May 30 Insights: Expensive Uncle Mo Debuts at Churchill

6th-CD, $95k, Msw, 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 7:25 p.m. EST

After a series of speedy breezes at Keeneland, including a bullet :46 2/5 (1/65) half-mile move from the gate May 7, LNJ Foxwoods' LA CHANCLA (Uncle Mo) is poised to make her debut at Churchill Downs Thursday. The Rodolphe Brisset-trained filly was the co-third most expensive horse at the 2018 OBS March sale, ringing up a $775,000 price tag after a swift quarter-mile breeze in :21 2/5. The filly is out of the unraced mare Mama Tia (Carson City), the dam of GSW Southern Honey (Colonel John) and MSW Call Thirty Seven (Eskendereya) and herself a half-sister to MGSW/MGISP Runway Model (Petitionville), the dam of MGISW and recent GII Alysheba S. victor McKinzie (Street Sense).

Another noteworthy filly going to the post for the first time is Stonestreet Stables' homebred Mt. Brave (Malibu Moon). Trained by Steve Asmussen and co-owned with Peter Leidel, the filly seeks to become the fifth winner produced by the $1,198,486 earner and multiple graded stakes winning mare Wild Gams (Forest Wildcat). TJCIS PPS

3rd-BEL, $82k, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m, 4:07 p.m. EST

DUNBAR ROAD (Quality Road) was last seen losing a half-length decision to GI Kentucky Oaks fourth-place finisher Champagne Anyone (Street Sense) in the GII Gulfstream Park Oaks Mar. 30. The Peter Brant-owned filly was stuck on the also-eligible list for the Kentucky Oaks. After failing to draw into the field, Chad Brown shipped the filly to his Belmont base where she breezed a half-mile in :48.59 (12/56) May 25. The $350,000 KEESEP buy broke her maiden first time out at Gulfstream Mar. 3 by a handy 8 3/4 lengths. She is the second winner out of the mare Gift List (Bernardini), who comes from the family of MGISW Secret Status (A.P. Indy) and MGSW Alumni Hill (A.P. Indy). Gift List produced the unraced juvenile filly On the Good List (Speightstown), who sold for $175,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Oct. sale. TJCIS PPS