Outfielder | Katie Petrunyak
By Alan Carasso
3rd-KEE, $120k, Alw (N2L), 2yo, 6f, post time: 2:04 p.m. ET
Amo Racing USA, Wesley Ward and Two Eight Racing’s OUTFIELDER (Speightstown) was scratched out of Friday’s GIII Futurity Stakes in favor of trying the main track for the first time in a two-lifetime allowance at Keeneland. The $850,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga graduate was named a ‘TDN Rising Star’ presented by Hagyard at first asking when streaking away by better than a half-dozen lengths sprinting on the grass at Churchill in May, but was forced to skip Royal Ascot and was last seen finishing a close fourth in the G1 Prix Morny at Deauville Aug. 24. The bay, who sheds the blinkers for the stateside return, breezed a bullet five furlongs in 1:01 1/5 (1/8) over the local dirt Sept. 25. TJCIS PPs
2nd-KEE, $110k, Msw, 2yo, 6f, 1:32 p.m. ET
LOCAL KNOWLEGE (Yaupon) fetched a respectable $260,000 at the 2024 Keeneland September Sale and was hammered down to Spendthrift Farm–where this sire holds court–for $625,000 following a quarter-mile breeze that was timed in :20 2/5 at this year’s OBS April Sale. A May 1 foal, the bay is out of a winning Scat Daddy half-sister to the popular and successful New York-bred Saratoga Snacks (Tale of the Cat) and to the dam of MSW Split Time (Take Charge Indy).
Commandment (Into Mischief), a son of 2018 GI Spinaway Stakes upsetter Sippican Harbor (Orb), was bought back as a weanling at FTKNOV ($485,000) and again as an FTSAUG yearling ($475,000) before changing hands for $500,000 at KEESEP. Second dam Blossomed (Deputy Minister) is also responsible for three-time Japanese stakes winner Awesome Result (Justify), Crudo (Justify), wide-margin winner of this year’s Sir Barton Stakes at Pimlico, and Saayedd (Malibu Moon), a listed winner in the United Arab Emirates over the winter.
Gallivant (Into Mischief) is a half-brother to 2024 GII Remsen Stakes third Tux (Tapit) and is set to become the third starter for Fancy Dress Party (Munnings), a full-sister to SW Will Munnings, and whose biggest career success came in this venue’s GIII Beaumont Stakes in 2019. TJCIS PPs
10th-BAQ, $85k, Msw, 2yo, 6f, 4:55 p.m. ET
DOUBLE ACT (Into Mischief), an $850,000 purchase by Wathnan Racing out of last year’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale, is the second starter from dam Golden Award (Medaglia d’Oro), winner of the GIII Shuvee Stakes and GIII Turnback the Alarm Stakes on this circuit. The May 17 foal is a granddaughter of Arch’s Gal Edith (Arch), the dam of dual Classic-winning champion I’ll Have Another (Flower Alley), and of the unraced Gloria S (Tapit), whose six winners from six to race include GSW & GI Preakness and Haskell Stakes runner-up Gosger (Nyquist) and GISW Harvey’s Lil Goil (American Pharoah). TJCIS PPs
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