Insights: Half to Bast Debuts at GP

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6th-GP, $60K, Msw, 3yo/up, 6f, 2:56 p.m. ET
Well-related UNEXPECTED (California Chrome) makes his debut here for trainer Eddie Plesa Jr. and the Chu family's Baoma Corporation, which also campaigned his MGISW half-sister Bast (Uncle Mo). A $500,000 FTSAUG '18 yearling, Bast was a frequent visitor to California winner's, scoring victories in the GI Del Mar Debutante S., GI Chandelier S., GI Starlet S. and the GII Santa Ynez S. in her final career start. She was also a stubborn third in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies behind eventual Eclipse Award winner British Idiom (Flashback). Bast would go on to bring $4.2 million from Spendthrift Farm while in foal to Justify at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton November sale. Their dam Laffina RNA'd for $290,000 while carrying Bast at the 2016 Keeneland November sale, but brought $1.5 million in foal to Ghostzapper at FTKNOV '19. Laffina's now 2-year-old Pioneerof the Nile filly was a $430,000 FTKNOV weanling and $425,000 KEESEP yearling. TJCIS PPs

8th-OP, $101K, Alw/OC, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m, 4:46 p.m. ET
Kueber Racing's COACH (Commissioner) makes her first appearance since finishing ninth in late April's GI Longines Kentucky Oaks. The $65,000 Fasig-Tipton October graduate won her first three starts as a juvenile, including the Rags to Riches S. under the Twin Spires, before finishing third in the GII Golden Rod S. She began her 2021 season with a second in the Martha Washington S. here in January; was fifth in the GIII Honeybee S. Mar. 6; and third in the GIII Fantasy S. Apr. 3 before the Oaks.
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