Thursday Insights: Gun Runner Filly Leads Thursday Maidens

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6th-OP, 110K, Msw, 3yo, f, 1 1/16m, 4:04 p.m.
QUITE BAFFLING (Gun Runner) impressed enough at OBS March last year, breezing a quarter in :21.1, to warrant a $750,000 final bid from Case Clay Thoroughbred Management on behalf of owner Wathnan Racing. Debuting around two turns, Quite Baffling is a daughter of the unraced Graydar mare Baffling, herself a half-sister to MGISW and successful sire Constitution (Tapit). Another half-sister, GSW Jacaranda (Congrats), has produced SW/GISP Be You (Curlin). The only first-time starter in the field is trained by Steve Asmussen who will leg up son Keith for the ride. TJCIS PPS

6th-GP, 84K, Msw, 3yo, f, 6f, 3:22 p.m.
A pair of fillies, drawn on opposite sides of the gate, both debut Thursday to top connections in Florida. Inside, Pippa Adds (Yaupon) is a Todd Pletcher trainee for Spendthrift Farm who acquired her SW/MGSP dam for $800,000 at Keeneland November in 2020. That mare, Motion Emotion, has already produced GSW Accelerize (Omaha Beach).

Outside, Dad's Two Sense (Street Sense) is the first foal out of Harvey Clarke homebred and GISW Havey's Lil Goil (American Pharoah). That mare, who in addition to winning the GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup also placed in the GI Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf along with the GI Alabama, is a half-sister to GSW/MGISP Gosger (Nyquist). This is also the family of Champion 3-year-old and winner of two-thirds of the Triple Crown, I'll Have Another (Flower Alley). TJCIS PPS

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