Harmonize

Integration Makes Deadline At Big A With 'Wins Red Smith'

Integration's well-timed throttle management in the more than capable hands of jockey Flavien Prat worked to perfection as the 4-year-old swooped in late to take the featured GII Red Smith Stakes at Aqueduct on Saturday afternoon. After a stellar start to his career in 2023, which saw the $700,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling Sale buy graduate on debut by 6 1/2 lengths over the turf at Colonial Downs, then score in the GIII Virginia Derby and the GII Hill Prince Stakes at the Big A, Integration hit the board in the...

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Chester Broman Goes to $1.15 Million for Gun Runner Colt

Hip 73, a Gun Runner colt out of GI Del Mar Oaks winner Harmonize (Scat Daddy), sold for $1.15 million to Chester Broman at Monday's opening session of the Keeneland September yearling sale. Consigned by Brookdale, agent, the colt is a half to recent GI Arlington Million runner-up Integration (Quality Road). The chestnut colt, a Mar. 23 foal, was the second yearling by Gun Runner to bring seven figures Monday, following a $1.5-million filly out of Dream Dancing (Tapit).

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Integration Taking Larkin Armstrong Back to the Future

It was 12 years ago this week that a young bloodstock agent found a mare for one of his first clients, deep in the November Sale at Keeneland. Mesa Fresca (Sky Mesa) had won a Belmont maiden in a light career, and Larkin Armstrong knew her family inside out. In fact, her own bloodlines ran almost parallel to his own, his father being a cousin of her dam's breeder Emory Hamilton. Raised the way he was, Armstrong could not fail to recognize this mare as King Ranch royalty, and was...

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Quality Road's Integration Bests The Field At Colonial

4th-Colonial Downs, $60,000, Msw, 8-12, 3yo/up, 1 1/16mT, 1:42.17, fm, 6 1/2 lengths. INTEGRATION (c, 3, Quality Road--Harmonize {GISW, $827,860}, by Scat Daddy) earned even-money favoritism in his first start since bringing $700,000 as a yearling at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton New York Select Yearling Sale. 30-1 longshot Elon (Great Notion) was eager to go on with it and surged ahead to open up nearly five lengths on the field through a half in :47.58. Integration, though caught a bid wide throughout, easily took over into the far turn as the...

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