Wandering Eyes

Sponsored by Alex Nichols Agency EXPENSIVE SPEIGHTSTOWN DEBUTS AT DELAWARE 2nd-DEL, $34K, Msw, 2yo, 5 1/2f, 1:45p.m. Trainer Arnaud Delacour went to $585,000 on behalf of Roy and Gretchen Jackson’s Lael Stables to acquire JEOPARDY JAMES (Speightstown) at the OBS April Sales after he breezed in a sharp :9 4/5 and he makes his debut at Delaware Thursday. The bay is a full-brother to Grade I winner Lighthouse Bay, who summoned $1.2 million carrying a foal by Tapit at the 2014 Fasig-Tipton November Sale. Red Oak Stable homebred Wild Little Fella (Girolamo) also makes his debut in this test. He is out of stakes winners Ima Jersey Girl (Lightnin N Thunder), who is a half-sister to MSW King For A Day (Uncle Mo) and a full-sister to the stakes winner Feel That Fire, who produced GISW Mind Control (Stay Thirsty). TJCIS PPs ENGLEHART UNVEILS INTO MISCHIEF FILLY WITH DEEP NY ROOTS AT THE SPA 7th-SAR, $78K, Msw, 2yo, f, (S), 6f, 4:07p.m. RISKY RACHEL (Into Mischief) hails from a line of hard-knocking New York-breds and she makes her first trip to the post at Saratoga Thursday. The $350,000 SARAUG buy is a daughter of six-time stakes winner and fellow Empire-bred Risky Rachel (Limehouse), whose first foal, a now-3-year-old colt named Yale (Scat Daddy), summoned $1 million from the Coolmore contingent at last term’s Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale. The bay’s second dam is GSW Dancin Renee (Distinctive Pro), a half-sister to MGSW millionaire Say Florida Sandy (Personal Flag), who has a NY-bred stakes race named in her honor. Risky Mischief enters off a bullet half-mile over Saratoga’s Oklahoma training track in :49 flat (1/9) July 18 and her two prior works match those of the stable’s undefeated My Italian Rabbi (Competitive Edge), who captured the Stillwater S. July 18. TJCIS PPs PRICEY AWESOME AGAIN FILLY MAKES BELATED BOW 4th-DMR, $61K, Msw, 3yo/up, f/m, 5fT, 6:30p.m. Cannon Thoroughbreds’ CELLAR DOOR (Awesome Again) makes her belated career bow in this test for trainer Jeff Mullins. The connections went to $525,000 to acquire the now-4-year-old two years ago at the OBS April Sale following a :10 flat breeze. She is a daughter of MSW Rivertown Belle (Bellamy Road) and hails from the family of Horse of the Year Holy Bull. TJCIS PPs The post July 25 Insights appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Only a week ago, the question was whether any of 14 other nominees to Saratoga Racecourse’s GI A. P. Smithwick Memorial Steeplechase S. could upset Optimus Prime (Fr) (Deportivo {GB}), the current season’s top-rated hurdler. But a training injury has put Rosbrian Farm’s star hurdler on the sidelines for the rest of the year, and now a full field of 12 contenders will sort themselves out on Thursday as jump racing turns into its championship events through the summer and fall. The 2 1/16-mile Smithwick has a bit of everything in its bulky cast: newcomers to American racing, former stars looking to regain their luster, and improving horses looking to crack into the top echelon. The most intriguing newcomer is owner Irv Naylor’s Bedrock (GB) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}), who carries into the U.S. a top 157 rating from two stakes wins last fall in Ireland. The 6-year-old is in the hands of trainer Leslie Young and will be ridden by Sean McDermott. Also in Naylor’s silks is Sempre Medici (Fr) (Medicean {GB}), who is trained by Cyril Murphy and has been making a career of chasing Optimus Prime, most recently a second in the Virginia Gold Cup’s GII David Semmes Memorial on May 4. Jack Fisher is ripping through the 2019 season and has all but locked up his eighth straight trainer title. He has two imports, headed by handicap stakes winner Vosne Romanee (GB) (Arakan). The 8-year-old will have his regular jockey, Sam Twiston-Davies, in the saddle. Danny Mullins, a top young Irish jump jockey, will be aboard Gill Johnston’s Peppay Le Pugh (Ire) (Arakan), who had been beating up on lesser handicap opponents in the U.K. Fisher’s team also includes Riverdee Stable’s Gibralfaro (Ire) (Dalakhani {Ire}), winner of the Queen’s Cup MPC ‘Chase, a novice stakes in late April. Gibralfaro was overmatched in his first Grade I start, the Calvin Houghland Iroquois in Nashville two weeks later. Making his second U.S. start will be Hudson River Farms’ Winston C (Ire) (Rip Van Winkle {Ire}), who finished third in a novice stakes at Nashville. The 5-year-old is trained by Jonathan Sheppard, who also will saddle All the Way Jose (Senor Swinger), a 2017 Grade I winner now attempting to mount a comeback. Also on the comeback trail is last year’s Smithwick winner, Mark W. Buyck Jr.’s Show Court (Ire) (Vinnie Roe {Ire}), who scored at 14-1 last year and will carry long odds on Thursday. He hasn’t won a jump race since last July and was beaten by lower-level horses in his most recent jumps start, at Fair Hill, Md., in May. The Smithwick also will determine the significance of that race, the $40,000 Valentine Memorial, which was won by Robert A. Kinsley’s No Wunder (GB) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}). In his prior start four weeks earlier, No Wunder had finished more than 13 lengths behind Gibralfaro at the Queen’s Cup in Charlotte. Elizabeth Voss also trains Kinsley’s Modem (GB) (Motivator [GB]), who is still looking for his first U.S. victory after stringing together five straight Grade I second-place finishes. His last jumps start was a sixth in last year’s Smithwick. The post Wide-Open Field for Saratoga’s A. P. Smithwick appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

