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Another Rising Star for Into Mischief at Belmont

Shadwell Stable's Mahaamel (Into Mischief) became the 23rd 'TDN Rising Star' for his super sire and second to exit an Apr. 24 track-and-trip heat as he posted a popular front-running victory at Belmont Friday. The $700,000 KEESEP yearling was a close second here on debut to regally bred $1.5-million purchase First Captain (Curlin), who came back to take an allowance last Saturday and get the 'Rising Star' nod himself. Donning blinkers for this, he was favored at 4-5 while taking on some pricey and well-bred foes. Ridden clear from a pesky longshot early, the bay posted splits of :22.68 and :45.89 with $500,000 Askin for a Baskin (Distorted Humor) ranging up to challenge heading for home. He spurted clear at the head of the lane, and leveled off well from there to score by 3 1/4 lengths. Askin for a Baskin held off well-bred firster Cody's Wish (Curlin–Dance Card) for second. The winner stopped the clock in 1:22.46 in the mud.

Mahaamel is the second foal out of accomplished New York-bred Hot Stones (Bustin Stones), who took the GIII Bed o' Roses H. over this same track and trip in 2014. Her prior foal Hot Mist (Tonalist) was a debut winner for West Point Thoroughbreds and Christophe Clement at Tampa Bay Downs last May but has not been seen since. Hot Stones's 2-year-old filly Rome's Burning (Classic Empire) was third on debut for Wesley Ward in a $50,000 maiden claimer at Churchill about an hour before Mahaamel's victory. She was not claimed. Hot Stones has not yet produced another live foal.

4th-Belmont, $90,000, Msw, 6-4, 3yo/up, 7f, 1:22.46, my, 3 1/4 lengths.
MAHAAMEL, c, 3, Into Mischief
                1st Dam: Hot Stones (GSW, $521,356), by Bustin Stones
                2nd Dam: Steamed Up, by Freud
                3rd Dam: Midnight Tank, by Tank's Prospect
Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, $67,500. Click for the Equibase.com chart, VIDEO, sponsored by TVG or free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
O-Shadwell Stable; B-Clarkland Farm LLC (KY); T-Todd A. Pletcher. *$700,000 Ylg '19 KEESEP

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Top Line Juveniles Shine at OBS

Jimbo and Torie Gladwell's Top Line Sales claimed the fastest furlong and quarter-mile breezes of Friday's third session of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's under-tack show ahead of the June Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training, with a filly by Frosted working the second :9 4/5 furlong of the week and a colt by Arrogate setting the new quarter-mile mark of :20 4/5.

When hip 447, a daughter of Frosted out of graded stakes winner Jody Slew (Slew City Slew), turned in her :9 4/5 breeze Friday, it was actually the filly's second bullet work of the spring. She also worked in :9 4/5 ahead of the OBS March Sale, but ultimately had to be withdrawn from the auction.

“She went :9 4/5 in March,” Torie Gladwell said. “So we knew she was really fast, but we weren't sure she could do it again. Because you never really ask a horse to go that fast twice. We don't ever ask our horses to go that fast on the farm. So the only time they do it is for the breeze show.”

Gladwell continued, “In March, she came up with a little vet issue, so we had to scratch her and we ended up doing a little quick surgery and took care of it. We gave her some time off and brought her back here and she did do it twice. So we are really happy with her.”

The filly was purchased by Jimmy and Martha Gladwell for $65,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings Showcase.

“They trained her and they get all the credit for the work on that filly,” Gladwell said of her in-laws. “They've done everything to get her ready.”

Gladwell added of the filly, “She's grown since March. She's a little bigger and stretchier now. She looks really good.”

Hip 393, a colt by the late champion Arrogate, became the first juvenile of the week to shade :21 when he worked his quarter-mile in :20 4/5 Friday in Ocala.

“I can't take credit for that colt either,” Gladwell said. “He was at Miami with the de Merics and he's owned by Marc Tacher. We only had him for maybe three weeks on the farm prior to coming over here. So we really just test drove him a little bit on the farm. We knew he was fast, everybody told us he was fast, he worked good in Miami. We came over and were just kind of easy with him going into it and he showed up.”

The dark bay colt is out of stakes winner Hero's Amor (Street Hero), a full-sister to multiple graded placed Threefiveindia. He was purchased by Tacher for $200,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton October Sale and RNA'd for $240,000 following a :10 2/5 work at the Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale.

“He is average-sized and put together really well,” Gladwell said of the colt. “He's a gorgeous, gorgeous horse.”

Both of Friday's bullet breezers are making their second sales appearances of the spring. It's a recipe that has already worked this year, with a colt by Into Mischief RNA'ing at the Gulfstream sale for $750,000 before bringing $875,000 at the OBS Spring sale.

