Insights 3/12

9th-OP, $72K, Msw, 3yo, 1 1/16m, 6:10 p.m. ET

Gary and Mary West homebred HEADS UP (Smart Strike) makes his career bow in this test for Boyd Caster. The bay is out of a half-sister to champion Possibly Perfect (Northern Baby), who produced GSW Promontory Gold (Gone West) and the dam of GSW Donegal Moon (Malibu Moon). This is also the family of MGISW Coil (Point Given) and his Grade I-winning half-brother Chiropractor (Kitten's Joy). Steve Asmussen also unveils a son of Smart Strike in Three Chimneys Farm's Athletic Temper, a song of MGSW Quiet Temper (Quiet American). TJCIS PPs.

–Christie DeBernardis