Saturday Insights: Churchill Maidens Feature On Stars Of Tomorrow Day

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3rd-CD, 120K, Msw, 2yo, f, 7f, 1:56 p.m.
The second of two 'Stars of Tomorrow' days at Churchill Downs features a card loaded with promise. In a battle of homebred heavyweights, POWERED BY FAMILY (Quality Road) debuts for St. Elias Stable and West Point Thoroughbreds. Out of GI Personal Ensign winner Icon Project, who RNA'd at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale for 1,450,000gns in 2015, the filly is a half to GSW Fashion Business (GB) (Frankel {GB}). Out of a Grade I winner herself, Icon Project is a half-sister to the dam of MGSW/MGISP and leading sire Munnings (Speightstown).

Rail-drawn Al Ghadeer (Gun Runner), out of GISP Classofsixtythree, is a full-sister to GSW Sixtythreecaliber and a half-sister to GSW/GISP Gunmental Gray (Exchange Rate).

Another homebred, How About Now (Not This Time) races for Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm. A half-sister to SW/MG1SP Fleet Review (War Front), she is out of a winning full-sister to MGISW Rip Van Winkle (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}).

Noble Glow (Gun Runner), a Juddmonte homebred, is the second foal out of Argentinian Mare of the Year Summer of Love, a dual Group 1 winner and Champion 3-year-old filly in her native country in 2018.

$500,000 Keeneland September grad White Smoke (Essential Quality) is a half-sister to GSW Promise Keeper (Constitution), GSP War Stopper (Declaration of War) and SW Wicked Awesome (Awesome Again). First dam Mira Alta is an unraced half-sister to GISW Great Hunter (Aptitude) and to the dam of MGSW/MGISP Owendale (Into Mischief).

Second-timer Presumptuous (Into Mischief), a Godolphin hombred for Brendan Walsh out of SW/GISP Emboldened, adds blinkers from the outside Saturday after finishing fifth at 16-1 odds at Keeneland Oct. 18. TJCIS PPS

7th-CD, 120K, Msw, 2yo, 61 1/16m, 3:55 p.m.
The colts go two turns on the dirt a Juddmonte homebred Swift Blade (Quality Road) debuts from the outside post for Brad Cox. The second to the races for Atheer (his 3-year-old full brother is already a winner), Swift Blade's second dam is none other than the Champion mare Close Hatches, the dam of MGSW/MGISP Tacitus (Tapit), GISW Scylla (Tapit) and GSW Batten Down (Tapit). This is also the family of SW/MGISP Lockdown, the dam of another Eclipse winner in Idiomatic (Curlin).

A trio of second-time starters also lines up led by $975,000 FTSAUG grad Stirring Words (Constitution) who endured a troubled trip to finish eighth in his Churchill debut back in Sept. He lines up inside up Forever Rocket (Into Mischief), a full-brother to MGSW/MGISP Frank's Rockette. Steve Asmussen brings in Maximum Effort (Maxfield) who just missed by a neck on debut at Keeneland Oct. 23. TJCIS PPS

12th-CD, 120K, Msw, 2yo, 7f, 6:26 p.m.
Two pricey second-timers get another go with $1.75m KEESEP yearling Cannoneer (Into Mischief) returning for Brad Cox after running third on debut going 5 1/2 furlongs under the Twin Spires June 1. He's drawn inside of Steve Asmussen runner Dragones (Gun Runner) who brought $1.7m at FTSAUG last year and ran second at Saratoga as the favorite Aug. 30. TJCIS PPS

3rd-GP, 70K, Msw, 2yo, 6f, 1:17 p.m.
Rail-drawn Treptow (Good Magic) brought a final bid of $850,000 at FTSAUG last year. Danny Gargan trains the half-brother to MGSW Gam's Mission (Noble Mission {GB}).TJCIS PPS

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