Insights: Aug. 26

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2nd-SAR, $85k, 2yo, f, 1 1/16mT, post time: 1:33 p.m. ET
Don Alberto’s homebred MADDING CROWD (Giant’s Causeway) makes her first trip to the post for trainer Bill Mott. The filly is out of graded stakes winner My Gi Gi (E Dubai). Chad Brown saddles firster Miss Rombauer (Scat Daddy), who sold for $375,000 after working a furlong in :10 2/5 at the Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale. She is out of a full-sister to graded stakes winners Winding Way (Malibu Moon) and Kauai Katie (Malibu Moon). Blahnik (Bernardini), a $575,000 OBS March graduate, will look to improve on a lackluster 10th-place effort sprinting over the main track in her July 20 debut. TJCIS PPs

5th-SAR, $85k, 2yo, f, 6f, post time: 3:15 p.m. ET
Godolphin homebred ENLIVEN (Ghostzapper), a daughter of multiple Grade I winner It’s Tricky (Mineshaft), debuts for trainer Kiaran McLaughlin. The filly is a half-sister to GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. and GIII Gotham S. winner Enticed (Medagalia d’Oro). Rodolphe Brisset sends out Magic Cap Stables’ firster Wheedle (Flatter), a $350,000 FTSAUG yearling. TJCIS PPs

4th-DMR, $60k, 2yo, 5 1/2f, post time: 6:30 p.m. ET
Michael Lund Petersen’s pair of bullet purchases from the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May Sale debut for trainer Bob Baffert. TALE OF THE UNION (Union Rags) was purchased for $925,000 after working a furlong in a bullet :10 flat, while Mucho Gusto (Mucho Macho Man) was a $625,000 purchase in Timonium after working a quarter in a bullet :21 1/5. Paddy Gallagher saddles first-timer Harmon (Cairo Prince), a $500,000 purchase by agent Jamie McCalmont on behalf of Jon Kelly at OBS March (:10 1/5). He is out of Summer Shade (Stephen Got Even), a half-sister to multiple graded stakes winner Hot Summer (Malibu Moon). TJCIS PPs

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