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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Bob Baffert will send out a capable quartet in Sunday's closing-day GI Del Mar Futurity, a race he has won the last four years and a remarkable 18 times overall. After sending out future GI Kentucky Derby winner Silver Charm (Silver Buck) to scoop the event for the first time back in 1996, he added the next six renewals. His personal honor roll is a veritable Hall of Fame, including champions Midshipman (1998), Lookin At Lucky (1999) and American Pharoah (2014) among the champions to have succeeded at the seaside. The latter won his maiden in that year's Futurity. Baffert has runners for three different clients, and the only one of those to have not tasted Futurity success heretofore is Zedan Racing Stable. That could very well change if $3-million OBS March topper Brant (Gun Runner) can replicate his 'TDN Rising Star' debut back on July 26, when he defeated the re-opposing Chief Stipe O'Neill-trained Civil Liberty (Independence Hall) by better than five lengths in 1:02.63, good for a 101 Beyer Speed Figure. Flavien Prat looks for a third straight victory in the race and his fourth in the last half-dozen runnings. Desert Gate (Omaha Beach) was a smart debut winner at Santa Anita June 13 and validated that performance with a dominating 8 3/4-length score in the Aug. 9 GIII Best Pal Stakes, a victory achieved while getting nowhere near the bottom of him. Juan Hernandez retains the call. Baffert also sends out Balboa (Not This Time, $875,000 KEESEP), third in the Brant maiden and named a 'Rising Star' when galloping away by 7 3/4 lengths here on Aug. 10; and Litmus Test (Nyquist, $875,000 FTSAUG), who draws widest of the six off a 3/4-length debut tally over 5 1/2 furlongs on Aug. 16. Hernandez had the call on each last time, but Kazushi Kimura rides Balboa and the visiting Tyler Gaffalione gets aboard Litmus Test. Brigante (More Than Ready), a stablemate of Civil Liberty, is a two-start maiden and exits a third in the BestPal. Hey Nay Nay Stretches Out In Juvenile Turf Assuming he can handle a route of ground for the first time in his young career, Hey Nay Nay (Ire) (No Nay Never) is strictly the one to beat in Sunday's GIII Del Mar Juvenile Turf. Having broken his maiden at first asking in a five-furlong Santa Anita maiden June 1, the $300,000 Keeneland September acquisition shipped cross-country and made light work of four rivals to take the Aug. 2 Tyro Stakes at Monmouth Park by seven lengths. Plutarch (Into Mischief) is the homebred son of champion Stellar Wind (Malibu Moon) and gets the blinkers off after running home nicely enough to be second on his one-mile debut to 'TDN Rising Star' Intrepido (Maximus Mischief) Aug. 23. The turf is the hundred-thousand-dollar question. Won for Lou (Bucchero) was a useful third to Hey Nay Nay in their respective debuts and has the advantage of being one of just two in the field with form over course-and-distance, having bested Born to Rock (Rock Your World) by 1 1/4 lengths July 27. Proletariat (Raging Bull {Fr}) was third in the Desert Gate maiden, but defeated a next-out winner in a five-furlong turf dash locally on Aug. 1. The post ‘Rising Star’ Brant Leads Baffert Brigade Into Futurity 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
6th-DMR, $100K, Msw, 2yo, 5 1/2f, 7:11 p.m. ET. A pair of pricey colts under the care of Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert make their first starts as the seaside oval closes out its summer meet on Sunday. BOYD (Violence) is a Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May auction buy for Zedan Racing, who made the chestnut the second topper at the sale when they went to $1.05-million to acquire him. Initially, this future Baffert trainee was an $82,000 Fasig-Tipton Fall Mixed sale grad then went for $280,000 during Keeneland September. A half-sister to Canadian SW Silver Highlight (Silver Charm), GSW Street Sounds (Street Cry {Ire}) and Canadian MGSW Tower of Texas (Street Sense), unraced dam A Taste of Red (Street Boss) was taken home for $27,000 at the 2022 Keeneland November sale by Nassar Omirah while Boyd was in-utero. Also poised for his debut is Cherokee Nation (Not This Time). The colt was a $240,000 Fasig-Tipton November purchase, then the bay went to SF, Starlight and Madaket for $1.15-million during Keeneland September. His dam is SW Believe in Charlie (Indian Charlie), a half-sister to MSW Shamrocket (Tonalist). TJCIS PPS The post Sunday’s Racing Insights: Pricey Colts From Baffert Shedrow Debut As Del Mar Closes Out Meet 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
