By Christie DeBernardis
4th-BEL, $75K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6fT, 2:34 p.m. ET
Trainer Linda Rice came out on top of a feverish bidding war at the end of the final day of OBS April to take home EQUALITYFORALL (Quality Road) for $775,000 on behalf of herself, Sheila Rosenblum and Iris Smith. The bay, who was the sales's highest-priced filly following a :20.2 bullet work, gets the morning-line nod while marooned in post 12 for this career bow. Drawn right alongside her in the 11-hole is Godolphin homebred Mint Condition (Hard Spun), who tries turf for the first time here after fading to 10th in her dirt debut at Saratoga Sept. 4. The daughter of GISW Malibu Mint (Malibu Moon) enters off a buller half-mile in :48 flat over the synthetic at her owner's Greentree Training Center Oct. 15. Tony Dutrow unveils the offspring of another Grade I winner in Gainesway Stable's Moonlit Cove (Giant's Causeway). Out of GI Matriach S. heroine Star Billing (Dynaformer), the $275,000 KEESEP buy also traces her lineage back to MGISW millionaires Stellar Jayne (Wild Rush)and Starrer (Dynaformer). Chad Brown can never be overlooked on the turf an he is represented here by first timer Lady Alexandra (More Than Ready), owned by Sheep Pond Partners, Newport Stables and Head of Plains Partners. A $300,000 OBSMAR buy following a :10.1 breeze, the bay's second dam is European, English, Irish and Italian Highweight Older Mare at 9 1/2 – 11 furlongs Flagbird (Nureyev). TJCIS PPs.
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