By Joe Bianca
A field of 10 juvenile fillies will contest this turf sprint as racing resumes Sunday at Saratoga, headed by Coolmore's SEQUIN (Bayern), who makes her career bow from the outside draw for Wesley Ward. Expectations are undoubtedly high for the dark bay considering she hammered for $500,000, easily the highest price for a progeny of her sire this year, at Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream after breezing a furlong in :10 1/5. Out of a SP half-sister to SW/MGISP 'TDN Rising Star' Mother Mother (Pioneerof the Nile), she tipped her hand with a bullet half-mile in :47 2/5 (1/34) over the Oklahoma turf July 13. Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Gainesway Stable went to $350,000 at Fasig-Tipton Saratoga to secure Sharing (Speightstown), a daughter of 2010 GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf heroine Shared Account (Pleasantly Perfect). Trained by Graham Motion, the chestnut shows a steady worktab at her trainer's Fair Hill base, capped by a three-furlong tightener over the training track in :37 4/5 (3/4) July 18. Other contenders include Claiborne Farm's homebred Meritaten (War Front&log=">War Front), a debutante out of a GSP full-sister to MG1SW The Gurkha (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), and Robert Masiello's firster Giggle Factory (The Factor), a half-sister to GISW turfer Watsdachances (Ire) (Diamond Green {Fr}). TJCIS PPs
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