TDN Rising Stars

A signature TDN product, TDN Rising Stars allow readers to identify a race winner in the first few starts of his or her career who will, in our estimation, go on to be a Graded Stakes winner. Designated as Rising Stars by the worldwide TDN staff after a careful and comprehensive review of many factors--including the quality of the field, margin and time of victory, pedigree, sales price and more--Rising Stars are tabbed as such in a maiden, allowance or Listed Stakes race. Mouse over the name of the horse for race details, or mouse over the 1st Dam for available information on her. Click the Writeup link to view the entire TDN Rising Star story.

Featured Rising Star

March 21, 2020 - Fair Grounds, Race 7, Msw, USD $50,000, 1 1/16M

Mystic Guide, C, 3, 2017 by Ghostzapper

1st Dam: Music Note (MGISW, $1,615,000), by A.P. Indy
2nd Dam: Note Musicale, by Sadler's Wells
3rd Dam: It's In The Air, by Mr. Prospector

Owner: Godolphin
Breeder: Godolphin (KY)
Trainer: Michael Stidham

Mystic Guide

Mystic Guide | Hodges Photography

Mystic Guide
Mystic Guide romped to ‘TDN Rising Star’-dom in his second attempt at Fair Grounds Saturday after finishing a troubled third sprinting on debut here Feb. 15. Saving ground in fifth through a :24.07 opening quarter, the flashy chestnut moved off the fence through a :48.59 half-mile. Creeping up two wide on the backstretch, he was four wide turning for home and rolled clear in the lane to win as he pleased. Amani’s Eagle (American Pharoah) completed the exacta. Five-time Grade I winner Music Note is also responsible for a juvenile colt by Distorted Humor and a yearling filly by Maclean’s Music. She was bred back to Medaglia d’Oro. Music Note is out of an unraced daughter of champion It’s In the Air (Mr. Prospector).