Well-Connected Maidens Kick Off the Card In New York

1st-BAQ, $85k, Msw, 3yo/up, 6f, 1:10 p.m. ET
FULLY BOOKED (Maclean's Music) debuts for Chad Brown and Klaravich Stables, who gave $460,000 for the March foal at the 2023 Keeneland September Sale. Stonestreet acquired dam Si Si Tequila (Yes It's True) for $155,000 at Fasig-Tipton July in 2017 and campaigned her to a runner-up effort in the Glorious Song Stakes during her juvenile season. A half-sister to GII Best Pal Stakes winner and GI Del Mar Futurity third Run Away (Run Away and Hide), Si Si Tequila is also responsible for a 2-year-old Street Sense colt that Spendthift purchased for $375,000 at Fasig-Tipton Saratoga last summer. Klaravich, of course, campaigned Maclean's Music's GI Futurity Stakes victor Complexity. Repole Stable has had a fair bit of success with the offspring of Curlin and the Siena Farm-bred Be Real looks to open his account here from the rail as the 4-5 morning-line pick. A son of GII Forward Gal Stakes runner-up Island Saint (Speightstown) and a maternal grandson of GSW & GISP Prospective Saint (Saint Ballado), the $300,000 KEESEP acquisition is a half-brother to SP Swiftsure (Uncle Mo). The juvenile half-brother by Gun Runner fetched $450,000 at this year's OBS April Sale, a nice profit on the $75,000 paid for him at Fasig-Tipton October last fall. TJCIS PPs

9th-BAQ, $85k, Msw, 3yo/up, f/m, 6fT, 5:16 p.m. ET
Blue Devil Racing Stable homebred LAYLANI LOU (Malibu Moon) lures the services of John Velazquez and also has pole position for this first go. One of a reported 55 foals from the final crop of her much-missed stallion, the March 29 foal is a daughter of the stakes-placed Miss Luann (Unbridled's Song), also the dam of 2017 G3 UAE Oaks heroine Nomorerichblondes (Hard Spun), the late SW Sharp Kitty (Kitten's Joy) and the unraced Legal Tender (Giant's Causeway), whose 3-year-old son Maui Strong (Kitten's Joy) has placed three times in grass stakes, including a third in last month's GIII Transylvania Stakes at Keeneland. TJCIS PPs