By Christie DeBernardis
Sponsored by Alex Nichols Agency
AUBBY K FILLY DEBUTS AT THE SPA
3rd-SAR, $90K, Msw, 2yo, f, 1 1/16mT, 2:06p.m.
AMERICANO GIRL (Medaglia d'Oro), a $700,000 KEESEP buy and daughter of GI Humana Distaff S. heroine Aubby K (Street Sense), makes her career bow at Saratoga Sunday for Peter Brant and Chad Brown. Aubby K's first foal was GSP 'TDN Rising Star' Principe Guilherme (Tapit), himself a $600,000 Fasig-Tipton November buy in 2015. Summer Wind Farm owner Jane Lyon purchased Aubby K for $2.4 million at that same auction carrying Principe Guilherme's fulll-brother, the now-3-year-old Magic on Tap, who, coincidentally, runs at Del Mar Sunday. Click here to watch her Aug. 4 breeze on turf via XBTV. TJCIS PPs
ROMANS SADDLES PRICEY TIZNOW COLT
6th-ELP, $50K, Msw, 2yo, 5f, 4:10p.m.
West Point Thoroughbreds and Albaugh Family Stables joined forced to take home CONTINENTAL CLASH (Tiznow) for $550,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Gulstream Sale after a :10 1/5 breeze. His second dam is SW & GSP Positive Energy (Rubiano). TJCIS PPs
HOLLENDORFER UNVEILS LIAM'S MAP HALF-SISTER AT DEL MAR
1st-DMR, $61K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6f, 5:00p.m.
Don Alberto stretched to $1.4 million to secure the well-bred MATERA (Tapit&hid=28277">Tapit) at Keeneland September and she looks to open her account in this test. Out of GSW Miss Macy Sue (Trippi), the gray is a half-sister to GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile and GI Woodward S. victor Liam's Map (Unbridled's Song), whose first foals are 2-year-olds this year. She is also a half to Grade III winner and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile runner-up Not This Time (Giant's Causeway) and SW & GSP Taylor S (Medaglia d'Oro). Click here to watch Matera's most recent work on XBTV. Hollendorfer also sends out first time starter Sentimental (Honor Code), a daughter of SW & GSP Smooth Performer (Benchmark) and half-sister to SW Into Trouble (Into Mischief). Baffert saddles another firster for Don Alberto in homebred Stellar Sound (Tapit&hid=28277">Tapit), who is a half-sister to GISP Luminance(Tale of the Cat). Her second dam is MGISW millionaire Versailles Treaty (Danzig), who also produced GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf hero George Vancouver (Henrythenavigator) and GSW & GISP Saarland (Unbridled). TJCIS PPs
WELL-BRED MAGIC ON TAP RETURNS
8th-DMR, $64K, Opt. Clm., 3yo/up, 1 1/16m, 8:30p.m.
Summer Wind Equine's MAGIC ON TAP (Tapit&hid=28277">Tapit) returns from an 11 1/2-month layoff in this event. The Bob Baffert pupil scored on debut going 6 1/2 panels at this oval Sept. 1 of last year and has been on the bench since. He enters this first two-turn test off a pair of bullets, most recently covering six furlongs in 1:11 3/5 (1/4). A son of GISW Aubby K, the gray was a $2.4 million in utero purchase by Summer Wind's Jane Lyon at FTKNOV and has a GSP full-brother in 'TDN Rising Star' Principe Guilherme. Click here to watch his six-furlong breeze Aug. 12 on XBTV. TJCIS PPs
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