Sunday Insights: Pricey American Pharoah Filly Debuts for Brown, Best

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7th-SAR, $90,000, Msw, 2yo, f, 1 1/16mT, post time: 3:42 p.m. ET

E Five Racing Thoroughbreds' LAUGHABLE (Distorted Humor), a full-sister to multiple graded stakes winner Quip, makes her first trip to the post for trainer Todd Pletcher. The bay filly was a $300,000 FTSAUG yearling. Pletcher also saddles Barry Schwartz's Sparkling Sky (More Than Ready), third but promoted to second, in her debut over course and trip Aug. 4. The chestnut was a $650,000 KEESEP yearling.

Stephanie Seymour Brant's Boxer Rebellion (Empire Maker), a $420,000 KEESEP yearling, debuts for trainer Chad Brown. The dark bay is a half-sister to graded stakes winner Song of Spring (Spring at Last). TJCIS PPs

8th-SAR, $90,000, Msw, 2yo, f, 7f, post time: 4:14 p.m. ET

ORSAY (American Pharoah), purchased by Larry Best's OXO Equine for $1.2 million at last year's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale, debuts for trainer Chad Brown. The chestnut filly is a daughter of multiple Grade I winner Life at Ten (Malibu Moon).

Wayne Lukas saddles Mathis Stable's Cleopatra's Charm (Pioneerof the Nile), a daughter of Grade I winner Careless Jewel (Tapit).

Lee Pokoik's Buxom Beast (The Big Beast) tries the maiden ranks following a respectable fourth-place finish while ambitiously placed in the July 11 GIII Schuylerville S. in her debut. TJCIS PPs

8th-DMR, $61,000, Msw, 2yo, f, 5 1/2f, post time: 8:30 p.m. ET

Neil Drysdale saddles firster ENCHANTED NILE (Pioneerof the Nile) for Lady Sheila Stable, George Bolton, and Mark Mathiesen. The bay filly, the first foal out of graded placed Enchantress (Malibu Moon), was a $375,000 KEESEP yearling.

Also debuting is Phoenix Thoroughbreds' Scarlet Lips (Malibu Moon), a $400,000 FTSAUG yearling trained by Bob Baffert.

Jerry Hollendorfer sends out Don Alberto Stable's Matera (Tapit&hid=28277">Tapit). The $1.4-million KEESEP yearling disappointed when third as the favorite in her debut going six furlongs at Del Mar. Aug. 18. Out of graded winner Miss Macy Sue (Trippi), the filly is a half to Liam's Map (Unbridled's Song) and Not This Time (Giant's Causeway). TJCIS PPs

 

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