As one Head retired from the French training ranks in 2018 with a deserved fanfare of tributes, quietly another member of the family added his name to the list of Chantilly trainers some months later. The low-key entrance of Christopher Head was quite deliberate. The 32-year-old son of Freddy and nephew of Criquette–who retired 18 months ago–has worked alongside both his father and his aunt, as well as completing a stint with leading French jumps trainer Guillaume Macaire, but he is determined that when it comes to training, he is doing things his way. “I thought it was important not to be in my father’s stable,” says Head, who is renting boxes alongside Chantilly’s famous Les Aigles training grounds from fellow trainer Pascal Bary. “For a start, he has enough horses, and also I wanted to be seen as a trainer in my own right. If I worked from the same stable as my father, if a horse wins, everyone would say it’s down to my father, or if it doesn’t win it’s down to the son. I wanted to be on my own as I wanted to have my own identity, so that people can see how things work for me. If I was working alongside him, I’m not going to tell someone like my father how to train horses. It would be hard, because he knows all about it, I mean, he’s a very good trainer, probably the best of course for me, so if I had a new idea it would be hard to ask him to change things.” Head represents a fifth generation of the famous Anglo-French racing dynasty to take a place in the training ranks, his ancestors having been among the earliest members of the racing tribe to occupy what is now France’s largest training centre of Chantilly. “I started training last November,” Head says. “Jean-Louis Bouchard gave me a few horses, some older horses initially that came from my father, including one I really liked called Near Gold (GB) (Dansili {GB}). As he wasn’t as good as they had expected, they wanted to give him a chance with a new trainer, so we both had a new chance, which was really nice. I’m extremely grateful to M. Bouchard because he gave me my first runner and my first winner in January.” Near Gold has subsequently been sold on to race in America and Head now has a string of six 2-year-olds, assembled with the help of bloodstock agent Gerard Larrieu, with which to continue his fledgling career. They include Ecurie Normandy Spirit’s Le Bayou (Fr) (Dabirsim {FR}), who has been placed at ParisLongchamp and Chantilly. “At the beginning of my career I asked myself if I should be in the provinces but it’s a great place to be here in Chantilly, it’s close to Paris and I want to be among the best,” says the trainer, whose father apparently did his level best to coax his son into following an alternative career. “Like every man who works in racing, my father wanted his children to do something easier and less stressful,” he admits. “So he ensured that I studied and worked with computers, and all of that, but you know how it is, it calls you back. If you love one horse you love them all, and when I was 19 I told my father I wanted to work with the horses and with him. I started from the bottom in the stable doing a bit of everything.” Head went on to spend three years at another hugely successful Chantilly stable, that of his aunt and, as the name on the young trainer’s jacket as we speak reminds us, the former home to the dual Arc winner Treve (Fr) (Motivator {GB}). “I’ve always been here in Chantilly apart from a few months spent with Guillaume Macaire because I felt it was important to see how it was with the jumpers,” he says. “All the same logic is still there in preparing them for the race but there are a few things that he did differently which I have tried to adapt and bring into training flat horses. But I’m still working on my own ideas and my own mix.” Despite operating from Bary’s stable, Head can still call upon his father if he wants to join up with his much larger string to work some of his own horses. He says, “The good thing is I still have a very good relationship with him and since I don’t have enough horses to work them as I’d like–stayers with stayers, sprinters with sprinters–I need him so I can work my horses with his.” Among the crew of juveniles currently being prepared by the young trainer is the as-yet unraced Beside (Fr) (Sidestep {Aus}), a well-grown colt from Julian Ince of Haras du Logis, where the former Australian shuttle stallion stood for three seasons. “It was good timing because Julian sold me half of this horse the night before Kiamichi (Aus) won the Golden Slipper,” says Head. “I am really looking forward to running him but it will be a bit later in the year. I need to be patient and sometimes that is hard, but it is the key.” One of the biggest challenges for any new trainer is encouraging owners to send them horses, while a bigger challenge for the sport generally is attracting a new, young audience. Fresh-faced himself, Head also has a fresh approach to trying to lure an international client base to his stable. “I’m learning Japanese right now and I hope to be able to encourage international owners to my stable. I love the way the Japanese behave, they have such good manners, and I love the breeding system that they have there–it’s probably one of the best in the world,” says Head in his near-perfect English, which certainly wouldn’t deter owners from over the Channel. “I’m open to everything when it comes to ideas and most of all I want owners to have fun, so we will start trying to put some syndicates together. I love English people–they are so funny, they love horses, it’s part of their culture. When they come here they actually recognise their horses which is wonderful.” Despite all the weight that his famous family name could carry, it seems that Head is content to start small and learn the big lessons along the way. He adds with a maturity beyond his years, “There are many lessons in humility when it comes to training. It took my father 10 years before he thought to himself, ‘maybe I’m a trainer.’ I must give it time.” The post A Head Start to Training appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Trainer Phillip Stokes has some thinking to do with Sansom after Charm Spirit gelding made it three straight victories with a city success at Sandown. Sansom backed up his two wins on the Pakenham synthetic track at the start of his preparation with an all-the-way win in heavy conditions on turf in Wednesday's Ladbrokes Handicap (1300m) for two-year-olds, taking his overall record to three wins from five starts. Stokes had been looking to give Sansom a break after Wednesday with a view to raisin... View the full article

