By Stefanie Grimm
8th-CD, 120K, Msw, 2yo, 1 1/16m, 4:25 p.m.
Whisper Hill Farm, along with partners Three Chimneys Farm and Resolute Racing, are surely thinking of roses as SILVER SHOT (Gun Runner) debuts at Churchill Friday. Mandy Pope went to a near sales-topping $2,200,000 to secure the son of Princesa Carolina at Keeneland September last year, a price second only to the $5,000,000 paid for the Curlin son of Cavorting (also to Whisper Hill). Princesa Carolina, a SW/GISP daughter by Tapit and out of MGISW Pure Clan, is already responsible for 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' Muhimma (Munnings), winniner of the GII Demoiselle and placed in the GI Central Bank Ashland. Silver Shot's yearling full-brother one-upped him at Fasig-Tipton's Saratoga Sale earlier this year, selling to Zedan Racing for $2,900,000. Steve Asmussen trains this 5-1 morning-line shot with Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard. TJCIS PPS
4th-GP, 56K, Msw, 3yo/up, f, 6f, 1:48 p.m.
Whisper Hill has another noteworthy runner Friday with Plum Perfect (American Pharoah) making her belated debut as a 4-year-old. Mandy Pope paid $4,200,000 to secure the filly's dam, GI Kentucky Oaks winner Plum Pretty, at Keeneland November in 2012. She lines up inside 3-year-old Traviesa (Speightstown), a $650,000 Keeneland September yearling grad out of an unraced half-sister to two-time Eclipse Champion Covfefe (Into Mischief) and GSW/MG1SP Albiano (Harlan's Holiday). She debuts in this spot for Bass Stables and Cheyenne Stables from the Todd Pletcher barn. TJCIS PPS
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