$1.2 million sales buy Orsay to debut at Saratoga on Sunday

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Orsay, who brought $1.2 million as a yearling last summer at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale, will make her debut in Sunday’s eighth race at Saratoga going seven furlongs.

Orsay, a daughter of 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah out of the Grade 1-winning mare Life At Ten, topped the opening session of the two-night sale. She was purchased by Larry Best’s OXO Equine and is trained by Chad Brown.

“She was a bit nervous when we started with her, but she’s very settled and doing well now,” Brown said. “I told Larry let’s get her started in her own environment. She’s a classy filly, a fast learner.”

Orsay will break from post 2 in a field of 10.

Trainer D. Wayne Lukas entered Cleopatra’s Charm, a daughter of Pioneerof the Nile out of the mare Careless Jewel, who won the 2009 Alabama.

Trainer Shug McGaughey has Alandra, a daughter of Blame out of the graded stakes winner Altesse.

Come Dancing to run in Gallant Bloom

Come Dancing came out of her victory in the Grade 1 Ballerina on Aug. 24 so well that her connections plan to run her one more time before the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint. Come Dancing will now point to the Grade 2, $250,000 Gallant Bloom Handicap at Belmont on Sept. 22.

“She’s doing too good to be sitting on her for two months,” trainer Carlos Martin said Friday. “She bounced out of the race so well.”

Come Dancing won the Ballerina by 3 1/2 lengths over Dawn the Destroyer, earning a 96 Beyer Speed Figure.