By Alan Carasso
2nd-SA, $60K, Msw, 2yo, 6f, post time: 2:30 p.m. ET
SAN SABA (Justify) topped last year's Fasig-Tipton October Sale on a bid of $725,000 and has drawn the outside in this field of seven. John Velazquez has the call aboard the May 8 foal, whose dam Arienza (Giant's Causeway) finished second in the 2011 GII Fantasy Stakes. The latter is a daughter of 2002 Horse of the Year and treble champion older female Azeri (Jade Hunter), the dam of the talented MGSW/GISP Wine Princess (Ghostzapper) and granddam of GSW Smokin' T (War Front). A $650,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga acquisition, Madaket Road (Quality Road) was pitched in against Grade III competition when making his career debut a fast-paced renewal of the GIII Bob Hope Stakes at Del Mar Nov. 17 and he gave an excellent account of himself when runner-up to the promising Bullard (Gun Runner). Juan Hernandez takes over on the half-brother to MSW Bode's Dream (Bodemeister), whose Grade II-winning dam Frolic's Dream (Smoke Glacken) is a half-sister to GSW/GISP Mokat (Uncle Mo). Father Ted (Practical Joke), a $150,000 Keeneland September yearling, matured into a $475,000 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic juvenile after breezing a furlong in :10 1/5. The Ontario-bred is out of a winning half-sister to Three Echoes (Echo Town), third in this year's GIII Sanford Stakes. TJCIS PPs
📽️ ICYMI: Watch Hip 1023 c. Justify o/o Palace Princess sell for $725,000 to top the third session of the 2023 Kentucky October Yearlings sale! #FasigKY pic.twitter.com/TomaI8gEC1
— Fasig-Tipton (@FasigTiptonCo) October 25, 2023
8th-FG, $58k, Msw, 2yo, 6f, post time: 5:15 p.m. ET
PRIME POWER (Medaglia d'Oro) cost Winchell Thorougbreds $500,000 at KEESEP last fall and is out of a daughter of the stakes-placed Peggy Jane (Kafwain), herself the dam of MGISW champion 'TDN Rising Star' and FTMMAY topper Gamine (Into Mischief). M. V. Magnier paid a sales-topping $7 million for Gamine at FTKNOV in 2022, and she's since produced colts by Quality Road and Gun Runner. Gunmetal (Gun Runner) debuts for the WinStar/CHC/Siena partnership in the WinStar colors. A $410,000 KEESEP purchase, the May 29 foal hails from the family of Tiznow, Budroyale, Paynter, et al. TJCIS PPs
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