By Alan Carasso
Sponsored by Alex Nichols Agency
1st-GP, $50K, Msw, 3yo, 6f, post time: Noon ET
The well-related BEAR ALLEY (Will Take Charge) gets his career underway for the partnership of West Point Thoroughbreds and Albaugh Family Stable. A $525K acquisition out of the 2018 Keeneland September yearling sale, the March foal is a son of Unbridled Empire (Empire Maker), dam of GISW and GI Pegasus World Cup Turf-bound Arklow (Arch) and the latter's year-younger MGSW close relative Maraud (Blame). Bear Alley, who is therefore bred 3×3 to Unbridled, has a 2-year-old half-sister by Runhappy that was purchased by Japanese interests for $340K at KEESEP this past fall and a yearling half-brother from the first crop of Gun Runner.
Bear Alley faces Phipps Stable homebred Awakened (Curlin">Curlin), whose MGSW/GISP dam Daydreaming (A.P. Indy) has produced the likes of GISW Imagining (Giant's Causeway), MSP Reflecting (Elusive Quality) and SP Browse (Medaglia d'Oro). Under the colt's GSW second dam Get Lucky (Mr. Prospector) are GISWs Girolamo (A.P. Indy), Got Lucky (A.P. Indy) and Bluegrass Cat (Storm Cat) and GI Kentucky Derby hero Super Saver (Maria's Mon). Grade I-winning third dam Dance Number (Northern Dancer) produced Eclipse Award winner Rhythm (Mr. Prospector). The cross of Curlin over Seattle Slew-line mares has resulted in GISWs Stellar Wind, Exaggerator and Off the Tracks. TJCIS PPs
3rd-GP, $50K, Msw, 3yo, 1m, post time: 1:04 p.m. ET
Repole Stable and St. Elias Stable, who are in the running for an Eclipse Award with GI Breeders' Cup Classic hero Vino Rosso, unveil another son of the Hill 'n' Dale stalwart in the form of AWESOME PARTY (Curlin">Curlin). Offered in utero at KEENOV in 2016, but bought back when bidding stalled at $475K, the May 4 foal validated the decision when hammering for $700K at KEESEP in 2018. The bay is out of an unraced half-sister to SW Street Secret (Street Cry {Ire}), dam of Australian MG1SP Frankely Awesome {Aus}) (Frankel {GB}). Third dam Anzille (Plugged Nickle) was a half-sister to Urban Sea (Miswaki), dam of Galileo (Ire) and Sea the Stars (Ire).
Eminent Domain (American Pharoah) is a son of Illinois-bred Dundalk Dust (Military), winner of the GII Falls City H. before being purchased for $270K in foal to More Than Ready at KEENOV in 2014. Consigned to last year's OBS April Sale by Niall Brennan, the colt fetched $500K from Maverick Racing after breezing an eighth of a mile in :10 2/5. Eminent Domain is campaigned in partnership by breeder China Horse Club and WinStar and debuts in the colors of the latter. TJCIS PPs
4th-GP, $50K, Msw, 3yo, 1m, post time: 1:33 p.m. ET
Wygod Equine-bred PALM SPRINGS (Uncle Mo&log=">Uncle Mo) was one of five of his sire's crop of 2017 to sell for a seven-figure sum when realizing $1 million from WinStar/China Horse Club at KEESEP in 2018. The bay is the first foal to make the races from Sweet Bliss (Street Cry {Ire}), a Grade II-placed half-sister to MGPS Saint Vigeur (Smart Strike). Sweet Life (Kris S.), the 2009 Broodmare of the Year, is the colt's third dam and is one of just five mares to account for multiple Breeders' Cup winners (Sweet Catomine, 2002; and Life Is Sweet, 2005).
Alfatei (Pioneerof the Nile), a $210K KEENOV weanling turned $475K KEESEP yearling, is out of a winning half-sister to She's All Eltish (Eltish), winner of this track's GII Bonnie Miss S. back in 2008. TJCIS PPs
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