Mendelssohn’s Rising Star in Saratoga
e Five Racing Thoroughbreds’ PINK HUE (f, 2, Mendelssohn–Involved, by Sightstown) a bit short of running space when thrust was imminent in Sunday’s Friday, two-way race on the Saratoga turf, but when daylight came, the $310,000 Keeneland September graduate was already in. get over her gears and run up the score to beat the well-meaning Xigera (Nyquist) is equal to four reverberation lengths. Led down the fence after colliding with an opponent at halftime, Pink Hue got a foothold in the fence from fourth place as La Grotte (Bolt d’Oro) took the lead from Xigera, who seemed a bit immune. reluctant to settle for Julien Leparoux. The latter was given a confident steering wheel and attempted to clamp it on the upper ramp, but Pink Hue, locked in passing the fourth post, found a gap three off the fence with more than an eighth of a mile to gallop. gallop and she stopped and went from there. Pink Hue is the seventh individual winner for her freshman year (by Scat Daddy) and has been named ‘Rising Star’ for the first time. Sales history: $310,000 Ylg ’21 KEESEP. Oe Five Racing Thoroughbreds; B-Betz / Davidson / C Kidder / CoCo Equine (KY); T-Chad Brown.
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