Sunday’s Racing Insights: First Foal Out Of $1.5m Positive Spirit Makes The Spa Races

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7th-SAR, $100K, Msw, 2yo, f, 7f, 3:25 p.m. ET.
ALL THE FEELS (Into Mischief) was produced in-house at Spendthrift Farm and will make her first start for trainer Todd Pletcher. GSW Positive Spirit (Pioneerof the Nile) joined the farm's broodmare band after she was acquired for $1.5 million at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Fall Mixed Sale and has handed All the Feels a pair of full-siblings. The Spa debut runner's GSW/GISP second dam is also responsible for GI Kentucky Derby hero Always Dreaming (Bodemeister) and GI Spinaway Stakes heroine Hot Dixie Chick (Dixie Union), who claims for herself GISW Pauline's Pearl (Tapit).

Also making the gate for her inaugural voyage is Claiborne and Adele B. Dilschneider's homebred Soothe (Tapit). Trained by Bill Mott, the filly is out of MGSW Lull (War Front), who earned over $1 million during her racing career. Soothe's third dam produced Horse of the Year Saint Liam (Saint Ballado) and the dam of multiple leading sire Gun Runner (Candy Ride {Arg}). TJCIS PPS

1st-DMR, $75K, Msw, 2yo, 6f, 4:30 p.m. ET.
Speaking of Gun Runner, Three Chimneys bred unraced Reve d'Armour (Warrior's Reward) to him which yielded Bullard (Gun Runner), who fetched $675,000 at the Keeneland September Sale. The farm then partnered with St. Elias, Talla and West Point and sent the colt to Michael McCarthy. The first-time starter counts as a half-sister SW Mundaye Call (Into Mischief). Digging a little deeper into the colt's extended female family we find champion 3-year-old filly Rags to Riches (A.P. Indy) and her older half-brother GISW Jazil (Seeking the Gold). TJCIS PPS

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