Each week in this space, the top Beyer performances by maiden winners will be featured and analyzed. Click here for a complete archive. First Mission March 18, 7th race Fair Grounds, MdSpWt50k Beyer: 89 1 1/16 miles 1:44.55 – 1st by 6 3/4 lengths b. c. S3, Street Sense – Elude, by Medaglia d’Oro Owner: Godolphin Trainer: Brad Cox Breeder: Godolphin This colt can really run, and had he gotten started earlier, we might be seeing him march down the Kentucky Derby trail. First Mission began posting timed workouts way back in late May of his 2-year-old season, but after working through late June, the pattern ceased until November. First Mission debuted in a sprint and would have won 99 percent of all maiden races with the performance he delivered (96 Beyer) but ran into an even sharper stablemate, Bishops Bay, who came back to win a first-level route allowance on March 19. The trainer viewed this colt as a route prospect all along and wasted no time stretching him out here. First Mission broke sharply, bobbled one stride into the contest, then took up a tracking spot behind only a longshot pacesetter, who went along slightly faster than par. The speed caved at the five-sixteenths pole, First Mission took over, and let me tell you, he absolutely coasted to a smart-looking victory from there. The jockey never asked for anything, the colt galloped out strongly, and we await what might well be an ambitious spot at Keeneland.   Accede March 16, 7th race Gulfstream, MdSpWt Beyer: 84 6 furlongs 1:10.67 – 1st by 1 1/2 lengths b. f. 3, Into Mischief – Jibboom, by Mizzen Mast Noteworthy siblings: Flying Jib (Oasis Dream, foaled 2011) – graded stakes winner Owner: Juddmonte Farms Trainer: Chad Brown Breeder: Juddmonte Farms This filly posted three timed workouts last June, then didn’t make the work tab again until January, but came into her debut with a strong, consistent string of drills. Not consistent: the produce of this dam, a multiple graded-stakes winner for trainer Bobby Frankel who found her best game as a sprinter-miler type. The dam, Jibboom, had a graded stakes winner foaled in 2011, but after that, records show nothing to race until her 2019 model. That’s mysterious, but Accede was no secret, going to post at 7-5 for Chad Brown and Irad Ortiz Jr. She had enough speed to get into a tracking position and was poised for a perfect trip at the three-furlong marker when a rival loomed outside, taking away the overland option. The pacesetter conveniently faded at the quarter pole, allowing Ortiz to go around her and drop to the rail, his mount cornering athletically and displaying some really nice acceleration at the quarter pole to open a lead she’d not relinquish. Accede appears to be quite the hearty specimen and this first start showed much promise.  Kings Glory March 25, 2nd race Fair Grounds, MdSpWt75k Beyer: 82 6 furlongs 1:10.13 – 1st by 1 3/4 lengths ch. c. 3, Speightstown – Jax El, by Unusual Heat Noteworthy siblings: Dr. Dorr (Lookin At Lucky, foaled 2013) – multiple stakes winner, graded stakes winner, $526K earnings Auctions: Keeneland September yearling 2021 – $575,000 Owner: Courtlandt Farm Trainer: Steve Asmussen Breeder: M Auerbach and Speightstown Syndicate The betting public made the Brad Cox-trained Juddmonte first-timer Castlewarden a ridiculously short-priced odds-on favorite, but Kings Glory also took action to go off at 5-2. Kings Glory was making his first start since his debut last summer at Saratoga, where he’d finished a promising-enough fourth in a maiden race won by the talented Verifying. Kings Glory broke well and was hustled to make the lead, going along comfortably enough around the turn and changing leads about as smoothly as a horse can change as soon as he turned for home. Jockey Joel Rosario got busy with his hands between the three-sixteenths and eighth poles, but if he cropped the colt at all, it was once, and lightly, as King Glory finished strongly under his own courage. I have a feeling this was a better performance than the speed figure. Harrodsburg March 26, 1st race Aqueduct, MdSpWt78K Beyer: 87 6 1/2 furlongs 1:18.15 – 1st by 2 1/4 lengths b. g. 3, Constitution – Gracer, by Exchange Rate Noteworthy siblings: Rome (Empire Maker, foaled 2019) – stakes winner Owner: Twin Creeks Racing Trainer: Rob Atras Breeder: Twin Creeks Farm  This first-time starter faced only four rivals and made a clear early lead, the sort of trip that suggests treating a high speed figure with some degree of skepticism. Did like the way the gelding traveled around the turn, and hard to tell if he’d lost focus as the runner-up, Ocasek, rallied from last and did cut into his lead. I’d lean toward the “lost focus” explanation since Harrodsburg raced greenly, ducking in when the rider asked him to change leads, ducking out when the rider smacked him with a left-handed crop. His stakes-winning sibling captured the Prairie Mile, though his multiple stakes-winning dam was a sprinter. Mendrel March 16, 6th race Hawthorne, MdSpWt30k Beyer: 89 5 furlongs 56.83 – 1st by 12 lengths b. f. 3, Blame – Custody, by Broken Vow Auctions: Keeneland September yearling 2021 – $5,000 Owner: William Nicks Trainer: Brian Cook Breeder: Bloom Racing Hard to know what to make of this five-furlong maiden race in late winter at Hawthorne – other than Mendrel won by a pole and galloped out two poles in front of everyone. The purchase price, a pittance, doesn’t square with the horse, who ran straight and had no obvious stride issues looking at the pan and head-on video. Did debut in front bandages as well as blinkers, showing no published works until the breeze pattern into this race began Nov. 9 at Hawthorne. The filly was 14-1 despite having worked fast on several occasions, and she came out of post 1 like a rabbit, going clear within a few strides. Mendrel obliterated her opponents through the homestretch, the rider going to the crop more than necessary and struggling mightily to pull up a horse who still was going strong to the six-furlong marker on the backside. If she passes a veterinary exam, you’d have to think she’s sold.  Accomplished Girl March 18, 5th race Gulfstream, MdSpWt73k Beyer: 92 5 furlongs turf 54.67 – 1st by 5 1/4 lengths ch. f. 3, Street Boss – Dazzle, by Twirling Candy Auctions: Keeneland September yearling 2021 -- $22,000; OBS spring 2yo 2022 – $275,000 Owner: Gentry Farms Trainer: Saffie Joseph Jr. Breeder: Jack Swain III A blowout from the start. By Street Boss, who I consider the top turf-sprint sire in North America, Accomplished Girl had debuted in a Jan. 8 turf sprint at Gulfstream, failed to make the lead and ran on some for a close fifth. Here she blasted out of post 1, established a clear early lead, and never wavered. This was a firm, fast course, but the time still was excellent, as reflected by the Beyer, and it’s not easy posting a win margin this wide in such a short grass race. She’s a petite filly who went along willingly with her ears up and finished with plenty of energy, though don’t know that she’ll want to go farther than a sprint. That said, there can’t be many 3-year-old fillies in the land who at this stage are faster turf sprinters.