Audacious

Part of a Todd Pletcher-trained and Ramona Bass-owned entry favored at 45 cents on the dollar, with each filly making her first trip to the races, Audacious (f, 3, Into Mischief--Veracity, by Distorted Humor) turned in a professional racetrack debut, and although things appeared to get a bit dicey in the final 30 yards, had done enough to become a 'TDN Rising Star'. Drawn one to the outside of her homebred stablemate Chanteuse (Into Mischief) in the six hole, the $700,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase actually won the break, but...

4th-BAQ, $90K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f, 2:39 p.m. The most expensive of a trio of first-time starters in this slot, AUDACIOUS (Into Mischief) brought a final bid of $700,000 as a yearling at Keeneland last September. Dam Veracity, herself a $1.7m RNA at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Fall Mixed Sale, is a full sister to SW Cheery (Distorted Humor), the dam of MGISW Elate (Medaglia d'Oro). Veracity also produced GISP Chide (Blame) and the dam of MGSW Tax (Arch). Drawn inside as the first half of a coupled entry, Martingale...