Friday Insights: Charlatan Firster Tops Gulfstream Turf Sprint

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5th-GP, $84k, Msw, 3yo, f, 5fT, 2:20 p.m. ET
A $325,000 purchase at the 2023 Keeneland November Sale, ALQAB (Charlatan) gets her career under way for Shadwell Stable and trainer Todd Pletcher. A Jan. 24 foal, the chestnut is a half-sister to Turnerloose (Nyquist), a stakes winner and Grade II-placed on the grass at two who made a successful transition to the main track when taking out the GII Rachel Alexandra Stakes the following winter. Alqab is also kin to Fend (Street Sense), whose son Kentucky Outlaw (Outwork) was victorious in last year's Long Branch Stakes at Monmouth Park. The filly's second dam was the Pletcher-conditioned Game Face (Menifee), winner of the 2009 GI Princess Rooney Stakes.

Black Cherry (Liam's Map) is the latest runner out of the GIII Tempted Stakes heroine Summer Raven (Summer Squall), whose five winners included MGSW/MGISP Lewis Bay (Bernardini) and Grade III scorers Misconnect (Unbridled's Song) and Winslow Homer (Unbridled's Song). The bay fetched $200,000 at Keeneland September in 2024.

Copacabana (Not This Time) also has license to turf, as she is out of a half-sister to GI Joe Hirsch Turf Classic hero Arklow (Arch) and dual graded winner Maraud (Blame). Bought back on a bid of $70,000 at the 2024 Fasig-Tipton October Sale, the Apr. 8 produce fetched $285,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale (gallop).

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