Saturday’s Insights: Scat Daddy Filly ‘Stars’ in Saratoga Nightcap

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2nd-SAR, $90k, Msw, 2yo, 6f, 12:08 p.m. ET
ONWARD (Street Sense), the most expensive yearling colt by his sire to switch hands in 2018 when dropping the hammer at $600,000 at Keeneland September, gets his career started on the GI Runhappy Travers S. undercard. Produced by the unraced Arch mare Queenofperfection, champion sprinter and leading sire Speightstown appears under his third dam. Campaigned in partnership by Jump Sucker Stable, Claiborne Farm and Adele B. Dilschneider, Onward is trained by Christophe Clement. Live Oak homebred Tap It to Win (Tapit), hailing from the extended female family of the brilliant Songbird (Medaglia d’Oro), switches to dirt after placing second as the 6-5 favorite over the Woodbine grass on debut July 21. TJCIS PPs

5th-ELP, $50k, Msw, 2yo, 1m, 3:42 p.m. ET
Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen unveils the very well-bred KENTUCKY SUMMER (Tapit) at the Pea Patch Saturday. The $500,000 KEESEP yearling graduate is out of GI Apple Blossom H. heroine Dream of Summer (Siberian Summer), making him a half-brother to GISW Creative Cause (Giant’s Causeway) and GSWs Destin (Giant’s Causeway) and Vexatious (Giant’s Causeway). The rail-drawn gray, listed as the morning-line 9-5 favorite, is owned by Phoenix Thoroughbred III Ltd. TJCIS PPs

13th-SAR, $90k, Msw, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16mT, 6:54 p.m. ET
MAGIC STAR (Scat Daddy), produced by GI Matron S. heroine Meadow Breeze (Meadowlake), debuts for Don Alberto Stable and leading trainer Chad Brown. The 2017 $500,000 KEESEP yearling has been working in company with talented Brown stablemates Mascha (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}) (five furlongs in 1:01 3/5 on Oklahoma training turf Aug. 16 XBTV Video) (entered in Saturday’s GII Ballston Spa S.) and GI Alabama S. heroine Dunbar Road (Quality Road) (five furlongs in 1:01 3/5 on the main track Aug. 3 XBTV Video). TJCIS PPs

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