Another pair of fast fillies propel Into Mischief to top of the charts

Dual Eclipse Award champion Covfefe helped Into Mischief to his first leading sire title in 2019 by flaunting her speed. The filly’s four stakes wins on the season – capped by the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint – included a track record-setting performance in the Grade 3 Miss Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, and a win in the Dogwood Stakes at Churchill Downs in which she missed champion Groupie Doll’s track mark by just seven-hundredths of a second.

Covfefe was retired earlier this year, but Into Mischief had two other fast fillies waiting in the wings to pick up the baton. Gamine and Mundaye Call, both pricey auction purchases, added their names to record books with impressive stakes wins over the weekend as Spendthrift resident Into Mischief remained atop the charts.

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Gamine, purchased by Michael Lund Petersen for a sale-record $1.8 million at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale, scored her second straight dazzling Grade 1 win in New York as she took the Test Stakes by seven lengths Saturday at Saratoga. Her time of 1:20.83 for the seven furlongs equaled the stakes record set by Lady Tak in 2003, and was just off the track mark of 1:20.40 set by Darby Creek Road in 1978.

In Gamine’s prior outing, she stole the show on the Belmont Stakes undercard by devastating the field in the Grade 1 Acorn Stakes by 18 3/4 lengths. Her time for the mile was 1:32.55, a stakes record and just off Najran’s track record of 1:32.24, set in 2003. Her Beyer Figures for her last two starts, were 110 and 108, repsectively, among the highest recorded this year.

One day after Gamine’s latest triumph, Mundaye Call remained perfect in two starts this year with a 7 1/4-length victory in the Runhappy Audubon Oaks at Ellis Park. The filly established a track record of 1:21.17 for the seven furlongs, good for a 100 Beyer Figure. It was the first stakes victory for Mundaye Call, a $950,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling purchase by Larry Best’s OXO Equine.

Into Mischief, by Harlan’s Holiday, is in solid pursuit of his second sire title, as he currently leads the nation by progeny earnings, individual winners, and graded stakes winners. He also leads Daily Racing Form’s exclusive stallion metrics, the Beyer Sire Performance Standings, by both the number of individual runners to hit the benchmark Beyer Speed Figure of 90 this season, with 28, and individuals to break the triple-digit ceiling, with four. In addition to his standout fillies, he is the sire of Authentic, winner of the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational in his final prep for the Sept. 5 Kentucky Derby.

Into Mischief appears to have another generation of talented runners on the rise, as he also currently leads the nation by 2-year-old earnings and winners. Four of those winners have come since Aug. 3, including the well-regarded Mutasaabeq, a 4 1/2-length debut winner on Saturday at Saratoga with an 84 Beyer. Meanwhile, Into Mischief’s daughter Spicy Marg was second on debut in the Tyro Stakes on Saturday at Monmouth.