Idiomatic’s Half-Sister Chasten Races To Debut ‘TDN Rising Star’ Honors

[Wandering Eyes]

Saturday's program at Churchill Downs is meant to showcase the 'Stars of Tomorrow' and Juddmonte's bred-in-the-purple CHASTEN (f, 2, Into Mischief–Lockdown, by First Defence) shaped as just that as she did her best work through the line to score by a widening margin to earn the 'TDN Rising Star' badge. The half-sister to champion Idiomatic (Curlin) appeared to get pinched back at the break of the seven-furlong contest and was clearly last early before making progress and improving a spot or two down the backstretch. Asked to come through between rivals, Chasten continued to make good ground 3 1/2 furlongs out and was pulled out into the clear to emerge a threat passing the quarter pole. In the slipstream of favored Sycamore Shoals (Street Sense), who earned a 74 Beyer for her dead-heat second on her lone previous trip to the races, the homebred wandered around a bit, but was angled off that one's heels, wrested command with about a sixteenth of a mile to travel and pulled clear while under mostly hand urging, then galloped out with good energy into the turn. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0. O/B-Juddmonte (KY); T-Brad Cox.

 

1/2 sister to Idiomatic, Chasten and @flothejock catch them at the wire for @bradcoxracing and @JuddmonteFarms in her first start! pic.twitter.com/AFTaYu88Mu

— Churchill Downs (@ChurchillDowns) November 30, 2024

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