This column highlights the performances of maidens who’ve made not more than 5 begins and who both bought 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, particularly, who meet these standards usually tend to go on to be graded stakes winners.
Aqueduct Racetrack
LNJ Foxwoods’ homebred Tux turned his debut right into a glowing affair Nov. 12, trouncing his rivals by 3 1/2 lengths in a 6 1/2-furlong maiden particular weight at Aqueduct Racetrack.
The second foal out of the gifted graded stakes-winning sprinter Fancy Costume Get together, Tux turned in knowledgeable first-time effort for coach Invoice Mott. Racing simply off the frontrunner early underneath jockey Junior Alvarado, the colt reduce into his rival’s benefit turning for dwelling. With lengthy, bounding strides he put away his cussed foe and surged to a transparent benefit within the closing sixteenth.
Tux accomplished the space in 1:17.39 over a quick important observe.
Favored Salamis , a half brother to this 12 months’s Marvel Once more Stakes (G2T) victress and Belmont Oaks (G1T) runner-up Segesta , completed fourth.Join BloodHorse Day by day
Tux’s dam, Fancy Costume Get together, tore by way of her first 4 begins underneath the LNJ Foxwoods banner. Skilled by Ben Colebrook, the chrome-splashed daughter of Munnings  handed every new check with grit, fashion, and velocity in climbing the ladder of situations from October 2018 to April 2019. After capturing her first two outings as a juvenile, she got here again even stronger as a 3-year-old, taking Gulfstream Park’s Glitter Girl Stakes earlier than battling to a head victory in Keeneland’s Beaumont Stakes (G3).
The streak ended within the 2019 Acorn Stakes (G1), the place Fancy Costume Get together ran unplaced, her solely effort out of the cash. Within the closing race of her profession, she bowed out a winner within the Miss Woodford Stakes that September at Monmouth Park.
Fancy Costume Get together has a weanling full sister to Tux on the bottom and was bred to Good Magic  through the 2024 breeding season. From two foals of racing age, Tux is her first winner.
On debut the @LNJFoxwoods home-bred #6 TUX ($9.50) will get the lead late and pulls away to simply win the opener at Aqueduct. The son of Tapit was ridden by @JuniorandKellyA and is educated by Invoice Mott.Watch extra on @FanDuelTV. pic.twitter.com/pPvajs2MkL— FanDuel Racing (@FanDuel_Racing) November 9, 2024
BloodHorse Maiden Watch
Notable 2-year-old maiden winners for the week of Nov. 4-Nov. 10
Date
Observe
Race
Horse
Sire
Dam
Begin
Maiden Watch Eligibility Standards
11/9
AQU
1
Tux
Tapit
Fancy Costume Get together
1
Dam is a G3SW
11/10
DMR
1
Aunt Mo
Uncle Mo
Kallio
3
Dam is a G3SW
