects for a racehorse, any horseman or trainer will tell you that and that is what he is passing on to his progeny.

“We are blessed to have him doing so well and we hope and pray it continues. We are encouraged by his talent and we feel the time is right to test out another continent–it is the right time.”

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Into Mischief’s Wonder Wheel Rolls Home at First-Asking

4th-Churchill Downs, $105,843, Msw, 6-3, 2yo, f, 5 1/2f, 1:04.73, ft, 2 1/4 lengths.
WONDER WHEEL (f, 2, Into Mischief–Wonder Gal {MSW & MGISP, $904,800}, by Tiz Wonderful) was sent off the narrow 2-1 second choice in this unveiling but put in a gutsy, professional performance to graduate. Not the fastest off the break, Wonder Wheel tracked from fifth and quickly made up ground coming through the turn, her march carrying her four wide into the stretch. Second at the head of the lane, the $275,000 KEESEP grad confronted a stubborn 24-1 longshot in Black Forest (Frosted), but got the better of that one by the final sixteenth. There were 2 1/4 lengths between them on the wire. Wonder Wheel is the second foal and winner for her multiple Grade I-placed dam. Older half-sibling Road Bible (Pioneerof the Nile) was a $610,000 purchase from KEESEP 2019 by Steve Asmussen. Wonder Wheel's 2021 full-sibling was born dead and their dam was barren after visiting Constitution for this season. This is the family of GISW and millionaire Force the Pass (Speightstown) through graded-stakes runner turned graded-stakes producer Gal on the Go (Irgun) and MGSW Social Queen (Dynaformer). Sales history: $275,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $69,460. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.
O-D. J. Stable LLC; B-Three Chimneys Farm, LLC & Clearsky Farms (KY); T-Mark E. Casse.

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Early Voting’s Pedigree Reflects Ongoing Success at Three Chimneys

Three Chimneys Farm's stallion sensation Gun Runner set a new record for progeny earnings by a first-crop sire last year, headlined by six stakes winners including champion Echo Zulu, but the striking son of Candy Ride (Arg) was just getting started in 2021. When Klaravich Stables' Early Voting captured the GI Preakness S., Gun Runner added a fifth tally to his remarkable count of Grade I winners from his first crop.

Early Voting's win at Pimlico was worth celebrating at Three Chimneys for more reasons than one. Not only did the Preakness score give Gun Runner his first American Classic winner, but Early Voting also became the first Classic victor bred by Three Chimneys under the Borges-Torrealba family banner.

“Early Voting's Preakness win was a significant achievement for the farm,” said Three Chimneys Farm's Rebecca Nicholson. “It's what we strive to do every day-to breed, raise, sell and race horses at the top level of the sport. We couldn't be more pleased with Gun Runner's performance as a sire. It's just exceptional what he's done. Mr. Torrealba always referred to him as a horse of a lifetime and he's certainly proving that.”

The mating that produced Early Voting reflects Three Chimneys Farm's efforts to rise to the top of the industry over the past decade. In the same year that the Borges-Torrealba family acquired the farm in 2013, they also purchased Early Voting's dam Amour d'Ete (Tiznow), a daughter of successful producer Silken Cat (Storm Cat), at the Keeneland September Sale for $1.75 million.

“It was a pretty hefty price tag, but she was a big, pretty filly and a half-sister to Speightstown, so she had residual value as a broodmare,” Nicholson explained. “Unfortunately she never made it to the races due to an injury, so she was integrated into our broodmare band in 2015.”

Amour d'Ete received a pedigree update soon after when her full-brother Irap became a multiple graded stakes winner. Three Chimneys did send the young mare through the auction ring in 2016, but she did not meet her reserve.

Nicholson said that when Horse of the Year Gun Runner retired to stud in 2018, sending Amour d'Ete to their new stallion had been a no-brainer.

“We thought the speed in her family would complement Gun Runner's brilliance quite well,” she said. “The hypothetical foal was going to be a four-by-three cross to Storm Cat.”

In retrospect, the mating was even more of an obvious choice. Five of Gun Runner's seven graded stakes winners, including three of his five Grade I winners, carry the Storm Cat line on their damside.

After Early Voting took the second leg of the Triple Crown, Three Chimneys broodmare manager Richard Nolen went back to find his notes on the colt's early days on the farm.

“He always received positive comments,” Nolen reflected. “No one ever had anything negative to say about him. He was correct in his legs and was a really nice foal.”

One thing Nolen does remember well about a young Early Voting was his attitude.

“He was an easy foal to work with and was teachable,” he explained. “With the good ones, they have their own independence. They're strong-willed, but not fighters.”

Early Voting had the disadvantage of going through the sales ring during an uncertain market in 2020. Selling in Book 2 of the Keeneland September Sale, he brought just over his reserve and sold to Triphammer Farm for $200,000.

“We were actually a bit disappointed with the result,” Nicholson admitted. “We had him valued a little higher, but luckily he caught the attention of Mike Ryan, who purchased him and incorporated him into Chad Brown and Klaravich Stables' program. They have done a phenomenal job with the colt. At the end of the day, we do breed to race a lot of our stock, but we're also a commercial operation that puts a lot of quality stock into the market.”

Amour d'Ete has visited Gun Runner twice more since the meeting that produced Early Voting. She has a 2-year-old Gun Runner filly that will be retained for the Three Chimneys broodmare band and she was bred to the same stallion again this year.

“It was actually a mating that we determined back in November before Early Voting had gotten any blacktype because we were seeing the pattern with Gun Runner crossing really well with Storm Cat-line mares,” Nicholson pointed out.

Amour d'Ete also has a yearling filly by Constitution in the pipeline that is pointing for the Keeneland September Sale.

Nolen said that Amour d'Ete is everything he looks for in an outstanding broodmare. He explained that while the Tiznow mare stands at over 16'2 hands, her strength and size complement her elegance and femininity.

“Amour d'Ete has a pedigree next to none, but when you walk up to her knowing that she's got that kind of pedigree, you look at her eye and she's such an elegant mare,” he noted. “She's so beautiful and she has class, just true class. [Her offspring] are all correct and look racy.”

In April this year, Amour d'Ete produced a filly from the first crop of Three Chimneys-based Grade I winner Volatile.

“This filly looks like a rocket,” Nolan said. “She looks like she could just outrun the wind. She's gorgeous, elegant and she has a beautiful head.”

Could Volatile soon become the next superstar stallion for Three Chimneys?

“We're very pleased with Volatile's first crop of foals,” Nicholson reported. “We have an exceptional group here at Three Chimneys. We bred 13 mares to him last year and we're breeding 18 mares to the stallion this year. He tends to throw a lot of size and scope, as well as strength and substance. They look like they're going to be fast horses and I'm excited for them to hit the market in November.”

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