By Stefanie Grimm
1st-SAR, 115K, Msw, 2yo, f, 5 1/2f, 12:35 p.m.
Trainer Todd Pletcher debuts a pair of 2-year-old fillies in the Thursday opener at Saratoga. Rail-drawn PERPETUAL (Drain the Clock) impressed at OBS March earlier this year, working a quarter-mile in :20.1 before selling to Lee Ackerley Racing & Gainesway for $500,000. Her unraced Street Boss first dam has already produced two winners from as many to race and Pletcher will leg up Hall of Famer John Velazquez for this unveiling.
In the middle of the gate, stablemate Dinner Party (Not This Time) is a Repole Stable-owned daughter of stakes winner Velvet Mood, herself a half-sister to both GSW/MGISP Point of Honor (Curlin) and GISW Wicked Whisper (Liam's Map). Repole purchased this filly for $450,000 as a yearling at Keeneland September last year after also buying her 3-year-old Curlin half-sister for $500,000 at the same sale in 2024. TJCIS PPS
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