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The Saturday (June 24) session of two-year-old qualifiers at The Meadowlands featured 98 horses; 68 were sold at public auction for more than $10.7 million — an average of $158,200, with 30 home-breds sporting pedigrees that would easily demand another $3-5 million.
Stablemates have occupied the top two spots in the $1-million Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational (G1) for two years running and, if the local prep for one of the richest grass races in North America is any indication, a third year is not out of the question.
Lady Speightspeare is the lone female on the invitation list. The 5-year-old Speightstown mare owns four career graded-stakes wins – the 2020 Natalma (G1) and 2022 Nassau (G2), Trillium (G3) and Seaway (G3), all at Woodbine.
Del Mar's Best Pal Stakes – named after one of the best California-bred horses of all time – has annually shown itself to be a proving grounds for bigger and better things to come.
Manon is four-for-four this season, two of them in the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes, after she won the faster $67,991 division of the third preliminary for three-year-old trotting fillies on Sunday night (June 19) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono.