2nd-SA, $54K, MSW, 3yo, f, 6f, post time: 4:30 p.m ET
Speedway Stable's $425,000 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic purchase HOTTALABAMBA (Into Mischief) is one of two entered here for the Bob Baffert barn. An $80,000 KEENOV weanling and $180,000 KEESEP yearling, the daughter of GSP So Long Sonoma (American Chance) rallied for second going a sixteenth shorter at Los Alamitos Dec. 1. Hottalabamba will be joined by stablemate Emboldened (Elusive Quality), a Sheikh Mohammed homebred who shows some very swift breezes. She is a granddaughter of champion 3-year-old filly Ajina (Strawberry Road {Aus}) and hails from the extended female family of red-hot sire Quality Road (Elusive Quality). Stonestreet's Cowboytakemeaway (Street Cry {Ire}) is out of Grade I-winning juvenile Hot Dixie Chick (Dixie Union), making her a half to SW/GSP Union Jackson (Curlin). Graded stakes-winning second dam Above Perfection (In Excess {Ire}) produced none other than 2017 GI Kentucky Derby and GI Xpressbet Florida Derby hero Always Dreaming (Bodemeister). TJCIS PPs
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