Friday's Racing Insights: Half to GISW My Conquestadory Debuts at Big A

1st-BAQ, $85K, Msw, 2yo, 5 1/2f, 1:10p.m.
Mathiesen Racing's ELLA GRACE (Nyquist) gets her start for trainer George Weaver, who calls on the services of the red-hot Flavien Prat. Bred by Killora Stud, the Kentucky bred is out of MSP Golden Artemis (Malibu Moon), herself a first-out winner who tasted limited success on the racetrack. Her greatest achievement to date is producing My Conquestadory (Artie Schiller), who also won at first asking in the one-mile GII Summer Stakes in 2013 before adding a victory over a synthetic surface in the GI Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland. Following the success of My Conquestadory, Golden Artemis brought $1 million while in foal to Artie Schiller at Fasig-Tipton November in 2013 before re-selling for $110,000 to Killora Stud in 2020. She RNA'd for $1.15 million at KEENOV in 2015.
A $70,000 KESEP yearling purchase, My Conquestadory brought $240,000 at OBS March before ultimately hitting paydirt in the sales ring when realizing $1.5 million at Keeneland November in 2016. TJCIS PPs

6th-BAQ, $85K, Msw, 3yo, 6fT, 3:38p.m.
Peter Brant and Spendthrift Farm's NOGUCHI (Authentic) debuts for trainer Chad Brown, who has been hitting at a 33% clip at the Big A. A $300,000 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October purchase, the chestnut is out of SW Quick Flip (Speightstown), dam of GSW and MGISP Following Sea (Runhappy) and GSP Gimmick (Into Mischief). TJCIS PPs