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Filly on a Mission: Daughter of Into Mischief Garners Rising Stardom for Baffert

Baoma Corporation’s $750,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga buy Private Mission (Into Mischief) led home a one-two finish of promising fillies for the Bob Baffert barn Sunday to earn the ‘TDN Rising Star’ distinction. Backed as the even-money choice off a series of works that had churned up some buzz (click for XBTV video of Oct. 5 breeze in company with $1.3-million colt American Admiral {American Pharoah}), the bay showed good early speed to sit in second locked on to the pacesetter. She took over after a :45.23 half, and only stablemate Frosteria (Frosted–Hystericalady) could come close to keeping up with her at that point. Private Mission had more to give, however, and cruised home a geared-down 1 3/4-length winner. Frosteria was 6 3/4 lengths clear of the third finisher.

Dam Private Gift, who was a two-turn stakes winner, was a $2.3-million purchase by Greg Goodman’s Mt. Brilliant while in foal to A.P. Indy at the 2008 Fasig-Tipton November sale. In addition to Secret Someone (A. P. Indy), MSW & GSP, $409,301, she is responsible for the dam of last year’s GI Alabama S. heroine Dunbar Road (Quality Road). Private Gift is a half to GI Kentucky Oaks heroine Secret Status (A.P. Indy). Her Honor Code yearling filly sold to BSW/Crow for $240,000 at last month’s Keeneland September sale. Private Gift was not bred back for 2020, but visited Candy Ride (Arg) this season. Baffert trains progeny by the nation’s leading sire Into Mischief that include GI Kentucky Derby hero Authentic and leading sophomore filly Gamine.

10th-Santa Anita, $57,000, Msw, 10-18, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f, 1:16.82, ft, 1 3/4 lengths.
PRIVATE MISSION, f, 2, Into Mischief
                1st Dam: Private Gift (SW, $212,248), by Unbridled
                2nd Dam: Private Status, by Alydar
                3rd Dam: Miss Eva (Arg), by Con Brio II
Sales history: $750,000 Ylg ’19 FTSAUG. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $33,000. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
O-Baoma Corporation; B-Mt. Brilliant Broodmares I LLC (KY); T-Bob Baffert. *1/2 to Secret Someone (A.P. Indy), MSW & GSP, $409,301.

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Brody’s Cause Filly Graduates in Anoakia

Kalypso broke her maiden in stakes company with a front-running score in the Anoakia S. Sunday at Santa Anita. The chestnut filly strode out to the early lead and was in hand through a quarter in :22.17 and a half :45.14. Three lengths in front with furlong to run, Kalypso was never threatened and sailed under the wire 2 1/4 lengths in front to become the second black-type winner for her freshman sire (by Giant’s Causeway).

“When you ride for Bob [Baffert], he just says, ‘Break well and play the break,'” said winning rider Abel Cedillo. “I knew she had speed, so she broke really sharp and I just took that. She finished really strong and she galloped out really strong too. I think she did it pretty well.”

Kalypso was third behind subsequent GI Del Mar Debutante runner-up Forest Caraway (Bodemeister) and Debutante third-place finisher Illumination in her 5 1/2-furlong debut at Del Mar Aug. 15 and had to settle for second behind Queengol after setting the pace over that same track and distance Sept. 5.

“We’ve been wanting to run her long, but we couldn’t get a race to go,” Baffert said. “She got sick after Del Mar, so we took our time with her. She’s been training well and she’s changed a lot. We’ll stretch her out next time.”

Malibu Cove has a yearling filly by Hit it a Bomb who sold for $4,000 at last year’s Keeneland November sale. The mare, a full-sister to multiple graded stakes winner Prospective and to the dam of this year’s GIII Bashford Manor S. third-place finisher Herd Immunity (Union Rags), also has a weanling by Mor Spirit and she was bred back to Jimmy Creed. Spendthrift’s B. Wayne Hughes purchased the winner’s second dam, Spirited Away, for $290,000 as a Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling in 2005. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

