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1st-Horseshoe Indianapolis, $32,000, Msw, 10-29, 3yo/up, 1 1/16m, 1:46.54, gd, 2 3/4 lengths. CONTRIBUTION (c, 3, Constitution--Gifting {SP}, by Street Cry {Ire}) broke as the narrow 2-1 second choice as the only first-time starter facing a field of far more experienced rivals in the mud Wednesday. Shifting sideways from the outside gate, he lacked any early speed and had only one runner beat around the clubhouse turn and into the backstretch while well off the pace through fractions of :24.24 and :48.37. Forced back and wider still behind race favorite...

The 2023 champion 3-year-old male MGISW Arcangelo (Arrogate) has sired his first foal, born Jan. 10, at Safari North Farm, Lane's End announced via release Saturday afternoon. The filly is out of the Bernardini mare Bhoma, who earned just shy of $230,000 in her career, and who claims multiple graded winner Mom's One Strike (First Dude) as a half-sister as well as SW Otago (Speightstown) and MSP Reminder (Audible). "Bhoma has been with the program since she was a yearling and we were excited about her first foal by Arcangelo,"...

7th-SAR, $100K, Msw, 2yo, f, 7f, 3:25 p.m. ET. ALL THE FEELS (Into Mischief) was produced in-house at Spendthrift Farm and will make her first start for trainer Todd Pletcher. GSW Positive Spirit (Pioneerof the Nile) joined the farm's broodmare band after she was acquired for $1.5 million at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Fall Mixed Sale and has handed All the Feels a pair of full-siblings. The Spa debut runner's GSW/GISP second dam is also responsible for GI Kentucky Derby hero Always Dreaming (Bodemeister) and GI Spinaway Stakes heroine Hot Dixie...

Every year, like the fireflies, they emerge with the gathering heat of summer. Even as the more established sophomores hobble out of the Triple Crown series--many requiring rest or recuperation, some even menaced by retirement--a second wave reliably reinvigorates the crop. Sure enough, in recent days a couple of new names have volunteered themselves to test the resilience of those Classic protagonists who do persevere to Saratoga and beyond. But while both share a fresh, progressive profile, in other respects they could scarcely be more different. 'TDN Rising Star' First...