Slipstream (More Than Ready) could do no better than sixth in last year's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf at Del Mar, but closed furiously up the rail to best favored Stonestreet filly Twilight Gleaming (Ire) (National Defense {GB}) in Sunday's Listed Palisades S. at Keeneland.
Quickly into stride from an outside alley, 'TDN Rising Star' Twilight Gleaming outsprinted her male rivals and galloped them along on a drying-out turf course as Slipstream, last year's GIII Futurity S. hero, bided his time at the tail of the field. As her stablemate Golden Pal (Uncle Mo) did in Saturday's GII Shakertown S., Twilight Gleaming was kept well off the rail in upper stretch, and that presented an inviting inside opening for Slipstream, who first rallied underneath Pure Panic in upper stretch and quickened home impressively to post a comfortable victory.
Slipstream defeated future GIII Kitten's Joy S. winner Grand Sonata (Medaglia d'Oro) by 5 1/2 lengths to break his maiden over seven furlongs Sept. 18, then cut back in trip to annex the Futurity by a tight length after racing freely in the early stages. It wasn't the cleanest of trips in the Juvenile Turf Nov. 5 and by the time he could let down, Modern Games (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) had put the race to bed and Slipstream was forced to settle for a close sixth.
One of two winners from the stakes-placed Cake Baby, both black-type winners, Slipstream has a yearling half-brother by Catalina Cruiser and his dam was most recently covered by Game Winner. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.
PALISADES S., $188,788, Keeneland, 4-10, 3yo, 5 1/2fT, 1:02.80, gd.
1–SLIPSTREAM, 120, c, 3, by More Than Ready
1st Dam: Cake Baby (SP), by Stormy Atlantic
2nd Dam: Dharma Girl, by French Deputy
3rd Dam: Cashelmara, by Key to the Mint
($170,000 Ylg '20 KEESEP). O-Jump Sucker Stable; B-Burleson Farm & McKenzie Bloodstock (KY); T-Christophe Clement; J-Joel Rosario. $120,900. Lifetime Record: 6-3-0-1, $288,500. *1/2 to Too Sexy (Quality Road), SW, $319,635.
2–Twilight Gleaming (Ire), 118, f, 3, National Defense (GB)–
Thames Pageant (GB), by Dansili (GB). (£75,000 Ylg '20 GOFOR). 'TDN Rising Star' O-Stonestreet Stables LLC; B-Pier House Stud (IRE); T-Wesley A Ward. $29,250.
3–Pure Panic, 118, c, 3, Summer Front–Shock the World, by Hansen. ($24,000 RNA Wlg '19 KEENOV; $42,000 RNA Ylg '20 KEESEP; $170,000 RNA 2yo '21 OBSMAR). O-Pravin A Patel; B-Kendall E Hansen MD Racing LLC (KY); T-Juan Munoz Cano. $19,500.
Margins: 3/4, 5HF, 1 1/4. Odds: 2.70, 0.90, 34.90.
Also Ran: Circle Back Jack, No Nay Franklin (Ire), Classicstateofmind, Baytown Frosty. Scratched: Kaufymaker.
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