Thoroughbred Daily News June 29, 2025
Percy’s Bar (Upstart) set the mark high when she ran home a winner in the Debutante Stakes at Churchill Downs on Sunday.
Posting a debut score by four lengths this past spring at Keeneland, the filly came into this race with a strong series of morning works under rider Luan Machado. Made a 3-1 shot with some tough company to contend with here, she watched the race unfold after the break behind a :21.29 opening quarter. Making an eye-catching sweep through the turn, she sailed by her rivals and rolled away from them all to win easily. Jaboss (Classic Empire) claimed second while ‘TDN Rising Star’ Color Comin’ In (Rock Your World) picked up third.
The winner is her unraced dam’s second to the races. A half-sister to a pair of stakes winners in Simply Spiteful (Speightstown) and Praetereo (Giant’s Causeway), plus GISP Defense Wins (Flatter) and GSP Dawn’s Charm (Hard Spun), Honestly Deb is responsible for 3-year-old filly in-training Citizen Judy (American Freedom) and she produced a filly by Cairo Prince last year. She was bred to Upstart once again for this past spring. Percy’s Bar is part of an extended female family which includes MGSW Tasha’s Miracle (Harlan’s Holiday).
1–PERCY’S BAR, 120, f, 2, by Upstart
1st Dam: Honestly Deb, by Super Saver
2nd Dam: Deb’s Charm, by Silver Charm
3rd Dam: Ms. Cuvee Napa, by Relaunch
($52,000 Ylg ’24 KEESEP). 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-Hat Creek Racing; B-Brereton C. Jones (KY); T-Ben Colebrook; J-Luan Machado. $135,245. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $187,558.
2–Jaboss, 118, f, 2, Classic Empire–Indy Takes Charge, by Take Charge Indy. 1ST BLACK TYPE. O/B-Maribeth Sandford LLC (KY); T-Christopher Davis. $43,950.
3–Color Comin’ In, 120, f, 2, Rock Your World–Sleepless Dixie, by Dixie Union. ($9,000 RNA Wlg ’23 KEENOV; $11,000 Ylg ’24 OBSOCT; $100,000 2yo ’25 OBSMAR). 1ST BLACK TYPE. O-CKDS Racing Stable, LLC; B-Tomislav Mitrovski (KY); T-Norm Casse. $21,975.
Margins: 5, 1 1/4, 1. Odds: 3.44, 43.61, 5.18.
Also Ran: Americathegreat, Lilies N Paradise, Light Won Up, Essential Coffee, Mine Strike. Scratched: Vajra.
