Thursday Insights: Speightstown Juvenile Debuts In Churchill Turf Sprint

The late Speightstown at WinStar Farm | Sarah Andrew

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3rd-CD, 120K, Msw, 2yo, 5fT, 5:58 p.m.
Trainer Mark Casse and Kentucky Derby-winning jockey Jose Ortiz team up on PLAY IT AGAIN (Speightstown) from the rail in this five-furlong turf sprint.

A $725,000 Keeneland September grad, the Kindred Stables-bred, from his sire's last crop, is the first to the track for an unraced daughter of American Pharoah.

That mare is a daughter of GI Ogden Phipps Handicap winner Seattle Smooth, making her a half to GSW She Be Smooth (Lexitonian) and GSP Seattle Slang (Tapit).

Casse and Ortiz have previously teamed up with great success on the likes of Eclipse champion Nitrogen (Medaglia d'Oro). TJCIS PPS

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