Full Brother to Shared Belief to Debut at Keeneland

Making the first start of his career in a $79,000 maiden special weight over seven furlongs April 6 at Keeneland, Nimet Arif Kurtel's homebred 3-year-old Shared Legacy has big shoes to fill. 

Out of the Storm Cat mare Common Hope, the Kentucky-bred son of Candy Ride (ARG) is a full brother to Shared Belief, who dominated on the track between 2013 and 2015, earning five grade 1 scores and more than $2.9 million in purses for trainer Jerry Hollendorfer. 

Named champion 2-year-old colt of 2013, Shared Belief suffered a non-displaced fracture to his right hip while racing in the Charles Town Classic Stakes (G2). Although he briefly returned to training, the winning gelding fell victim to an episode of colic and died in December 2015. 

Shared Legacy was entered in the 2017 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, but Kurtel made the decision to retain the bay colt and race him when he failed to meet his reserve and RNA'd on a final bid of $1.9 million. 

Common Hope foaled a Tapit  filly in 2017 and was bred back to Candy Ride in 2019. 

Trained by Murat Sancal, Shared Legacy will break from post 10 in Saturday's 13-horse field and will partner with jockey James Graham. 

Joining Shared Legacy in the field is 3-year-old Honest Mischief. A Juddmonte Farms homebred, the son of Into Mischief  is out of the Seattle Slew mare Honest Lady and boasts his own famous connection by way of his half brother First Defence. 

A son of the late Unbridled's Song, First Defence earned grade 1 honors at 4 for trainer Bobby Frankel when he took the 2008 Forego Handicap at Saratoga Race Course. He retired in October that year and entered stud at Juddmonte in 2009. 

The sire of champion older mare Close Hatches, First Defence stood at Juddmonte until 2016 when he was sold to Haif Stud in Saudi Arabia. 

Trained by Chad Brown, Honest Mischief will break from post 11 under Javier Castellano. 

Rounding out entrants with notable siblings is Ry's the Guy, the 14th live foal out of group 1 winner and Royal Academy mare Sleepytime. The 3-year-old son of Distorted Humor  is a half brother to group 3 winners Gentleman's Deal and Hathal. 

Owned by Lothenbach Stables, Ry's the Guy was bred in Kentucky by Tenth Street Stables and is trained by Ian Wilkes. He will break from post 3 and partner with Chris Landeros. 

Entries: Race 2 (MSW) at KEE on 4/6/19

Keeneland, Saturday, April 06, 2019, Race 2

• MSW
• 7f
• Dirt
• $79,000
• 3 yo
• 1:40 PM (local)

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wgt	Trainer	M/L
5	1Bandit Swanson (KY)	Gabriel Saez	121	W. Bret Calhoun	5/1
1	3Ry's the Guy (KY)	Chris Landeros	121	Ian R. Wilkes	5/1
2	4Kneedeepinsnow (KY)	Mario Gutierrez	121	Shelbe Ruis	20/1
3	5Island Song (KY)	Brian Joseph Hernandez, Jr.	121	Eddie Kenneally	8/1
4	6Zoe's Delight (MN)	Julien R. Leparoux	121	Ian R. Wilkes	15/1
6	7Twelfth Labour (KY)	Paco Lopez	121	Dallas Stewart	15/1
7	8Silverzar (KY)	Corey J. Lanerie	121	Kenneth G. McPeek	12/1
9	10Shared Legacy (KY)	James Graham	121	Murat Sancal	20/1
10	11Honest Mischief (KY)	Javier Castellano	121	Chad C. Brown	6/5
11	12Camp Randall (KY)	Luis Saez	121	Stanley M. Hough	6/1
12	13Historian (KY)	Florent Geroux	121	Rodolphe Brisset	20/1
13	14Methodical (KY)	Tyler Gaffalione	121	Ben Colebrook	12/1