Into Mischief’s Hoosier Philly Tons Best in Rags To Riches

Gold Standard Racing Stable’s Hoosier Philly (Into Mischief), a good-looking debut winner sprinting beneath the Twin Spires Sept. 25, wasn’t off to the most alert of beginnings in Sunday’s $200,000 Rags To Riches S. at Churchill Downs, but the gray sat a cushy inside trip and responded when asked by Edgar Morales to post a facile first stakes success.

Off a half-step slowly, the $510,000 Keeneland September graduate nevertheless secured the box-seat trip and raced in close attendance to moderate fractions of :24.08 and :48.38 set by Peacock Lass (American Pharoah) with T Max (Connect) in close attendance. Steered away from the inside and out of the sloppy-track kickback as the field raced into the final three-eighths of a mile, Hoosier Philly launched a three-wide bid while well in hand approaching the quarter pole, put pay to the pacesetter soon after and got to playing a bit late, but proved the no-doubt-about-it winner. T Max edged course-and-distance GIII Iroquois S. heroine Fun and Feisty (Midshipman) for second.

The 116th black-type winner for her all-conquering sire, Hoosier Philly is a granddaughter of SW and former ‘TDN Rising Star’ Princess Arabella (Any Given Saturday), who was purchased by Summer Wind Farm for $725,000 in foal to Tapit at the 2013 Keeneland January Sale. Hoosier Philly is the first foal for her dam, acquired by Everett Dobson’s Cheyenne Stable for $750,000 at the 2015 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale and she is the second Into Mischief stakes winner out of a Tapit mare, joining Unzip Me S. victress Travieza. Tapella is the dam of a yearling filly by the Dobson-raced Mastery and a weanling Justify colt. She was bred back to Munnings.

Sunday, Churchill Downs
RAGS TO RICHES S., $200,000, Churchill Downs, 10-30, 2yo, f, 1 1/16m, 1:46.90, sy.
1–HOOSIER PHILLY, 122, f, 2, by Into Mischief
1st Dam: Tapella, by Tapit
2nd Dam: Princess Arabella, by Any Given Saturday
3rd Dam: Tortuga Lady, by Thunder Gulch
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. ($510,000 Ylg ’21 KEESEP). O-Gold Standard Racing Stable, LLC; B-Candy Meadows LLC (KY); T-Thomas M Amoss; J-Edgar Morales. $121,140. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $190,140.
2–T Max, 122, f, 2, Connect–Pleasant Drive, by Strong Mandate. 1ST BLACK-TYPE. ($22,000 RNA Wlg ’20 KEENOV; $10,000 Ylg ’21 KEESEP). O-Ready Made Racing, LLC; B-Gerty Bloodstock (KY); T-William Walden. $39,400.
3–Fun and Feisty, 122, f, 2, Midshipman–Grouse Grind, by First Samurai. ($13,000 Ylg ’21 KEEJAN; $100,000 Ylg ’21 FTKJUL). O-Lucky Seven Stable (Mackin); B-J Stephen McDonald (KY); T-Kenneth G McPeek. $19,700.
Margins: 7HF, HD, 1 1/4. Odds: 1.04, 7.26, 2.33.
Also Ran: Peacock Lass, Stellar Lady, East Shore, Dre Me Less. Scratched: Naughty Gal. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.