1st-AQU, $90k, Msw, 2yo, f, 1m, post time: 12:10 p.m. ET
KEEPTHEDREAMALIVE (Into Mischief) makes her first trip to the races for owner/breeder Tommy Town Thoroughbreds and trainer Bill Mott. Tommy Town acquired dam It Tiz Well (Tiznow) for $230,000 at the 2015 Keeneland September sale and campaigned her with Jerry Hollendorfer to five wins from 10 starts, including a two-length upset of eventual champion Abel Tasman (Quality Road) in the 2017 GI Cotillion Stakes. The homebred outworked 142 other horses when breezing a half-mile in :48 1/5 (17/159) over the Belmont training track Nov. 16. Delicious Diva (Hard Spun) was the third-priciest of her sire's 56 yearlings reported as sold in 2023 (69 through the ring) and his most-expensive filly when hammering to Ken McPeek for $400,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale. Also a $160,000 Keeneland November weanling, the early March foal is a half-sister to SW & MGSP Cautious Giant (Giant's Causeway). Both will have the rail-drawn Kiss Me Slow (Into Mischief) to beat. The St Elias homebred was a low-odds fourth behind likely champion Immersive (Nyquist) on her lone appearance at Saratoga July 21. TJCIS PPs
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