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 reveals maiden winners, specifically, who meet these standards usually tend to go on to be graded stakes winners.
Ellis Park
Though Taylor Made Stallions’ Not This Time  has sired prolific two-turn horses resembling 2022 Travers Stakes (G1) hero Epicenter  and 2023 champion turf male As much as the Mark  , the stallion’s runners have shined sprinting over the garden this yr. The son of Big’s Causeway is represented by latest world-record setter Cogburn , who scorched 5 1/2 furlongs in :59.80 on the turf within the Jaipur Stakes (G1T) on Belmont Stakes (G1) day at Saratoga Race Course. Not This Time can also be the sire of Jaipur runner-up Arzak , winner of the Shakertown Stakes (G2T) in the course of the Keeneland spring meet.
Contemplating the stallion’s progeny success with turf sprinters, it was no shock to see his latest 2-year-old maiden winner, Dream On , excel on the Ellis Park grass July 14 for D. J. Steady.
Dream On was plucked out of the Ocala Breeders’ Spring Sale of Two-Yr-Olds in Coaching for $380,000 following a :10 1/5 one-furlong breeze on the beneath tack present. The burly bay labored a number of occasions at Mark Casse’s personal coaching middle in Ocala, Fla., earlier than becoming a member of the Corridor of Fame coach’s string at Churchill Downs. Because the colt impressed in his morning works over the principle observe, he tried the grime in his June 20 debut, racing with the primary flight early on earlier than tiring late. Dream On bounced out of the trouble with a pointy half-mile drill in :47 3/5 two weeks later, greater than prepared by the point he made his second outing.
Away from the gates extra sharply than in his debut, Dream On prompted the front-running Brie’s in City beneath Luan Machado and headed that rival turning for residence. Striding out powerfully down the lane, he edged in entrance of his foe inside the ultimate sixteenth and struck the wire a size in entrance in 1:01.48 for the 5 1/2 furlongs on a agency turf course.Join BloodHorse Each day
Dream On was bred by Aaron and Marie Jones, who bought the colt’s dam, Mamma Kimbo, for $1.2 million out of the 2013 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Combined Sale. The evenly raced Mamma Kimbo, a daughter of Discreet Cat, gained two of 5 begins for coach Bob Baffert, together with the 2012 Fantasy Stakes (G2) at Oaklawn Park. With Dream On, she has produced 5 winners up to now, together with one other stakes performer in 2017 Tom Ridge Stakes winner Balandeen (Bernardini).
#4 DREAM ON ($5.02) dueled with #8 Brie’s in City down the lane, however acquired the most effective of that rival late to graduate in race 2 at Ellis Park for @markecasse and @DJ_Stable. pic.twitter.com/TwckL6IFIb— FanDuel Racing (@FanDuel_Racing) July 14, 2024
BloodHorse Maiden Watch
Notable 2-year-old maiden winners for the week of July 8-14
Date
Observe
Race
Horse
Sire
Dam
Begin
Maiden Watch Eligibility Standards
7/11
CNL
7
Bonne Fille
Cupid
Run Just like the Boss
2
Half Sibling to G2SW Andthewinneris
7/14
EP
2
Dream On
Not This Time
Mamma Kimbo
2
Dam is a G2SW
