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 exhibits maiden winners, specifically, who meet these standards usually tend to go on to be graded stakes winners.
Churchill Downs
The key was out about Muhimma by the point the Munnings filly stepped into the beginning gate Sept. 20 for her racetrack debut. Hammered all the way down to lower than even cash, Muhimma did not disappoint her backers, crusing residence a 7 1/2-length winner for Shadwell Secure and coach Brad Cox.
The $700,000 Keeneland September buy had charted some eye-catching breezes within the final month at Churchill Downs, so there was a sure mystique in regards to the dappled grey as she went to put up for her first activity. She stood taller than many of the subject of juvenile fillies, with countless silvery lengthy legs balanced by a muscular, scopey body.
#3 Muhimma dominates on debut in R7 at @churchilldowns underneath @flothejock for coach @bradcoxracing! 💪You’ll be able to add her to your TwinSpires #StableAlerts! 📱🎥 #TwinSpiresReplay pic.twitter.com/JbNcNqApzt— TwinSpires Racing 🏇 (@TwinSpires) September 20, 2024
Muhimma could not have made it look simpler underneath the Twin Spires. She was poised simply off the pacesetter behind fast early fractions earlier than overpowering her rival turning for residence. Below gentle stress from Florent Geroux, Muhimma bounded to the wire, stopping the timer in a good 1:15.55 for the 6 1/2 furlongs, somewhat greater than a second off the monitor file.Join BloodHorse Each day
A penchant for the turf runs sturdy in Muhimma’s veins, which makes her debut win over the Churchill principal monitor all of the extra thrilling. Muhimma’s sire, Munnings, a graded stakes winner on the dust himself and the sire of high dust sprinters Jack Christopher and Kimari, has constantly thrown first-rate turf horses through the years. Most lately, he’s chargeable for Howard Wolowitz , hero of this 12 months’s Franklin-Simpson Stakes (G1T) at Kentucky Downs.
Muhimma was bred by Lexington stalwart Three Chimneys Farm, which raced her dam, the profitable turf performer Princesa Carolina. The daughter of Tapit was third within the Queen Elizabeth II Problem Cup (G1T) as a 3-year-old and lowered the Kentucky Downs monitor mark for 1 5/16 miles when she captured the Dueling Grounds Oaks that very same 12 months. Princesa Carolina, in flip, is a daughter of the versatile race mare Pure Clan. Gifted sufficient to seize graded stakes wins on the dust and place within the Kentucky Oaks (G1), Pure Clan hit a brand new degree of brilliance when switched to the garden, scoring grade 1 victories within the American Oaks Invitational (G1T) and Flower Bowl Invitational (G1T) along with a runner-up effort within the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1T).
Photograph: Coady MediaClaire’s Allure breaks her maiden at Churchill Downs
Two days after Muhimma’s win, the youthful half sister of energetic grade 1 winner Muth had her image taken within the Churchill Downs winner’s circle for Rigney Racing.
Simply as Muth’s profession was starting to take flight for coach Bob Baffert on the West Coast, punctuated by a debut win and second-place end within the Greatest Pal Stakes (G3), his sibling Claire’s Allure was introduced into the Keeneland September gross sales ring. The daughter of Violence -Hoppa was picked up for $385,000. Practically one month later, Muth cruised to victory within the American Pharoah Stakes (G1). He closed the curtain on his 2-year-old marketing campaign with a second to Fierceness within the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1).
Muth started 2024 with wins within the San Vicente (G2) and Arkansas Derby (G1), and though the Good Magic colt missed the Triple Crown, he is considered one of many high 3-year-old colts in coaching. Triumphant within the Shared Perception Stakes Sept. 1, Muth will attempt to take his spot because the Greatest within the West when he tackles older rivals in Saturday’s $1 million California Crown (G1).
#2 Claire’s Allure breaks her maiden in R7 at @churchilldowns underneath @luissaezpty for coach Phil Bauer! ✨Enjoyable truth: this filly has been working with Iroquois winner Jonathan’s Means! 📝🎥 #TwinSpiresReplay pic.twitter.com/98H243exRp— TwinSpires Racing 🏇 (@TwinSpires) September 22, 2024
Educated by Phil Bauer, Claire’s Allure improved off a neck defeat in her debut with a decisive, 1 1/2-length tally because the 1-5 favourite in a one-mile Churchill maiden particular weight. Unfazed by an ungainly bobble at first and a lightweight drizzle, Claire’s Allure punched forward of her foes rounding the ultimate bend and hit the wire in 1:35.74.
BloodHorse Maiden Watch
Notable 2-year-old maiden winners for the week of Sept.16-Sept.22
Date
Observe
Race
Horse
Sire
Dam
Begin
Maiden Watch Eligibility Standards
9/20
CD
7
Muhimma
Munnings
Princesa Carolina
1
$700k Yearling
9/20
PID
1
Ransom Cash
Ransom the Moon
C C’s Pal
4
Dam is a G2SW
9/22
CD
7
Claire’s Allure
Violence
Hoppa
2
Half Sibling to G1SW Muth
