All the rage after two incredibly easy victories to start his career last summer, OXO Equine's 'TDN Rising Star' Instagrand (Into Mischief) is winless in two starts as a 3-year-old and will get a reset of sorts when he goes postward as the heavy favorite in Saturday's GIII Pat Day Mile S. at Churchill. Cruising [...]

Heading into last fall's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, it appeared to many as though the $2-million affair would be just the finishing touch on a championship season for Kaleem Shah's Bellafina (Quality Road). After all, the $800,000 Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream graduate was coming off of two Grade I victories, neither of which pushed her to [...]

There arguably is not a more exciting sprinter in the country than L. William & Corinne Heiligbrodt's Mitole (Eskendereya), who has blown away the competition in his last five starts with staggering ease. His greatest triumph is a Grade III, however, and the 4-year-old will get his sternest test to date in Saturday's GI Churchill [...]

Only a half-length under the Twin Spires likely stood between Cicero Farms' Marley's Freedom (Blame) and an Eclipse Award for Champion Female Sprinter, and the 5-year-old will look to avenge that defeat as the favorite in Saturday's GI Humana Distaff S. at Churchill. Winner of four straight last spring and summer, culminating with a convincing [...]

One of the more hotly-anticipated freshman sires, champion and MGISW Honor Code (A.P. Indy), will be represented by his first runner Wednesday at Churchill in KatieRich Farms' HONORABLE MEMORY. Trained by Mark Hubley, the homebred is a half to GSW Ready for Rye (City Zip) out of a half-sister to 2009 GI Breeders' Cup Dirt [...]

3rd-KEE, $60K, Msw, 2yo, f, 4 1/2f, 2:12 ET ANNA'S FAST (Fast Anna) turned heads last month when breezing a furlong in :9 4/5 at OBS March, and her swiftness was rewarded with a $470,000 winning bid from Mike Hall's Breeze Easy, handily the highest price paid for a progeny of her freshman sire (by [...]

1st-AQU, $100K, Msw, 2yo, f, 4 1/2f, 1:30 p.m. EST It's been 36 years since the first foals from an American Triple Crown winner raced on U.S. soil, going back to when Affirmed's initial crop of 2-year-olds hit the track in 1983. The wait is over, as American Pharoah's first two Stateside runners are entered [...]

Aside from the absence of champion Monomoy Girl (Tapizar) as she recovers from mild colic, one couldn't ask for much more in an early-season distaff race than will be seen in Sunday's GI Apple Blossom H. at Oaklawn, as three top-class fillies and mares head a strong six-horse group in the $750,000, 1 1/16-mile test. [...]

Insights, Sponsored by Alex Nichols Agency 10th-KEE, $79K, Msw, 3yo, f, 6f Whisper Hill Farm homebred DOLL COLLECTION (Tapit) makes her debut in the Keeneland finale Friday. The gray is the second foal out of dual champion and $3.1-million KEENOV buy Groupie Doll (Bowman's Band). She shows a handful of sharp works for the Ralph [...]

8th-KEE, $81K, Alw/Opt. Clm ($75,000), 3yo, 1 1/16m, 4:57 ET Robert and Lawana Low's INTREPID HEART (Tapit) was highly regarded heading into his debut Feb. 18 at Oaklawn and did not disappoint, surviving a speed duel and still drawing away powerfully in the stretch to a 7 3/4-length romp (video). That was plenty good enough [...]

Champion and five-time Grade I winner Monomoy Girl (Tapizar) is recovering from a mild case of colic and will miss a planned start in the May 4 GI La Troienne S., co-owner Sol Kumin confirmed to TDN Wednesday. The story was first reported by Blood-Horse. The Brad Cox trainee, last seen capturing the GI Breeders' [...]

6th-TAM, $27K, Msw, 3yo, 1m 40y, 3:27 EST Bridlewood Farm went to $750,000 at Keeneland September to secure BRIDLEWOOD CAT (Street Sense), a half-sister to 2016 GI Spinaway S. heroine Sweet Loretta (Tapit). Her stakes-placed dam is also a half to Canadian champion and GISW Spring in the Air (Spring At Last), with MGSW Tejano [...]