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Hip No. 618, a daughter of Speightstown consigned by All Dreams Equine, Agent, sped a quarter in a track record equaling :20 1/5 to post the session’s fastest work at the distance at the fourth session of the Under Tack Show for the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s 2023 Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training.
Snap Decision, Andi’amu return to action at the Middleburg Spring Races, while Maryland hosts the second leg of the Timber Triple in Butler.
If there were an award for “inbred of the week,” it should go to Clairiere, who carries a plethora of inbreeding. In particular, she is inbred to a couple of sires that some commentators have declared as negative influences for inbreeding. The closest of these is Mr. Prospector (by Raise a Native), who’s in the pedigree of the Grade 1 Apple Blossom winner 3x6x4, in descending order from her male line.
Lord Miles closed on the outside for victory in the Grade 2 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, and as a result, another son of Horse of the Year Curlin (by Smart Strike) has become a “talking horse” for the classics.
Female sprint champion Goodnight Olive scored her seventh consecutive victory at Keeneland on Saturday in the Grade 1 Madison Stakes.