Thursday Insights: Champion Vequist Represented By First Starter

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5th-BAQ, $85k, Msw, 2yo, f, 1 1/16mT, post time: 3:15 p.m. ET
The first foal from 2020 Eclipse Award-winning juvenile filly Vequist (Nyquist), THE JEWELER (Into Mischief) has drawn the inside stall for a race scheduled for the turf, but which could well be transferred to the main track after a day of wet weather in the Northeast. Winner of the GI Spinaway Stakes, GI Frizette Stakes and the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, Vequist fetched $3.4 million from Spendthrift Farm at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton November Sale. The Jeweler debuts in the Wathnan Racing colors, with Junior Alvarado to ride.

Isadora Duncan (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) is a homebred full-sister to SW & GI Belmont Oaks third Opulent Restraint (Ire), both fillies out of Significant Form (Creative Cause), who carried the Stephanie Seymour Brant silks to a pair of graded scores for Chad Brown. The Valentine's Day foal is out of a half-sister to the dam of recent Skidmore Stakes winner Bobrovsky (Daredevil). This is the family of the impressive recent Japanese maiden winner Wayny Su (Into Mischief) and Aqueduct main winner Memorized (Tapit).

Belle of Georgia (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) is a half-sister four winners, including Never So Brave (Ire) (No Nay Never), who took the G1 City of York Stakes Aug. 23. TJCIS PPs

1st-DEL, $45k, Msw, 6f, 12:45 p.m. ET
HONOR BRIGHT (Quality Road) cost the Speedway Stables braitrust $850,000 at last year's Keeneland September and has obvious pedigree appeal. The Apr. 26 foal is set to become the 10th runner for dam Justwhistledixie (Dixie Union), a two-time Grade II winner and runner-up in the GI Acorn Stakes at three whose six to salute include GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile hero New Year's Day (Street Cry {Ire}); MGSW Mohaymen (Tapit); Enforceable (Tapit), winner of the 2020 GIII Lecomte Stakes in this country and recently a Group 1 winner in Peru; and GSW Kingly (Tapit). TJCIS PPs

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