3rd-FG, $40k, Msw, 2yo, 5 1/2fT, 3:01 p.m.
Tom Amoss unveils the latest racing age addition to the Bertie family with pricey BARONNE (Into Mischief) taking to the starting gate in a turf sprint. Out of Bashful Bertie (Quiet American), herself a half to MGSW Hurricane Bertie (Storm Boot) and a full to graded-stakes winner/producer Allamerican Bertie, the colt brought $200,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale from agent AI Pike. A year later, as a 2-year-old going through the Fasig-Tipton Timonium sale (:10 1/5), he RNA'd for $420,000 from the Pike Racing consignment, and was kept to race for said consignor in partnership with Mark Toothaker and Greg Tramontin. The colt's other claim to fame is as a half to multi-millionaire, GISW Beach Patrol (Lemon Drop Kid). This is the family of MGSWs Sun King (Charismatic) and Ocean Drive (Belong to Me). TJCIS PPs
GI WINNER MUSHKA REPRESENTED BY GHOSTZAPPER FILLY
5th-FG, $40k, Msw, 2yo, f, 1m1/16T, 3:56 p.m.
The GI Juddmonte Spinster S. winner Mushka (Empire Maker) will see her fifth expensive foal named WHENTHEDAWNBREAKS make a career debut against a full field of maidens going long on the turf. A $370,000 Keeneland September yearling last year, the bulk of this Brad Cox trainee's works have been over the synthetic at Turfway Park, and at a five-furlong breeze. Mushka changed hands several times over the years for big numbers: $1.6 million as a 2006 Saratoga yearling from Zayat Stables, $2.4 million from Brushwood Stables in 2008 during Keeneland November, and $650,000 from SF Bloodstock and Newgate Farm at the 2016 Keeneland November sale. Her progeny sold just as well as yearlings, include Heyaarat (Empire Maker) for $1.65 million from the Shadwell Estate at 2012 Keeneland September, and Crowned (Bernardini) for $1.2 million going the way of John Ferguson at 2014 Keeneland September. Ifurhappynuknowit ( Bernardini) sold last year at Keeneland November for $320,000 to Repole Stables, and Follow the Flag (Tapit) went the way of Skara Glen Stables for $675,000 at 2017 Keeneland November. TJCIS PPs
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