“If they can show up and do it twice, I think it actually shows these buyers that they are good sound horses who like their jobs,” Gladwell said.

The Top Line Sales consignment was also represented by a Practical Joke filly who earned the quarter-mile bullet and a Maclean's Music filly who shared the furlong bullet Thursday.

“Extremely well,” Gladwell said when asked how the consignment's horses were performing on the track. “They seem to be coming out of it, as far as X-rays go, in pretty good shape. They are coming back and they're not just jaded coming back to the barn. They try hard, they are blowing, but they are not ready to just fall over. So that's nice.”

The under-tack show continues through Sunday with sessions beginning daily at 7:30 a.m. The June sale will be held next Wednesday through Friday with bidding starting at 10:30 a.m. each day.

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Speightstown Colt Graduates in Tremont for Red-Hot Wesley

Overbore benefitted from a key scratch in the morning and a pace duel in the afternoon to graduate and become his 23-year-old sire's 123rd stakes winner in this longstanding event. Third by a half-length behind Baytown Frosty (Frosted) after a rough start at even-money at Keeneland Apr. 18, the dark bay second by a nose on the Churchill turf May 21. He inherited the favorite's role when big-figure debut romper Little Drama (Dramedy) was withdrawn, and he was bothered at the start before moving up to sit third behind runaway leaders Baytown Frosty and Trust Our Journey. He brushed with Kavod when that one tried to force his way out for clear sailing, and kept on steadily over the top to prevail.

“He broke better than the first time I rode him,” said Joel Rosario, who was aboard for Overbore's first start but not his second. “It looked like those two horses were going to keep the speed going. I was setting up in the perfect spot. When I said go, he was there for me. He kept going from there.”

The Wesley Ward barn is hitting at better than 40% at the meet, and also took Thursday's Astoria S. with the dominant Happy Soul (Runhappy).

“When you get winners, it's a good spot to be in,” said former rider David Flores, who is serving as Ward's New York-based assistant. “Wesley and I have known each other almost 30 years. When he was riding, I was riding on the West Coast. We go back to since we were kids. It's a great friendship.”

The winner has a yearling half-sister by More Than Ready. His dam, who races exclusively on synthetic and turf at Woodbine but was effective going both short and long, most recently visited Yoshida (Jpn). Speightstown was also represented by a juvenile winner in the Churchill Downs opener Friday.

TREMONT S., $139,500, Belmont, 6-4, 2yo, 5 1/2f, 1:05.44, my.
1–OVERBORE, 120, c, 2, by Speightstown
                1st Dam: Galina Point (MSW & MGSP, $486,561), by Saffir
                2nd Dam: Celtic Craft, by Danehill
                3rd Dam: Crissy Aya, by Saros (GB)
($275,000 Ylg '20 KEESEP). 1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. O-Peter
Leidel; B-WinStar Farm, LLC (KY); T-Wesley A. Ward; J-Joel
Rosario. $82,500. Lifetime Record: 3-1-1-1, $108,500.
2–Kavod, 122, c, 2, Lea–Weekend Connection, by Pulpit.
($3,500 Ylg '20 KEESEP). O-James J. Chapman & Tritain
Biddinger; B-Steve J. Grant (KY); T-James K. Chapman. $30,000.
3–Trust Our Journey, 122, c, 2, American Pharoah–Tribal Music,
by A. P. Warrior. O-Palm Beach Racing; B-Hallmarc Stallions,
LLC & R Star Stallions (FL); T-Carlos A. David. $18,000.
Margins: 3/4, 2HF, 13 3/4. Odds: 0.65, 6.20, 2.05.
Also Ran: Baytown Frosty. Scratched: Little Drama, Rising Outlaw.
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RRP to Host T.I.P. Barrel Racing Champs

The Retired Racehorse Project (RRP) and The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program (T.I.P.) will hold the inaugural T.I.P. Barrel Racing Championships at the Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium this October at the Kentucky Horse Park. The annual T.I.P. Championships features competition in disciplines including hunters, jumpers, English pleasure, Western pleasure, and classical and Western dressage. The 2021 T.I.P. Barrel Racing Championships will feature prize money and additional prizes for the top horses.

“Thoroughbreds have made their presence known in recent years in Western disciplines, particularly barrel racing, so we are happy to be able to showcase yet another area in which these horses excel through the inaugural T.I.P. Barrel Racing Championships,” said Kristin Werner, senior counsel for The Jockey Club and administrator of T.I.P. “Hosting this event in conjunction with the Thoroughbred Makeover will provide the deserved spotlight for these Thoroughbreds that are excelling in careers that may not be typically associated with the breed and will allow us to potentially grow the Championships in future years if there is enough interest from barrel racing participants.”

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