Thursday Insights: 775k Gun Runner Headlines Field Of Maiden Colts
By Stefanie Grimm
Sponsored by Alex Nichols Agency
6th-CD, $120K, Msw, 2yo, 7f, 7:25 p.m.
A $775k Keeneland September purchase by John Williams, the Three Chimneys Farm-bred SIR ROCK (Gun Runner) is out of a half-sister to MGSW Moonlit Promise (Malibu Moon). Third dam Weekend Storm (Storm Bird), herself a half-sister to late horse of the year and leading sire A.P. Indy, also produced MGISW Court Vision (Gulch) as well as GISP Lord Snowdon (Seeking the Gold). Three Chimneys Farm stayed in on the chestnut who runs out of Kelsey Danner's barn.
Calumet Farm homebred Devils Red (More Than Ready), a full-brother to dual Eclipse Award winner and multi-millionaire Roy H, debuts in the same spot for trainer Doug O'Neill and enters off back-to-back bullet five-furlong drills Sept. 17 and Sept. 24.
Also making his first start is Tres Soles (Justify), a $400,000 KEESEP yearling pick up by Winchell Thoroughbreds out of the Steve Asmussen barn. TJCIS PPS