By Alan Carasso
4th-SA, $70k, Msw, 3yo, f, 6f, 4:37 p.m. ET
A Keeneland September buyback, FEISTY RED HEAD (Curlin) changed hands for $110,000 at the 2024 Fasig-Tipton October Sale and turned in a racy gallop ahead of last year's Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale, ultimately hammering for $650,000. The filly's dam, two-time graded-stakes winner Tin Type Gal (Tapit), is one of four winners produced by GISW Miss Shop (Deputy Minister), and the female family also includes GSW & MGISP Trappe Shot (Tapit) and GISW Power Broker (Pulpit). Three Chimneys homebred French Blue (Gun Runner) debuts for Bob Baffert and is the first foal to race out of 2021 GIII Beaumont Stakes heroine Twenty Carat (Into Mischief), a half-sister to SW Point Proven (Gun Runner). The filly's now 2-year-old full-brother fetched $1.55 million from M.V. Magnier and White Birch Farm at last year's Keeneland September Sale. TJCIS PPs
9th-FG, $54k, Msw, 3yo, 1 1/16mT, 5:45 p.m. ET
NEXT TIME (Not This Time), a $350,000 Keeneland September graduate, carries the gold-and-light-blue colors of John Oxley and has the rail for this first career appearance. Trained by Steve Asmussen, the Apr. 13 foal is a full-brother to Easy Time, winner of the GIII Marine Stakes and runner-up in the GII Franklin-Simpson Stakes; and to MSW Softly Lit (Latent Heat), the dam of Swedish listed winner Lord Mountbatten (Connect). Touch of Fire (Constitution) is a homebred daughter of Mexican Gold (Medaglia d'Oro), Group 3 winner and Classic-placed in France for Andre Fabre and later third in the GIII Athenia Stakes for Chad Brown. This is the female family of 2025 GIII Jeff Ruby Steaks winner and GI Kentucky Derby fourth Final Gambit (Not This Time). TJCIS PPs
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