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 might be graded/group winners, or have dams which might be graded/group winners. BloodHorse analysis exhibits maiden winners, specifically, who meet these standards usually tend to go on to be graded stakes winners.
Kentucky Downs
Certainly one of solely 37 foals born from the final crop from the nice turf stallion English Channel, Correto paid homage to her late sire Sept. 1 with a convincing win over the hills of Kentucky Downs. The promising 2-year-old filly is owned and bred by Calumet Farm, the place English Channel stood earlier than his premature loss of life in 2021.
Correto’s pedigree, a confirmed system exemplified by the exploits of her a number of graded stakes-winning sibling Spooky Channel, combines the 2 most prolific sires of North American turf horses within the final 20Â years. Her dam, Spooky Kitten, is the daughter of six-time main turf stallion Kitten’s Pleasure.
Spooky Kitten, twice-placed in Canadian classics for Ken and Sarah Ramsey, has produced 4 winners, led by Spooky Channel. The rags-to-riches gelding offered for under $10,000 as a yearling on the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Sale and broke his maiden for a $30,000 tag at Turf Paradise. Persevering by the years, Spooky Channel discovered his solution to graded stakes firm in his 5-year-old season, capturing the 2020 W.L. McKnight Stakes (G3T) at Gulfstream Park. A two-turn specialist on the garden, he would add 4 extra stakes wins to his resume over the following two years, highlighted by a victory within the 2023 Muniz Memorial Basic Stakes (G2T) at Honest Grounds Race Course & Slots. Spooky Channel retired to Previous Associates Farm in Kentucky later that 12 months with a ultimate checking account of $1,380,142.
Honest Hill-based Graham Movement was named the coach of Correto. Movement, unfazed by the prolonged ship or difficult European-style turf course, would debut Correto towards 11 different 2-year-old fillies in a seven-furlong maiden particular weight. Correto, the picture of her completed older sibling along with her white-splashed face and flaming crimson coat, would not let Movement down in her debut.
Monitoring the front-runners two-wide down the backstretch underneath jockey Jorge Ruiz, the filly dealt with the daunting slopes and turns of the Franklin, Ky., observe with ease, quickening powerfully by the uphill stretch to the wire. Correto kicked clear by 1 3/4 lengths and stopped the timer in 1:23.24.
#10 CORRETO ($12.84) runs down Bembridge Ledge to win the second race at @KYDownsRacing.
The 2-year-old English Channel filly breaks her maiden for coach @GrahamMotion and proprietor @CalumetFarm with @jorgeruizjockey within the saddle. pic.twitter.com/LRpOyvidMw
— FanDuel Racing (@FanDuel_Racing) September 1, 2024
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| BloodHorse Maiden Watch | |||||||
| Notable 2-year-old maiden winners for the week of Aug.26-Aug.Sept.1 | |||||||
| Date | Observe | Race | Horse | Sire | Dam | Begin | Maiden Watch Eligibility Standards |
| 8/27 | PID | 4 | Tessitura | Medaglia d’Oro | Octave | 1 | Dam is a G1SW |
| 8/29 | KD | 11 | Clock Tower | Not This Time | Scorching Stones | 3 | Dam is a G3SW |
| 8/31 | DEL | 4 | Nomoretanlines | World Marketing campaign | Mary Delaney | 1 | Half Sibling to G3SW Dr Publish; Dam is a G2SW |
| 8/31 | SAR | 2 | Early Adopter | Lope de Vega | Silk Sari | 1 | Dam is a G2SW |
| 8/31 | WO | 3 | Pop Idol | Maclean’s Music | Unspurned | 3 | Dam is a G3SW |
| 9/1 | DMR | 1 | Bullard | Gun Runner | Reve d’Amour | 1 | $675K Yearling |
| 9/1 | KD | 2 | Correto | English Channel | Spooky Kitten | 1 | Full Sibling to G2SW Spooky Channel |
| 9/1 | SAR | 2 | Opulent Restraint | Dubawi | Vital Type | 2 | Dam is a G2SW |
| 9/1 | SAR | 7 | Quickick | McKinzie | Graeme Six | 2 | $550k Yearling; Half to G3SWs Cali Star, Pleasant Pleasure; Dam is a G3SW |