Two-year-old filly Gumpert was able to clear maiden company at the second time of asking at Matamata on Wednesday, winning The Meat Co, Robow’s, Two Tones 1200 by 3-1/2 lengths. She finished eighth on debut at Counties last month and trainer Trevor Da Cruz said a slight gear change has helped his filly. “I was quite happy with how she raced today,” he said. “Unfortunately in her first start I encountered a little issue. After watching the replay of her first race I noticed that she hung ... View the full article

New Zealand-bred galloper Sansom made it three wins in a row at Sandown on Wednesday when victorious over 1300m. The son of Charm Spirit jumped away well from gate six to take the early lead for jockey Ben Allen where he was able to dictate terms throughout and go on to win by nearly two lengths. “It wasn’t how I really mapped out the race, I would have liked to have had something to follow, but he was the first one out of the gate, so I thought I may as well take up the lead while he could,... View the full article

Group One winner Mighty Boss has died after a bout of colic. The Mick Price-trained entire won two of his 17 career starts, including the Gr.1 Caulfield Guineas (1600m). “Terribly sad for Mr Yaseen and everyone at the stable to lose Mighty Boss to colic,” Price said on Twitter. “(He was) a magnificent colt with most unique personality - he will be sorely missed.” The son of Not A Single Doubt was purchased by his trainer out of Curraghmore’s 2016 New Zealand Bloodstock Premier Yearlin... View the full article