ANOAKIA S., $77,950, Santa Anita, 10-18, 2yo, f, 6f, 1:10.30, ft.
1–KALYPSO, 118, f, 2, by Brody’s Cause
                1st Dam: Malibu Cove, by Malibu Moon
                2nd Dam: Spirited Away, by Awesome Again
                3rd Dam: Cape North, by Capote
($240,000 Ylg ’19 FTKJUL). 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN.
O-Rockingham Ranch and David A Bernsen LLC; B-Spendthrift
Farm LLC (KY); T-Bob Baffert; J-Abel Cedillo. $46,500. Lifetime
Record: 3-1-1-1, $64,100.
2–Queengol, 120, f, 2, Flashback–Nechez Dawn, by Indian
Charlie. ($22,000 Wlg ’18 KEENOV; $90,000 2yo ’20 OBSMAR).
O-Saragol Stable Corp. & Johana Viana; B-John R. Penn (KY);
T-John W. Sadler. $15,500.
3–Illumination, 118, f, 2, Medaglia d’Oro–Light the City, by
Street Sense. ($900,000 Ylg ’19 FTSAUG). O-George Bolton,
Peter & Karin Leidel, Barry Lipman, & Kerri Radcliffe; B-Breeze
Easy, LLC (KY); T-Bob Baffert. $9,300.
Margins: 2 1/4, HF, 1 1/4. Odds: 4.80, 1.20, 6.10.
Also Ran: Forest Caraway, Needless to Say.

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Helium Floats Away from Them at Woodbine to Become First Stakes Winner for Ironicus

Helium backed up a sharp and fast track-and-trip debut score Sept. 27 to dominate Sunday’s Display S. at Woodbine and become the first black-type winner for his freshman sire (by Distorted Humor). Off as the narrow 7-5 favorite over fellow impressive debut winner Maclean’s Posse, the bay broke well and took up a stalking spot off the inside as his chief market rival took heat from two foes through splits of :23.65 and :46.40. Helium advanced ominously while out wide heading for home, and found another gear when called upon in the stretch to float away from his foes at will while capping a huge weekend North of the border for his trainer.

For the racing week at Woodbine, Casse sent out one winner each on Thursday and Friday; five on Saturday including dominant ‘TDN Rising Star’ Souper Sensational (Curlin) in the filly equivalent of the Display, the Glorious Song S.; and three on Sunday. He now boasts more than triple as many wins as the next trainer in the Woodbine meet standings.

“He’s a pro, this horse is like an old soul,” said pilot Emma-Jayne Wilson, who was celebrating a three-win day of her own that also included a victory in the GI Northern Dancer Turf S. “First time he ran, we wanted to just get his legs and come running. He was up near the point and when I asked him to quicken, he quickened… So today, I was pretty confident. They set some decent fractions in front of him and he wasn’t fazed. Even the horse on the outside moved up and he was like ‘Oh, can I go now?’ I said ‘No, we’ll just wait.’… And sure enough, when I pulled the trigger–you’ve heard this said time and time again when you’re standing in this winner’s enclosure…when you pull the trigger and they go, they’re good horses. Well, that’s what got me here today.”

Helium’s dam produced a Classic Empire maker colt in 2019 and an Accelerate colt this term before being bred back to American Pharoah. Sire Ironicus, now a Claiborne resident, blossomed at ages four and five, annexing a trio of graded races on the grass for Shug McGaughey and Stuart Janney III before just missing in the 2016 GI Shadwell Turf Mile S.

DISPLAY S., C$101,600, Woodbine, 10-18, 2yo, 7f (AWT), 1:22.62, ft.
1–HELIUM, 120, c, 2, by Ironicus
                1st Dam: Thundering Emilia, by Thunder Gulch
                2nd Dam: Saint Emilia (Per), by Saint Ballado
                3rd Dam: Proud Emilia, by Proud Appeal
($55,000 Ylg ’19 FTKOCT). 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-D. J. Stable
LLC; B-Teneri Farm Inc & Bernardo Alvarez Calderon (KY);
T-Mark E. Casse; J-Emma-Jayne Wilson. C$60,000. Lifetime
Record: 2-2-0-0, $77,763. *1/2 to Mighty Scarlett (Scat
Daddy), GSP, $225,860; Emilia’s Moon (Malibu Moon),
G1SW-Per.
2–Gospel Way, 120, g, 2, Brody’s Cause–Bible Belt, by Pulpit.
O-William B. Thompson, Jr.; B-William B. Thompson (VA);
T-Nathan Squires. C$20,000.
3–Decimator, 118, g, 2, The Big Beast–Ragtime Road, by
Dixieland Band. ($40,000 Ylg ’19 OBSOCT). O-Colebrook Farms;
B-Jimmie Ballinger (FL); T-Ashlee Brnjas. C$11,000.
Margins: 4 1/4, NK, 4. Odds: 1.40, 5.35, 56.85.
Also Ran: Exceed, Maclean’s Posse, Knight Kingdom, Souper Classy. Scratched: Rocket Reload. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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Siyouni’s Etoile Holds On in E. P. Taylor

Etoile, a beaten favorite in her two prior North American starts after being transferred to Chad Brown, came through with a victory in Sunday’s GI E.P. Taylor S. at Woodbine, giving red-hot Siyouni (Fr) another top-level success in the same Peter Brant colors as that stallion’s G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe hero Sottsass (Fr).

