By Alan Carasso
2nd-KEE, $110k, Msw, 2yo, 5 1/2fT, post time: 1:32 p.m. ET
Kia Joorabchian's AMO Racing USA splashed out $900,000 for THAILAND (Not This Time) at last year's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale, and the chestnut colt is a candidate to offer only a fraction of his 3-1 morning line at post time. The chestnut is a son of dual Grade III winner Queen Bee to You (Old Topper), making him a half-brother to Princess Madison (Speightstown), third in the 2024 GII Charles Town Oaks for Rigney Racing. Queen Bee to You is a half-sister to the dam of the California-bred Grade I winner Lovesick Blues (Grazen). Joorabchian's operation accounted for three of the five most expensive yearlings at this week's Tattersalls October Book 1 Sale, including a 3.6 million gns (approx $5.1 million) Frankel (GB) colt out of MGSW Aljazzi (GB) (Shamardal). TJCIS PPs
6th-KEE, $110k, Msw, 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 3:40 p.m.
WICKED ONE (Bolt d'Oro) was hammered down for $335,000 at the 2023 Keeneland September Sale and made headlines the following spring by topping the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training on a bid of $1.25 million from Winchell Thoroughbreds after breezing in :10 flat. The late February foal is a half-sister to a pair of juvenile stakes winners, including Howling Time (Not This Time) and Air Recruit (Air Force Blue). This is female family of MGSW Desert Party (Street Cry {Ire}).
Shesa Cherry (Curlin) is a debuting 4-year-old daughter of former 'TDN Rising Star' Cherry Lodge (Bernardini), a stakes-winning and Grade I-placed full-sister to GSW Gala Award and a half to GISW Stormello (Stormy Atlantic) and GSW My Best Brother (Stormy Atlantic). TJCIS PPs
9th-KEE, $110k, Msw, 2yo, 5 1/2fT, 5:16 p.m. ET
The already gelded CHASING FREEDOM (Constitution) draws awkwardly in gate 12 for this debut in the split of race two. Owner/breeder Twin Creeks Farm, who raced this sire in partnership, purchased the three-times stakes winning and Grade III-placed dam Into Mystic (Into Mischief) for $485,000 at the 2021 Keeneland November Sale, and this is her first produce. TJCIS PPs
10th-SA, $60k, Msw, 2yo, 6fT, 8:34 p.m. ET
MIGHTY TORO (Raging Bull {Fr}) debuts for a high-powered partnership of Hronis Racing and Gainesway Stable in the Sunday finale at the Great Race Place. A $420,000 Keeneland September acquisition, the St. Patrick's Day foal is out of an unraced daughter of Cotton Blossom (Broken Vow), winner of the GIII Schuylerville Stakes and second in the GI Spinaway Stakes at two and victorious in the GI Acorn Stakes in 2007.
Diaghilev (Maclean's Music) is a Bass Stable homebred son of Choreograph (Dynaformer), whose six winners from nine to the races includes dual Grade III winner Goliad (War Front), SW Dancing To Win (Speightstown) and MSW Welcome Dance (Henny Hughes), the dam of GSW & GISP Ice Dancing (Frosted). TJCIS PPs
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