True Excelsior is scheduled to make her return on Bletchingly Stakes day at Caulfield but co-trainer Troy Corstens plans to kick off the stakes-placed mare's campaign in a race against her own sex rather than in the feature event. Rising five-year-old True Excelsior is nominated for Saturday's Gr.3 Bletchingly Stakes (1200m) but Corstens said the mare will resume in the 1100m handicap for fillies and mares on the same program with a view to stepping back up to stakes level at her next start on t... View the full article

A son of Deep Impact set a new standard at the JRHA Select Sale earlier this month. The yearling colt, out of multiple Group winner Musical Way, was knocked down to the ¥360 million (NZ$4.9 million) bid of Riichi Kondo. Kondo was once again active in the foal session, going to ¥470 million (NZ$6.5 million) to secure a Deep Impact colt out of Titan Queen, the dam of Grade Two winner Renee’s Titan and Grade Three winners Fashion Alert and Strong Titan. Sons of Deep Impact are also making a spl... View the full article

Murray Baker is pleased with last start winner Vibrato heading into Saturday’s Listed Courtesy Ford Ryder Stakes (1200m) at the Levin Racing Club’s race meeting at Otaki. The two-year-old son of Sacred Falls followed two trial wins and a luckless debut with a classy win over 1230m at Rotorua on June 26, leading from start to finish. “He hasn’t raced for a month but we’re happy with him and we think he’s probably improved a bit,” said Baker, who trains in partnership with Andrew F... View the full article

Few people in Queensland racing circles are surprised New Zealand-bred gelding Victory Eight has been the quiet achiever of the winter carnival. After all, his trainer Trevor Miller has been a a key player in the state's racing industry with no fuss for decades. Victory Eight, who has won his past two starts in impressive fashion, steps up to open company in the TAB Handicap (1800m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday. The gelding is the latest in a long line of smart horses to come out of Miller's Caloun... View the full article

The son of Broken Vow completed a successful raiding trip for trainer Steve Asmussen when he captured the $400,000 Prince of Wales Stakes July 23 at Fort Erie, denying Queen's Plate winner One Bad Boy a chance at the OLG Canadian Triple Crown. View the full article

Wanganui conditioner Raymond Connors will take a five-strong team to Awapuni on Thursday and the future paths for a number of his runners will be dictated by their performance at the Palmerston North track. Talented jumper Max will contest the LJ Hooker Hurdle (2750m) in preparation for a likely tilt at the Civil & Landfill Construction LTD Pakuranga Hunt Cup (4900m) at Ellerslie next month. The nine-year-old son of Gallant Guru has been in fine form of late, winning the McGregor Grant Steeplech... View the full article

