Insights on the American Racing Scene, brought to you by Alex Nichols Agency, turns the spotlight on the best U.S. races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses, other horses of note returning to action and/or notable results from sales pavilions around the world. Thursday's Insights turns the spotlight on a pair of sprints for juvenile fillies, including a loaded opening race on the twilight program at Churchill.
3rd-BEL, $75K, Msw, 2yo, f, 5 1/2f, post time: 2:37 p.m. EDT
HISTORY SUPREME (Speightstown) is the second foal from GSP Bahama Bound (Empire Maker), whose first produce, Bahama Halo (More Than Ready), graduated by open lengths at second asking and was stakes-placed at two. A maternal granddaughter of MGSW Summer Wind Dancer (Siberian Summer), History Supreme cost Stonestreet Stables $425K at KEESEP last fall. Radiant Beauty (Orb) was led out unsold on a bid of $95K at KEESEP, but breezed an eighth of a mile in :10 1/5 and was hammered down to John Fort for $260K at this year's OBSMAR sale. Her dam, Sheer Beauty (Mizzen Mast), was a three-time stakes winner and twice placed at graded level. TJCIS PPs
1st-CD, $46K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6f, post time: 5:00 p.m. EDT
The final Thursday of the Churchill meet kicks off with a race full of promising and well-pedigreed juvenile fillies. DOWNWIND (Curlin">Curlin) cost Ten Broeck Farm $270K at last year's KEESEP sale and the dark bay has seen her value increase without setting foot on a track. Not only is her dam Dorothy's Spirit a daughter of the red-hot Scat Daddy, but she is also a half-sister to SW & GSP I'm a Dixie Girl (Dixie Union), the dam of smashing GI Met Mile winner Mor Spirit (Eskendereya). Snowfire (Tapit&log=">Tapit), a $500K FTSAUG purchase by John Oxley, is a daughter of MGSW & GISP Upperline (Maria's Mon), a $1.75 million acquisition by the Courtelises' Town & Country Farms when offered in foal to War Front at KEENOV in 2013. That foal, an $825K KEESEP buyback now named War Secretary, won the Listed Patton S. over the Dundalk all-weather earlier this term. Snowfire is joined to her inside by stablemate Dancing (Bernardini), a $280K FTKOCT yearling turned $425K FTFMAR breezer (under-tack video). A half-sister to GSW Dancing Solo (Giant's Causeway), she is out of a full-sister to MGISW turfer Voodoo Dancer (Kingmambo). The deeper female family includes GISW Pool Play (Silver Deputy). TJCIS PPs
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