The only other entry in this five-horse field given any sort of respect on the morning line is Tranche (Collected) for trainer Luis Mendez. While it took him three tries to break his maiden, he graduated in stakes company when taking the Fasig-Tipton Futurity S. by 7 1/4 lengths in gate-to-wire fashion at Santa Anita June 17.

Doug O'Neill's Raging Torrent (Maximus Mischief) is the only runner in the bunch to have a win over the Del Mar surface. He took his maiden race by 2 1/4 lengths on debut July 23 for owners Great Friends Stables and Mark Davis.

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Seventh on debut in April at Keeneland and then third beneath the Twin Spires May 4, he broke like a shot and quickly cleared his competition to claim his spot on the inside. Showing the way as :22.15 and :45.36 splits sailed by, he cut the corner coming into the homeward trail and continued to extend his lead under right-hand urging. It would be 7 1/4 lengths back to Mirahmadi who got up in time to grab second from Refocus.

“To be honest, I wasn't really (confident going into this race), in this business when you think you're going to win, it can sometimes go the other way,” said Luis Mendez, who won the 2021 Fasig Tipton Futurity with Big City Lights…”[Owner] Bill Peeples, I mean everybody on the team loved him, but I was not convinced. That beautiful field of horses was against him, so I was a little worried.”

The second of Theory of Change's offspring to get his picture taken, Tranche is her first black-type winner. He has a yearling half-brother by Street Sense and the mare came up barren from her 2023 cover to Maxfield. This is the female family of GSP America America (Mister Baileys {GB}), who is responsible for MGSP Bluegrass Princess (Dynaformer) and MSW Partisan Politics (More Than Ready) through her branch of the family. GISP My Gal Betty (Point of Entry) also makes an appearance as well as GSW So Long George (Arch). Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

FASIG-TIPTON FUTURITY, $100,000, Santa Anita, 6-17, 2yo, 5f, :57.68, ft.
1–TRANCHE, 119, c, 2, by Collected
           1st Dam: Theory of Change, by Archarcharch
           2nd Dam: Gal of Mine, by Mining
           3rd Dam: Dansait Dame, by Dance Bid
($210,000 Ylg '22 KEESEP). 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-William R. Peeples; B-Hidden Brook Farm (KY); T-Luis Mendez; J-Edwin A. Maldonado. $60,000. Lifetime Record: 3-1-0-1, $81,000.
2–Mirahmadi, 119, c, 2, Into Mischief–More Chocolate, by Malibu Moon. ($1,050,000 Ylg '22 KEESEP). 1ST BLACK TYPE. O-SF Racing LLC, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables LLC, Dianne Bashor, Robert E. Masterson, Waves Edge Capital LLC, Catherine Donovan, and Tom Ryan; B-Gainesway Thoroughbreds Ltd. (KY); T-Bob Baffert. $20,000.
3–Refocus, 123, c, 2, Pavel–Redo It, by Square Eddie. 1ST BLACK TYPE. O/B-Reddam Racing, LLC (CA); T-Doug F. O'Neill. $12,000.
Margins: 7 1/4, 1 1/4, 1HF. Odds: 20.00, 0.60, 1.80.
Also Ran: Going Mobile, Next Level. Scratched: Harry Houdini.

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KENTUCKY JUVENILE S., $197,500, Churchill Downs, 5-4, 2yo, 5f, :57.49, ft.
1–YOUALMOSTHADME, 117, f, 2, by Oxbow
                1st Dam: Good Gator (SP), by Good and Tough
                2nd Dam: May Gator, by Green Alligator
                3rd Dam: Thesixthofmay, by Classic Account
($12,000 Ylg '22 KEESEP). 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-Qatar
Racing, Swinbank Stables, Steve Adkisson and Black Type
Thoroughbreds; B-Pope McLean, Marc McLean & Pope
McLean Jr. (KY); T-Brad H. Cox; J-Tyler Gaffalione. $123,500.
Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $170,000.
2–Lou's Legacy, 118, c, 2, Tapiture–Biogio's Gift, by Any Given
Saturday. 1ST BLACK TYPE. O-Hugo Andrade; B-Lou Dunn
Diekemper Trust (KY); T-Hugo Andrade. $40,000.
3–Tranche, 118, c, 2, Collected–Theory of Change, by
Archarcharch. ($210,000 Ylg '22 KEESEP). 1ST BLACK TYPE.
O-William Peoples; B-Hidden Brook Farm (KY); T-Luis Mendez.
$20,000.
Margins: 8 3/4, 1, 24. Odds: 0.27, 9.91, 9.17.
Also Ran: Lil Anthony, Who's Snow Trouble. Scratched: Hibernacle.

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