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2nd-BEL, MSW, $90k, 3yo/up, 1 1/4mT, 12:11 p.m. ET
The regally bred BETTER TAPIT (Tapit&hid=28277">Tapit) makes his debut early on Saturday's blockbuster Belmont card. The 3-year-old is a son of the group stakes-placed mare Betterbetterbetter (Ire) (Galileo), who sold in foal to War Front to Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm for a sale-topping $5.2 million at the 2013 Fasig-Tipton November Sale. Betterbetterbetter is a half-sister to European Group I winning fillies Yesterday (Ire) (Sadler's Wells) and Quarter Moon (Ire) (Sadler's Wells). Better Tapit is owned by Whisper Hill and Three Chimneys. TJCIS PPs
5th-CD, MSW, $95k, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16mT, 2:45 p.m. ET
A member of her sire's last crop, the Steve Asmussen-trained CONFESSING (Scat Daddy) blazed an eighth of a mile in :9 4/5 at the 2018 OBS March sale before being purchased for a sale-topping $875,000 by Phoenix Thoroughbreds. Previously a $160,000 KEENOV weanling and a $335,000 KEESEP RNA, the dark bay filly breezed a snappy bullet five-eights in :59 4/5 (1/10) here May 30 in preparation for her debut. Confessing is out of the 19-year-old mare Accusation (Royal Academy),who has produced eight winners from 13 foals, including the Grade III winner and track-record-setting Sharp Sensation (Sharp Humor). TJCIS PPs
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