4th-AQU, $60K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6fT, post time: 1:47 p.m. ET
HONORED PROMISE (Speightstown) is a sister to a pair of accomplished turf females, including the late GSW & MGISP Recepta and SW & GSP Defiant Honor, as well as the good dirt sprinter Taqarub (Aldebaran). Honored Promise's winning dam Honor Bestowed (Honor Grades) is a daughter of GSW Wings of Grace (Key to the Mint), who bred Eclipse Award winner and two-time Grade I winner Soaring Softly (Kris S.) and GI-winning turf mare Plenty of Grace (Roberto). The deeper female family includes Parade Ground (Kingmambo) and Everhope (Danzig) and New Economy (Red Ransom), all black-type winners on the grass. TJCIS PPs
10th-CD, $60K, Msw, 3/up, f/m, 8.5fT, post time: 5:24 p.m. ET
SUNOOF (Malibu Moon) is a daughter of the talented Illinois-bred distaffer Rolling Sea (Sefapiano), a two-time graded winner on the main track, and cost the braintrust at Sheikh Hamdan's Shadwell Farm $300K at the 2015 Keeneland November sale. The bay debuts on the lawn, but has a bullet five-furlong move on the dirt in 1:00 2/5 (1/17) Nov. 8. A potentially interesting longshot is G. Watts Humphrey Jr.'s Focused (Distorted Humor), who tries the turf for the first time following three unplaced runs on the dirt. The chestnut, a $300K KEESEP buy, is out of Single Solution (Flatter), a half-sister to Grade I-winning turfer Vacare (Lear Fan) and herself the adjudged winner of the 2009 GIII Pin Oak Valley View S. Single Solution is the dam of SW & MGSP No Fault of Mine (Blame). TJCIS PPs —Alan Carasso
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