Forbes' Firsters - 2yo Pedigrees

 
By Jon Forbes | August 15, 2010 Email Bookmark and Share

FORBES’ FIRSTERS FOR SUNDAY, AUGUST 15

 

RACE 7, TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLIES, 6 FURLONGS, DIRT, 4:21 P.M.

BARN DIVA (2yo chestnut filly), a homebred by Storm Cat, is a half-sister to High Cotton, winner of the Grade 3 Northern Dancer Breeders’ Cup and two listed races, and to Grade 3 Carleton F. Burke hero Symphony Sid. Their dam Happy Tune is an unraced half-sister to champion and Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies and Grade 1 Frizette heroine Storm Song and to Grade 2 Oak Leaf winner Diamond Omi.

Owner: Stonestreet Stables
Trainer: Steven Asmussen
Jockey: Edgar Prado

 

DANCE QUIETLY (2yo gray or roan filly) is a half-sister to Saint Liam, who was named the 2005 Horse of the Year and Champion Older Male after picking up Grade 1 victories in the Donn Handicap, Stephen Foster Handicap, Woodward, and Breeders’ Cup Classic. Another half-brother, Congressionalhonor, won the Grade 3 Bay Meadows Derby. This trio is out of Quiet Dance, who finished second in the Grade 2 Demoiselle as a 2-year-old and two years later won a restricted stakes at Pimlico. By A.P. Indy, Dance Quietly races for her breeder.

Owner: Edward P. Evans
Trainer: Todd Pletcher
Jockey: John Velazquez