Immaculately Bred Into Mischief Colt Taylor’s Version Graduates at Churchill

[Wandering Eyes]

11th-Churchill Downs, $122,025, Msw, 6-27, 3yo/up, 6 1/2f, 1:16.02, ft, 1 1/2 lengths.
TAYLOR'S VERSION (c, 3, Into Mischief–Taylor S {SW & GSP, $121,519}, by Medaglia d'Oro) endured a wide trip from a high draw on his belated racetrack debut May 18 and retreated through the stretch to finish about a dozen lengths behind repeat winner Camp Hale (Mo Town) in eighth. Off right at his 8-1 morning line for this second go, the Albaugh homebred scratched down into the one hole and left there running, covering the opening quarter in :22.41. Going along nicely on the bend, he had those immediately behind him hard at work and turned for home with a bit of a cushion. Able to put more daylight on his rivals at the furlong grounds, Taylor's Version kept on well enough to report home a 1 1/2-length winner, giving Corey Lanerie his 1,233rd winner at Churchill Downs and surpassing Calvin Borel for second place on the track's all-time leading jockeys' list. The debuting Bold Strength (Constitution) made up a stack of ground from the back of the field to complete the exacta, then galloped out strongly. The winner's dam is a homebred daughter of Miss Macy Sue (Trippi), who won this track's GIII Winning Colors Stakes and was third in the inaugural Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint in 2007. Miss Macy Sue has gone on to excel in the breeding shed as the dam of MGISW sire and 'TDN Rising Star' Liam's Map (Unbridled's Song) and the Dale Romans-conditioned GSW/GISP stallion Not This Time (Giant's Causeway). Taylor S was herself named a 'Rising Star' after graduating in front-running fashion at first asking at this track in September 2014 and was third in the 2015 GII Forward Gal Stakes before annexing the Any Limit Stakes. The cross of Into Mischief over Medaglia d'Oro is now responsible for 28 winners from 34 runners, among them seven stakes scorers. Taylor S is also the dam of the 2-year-old filly Aunt Sheryl (Authentic) and a yearling filly by Flightline. She was barren to Constitution for 2025. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $70,555. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.
O/B-Albaugh Family Stables LLC (KY); T-Dale L Romans.

 

No clowning here, Taylor's Version was #1 in the finale @churchilldowns at 8/1 for trainer @romansracing with @coreylanerie aboard!

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