By Christie DeBernardis
Copper Bullet was hammered down to 3-2 favoritism for this second go and ran to the money with an ultra-impressive performance to become the second “TDN Rising Star” of the day. Away alertly, the $200,000 KEESEP buy seized the early advantage and appeared well within himself as he clocked an opening quarter in :22.47. Lengthening his massive stride further at the top of the stretch, the bay cruised home to an effortless eight-length victory under a motionless Florent Geroux. Sky Promise (Sky Mesa) was the runner-up.
Copper Bullet checked in a respectable second in his career bow at Keeneland Apr. 26, a race in which Sky Promise finished five lengths behind him in third. His dam Allegory (Unbridled's Song), a Joseph Allen homebred, sold to breeder Dell Ridge Farm for $200,000 carrying her first foal by Smart Strike at the 2013 Keeneland November sale and the resulting foal is a now 3-year-old colt named Irish Prospector. A daughter of MSW and MGSP Louve Royale (Ire) (Peintre Celebre), Allegory also has a yearling colt by Verrazano and was bred back to Lemon Drop Kid. Copper Bullet also traces his lineage back to French Highweights Loup Sauvage and Loup Solitaire.
1st-CD, $42,817, Msw, 5-25, 2yo, 5f, :57.56, ft.
COPPER BULLET (c, 2, More Than Ready–Allegory, by Unbridled's Song) Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, $37,800. Click for the Equibase.com chart, free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
O-Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC and Willis Horton Racing LLC; B-Dell Ridge Farm, LLC (KY); T-Steven M. Asmussen.
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