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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
1st-SAR, $100K, Msw, 2yo, 6f, 12:35 p.m. ET. With the third highest return at the 2025 OBS Spring Sale, TAGERMEEN (Into Mischief) was taken home for $1.4-million by Mahmud Mouni after the colt fired a :9 4/5 during the under-tack show. Sent to Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen, the debuting bay is out of Silk Route (Empire Maker), who Mouni acquired for a mere $10,000 at the 2024 Keeneland November Sale. Tagermeen's extended female family includes GIII Lecomte Stakes hero Call Me Midnight (Midnight Lute) and French Group 1 winner Full Mast (Mizzen Mast). Another OBS grad who exits the gate for the first time is Tapit's Legacy (Tapit). Spendthrift and Epic Racing went to $550,000 to get the colt who went :10 flat during the March breeze. Trained by Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher, the son of Tapit was produced by Peace Corps (Violence)–a $500,000 2020 Keeneland November purchase for Corser Thoroughbreds. This dam is a half-sister to GI Prioress Stakes heroine Her Smile (Include), who herself is responsible for MGSW Pink Sands (Tapit). Drawn to the outside for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott is $725,000 Keeneland September graduate Time to Strike (Not This Time). Owned by Gold Standard, the April colt's dam is a half-sister to GSW Devil by Design (Medaglia d'Oro), who is responsible for GI American Oaks victress Competitionofideas (Speightstown)–a $1.3-million buy for Shadai at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Fall Mixed Sale. TJCIS PPS 2nd-CNL, $70K, Msw, 3yo/up, 6f, 12:58 p.m. ET. Musical (Candy Ride {Arg}), under the care of trainer Brittany Russell, will be unveiled for the group known as the 'Avengers.' A $700,000 2023 Keeneland September purchase, the chestnut's extended female family includes a number of stakes winners, including Inspired (Unbridled's Song), plus current sire Leofric (Candy Ride {Arg}). TJCIS PPS 2nd-SAR, $100K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6f, 1:07 p.m. ET. Back upstate, Peter Blum homebred Ginger Ale (Into Mischief) goes out for trainer Rodolphe Brisset. The filly is out of GSP Co Cola (Candy Ride {Arg})–who Blum purchased for $600,000 at the 2022 Keeneland January Sale. The debuting bay claims famed older half-sister Search Results (Flatter), the winner of the GI Acorn Stakes who amassed nearly $2 million during her racing career and went for $3.6-million to Katsumi Yoshida during the 2023 Fasig-Tipton Fall Mixed Sale. Others of note here include Atropa (Into Mischief), whose extended female family includes current sires Street Boss (Street Cry {Ire}) and Jack Christopher (Munnings). Also Claiborne and Adele Dilschneider homebred Asking (Lookin At Lucky) goes out for Bill Mott. The filly's dam is a half-sister to pensioned sire Congrats (A.P. Indy). TJCIS PPS 6th-ELP, $100K, Msw, 2yo, f, 5 1/2fT, 3:12 p.m. ET. Brian Lynch trainee Love a Little Mo (Uncle Mo) carries the Flying Dutchmen colors. The first-timer was bought for $675,000 during Keeneland September last year. The filly's stakes-winning dam Inject (Frosted) is herself out of GI Spinaway Stakes heroine Appealing Zophie (Successful Appeal), and she counts as half-sisters the sire Tapwrit (Tapit) and MGSW Ride a Comet (Candy Ride {Arg}). Last but not least, Spin a Tune (Hard Spun) is related to Better Lucky (Ghostzapper), while Last Curtain Call (Oscar Performance) is connected to Zipessa (City Zip), who both won the GI First Lady Stakes at Keeneland. TJCIS PPS The post Saturday Racing Insights: Pricey Son Of Into Mischief Makes The Races At The Spa On Busy Saturday appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
