Awad S. Goes the Way of Bluegrass Cat Colt

Mountain Music Man, snapped up for $450,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale after breezing a furlong in a co-bullet :10 flat, scored a neck-victory at first asking against fellow Empire-breds going six panels over the main track Sept. 26 and was fourth choice in this first try in stakes company. Able to tuck in against the fence in this turf bow, the bay rated behind splits of :23.60 and :47.84. He reached striking distance of the front after three-quarters in 1:12.04 and angled off the rail three deep to make his bid for the lead. He ground past a rival in midstretch before fending off the late rush of 9-2 Converge (Sidney's Candy). The race was marred when 8-1 fancy Monster Bea (Hat Trick {Jpn}) took a bad step leaving the stalls and dumped his jockey, before setting off after the field, but stayed wide the entire race and was duly collected by an outrider.”I thought he ran well,” said Byron Hughes, assistant to winning trainer Todd Pletcher. “He sat right off the pace and Manny [Franco] did a good job getting him out off the turn. He made a winning move and looked good doing it. We worked him twice over this turf and he seemed to really like it. Given his pedigree, and since we had an opportunity to breeze him over the turf, we thought it was a good chance [to try turf], and the timing set up for this race. It worked out well.” Unbridled Melody, also the dam of Saturday's GI Breeders' Cup Mile entrant Tourist (Tiznow), foaled a colt by Spring At Last in 2014 and was bred back to Speightstown this spring.

AWAD S., $100,000, BEL, 10-30, 2yo, 1mT, 1:37.11, gd.
1–#MOUNTAIN MUSIC MAN, 122, c, 2, by Bluegrass Cat
1st Dam: Unbridled Melody, by Unbridled's Song
2nd Dam: Skye Castles, by Sky Classic
3rd Dam: My Sea Castles, by Polish Navy
($90,000 Ylg '14 FTKOCT; $160,000 RNA 2yo '15 FTFMAR;
$450,000 2yo '15 EASMAY). O-Robert E. & Lawana L. Low;
B-WinStar Farm, LLC (NY); T-Todd A. Pletcher; J-Manuel
Franco. $60,000. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $102,000. *Full to
Michael With Us, SW & GSP, $198,118; and a half to Tourist
(Tiznow), MSW & MGISP, $536,590.

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2–Converge, 122, c, 2, Sidney's Candy–Atlantic Ocean, by
Stormy Atlantic. ($240,000 Ylg '14 KEESEP). O-Paul P. Pompa,
Jr.; B-SF Racing (NY); T-Chad C. Brown. $20,000.

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3–Pagan, 122, g, 2, Girolamo–Mula Mula, by Gone West.
($40,000 Ylg '14 SARAUG). O-My Purple Haze Stables, Joemar
Racing Stables & Trond Smedshammer; B-Sequel
Thoroughbreds & Lakland Farm (NY); T-Dominick Schettino.
$10,000.

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Margins: 1HF, 1 3/4, 3/4. Odds: 5.50, 4.60, 16.60.
Also Ran: Rappel, Strike Midnight, Heated Verdict, Don't Be So Salty, Hotinthehamptons, Imperial Warrior, Eidmilaad, Monster Bea. Scratched: Magna Light, Awesome Speed.
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