Two-for-two to open her account for Jean-Claude Rouget last winter at Cagnes-sur-Mer, the bay was a neck runner-up in Longchamp’s G3 Prix Vanteaux before annexing the G3 Prix Cleopatre at Saint-Cloud. A close fourth in the G1 Prix de Diane Longines at Chantilly, she was off the board in her last two French outings and disappointed when eighth at 17-10 in the GI Gamely S. May 20 after being bought for over $1 million at Tattersalls December. Second in the local GII Dance Smartly S. Aug. 15, she was made one of three 5-2 chances here and tracked from third past soft splits of :26.44 and :51.03. Moving up a spot as the pace quickened a touch through three-quarters in 1:15.50, she drew on even terms past the five-sixteenths and drifted wide off the turn. Blowing by tiring pacesetter Theodora B. outside the furlong grounds, she kicked clear before just holding 41-1 bomber Court Return on the wire.

“It was a good trip,” said local winning rider Rafael Hernandez, who was riding his meet-leading 12th stakes winner. “I called Chad this morning and he told me, ‘Raffi, try to get a good trip like last time. Just make sure you clear down the stretch. He told me he’d been working the horse a few times and he put her outside of other horses, and she’d been finishing great. I heard that other horse coming late but I wish she was coming closer. It was too far out so my horse couldn’t see. That’s why I switched the whip to the left, to try to get her out and get her attention. But we did it.”

Pedigree Notes:

Etoile becomes the 43rd stakes winner, 24th graded stakes winner and sixth Grade I/Group 1 scorer for Aga Khan Studs’ Siyouni. She is his first North American Grade I winner. Her third dam Navratilovna was a GSW in France. Her dam has a juvenile filly by Lethal Force (Ire) named Arletta (Fr) and a yearling Dabirsim (Fr) filly.

Sunday, Woodbine
E. P. TAYLOR S.-GI, C$630,000, Woodbine, 10-18, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/4mT, 2:03.12, gd.
1–ETOILE (FR), 124, f, 4, by Siyouni (Fr)
                1st Dam: Milena’s Dream (Ire), by Authorized (Ire)
                2nd Dam: Rozella (Ire), by Anabaa
                3rd Dam: Sweet Blue Eyes, by Seeking the Gold
1ST GRADE I WIN. (€160,000 Ylg ’17 ARAUG; 750,000gns 3yo
’19 TATMA). O-Peter Brant, Mrs M V Magnier & Mrs Paul
Shanahan; B-Dominique Ades Hazan, Geraldine Henochsberg
& Patrick Fellous (FR); T-Chad C. Brown; J-Rafael Manuel
Hernandez. C$360,000. Lifetime Record: GSW-Fr, 10-4-2-0,
$454,351. Click for eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk
   Nick Rating: A++.
2–Court Return, 124, f, 4, by Court Vision
                1st Dam: In Return, by Horse Chestnut (Saf)
                2nd Dam: Bartered Bride, by Shadeed
                3rd Dam: Lady Vixen, by Sir Ivor
O-Ivan Dalos; B-Tall Oaks Farm (ON); T-Josie Carroll.
C$144,000.
3–Secret Message, 124, m, 5, by Hat Trick (Jpn)
                1st Dam: Westside Singer, by Gone West
                2nd Dam: Zawzooth, by Unbridled’s Song
                3rd Dam: Lady Blockbuster, by Silent Screen
O-Madaket Stables LLC, Heider Family Stables LLC, ERJ Racing,
LLC, Elayne Stables and Bouchey, Steven; B-Allen Tennenbaum
(KY); T-H. Graham Motion. C$66,000.
Margins: NK, 2, HF. Odds: 2.50, 41.80, 6.70.
Also Ran: Rideforthecause, Theodora B., Pretty Point, Elizabeth Way (Ire). Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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