2nd-GP, $68k, Msw, 3yo, f, 5fT, post time: 1:21 p.m. ET
CODE (Tiz the Law) gets her career underway here for Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Walmac Farm, who teamed to race her 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard half-brother Locked (Gun Runner) to six wins from 11 starts, including a blowout success in the 2025 GI Santa Anita Handicap. Unsold on a bid of $245,000 as a foal at Fasig-Tipton November in 2023, the Mar. 13 foal is out of a winning daughter of SW & GSP Gabriellina Giof (GB) (Ashkalani {Ire}), whose daughter Always A Princess (Leroidesanimaux {Brz}) was a three-time graded winner and placed in the GI Oak Leaf Stakes. Her year-younger half-sister by Early Voting made $525,000 at Keeneland last September. TJCIS PPs
4th-KEE, $110k, Msw, 3yo, f, 6 1/2f, 2:36 p.m. ET
Breeder David Baxter sold future GIII Oklahoma Derby hero and GI DraftKings Travers Stakes runner-up Bracket Buster (Vekoma) as a weanling, but he elected to retain the Mitole half-sister after buying her back at the 2024 Keeneland January Sale, and MON REVE makes her first trip to the races this afternoon. The Maryland-bred is trained by Vicki Oliver, who also conditioned Bracket Buster to a victory in the Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth last summer and to a runner-up effort in the GIII Stonestreet Lexington Stakes prior to that.
Pinto (Nyquist), a $190,000 KEEJAN yearling turned $400,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling, is out of an unplaced half-sister to GSW & GISP Real Cozzy (Cozzene). This is the deeper female family of dual Classic winner Real Quiet (Quiet American). TJCIS PPs
5th-KEE, $110k, Msw, 3yo, 1 1/16mT, 3:08 p.m. ET
Will Walden sends out TILSON (Instagrand) for owner and breeder Larry Best's OXO Equine and draws gate two for this initial afternoon spin. The January foal is the first produce for Best's Cambier Parc (Medaglia d'Oro), a $1.25-million Keeneland September yearling who took out the 2019 GI Del Mar Oaks before adding the GI QE II Challenge Cup at this venue. Cambier Parc's dam Sealy Hill (Point Given) won the 2007 Filly Triple Crown in Canada en route to Horse of the Year honors and produced fellow Sovereign Award winner Hillaby (Distorted Humor) and GSWs Belle Hill (Sky Mesa) and Gale Force (Giant's Causeway). TJCIS PPs
8th-KEE, $110k, Msw, 3yo, f, 7f, 4:44 p.m. ET
ARCANA (Good Magic), a $700,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling, is a half-sister to 2025 GIII Miss Preakness Stakes runner-up You'll Be Back and hails from one of the best female families in the studbook. Dam Advance Party (Empire Maker), who fetched $70,000 with this filly in utero at KEENOV in 2022, is out of SW & GSP Aurora (Danzig), whose six winners includes Grade I scorers Acoma (Empire Maker) and Arch (Kris S.) and the stakes-placed dam of GSW Aztec Sense (Street Sense). The unraced Antics (Unbridled) produced dual champion and MGISW Covfefe (Into Mischief) and Japanese MGSW/G1SP Albiano (Harlan's Holiday). Champion Althea (Alydar) serves as the filly's third dam.
La Rascasse (Authentic) also put on a good show when offered at public auction, hammering to Resolute Racing for $750,000 at KEESEP in 2024. The dark bay's dam is a daughter of Maryfield (Elusive Quality), victorious in the inaugural Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint en route to an Eclipse Award.
Belle (Uncle Mo) is a full-sister to GSW Celestial City and is out of a half-sister to GI Donn Handicap winner Hymn Book (Arch). The third dam includes GI Maker's Mark Mile winner Data Link (War Front). TJCIS PPs
9th-OP, $110k, Msw, 3yo, 6f, 6:09 p.m. ET
JAZZ MAN (Uncle Mo) is the second for to the races out of Gaelic Tales (Giant's Causeway), who was led out unsold on a bid of $290,000 carrying this colt at the 2022 Fasig-Tipton November Sale. The Feb. 5 foal, who hails from the family of G1 Dubai World Cup winner African Story (GB) (Pivotal {GB}), visited a sales ring in each of his first three seasons, selling for $225,000 as a weanling at FTKNOV, for $325,000 as a KEESEP yearling and for $975,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale after breezing his eighth of a mile in :10 2/5. TJCIS PPs
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