Upstart Filly Crushes Saratoga Foes for ‘Rising Star’ Nod


Could be great | Sarah Andrews
Lael’s barn AMAZING MAYBE (Start up)lost 8-1 in a minors field watched live on Sunday in Saratoga, making that price a gift when it comes to winning a race of speed in the far and widest leg. clearly explosive in the first leg match and ‘TDN Rising Star Title.
Bought by De Meric Sales for $55,000 at Fasig-Tipton October, Black Bay blossomed into $425,000 OBS in March at 2 years old after spending a long time : 10 apartments– The most expensive progeny of the sire sold to date in 2022 – and shows an above-average but not spectacular job board on paper, capped by a half-mile breeze here on: 48 3/5 (6/67) Aug. 21. Given a fourth pick in a field where only one out of 10 athletes have experience, The Great Maybe was good enough to pass her spin. and placed in third place early when I was a District Girl (More than ready) fastest in the past salty: 22.13 quarter. Sneak inside and soon overtake that opponent in the middle of a turn, intern Cherie DeVaux leaves the second half behind at: 45.28 and shows no sign of stopping in the lane, dumping it en route to an eight-in-long stretch of road. 1: 10.24 . Love to shop (Violence), favorite 9-5, pass the long Quiescent (Nyquist) for the second.
The winner was the second pony to race off her dam, being half-sisters to three black-style performers who always aspired to Shipman colt and colt production by Promise fulfilled this season before coming back Start up for the year 2023.
6th-Saratoga, $105,000, Msw, 8-28, 2yo, f, 6f, 1: 10.24, ft,
8 lengths.
THE GREAT MAYBE f, 2, Start upDam One: Pure Legacy, by Simon Pure
Beat 2: Legacy’s Silver, by Robyn Dancer
3rd Dam: Caught Ree, by Eastern Echo
Sales history: $55,000 Ylg ’21 FTKOCT; $425,000 2 years 22 OBSMAR. Lifetime record: 1-1-0-0, $57,750. O-Lael stables; B-Monica Egger (KY); T-Cherie DeVaux. Click to view Equibase.com chart, Free Equineline.com catalog style genealogy or VIDEO sponsored by TVG.
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