Gun Runner's French Blue An Easy Debut Winner At Santa Anita

French Blue (Gun Runner), off as the 3-5 favorite, showed good early speed from the outside gate, clearing down to sit just off the pace while pressuring the early lead through fractions of :22.77 and :45.82. Moving up under her own power to gain a narrow advantage by the quarter pole, she had no issue putting separation on stablemate Cherry Cider (Tiz the Law) and was in no danger of being caught by a closing Feisty Red Head (Curlin) who picked up second but was 2 1/4 lengths back of the winner on the line. French Blue is the first foal out of GSW and Three Chimneys homebred Twenty Carat. This is the family of Breeders' Cup winners Shared Account (Pleasantly Perfect) and her daughter, Sharing (Speighstown). Twenty Carat has been married to Gun Runner for all four of her matings, producing a now 2-year-old colt picked up by M.V. Magnier and White Birch Farm for $1,550,000 at Keeneland September last year. She has a yearling colt still in the pipeline and is due back to the Three Chimneys stalwart this spring.

4th-Santa Anita, $72,500, Msw, 1-8, 3yo, f, 6f, 1:11.21, ft, 2 1/4 lengths.
FRENCH BLUE (f, 3, Gun Runner–Twenty Carat {GSW, $118,850}, by Into Mischief)
Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $42,000. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.
O/B-Three Chimneys Farm, LLC (KY); T-Bob Baffert.

 

💙 @Three_Chimneys homebred #10 FRENCH BLUE ($3.20) broke her maiden on debut in R4 at @SantaAnitaPark. The three-year-old Gun Runner filly had @JJHernandezS19 up for trainer Bob Baffert. pic.twitter.com/Fs7dV8NTt6

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