Tone Broke, third behind both One Bad Boy and Avie’s Flatter in the Queen’s Plate at Woodbine June 29, finished fastest to turn the tables on his more heralded rivals in Tuesday evening’s middle jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown. Perched out in the clear through splits of :23.50, :48.03 and 1:12.59 doled out by One Bad Boy, he was scrubbed on for a bit more as Avie’s Flatter ratcheted up the pressure on the frontrunner heading for home. Avie’s Flatter seized a narrow lead in upper stretch as One Bad Boy boxed on, but neither could match strides late with Tone Broke as he leveled off and kicked away over the top. Tone Broke romped by 15 1/4 lengths to graduate at third asking in a rained-off Remington Park heat back in September, and resurfaced to take an optional claimer there Nov. 23. Fourth behind subsequent graded stakes-winning stablemate Long Range Toddy (Take Charge Indy) in the Springboard Mile Dec. 16, he was subsequently brought to Meydan for two far-back finishes. The dark bay turned things around markedly since resurfacing Stateside–he was second behind King for a Day (Uncle Mo) in Pimlico’s restricted Sir Barton S., and was further flattered when that one bested Maximum Security (New Year’s Day) in the Pegasus S. at Monmouth. He was far from disgraced while trying a synthetic surface for the first time in the Queen’s Plate, and was shedding the blinkers this time after three outings with them on. The colt was also being reunited with Ricardo Santana, Jr., his Hall of Fame trainer’s go-to pilot and the rider aboard for the Sir Barton. This was Santana’s first time riding at Fort Erie. The winner’s dam is a half to the dam of Sean and Dorothy Fitzhenry’s Mr Havercamp (Court Vision), upset winner of the GIII Forbidden Apple S. on Saratoga’s opening day card. A year-younger full-sister to Tone Broke brought $210,000 at KEESEP from agents Solis and Litt and has been prepping for her debut at Woodbine, most recently covering a half-mile in :48 flat (4/21) over the Tapeta July 19. Mendocino Beano produced a Hard Spun filly last term. Stakes-winning ‘TDN Rising Star’ half-sister Stallion Heiress (Exchange Rate) was bought for $125,000 by SF Bloodstock and Newgate Farm at this year’s Keeneland January sale. Third dam Trishyde was a Group 2 winner in France and GSW/MGISP in the U.S. Tuesday, Fort Erie PRINCE OF WALES S., C$400,000, Fort Erie, 7-23, (C), 3yo, 1 3/16m, 1:56.56, ft. 1–TONE BROKE, 126, c, 3, by Broken Vow 1st Dam: Mendocino Beano (GSP), by Smart Strike 2nd Dam: Trishyde Slew, by Seattle Slew 3rd Dam: Trishyde, by Nureyev ($40,000 Ylg ’17 KEESEP). 1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. O-L and N Racing LLC; B-Sean Fitzhenry (ON); T-Steven M. Asmussen; J-Ricardo Santana, Jr. C$240,000. Lifetime Record: 10-3-1-1, $347,760. *1/2 to Stallion Heiress (Exchange Rate), SW, $109,187. 2–Avie’s Flatter, 126, c, 3, Flatter–Avie’s Empire, by EmpireMaker. O-Ivan Dalos; B-Tall Oaks Farm (ON); T-Josie Carroll. C$80,000. 3–One Bad Boy, 126, r, 3, Twirling Candy–Cumulonimble, by Stormy Atlantic. ($65,000 Ylg ’17 KEESEP). O-Sayjay Racing LLC, Greg Hall & Brooke Hubbard; B-Ron Clarkson (ON); T-Richard Baltas. C$40,000. Margins: 2, NK, 6 1/4. Odds: 5.60, 2.35, 1.00. Also Ran: He’s a Macho Man, Skywire. Click for the Equibase.com chart. The post Broken Vow Colt Turns the Tables in Prince of Wales appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Kellady keen to win Alien vs Preditor war in Jumbo Jet View the full article

Fox Hill Farms' Omaha Beach returned to the work tab July 23 with a three-furlong move on Del Mar's main track. View the full article

Gary and Mary West's Maximum Security, winner of Saturday's $1 million TVG.com Haskell Invitational (G1) at Monmouth Park, has moved back into the Top 10 in the latest Breeders' Cup Classic Rankings poll, grabbing the No. 7 position. View the full article

Del Mar has responded to a complaint filed on behalf of Jerry Hollendorfer in San Diego County Superior Court in which the trainer is seeking reinstatement saying that allowing the Hall of Fame trainer to compete was a public relations risk it was not willing to take on. The story was broken by USA Today, which obtained a copy of a 13-page filing submitted by Del Mar by their attorney, Chris Jaczko. The story said that Del Mar claimed Hollendorfer was a “radioactive public-relations hit for the sport.” Four horses under Hollendorfer’s care had to be euthanized at the Santa Anita meet that ended in June. He also trained two horses that had to be put down at Golden Gate Fields. According to USA Today, Hollendorfer accounted for 15% of the horse deaths at California racetracks up to the time he was banned by The Stronach Group, which owns both Santa Anita and Golden Gate. “The racing industry in California is in the midst of an almost existential crisis amid calls from the public, media, Governor’s office, the California legislature, Congress and the (California Horse Racing Board) to pull out all reasonable stops to assure everyone that the industry is doing everything it reasonably can to ensure the safety of horses,” an attorney for Del Mar, Chris Jaczko, wrote in 13-page filing in San Diego County Superior Court, according to the newspaper. Jaczko also wrote: “Criminal investigations are ongoing in Los Angeles relating to what led to 30 thoroughbred race horses losing their lives in the first six months of this year at Santa Anita, and animal rights activists have called for the industry in California to be shut down. Ordering DMTC to permit Hollendorfer to train and race horses at Del Mar will lead to cries that DMTC is not doing what it can to ensure horse safety, and if a fatal injury were to occur to one of his horses, the clamor to end horse racing would be deafening.” The paper also reported that Del Mar’s president, Josh Rubenstein, submitted a statement to the court as well, claiming that Hollendorfer’s attorney, Drew Couto, told him, “We get it. Jerry’s radioactive.” Attorneys representing Hollendofer and the California Thoroughbred Trainers have argued that Del Mar’s ban of the trainer is arbitrary and capricious and in violation of an agreement between the track and the CTT. A ruling is expected to come from a San Diego County judge on Friday. The post Report: Del Mar Claims Hollendorfer Became ‘Radioactive PR Risk’ appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Saratoga is the logical jumping-off place for hurdlers imported to compete in summer-fall championship races, and three newcomers will make their debuts July 25 in the A. P. Smithwick Memorial Steeplechase Stakes (NSA-G1). View the full article

