Correctness, close cross to Elate, posts nice-looking maiden win

Multiple Grade 1 winner Elate has been retired, but her family continues to be active on the racetrack. Correctness, who is bred on a close cross to Elate, emerged as the latest winner for that family with a maiden victory Saturday going one mile on the Tampa Bay Downs turf.

Correctness was purchased for $1 million by Lael Stable from breeder Fifth Avenue Bloodstock at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale. The filly is by Medaglia d’Oro and is the first foal out of Veracity, a winning Distorted Humor mare. Veracity, out of multiple graded stakes winner Yell, is a full sister to stakes winner Cheery, the dam of Elate. The latter, also by Medaglia d’Oro, earned more than $2.6 million while racing as a homebred for Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider. After finishing a creditable fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, Elate was retired to Claiborne, and is expected to be bred to the farm’s standout sire War Front in her first season.

Yell, who is from the family of Kentucky Derby winner Sea Hero and currently successful sires Congrats and Flatter, among others, is also the dam of Grade 1-placed Chide and stakes-placed Shrill. Another of her daughters, the winning Giant’s Causeway mare Toll, has kept the family active by producing Tax, a multiple graded stakes winner this season.

Fifth Avenue Bloodstock purchased Veracity for $460,000 at the 2016 Keeneland January horses of all ages sale. After producing Correctness, the mare delivered two more fillies by Medaglia d’Oro, with Claiborne going to $900,000 for her current yearling at this year’s Fasig-Tipton sale. Veracity is currently carrying a foal from the first crop of Triple Crown winner Justify, and remains with