This column highlights the performances of maidens who’ve made not more than 5 begins and who both offered for greater than $500,000 at public public sale, have siblings which are graded/group winners, or have dams which are graded/group winners. BloodHorse analysis reveals maiden winners, specifically, who meet these standards usually tend to go on to be graded stakes winners.
Keeneland
Essentially the most eye-catching maiden win throughout opening weekend of the Keeneland fall meet arguably went to WinStar Farm’s homebred Impulse Purchase . A daughter of the late Speightstown, the Rodolphe Brisset pupil cantered house an 11-length winner Oct. 5 in her second journey to the put up.
(4) Impulse Purchase and jockey @Tyler_Gaff a lot the perfect within the third at Keeneland. (8) Quantum Burst checks in second, (7) Bee Bluff takes third. pic.twitter.com/FKm6cQL1VW
— Keeneland Racing (@keenelandracing) October 5, 2024
Impulse Purchase was runner-up to stablemate Liam within the Mud in her Elllis Park debut in August. Whereas Liam within the Mud graduated to stakes firm, narrowly lacking to La Cara within the Pocahontas Stakes (G3), Impulse Purchase was gearing up for her opening-day spectacle.
Lining up because the second selection in a subject of eight 2-year-old fillies, Impulse Bay dictated phrases from the beginning underneath jockey Tyler Gaffalione. Holding a gentle benefit by means of fractions of :22.11 and :46.43, Impulse Purchase re-broke turning for house and separated herself from her rivals at an alarming fee. Forward by six lengths on the eighth pole, she rumbled house by double digits in 1:23.05 for the seven furlongs.
Impulse Purchase’s sire, Speightstown, known as a “foundational stallion” by WinStar Farm CEO Elliott Walden on the time of his dying in 2023, has sired 26 grade 1 winners throughout the globe from distances of six furlongs to 1 1/4 miles. The Kentucky-bred filly’s dam, Jojo Warrior, was no slouch herself, capturing the 2014 Summertime Oaks (G2) and Torrey Pines Stakes (G3) underneath the WinStar Farm/Zayat Stables banner. A daughter of Pioneerof the Nile, one other prolific WinStar Farm stallion, Jojo Warrior retired with earnings of $392,231.
A half sibling to grade 1-winning juvenile A Z Warrior (Bernardini), Jojo Warrior has produced 5 winners from six foals to race.
| BloodHorse Maiden Watch | |||||||
| Notable 2-year-old maiden winners for the week of Sept.30-Oct.6 | |||||||
| Date | Monitor | Race | Horse | Sire | Dam | Begin | Maiden Watch Eligibility Standards |
| 10/1 | IND | 7 | Blameitonbourbon | Genuine | Past Blame | 1 | Dam of G3SW |
| 10/3 | BAQ | 8 | Sweet Quest | Join | Sweet Crush | 1 | Half Sibling to G3SW Frosted Over |
| 10/4 | SA | 9 | Sea Runner | Gun Runner | Cuyathy | 3 | Half Sibling to G1SW Johannes |
| 10/5 | KEE | 3 | Impulse Purchase | Speightstown | Jojo Warrior | 2 | Dam of G2SW |