It's not often in the case of a horse's breeding that six-time leading general sire Into Mischief would the less-successful parent. But such is the case for Dr. Agne who not only claims Spendthrift's elite stallion on the top side but also is the third foal and second winner out of Eclipse-winning Turf Champion Lady Eli who banked nearly $3,000,000 in her career before selling to John Sikura's Hill 'n' Dale for $4.2m at KEENOV in 2018. Dr. Agne himself went through the ring at Keeneland as a yearling last September, bringing just $185,000 for Quarter Pole Enterprises and now races for the partnership of Madaket Stables LLC, Twin Brook Stables and Belladonna Racing LLC. Given to trainer Cherie DeVaux, the 7-2 shot was well-thought of Friday in what was meant for a seven-furlong turf debut. The weather had other ideas, raining off all but the GIII Coronation Cup Stakes onto the main track. But with the field still largely in tact despite the surface switch, Dr. Agne, with jockey Jose Ortiz aboard, broke sharply with the frontrunners but quickly took back off the speed and was passed on all sides while falling back to sixth along the rail. 14-1 longshot Jet Off (Twirling Candy) set a pressured tempo through a :22.90 opening quarter before getting some separation with Dr. Agne several lengths out of it and splitting the gap between the leading five runners and the two trailers. Hugging the rail around the far turn and quickly picking up momentum, Lady Eli's son began a tremendous rally, coming past the quarter pole in third with Jet Off still to catch. Further out, 2-1 race favorite Epic Desire (Uncle Mo) was also moving but Dr. Agne had first jump, tipping outside of the leading pair and surging past them both to gain the lead at the sixteenth pole. Epic Desire was still coming but was clearly second best as Dr. Agne stole away to the win. The most successful starter for Lady Eli and the 52nd 'TDN Rising Star' for Into Mischief, Dr. Agne has a yearling half-brother by Justify and a foal half-sister by Uncle Mo. The mare herself is a half to MGSW Bizzy Caroline (Afleet Alex) who produced another 'Rising Star' in GI Preakness Stakes fourth Goal Oriented (Not This Time). Yet another of Lady Eli's half-sisters is responsible for English MGSW Sacred (GB) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}). 6th-Saratoga, $100,000, Msw, 7-11, 2yo, 7f (off turf), 1:25.97, ft, 1 length. AGNE, c, 2, Into Mischief 1st Dam: Lady Eli (Ch. Turf Female, MGISW, $2,959,800), by Divine Park 2nd Dam: Sacre Coeur, by Saint Ballado 3rd Dam: Kazadancoa (Fr), by Green Dancer Sales History: $185,000 Ylg '24 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $55,000. Click for the Equibase.com chart and VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV. Click for the free Equineline.com catalog-style pedigree. O-Madaket Stables LLC, Twin Brook Stables and Belladonna Racing LLC; B-Hill 'n' Dale Equine Holdings, Inc (KY); T-Cherie DeVaux. The post Lady Eli’s Son Dr. Agne A Stellar ‘Rising Star’ At Saratoga appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Anyone who went by Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott's barn on the Oklahoma Training Track Friday morning did a double take. A jumbo-sized maple tree, which has stood tall for years outside Mott's office, was no more. Thanks to a violent display of weather Thursday night after Opening Day at Saratoga Race Course, the tree was uprooted and came crashing down. Part of the tree came to rest on the roof of Mott's office. Miraculously, there was no damage done to the office, which was unoccupied when the storm hit shortly after 7 p.m. Thursday night. “It was coming down and I was trying to hold it up, and I couldn't hold it up,” Mott said Friday morning, showing some levity over the situation. Mott was eating dinner with his wife Tina at Pennell's Restaurant, not far from the track when the storm hit. “We were sitting on the patio, and we were just finishing and the winds started blowing and just about everyone moved inside,” Mott said. “I drove over to the harness track to see (if horses) were ok and it was. There was some water, and I thought, 'if they are ok over there, they are probably ok over here.'” Paul Caiano, the chief meteorologist at WNYT-13, the NBC affiliate in Albany, said just under an inch of rain fell in Saratoga in the 45-minute storm. He also said that radar indicated wind gust of over 50 miles an hour was recorded during the storm. “That's what knocked that tree over,” Caiano