Heartland

·       Triple Crown winner Justify is off to a top start at stud with three graded stakes winners and four stakes winners on dirt and turf from his first crop and five stakes performers overall from limited runners.

·       Huge family: Dam has produced Champion 2-Year-Old Classic Empire and stakes winners Anytime Magic and Uptown Twirl (who also produced this year’s stakes-placed Presidential), and stakes-placed Exclamation Point.

·       Deep, active family: 11 stakes performers under his first two dams. Second dam is a stakes winner and multiple Grade 1-placed mare. Lots of recency in the family with three runners our of Sambuca Classica’s daughters winning/placing since May.

·       Dam also has an unraced 2-year-old full brother to this colt who was purchased for $625,000 at Keeneland September last year.

·       Scat Daddy son x Storm Cat granddaughter cross produced Group 2 winner Domi Trini, Group 3-placed Matilda Picotte, and stakes-placed Blind Trust from three different sons.

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