Friday Insights: $1.6M Quality Road Half To Midnight Bourbon And Girvin Debuts At Keeneland

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7th-KEE, $100K, Msw, 2yo, 6 1/2f, 4:12 p.m.

Bred by Stonestreet Thoroughbreds and purchased for $1.6 million by Woodford Racing & West Point Thoroughbreds, WEYHILL ROAD (Quality Road) makes his debut Friday at Keeneland. Out of the Malibu Moon mare Catch the Moon, Weyhill Road is a half-brother to GSW & MGISP Midnight Bourbon (Tiznow), GISW and up-and-coming sire Girvin (Tale of Ekati), GSW Cocked and Loaded (Coloniall John), and GSW Pirate's Punch (Shanghai Bobby).Trained by Shug McGaughey, Weyhill Road enters off a four-furlong work from the gate in :48 1/5 (18/82) and gets jockey Tyler Gaffalione aboard. TJCIS PPS

8th-SA, $61K, Msw, 2yo, 6fT, 7:44 p.m.

A $760,000 yearling, Clooney (City of Light) makes his first start Friday for owners SF Racing LLC, Starlight Racing, and Madaket Stables and trainer Tim Yakteen. A half-brother to MGSW Selcourt (Tiz Wonderful), whose first foal brought $485,000 from the same connections at this past September's Keeneland Yearling Sale, Clooney picks up jockey Tyler Baze in the irons. TJCIS PPS

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