Everybody had a fair crack at Saturday's Betfair Sprint Cup at Haydock and it was the 16-1 shot Big Mojo (Mohaather) who proved the quickest and toughest to register another Group 1 success for some very lucky owners. Following the example of Paul and Rachael Teasdale's Breeders' Cup-winning fairytale story Big Evs, the Mick Appleby-trained three-year-old forged his own day in the limelight as he grafted on the front end for William Buick throughout en route to a 1 1/4-length success. Last year's runner-up Kind Of Blue (Blue Point) was in that spot again, nosing out fellow Wathnan runner Flora Of Bermuda (Dark Angel) while the even-money favourite Lazzat (Territories) was only fifth. “The hardest job was getting him to the start and pulling him up,” Buick said. “He's just a real sprinter, he's got two speeds and he was lovely and smooth throughout the race. He's very genuine and I didn't have a moment's worry.” The post More Group 1 Glory For The Teasdales As Big Mojo Prevails At Haydock appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
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Some of the most highly anticipated races during the summer season are the 'baby' races during the boutique meetings at Saratoga and Del Mar and at Ellis Park, which attract its fair share of high-priced juveniles from a variety of top national outfits. Summer Breezes, sponsored by OBS Sales, highlights debuting and stakes-entered 2-year-olds at those meetings that have been sourced at the breeze-up sales earlier in the year, including links to their under-tack previews. Here are the horses entered for closing day at Del Mar. Sunday, September 7, 2025 Dmr 4, DMR Futurity-GI, $300k, 2yo, 7f, 6:00 p.m. Horse (Sire), Sale, Price ($), Breeze Brant (Gun Runner), OBSMAR, 3,000,000, :9 3/5 C-Eddie Woods, agent; B-Donato Lanni, agent Zedan Racing Civil Liberty (Independence Hall), FTMMAY, 160,000, :10 3/5 C-Pike Racing @ Highlander, agt; B-S Rothblum, agt Mark Davis Desert Gate (Omaha Beach), OBSMAR, 260,000, :9 4/5 C-Navas Equine, agent; B-Three Amigos Del Mar 5, $80k, 2yo, (S), 5fT, 6:30 p.m. Ventry Stand (Bolt d'Oro), OBSJUN, 75,000, :10 1/5 C-Grassroots Training & Sales, agent; B-P K Racing Violets Song (Violence), OBSMAR, 75,000, :21 1/5 C-Pick View LLC, agent; B-Jet Horse LLC, Peter Miller, agent Del Mar 6, $100k, 2yo, 5 1/2f, 7:00 p.m. Boyd (Violence), FTMMAY, 1,050,000, G C-Top Line Sales, LLC, agent; B-Donato Lanni, agt Zedan Racing Map Me Sexy (Liam's Map), FTMMAY, 160,000, :22 3/5 C-LG, agent; B-Steve Rothblum, agent for Mark Davis Metate (Vekoma), OBSJUN, 160,000, :10 1/5 C-Envision Equine, agent; B-Robert Hess Jr Sharons Maxfield (Maxfield), OBSMAR, 230,000, :10 1/5 C-de Meric Sales, agent; B-Richard Baltas, agent for Panic Stable Stormy Tapit (Independence Hall), OBSAPR, 240,000, :10 1/5 C-Navas Equine, agent; B-Jet Horse LLC, Tim McCanna, agent Dmr 9, DMR JvTurf-GIII, $100k, 2yo, 1mT, 8:30 p.m. Born to Rock (Rock Your World), OBSMAR, 90,000, :10 1/5 C-Really and Truly Thoroughbreds, agent; B-Michael Warnick Conducted (Mendelssohn), OBSAPR, 110,000, :20 3/5 C-Hoppel, agent; B-Danny Eplin Proletariat (Raging Bull {Fr}), OBSMAR, 200,000, :10 C-GOP Racing Stable Corp, agent; B-Dutch Girl Holdings/Irving Ventures, agent Mike Pender The post Summer Breezes Sponsored By OBS: Sunday, September 7, 2025 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
Sam Agars INVINCIBLE IBIS - R6 (3) Went close last term and has trialled well ahead of his return Jay Rooney BULB GENERAL - R9 (11) Won impressively last start and can swoop in a race laden with speed Owen Goulding INFINITE RESOLVE - R9 (1) Gone down by narrow margins on both starts and can make amends Phillip Woo AWESOME TREASURE - R6 (5) Looks a winning chance after a solid trial Shannon (Vincent Wong) BULB GENERAL - R9 (11) Had plenty in hand last season and looks ready to go first...View the full article
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