TDN RISING STARS

July 26, 2012 - Del Mar, Race 5, Msw, USD $70,000, 6f

Maker Or Breaker, f, 3, 2009 by Empire Maker

1st Dam: Shameful (SW & MGSP, $241,345), by Flying Chevron
2nd Dam: Lady's Legacy, by Matchlite
3rd Dam: Wavering Lady, by Wavering Monarch

Owner: Patti & Hal J Earnhardt III
Breeder: Hal J Earnhardt (KY)
Trainer: Bob Baffert

Maker or Breaker, a homebred half-sister to Indian Blessing (Indian Charlie), Ch. 2yo Filly, Ch. Female Sprinter, MGISW, $2,995,420, fired a bullet five-eighths from the gate in :59 3/5 (1/33) at Betfair Hollywood Park June 27, but trained with equal vigor in a pair of subsequent breezes over the conventional dirt surface at Santa Anita. She capped her tab with a strong six-furlong move over this surface July 19 and was the 8-5 chalk to open her account at first asking. Very slow out of the gate, Maker or Breaker had just one rival behind her and didn't look to be traveling especially well as they raced down the backstretch. The situation didn't look a whole lot better approaching the turn, but the homebred began to find her best stride at the three-eighths pole. As if shot out of a cannon, she reached the top five within a half-furlong, but was forced to go overland into the stretch. Maker or Breaker still had four or five lengths to find at the eighth pole, but kept to her task and found the line a neck better than stable companion Bobby Zapper (Ghostzapper). Maker or Breaker is also kin to Roman Threat (Roman Ruler), GSW, $123,600; and Spaniard (Candy Ride {Arg}), SP. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $42,000.