Nov. 2 Insights: Well-Bred Fillies Take the Stage on Breeders' Cup Saturday

A filly from the female family which produced sire Maclean's Music will debut at Churchill Downs Lee Thomas

1st-GP, $65k, Msw, 2yo, f, 7 1/2fT, 12:00p.m. ET
Sumdge (Quality Road) debuts in Florida on Breeders' Cup Saturday, tabbed at 4-1 odds on the morning line for owner D J Stable and trainer Mark Casse. Sold at KEESEP in 2023 for $525,000, she is a half-sister to the ill-fated GISW Mongolian Groom (Hightail) as well as five-time winner Ice Bar (Keen Ice) and one other winner. Dam Bourbonesque (Dynaformer) is a half-sister to SP Cologne (Horse Chestnut {SAf}), who is the dam of MGSW Dragon Bay (Parading). The is the female line of MGISW Versailles Treaty, who claims GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner and multiple Group 1-placed George Vancouver (Henrythenavigator) to her credit as well as GSW & GISP Saarland (Unbridled). TJCIS PPs

5th-CD, $120k, Msw, 3yo/up, f, 1 1/8mT, 3:27p.m. ET
FARFALLE (Medaglia d'Oro), jumping from the middle of the field carrying the colors of owner/breeder Stonestreet, will make her late season debut going long on the grass for trainer Brad Cox. Out of graded winner Electric Forest (Curlin), who is a half-sister to graded winners 'TDN Rising Star' Kentuckian (Tiznow) and Uncle Chuck (Uncle Mo) as well as 'TDN Rising Star' turned sire Maclean's Music (Distorted Humor), Farfalle has a 2-year-old half-brother named Cheever (Into Mischief). That half-sibling sold to Muir Hut Stables this past March at OBSMAR for $700,000 after breezing a furlong in :10.1 under tack. The morning line has this one tabbed at 4-1 odds. TJCIS PPs

8th-CD, $120k, Msw, 2yo, f, 7f, 5:27p.m. ET
Momentario (War of Will) will go to post in this seven panel maiden for owner/breeder Phillips Racing Partnership. Trained by Steve Asmussen, her half-sister Islander (Gun Runner) is a $1.5-million KEESEP 2022 graduate and broke her maiden Oct. 30 going a mile over this venue's main track for Asmussen and the partnership of Winchell Thoroughbreds and Three Chimneys Farm. A yearling half-brother by Omaha Beach changed hands at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling sale this year for $240,000 going the way of Lee Lewis. Their dam, a two-time winner, is a full-sister to GISW Time and Motion as well has a half-sister to SW Awesome Bet (Awesome Again) and GSP Moment in Dixie (Dixieland Band). This is the family of MGISW Brian's Time and several Grade/Group 1 runners abroad. TJCIS PPs

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