Saturday Insights: Baffert Debuts Pair At Santa Anita

8th-SA, 60K, Msw, 3yo, 6f, 7:02 p.m.
Drawn side by side are a pair of Baffert stablemates led by $700,000 KEESEP grad VOLDEMORT (Good Magic) who counts MGISW and late leading sire Pioneerof the Nile (Empire Maker) as an extended family member. The Triple Crown-nominated colt comes in off an extended work tab including a last-out four furlong drill in :47 2/5 (11/87). He draws inside of Tiz Secure (Maximum Security), a Watson/Weitman homebred out of MGISW Tough Tiz's Sis who has already produced GSW/GISP Tiz Midnight, herself responsible for MGSW/GISP and $1.45m KEENOV broodmare Midnight Memories (Mastery). Another half-sister, Tension (Tapit), produced MGSW Rocket Can (Into Mischief) who factored in the 2023 Triple Crown trail. Richard Mandella debuts Prayer (Quality Road), a full-brother to SW/MGSP Gingham and El Camino Real Derby winner Blackadder. TJCIS PPS

Now named:

Voldemort 🪄

GOOD MAGIC ✨ Colt o/o a young Bernardini mare Beauty Buzz, his Empire Maker Second dam is a full sister to Pioneer Of The Nile. Voldemort was born May 4th and made $700,000 in Book Four Sept @keenelandsales Sold by @Gainesway for @WalmacLLC ✨

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— Tom Ryan (@TomRyanKY) January 25, 2024

2nd-TAM, 53K, Msw, 3yo, f, 1m 40yds, 12:58 p.m.
High Note (Curlin), the $450,000 FTSAUG half-sister to MGISW Verrazano (More Than Ready), debuts from the outside gate for Chad Brown. First dam Enchanted Rock, who initially sold for $2,000,000 carrying a full-sibling to Verrazano at KEENOV in 2017, has also produced GII Risen Star Stakes winner El Padrino (Pulpit) and MSP La Madrina (Tapit). The family includes a champion older mare in Queena (Mr. Prospector) and plenty of graded blacktype led of GISW Somali Lemondade (Lemon Drop Kid), GISW Serra Lake (Seattle Slew) and MGSW/MGISP Hungry Island (More Than Ready). She's drawn outside second-time starter Mischief in Motion (Into Mischief) who missed as the favorite going 5 1/2 furlongs on the Tapeta at Gulfstream Jan. 8 but now stretches out for Michael Trombetta. TJCIS PPS