By Stefanie Grimm
6th-ELP, $70K, Msw, 2yo, 1m, 3:18 p.m.
A trio of colts make their much-anticipated debuts Monday beginning with Stonestreet homebred BENVOLIO (Tapit). Out of GI La Troienne S. winner Molly Morgan (Ghostzapper) who was purchased by Stonestreet for $1.35m out of the 2015 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Mixed Sale, the bay is a half to $1.8m yearling Vintage Print (Curlin).
He'll face a pair of expensive yearlings including a stablemate in Army Officer (Not This Time), picked up for $475,000 out of last year's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Sale by Qatar Racing. His dam is a half-sister to MGSW/GISP Forbidden Kingdom (American Pharoah).
Steve Asmussen pairs with another Gun Runner colt in Dynamis, who sold for $450,000 at Keeneland September but most recently RNA'd for a more significant $875,000 at this year's OBS April Sale. He is out of a half to no more than three graded-stakes horses and tossed in a pair of back-to-back bullet works Aug. 7 and Aug. 14, going five furlongs in 1:01 and 1:01 1/5 respectively. TJCIS PPS
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