12th-GP, $60k, Msw, 3yo, 1mT, 5:43p.m. ET
With success running thick in the family, Klaravich Stables' $300,000 KEESEP procurement Growth Capital (War Front) will try to beat home a well-bred field of maidens in the night cap at Hallendale. His dam Room Service is half to $1.9 million KEENOV purchase Oscar Party (Dixie Union) and GSW Major Gain (More Than Ready). To Growth Capital's outside is stablemate in the Chad Brown barn, Thistle (Arrogate), who is the first foal of racing age for GSW High Ridge Road (Quality Road). The full-brother to MGISW Vasilika (Skipshot), Chasing the Crown, breaks from the outside of the field which also comprises of Father Red (Quality Road) who is half to GSW Arrest Me Red (Pioneerof the Nile) and Calumet homebred Double Clutch (Optimizer), whose dam claims GSW & MGSP Gear Jockey (Twirling Candy). TJCIS PPs

8th-OP, $84k, Msw, 3yo, 1 1/16m, 4:45p.m. ET
Rigney Racing sends out their flashy $450,000 FTKSEL graduate Ludwig (Mastery) to hopefully make some beautiful noise in this maiden race. His dam's first to the races, the female family includes GSW & MGSP Gemswick Park (Speightstown) and the dam of G1SW Poet's Voice (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}). TJCIS PPs

10th-OP, $84k, Msw, 3yo, 6f, 5:49p.m. ET
Lundberg (Uncle Mo) is a $400,000 KEESEP graduate under the tutelage of Brad Cox, who sends out the colt for the partnership of Albaugh Family Stables and Donegal Racing. Dam Runway Ready (Mr. Greeley) is a half to GSW New York Central (Tapit) and GII Saratoga Special S. winner Corfu (Malibu Moon). This is the family of MGISW Peace Rules (Jules). Also in the field is $375,000 OBSMAR (:9 4/5) purchase Plausible Denile (Pioneerof the Nile), half-brother to three stakes horses including MGSW Lucy N Ethel (During). Trainer James Divito will send the grey to post after purchasing him as agent for owners Doubledown Stables. TJCIS PPs

6th-SA, $67k, Msw, 3yo, 6 1/2f, 6:05p.m. ET
By far the priciest of the notable debuters on Saturday, Ganadora (Quality Road) will carry the silks of Baoma Corporation to post as a $1 million score from the Keeneland September sale. Out of GSP Beloveda (Ghostzapper), who began her racing career in Poland before being imported to the States and recently changed hands for $510,000 at FTKFEB going to Gainesway, the filly is a half-sister to SP Mistress of Love (Scat Daddy) and two other winners including full-sister Hana Road. Through the second dam Mysterious Angel (Saint Ballado) there are at least 13 black-type earning runners. Bob Baffert sends Ganadora to the gates. TJCIS PPs

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CASSE UNVEILS WELL-BRED WAR FRONT ON FL DERBY UNDERCARD
1st-GP, $55K, Msw, 3yo, 1mT, 11:30p.m.
The blue-blooded WAR BOMBER (IRE) (War Front) makes his career bow in this spot for trainer Mark Casse. The colt is a full-brother to Group 1 winner and Irish highweight Lancaster Bomber, who was twice second at the Breeders' Cup; and a half-brother to French, Irish and German highweight Excelebration (Ire) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}); MGSW Mull of Killough (Ire) (Mull of Kintyre); MSW Shivalik Showers (Ind) (Dancing Forever); and to the dam of MSP Fauci (Malibu Moon). TJCIS PPs

PRICEY PHAROAH FILLY MAKES CAREER BOW
7th-GP, $55K, Msw, 3yo, f, 1 1/16mT, 2:27p.m.
Spendthrift Farm went to $675,000 at Keeneland September to acquire AMERICAN HEIRESS (GB) (American Pharoah)–after which MyRacehorse joined as partner–and she debuts here for Todd Pletcher. Out of MGSW Keertana (Johar), she is a half-sister to GSW Ticonderoga (Tapit). Her dam is a half to GSW & GISP Diversy Harbor (Curlin) and MGSW & GISP Snow Top Mountain (Najran). TJCIS PPs

FULL-SIBLING TO VASILIKA DEBUTS IN NOLA
8th-FG, $55K, Msw, 3yo, 5 1/2fT, 5:23p.m.
SAMYAZA (Skipshot) heads to the post for the first time in NOLA Saturday and he has some big shoes to fill. The chestnut is a full-brother to two-time Grade I winner and earner of over $1.8-million Vasilika, who went from claimer to eight-time graded winner and close runner-up in the Breeders' Cup. She summoned $1.5-million from Japan's Katsumi Yoshida at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton November Sale. Steve Asmussen unveils another firster with a talented relative in Americaredwhiteblue (American Pharoah). He is out of a GSP half-sister to MGISW Curalina (Curlin). TJCIS PPs

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