By Alan Carasso
6th-SAR, $100k, Msw, 2yo, 6f, post time: 3:19 p.m. ET
SASSMASTER (Curlin) was purchased by Alistair Roden on behalf of his client Mark Breen for a sales-topping $550,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton October Sale and the early April foal has drawn widest in a field of eight for this first visit to the races. Bred by Stonestreet, the bay is kin to a pair of winners, including 2019 GII Prioress Stakes and GIII Victory Ride Stakes heroine Royal Charlotte (Cairo Prince), who is in turn the dam of the 3-year-old Medicine Dog (Constitution), third in last year's Clever Trevor Stakes.
Senior Lender (Volatile) has gate seven and the $450,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase by Klaravich Stable is out of a half-sister to the fleet stakes-winning track-record setting Mundaye Call (Into Mischief) and Bullard (Gun Runner), winner of the GIII Bob Hope Stakes at two in 2024.
Golden Tornado (McKinzie), a half-brother to undefeated stakes-winning 'TDN Rising Star' and GI H. Allen Jerkens-bound Verifire (Authentic), was knocked down to Reeves Thoroughbred Racing for $475,000 at KEESEP last fall. The colt's stakes-placed dam is a daughter of Grade III winner Queen ofthe Catsle (Tale of the Cat). TJCIS PPs
📽️Hip 801 c. CURLIN o/o Sass and Class sells for $550,000 at Kentucky October Yearlings! Congrats to the connections:
B: Alistair Roden, agent for Mark Breen
C: @TaylorMadeSales, agt for Stonestreet Bred & Raised
Br: @StonestreetFarm (KY) pic.twitter.com/ykSHeniNOJ— Fasig-Tipton (@FasigTiptonCo) October 22, 2024
2nd-DMR, $100k, Msw, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f, 5:31 p.m. ET
BAD MANNERS (Into Mischief), purchased by Spendthrift for $700,000 at Fasig-Tipton Saratoga a year ago, is the current 2-year-old out of three-time Grade I winner I'm A Chatterbox (Munnings), whose yearling full-brother to this filly was hammered down for $2.6 million at this week's Saratoga Sale to Spendthrift, who was buying out their partners Fletcher and Carolyn Gray. A daughter of MSP Chit Chatter (Lost Soldier), the $2.35-million earning I'm A Chatterbox is also the dam of Juniper's Moon (Galileo {Ire}), third in the 2023 GIII Florida Oaks and sold on for $625,000 at the 2024 Keeneland January Sale.
Bobby Flay purchased Brooklyn Blonde (Gun Runner) for $510,000 at KEESEP last year and she debuts here for trainer Michael McCarthy. A daughter of two-time stakes winner and Grade I-placed Shenandoah Queen (Henny Hughes), the chestnut worked a half-mile from the gate in :46 4/5 (1/105) in the company of her recent maiden-winning stablemate La Ville Lumiere (City of Light) on Aug. 2. TJCIS PPs
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