Cairo Cat is scheduled to make his race return in the $100,000 Curlin Stakes July 26 at Saratoga Race Course. The Cairo Prince colt was last seen winning the Iroquois Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs in September before being sidelined. View the full article

Evangeline Downs is announcing that the 2019 Thoroughbred season will be extended by two additional days. View the full article

Stallion died in 2018 following bout of laminitis View the full article

Red Baron's Barn's Itsinthepost will transfer from the lawn to Del Mar's main track July 24 when he faces six others in the $100,000 Cougar II Handicap (G3). View the full article

Godolphin jockeys James Doyle and William Buick will return to their old agent Michael Haggas, Racing Post reported on Tuesday. The pair had been represented by George Baker since last September. “We started the season with our friend and former weighing room colleague George Baker booking our rides but things haven’t really worked out the way we had planned,” the duo said in a statement. “George is an absolute gentleman and we would both like to thank him sincerely for the time and effort he has put in…Michael knows us very well and has agreed to step in and look after our rides for the rest of the year, which gives us some breathing space. That will allow us to explore every eventuality before we appoint a new agent for 2020.” The post Doyle, Buick Rejoin With Agent Haggas appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

FULL-BROTHER TO WORLD OF TROUBLE DEBUTS AT THE SPA 6th-SAR, $90K, Msw, 2yo, 5 1/2f T, 3:55p.m. Wesley Ward unveils a full-brother to MGISW World of Trouble Wednesday in ALFIE SOLOMONS (Kantharos). The $285,000 KEESEP buy gets his career started on turf, the same surface on which his brother is a treble stakes winner, including a last out score in the GI Jaipur S. and close second in last term’s GI Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint S. World of Trouble is also a top-level scorer on dirt, having won the GI Carter H. at Aqueduct in April. Alfie Solomons is also a half-sibling to stakes winner Money or Love (J Be K) and his dam is a half to MGSW turf sprinter Bucchero (Kantharos). Another firster with a grassy pedigree is the Graham Motion-trained Irish Mias (Sky Mesa). The New Jersey-bred is a half to stakes winner Regally Irish (Regal Ransom) and their dam is a half-sister to MGSW and GI Belmont S. runner-up Irish War Cry (Curlin), as well as MGSW turfer Irish Strait (English Channel). Motion saddles another first time starter in Close Shave (Uncle Mo), a son of MSW Awesome Ashley (Unbridled’s Song), who is out of MGISW Queens Court Queen (Lyphard). TJCIS PPs PRICEY CANDY RIDE FILLY MAKES CAREER BOW AT DEL MAR 7th-DMR, $61K, Msw, 3yo/up, f/m, 5fT, 8:00p.m. SHE’S OUR CHARM (Candy Ride {Arg}), a $600,000 KEESEP acquisition, makes her first trip to the post Wednesday at Del Mar for trainer Don McAnally. She is out of MSW & MGISP Charm the Maker (Empire Maker), who is a daughter of GSW Charm the Giant (Ire) (Giant’s Causeway) and a half-sister to GSW Liam the Charmer (Smart Strike). Diamond A Racing Corp homebred Distorted Win (Distorted Humor) makes her belated career bow in this spot for Hall of Famer Richard Mandella. The 4-year-old is a daughter of stakes winner and MGSP Winning Point (Point Given). She hails from the family of GSW & GISP ‘TDN Rising Star’ Talk Veuve to Me (Violence). TJCIS PPs The post July 24 Insights appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article