Debuting Into Mischief Filly Audacious A New ‘Rising Star’ at Saratoga

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Part of a Todd Pletcher-trained and Ramona Bass-owned entry favored at 45 cents on the dollar with each filly making her first trip to the races, AUDACIOUS (f, 3, Into Mischief–Veracity, by Distorted Humor) turned in a professional racetrack debut, and although things appeared to get a bit dicey in the final 30 yards, had done enough to become a 'TDN Rising Star'. Drawn one to the outside of her homebred stablemate Chanteuse (Into Mischief) in gate six, the $700,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase actually won the break, but was content to drift back into fourth, but handy, as Chanteuse took them into the far turn. Clicked up three wide on the turn, Audacious was poised three furlongs out and had the front-runner in the crosshairs moving past the quarter pole. With a confident John Velazquez at the controls, Audacious easily gathered up Charteuse with three-sixteenths of a mile to run and threatened to pull away to a wide-margin victory. Only tenderly–some might say audaciously–ridden by Velazquez and idling noticeably entering the final sixteenth of a mile, Audacious was only under hands-and-heels encouragement and was home about a length better than 15-1 Refuse To Lose (Union Rags), whose dam Victory Party (Yankee Victor) is a half-sister to the winner's sire in addition to Beholder, Mendelssohn, et al. Perhaps the eyecatcher of the bunch was Stuart Janney III's Silvology (Blame), who veered inward at the start and was clearly last early, but got home very well to just miss second. Sales history: $700,000 Ylg '22 KEESEP. O-Bass Racing LLC; B-Fifth Avenue Bloodstock (KY); T-Todd Pletcher.

 

AUDACIOUS, the 3YO daughter of @spendthriftfarm stallion Into Mischief, breaks her maiden in the sixth race with @ljlmvel aboard for trainer @PletcherRacing. pic.twitter.com/b5MRHvcist

— Belmont Stakes (@BelmontStakes) June 6, 2024

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