said. The horses at Mott's barn–including GI Kentucky Derby and GI Belmont Stakes winner Sovereignty (Into Mischief)–did not seem bothered at all. The tree that fell came very close to hitting a two-horse open air stall next to the office. It did not and the horses there were not in any distress. About the only damage that could be seen at the barn was a couple of Adirondack chairs that were outside the barn got hit. Interestingly enough, a hanging flowerpot outside the office, which looked to be in harm's way of the tree, was intact Friday. Mott said the tree will be taken care of in the next day or so via chainsaws. When it is chopped up, it will make for a lot more sun outside of Mott's office. Mo Plex Likely to Stay Put for Jim Dandy Trainer Jeremiah Englehart said Friday that it looks more likely that his 3-year-old Mo Plex (Complexity) will stay home and run in the GII, $500,000 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga on July 26. Englehart said that after watching his New York-bred go four furlongs alone in :49.25 (46/92) on the main track with jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. aboard for the second straight work. Mo Plex | Sarah Andrew “We are leaning towards the Jim Dandy,” Englehart said. Last week, Englehart said he might prefer to run Mo Plex, who won the GIII Ohio Derby in his last start, in the GI, $1-million Haskell Stakes at Monmouth Park next Saturday. Mo Plex is owned by Rick Higgins of Saratoga and Howard Reed of Albany (R & H Stable). Englehart said he originally tried talking his owners out of the Jim Dandy, but, after doing some thinking, decided that being at home was more of an advantage than heading out of town. “If you go to the Haskell, you could have Journalism (Curlin); if we run here, you have Sovereignty and a couple other real nice horses,” Englehart said. “Any time you run in any of these races, you are going to have tough horses to run against.” Englehart is hopeful that Ortiz will ride Mo Plex in the Jim Dandy. “I am hoping,” Ortiz said after the work. “There has been no decision made yet.” Ortiz rode Hill Road (Quality Road) in his last start, a fifth-place finish in the Belmont Stakes. He could be pointed to the Jim Dandy for trainer Chad Brown. “I would love to have Irad,” Englehart said. “But if we can't, there are a lot of good riders in that room.” Fierceness Works Towards His Date in Whitney When 'TDN Rising Star' Fierceness (City of Light), works, Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher expects good things. Pletcher wasn't disappointed Friday when he watched the 4-year-old work five furlongs in 1:01.60 (4/10) with exercise rider Danny Wright on board, as usual. He worked in company on the main track with stablemate Dreamlike (Gun Runner), a 5-year-old gelding. Fierceness (outside) & Dreamlike breezing Friday | Sarah Andrew “It was typical of what we always see from him,” Pletcher said outside his office on the Oklahoma Training Track. “I thought he was very impressive; he did it in hand throughout. We wanted a good, solid work without overdoing it and that is what he did.” This was his second work since finishing second in the GI Metropolitan Handicap at Saratoga on June 7. The Saratoga target for Fierceness is the GI, $1-million Whitney Stakes on Aug. 2. Pletcher is still mulling over whether Fierceness, owned by Repole Stable, Derrick Smith, Michael B. Tabor and Mrs. John Magnier, will have company in the Whitney. He could also run 'TDN Rising Star' Mindframe (Constitution), unbeaten in three starts this year, in the Whitney. Mindframe, owned by Repole Stable and St. Elias Stables LLC, won the GI Stephen Foster at Churchill Downs in his last start on June 28 and will return to the work tab next week, Pletcher said. “We will continue to monitor how both are doing and wait as long as we can to make a decision,” Pletcher said about running both in the Whitney. “If you run them both against each other, barring a miraculous dead heat, one of them is going to get beat.” The post Saratoga Notebook, Presented by NYRA Bets: Mott Dodged a Bullet When Strong Storm Hit Thursday appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Newmarket's July Festival winds up on Saturday, with the feature G1 Al Basti Equiworld, Dubai July Cup the stage for the potential reinvention of Godolphin's Notable Speech (Dubawi). Luckily for him and unfortunately for the rest of us, he has no international heavyweights to deal with in a renewal that looks a bit light on its usual quality. With the main protagonists of the Commonwealth Cup, Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes and King's Stand all absent, this looks one of the most winnable editions for some time and it will be deflating if last year's 2,000 Guineas and Sussex Stakes hero doesn't at least make it into the thick of the action. Lack of true depth in the sprinting ranks may account for the recent plunge on Ballydoyle's Whistlejacket (No Nay Never), who remains a smart colt having won the Prix Morny and the course-and-distance July Stakes last term. Nevertheless, he has contested four other top-flight contests in his career and been beaten in all, starting odds-on in two of them. Needless to say, he has yet to convince that he belongs in the top echelon the way that the stable's former July Cup winners Stravinsky, Mozart, Starspangledbanner, U S Navy Flag and Ten Sovereigns clearly did. Weak in the betting at present, Godolphin's Sandy Lane Stakes winner Symbol Of Honour (Havana Grey) could surprise a few in his solid, unflashy style while like all of the above Wathnan Racing's consistent Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes third Flora Of Bermuda (Dark Angel) fits the age profile. Only one horse aged older than four has prevailed since 2009 and the way the Al Quoz Sprint-winning five-year-old Believing (Mehmas) flopped at Royal Ascot, she hardly inspires hope that she can turn around that trend. Charlie Appleby said of Symbol Of Honour, “When he gets on the racecourse he's just tough–he gets out on the pace and grinds it out.” Will We Be Reaching For Superlatives? As usual, the card's G2 Superlative Stakes has the potential to promote something exciting and in Wootton Bassett's Italy Ballydoyle have a colt who carries all the right vibes into the early Classic pointer. If you were going to draw up a fantasy list of Triple Crown hopes on breeding, connections and early ability, this relative of Serpentine et al would definitely be on it. Crazy, I know, but that is what this meeting is about really. Prospecting for Classic winners and that ultimate dream horse. Now that we know that the sire is capable of producing class acts over all distances, this relative of Serpentine with Epsom in his blood has Derby potential as well as Guineas. Okay, it is the longest of all longshots at this juncture, but he has the right blend of speed and stamina to at least start the conversation. Aidan O'Brien never gives much away prior to a race, but there was a sense of excitement in the way he said, “We're looking forward to him.” Firstly, Italy has to get past the Charlie Appleby duo and the trainer who excels in this race seems to favour the Sandown winner Saba Desert (Dubawi) over TDN Rising Star Wild Desert (Too Darn Hot) if jockey bookings are a guide. The latter is a grandson of the Irish 1,000 Guineas heroine Gossamer, from that wonderful Gerald Leigh family and therefore is one with a future and not just about now. Six For Grand Prix De Paris Sunday's G1 Cygames Grand Prix de Paris at ParisLongchamp is staged a day before the Fete Nationale and the 12-furlong feature sees Aidan O'Brien looking to extend his five renewals with the G3 Hampton Court winner Trinity College (Dubawi). Supplemented for the race, fellow Prix du Jockey Club also-ran Leffard (Le Havre) and G3 Prix du Lys runner-up Surabad (Bated Breath) shore up the French defence along with the eye-catching Derby fourth New Ground (New Bay). The post July Cup Is Notable Speech’s To Lose appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Explosive debut winner Ewing may point to a next start in the Aug. 2, $200,000 Saratoga Special Stakes (G2), according to trainer Mark Casse. View the full article
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