ROBERT B. LEWIS S. (gr. II ), Santa Anita Park , February 02, 2013 , $200,000 Guaranteed , value of race $200,000 , 3 yo , 1 1/16 miles , 1:42.95 Dirt FT .

Flashback’s first stakes score in the Feb. 2 Robert B. Lewis Stakes (gr. II) at Santa Anita Park provided a thrilling glimpse of the 3-year-old colt’s potential future along the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) trail.

Trained by Bob Baffert for Gary and Mary West, the gray or roan colt made the racing world wonder if he could be showing the beginnings of brilliance his full sister Zazu displayed during her dual grade I-winning career.

Flashback also became the third new graded stakes winner of the day for his prominent sire Tapit, who was also represented by Tapicat in the Florida Oaks (gr. IIIT) and Honorable Dillon in the Hutcheson Stakes (gr. II).

Undefeated Flashback, who broke his maiden at Betfair Hollywood Park Dec. 8 by 31/2 lengths, has earned $147,000 from his two-start career.

Bred in Kentucky by William Andrade and Michael Hernon of Gainesway, Flashback was bought as a weanling for $260,000 by Ben Glass, agent, at the 2010 Keeneland November mixed sale from Gainesway, agent.

Flashback is out of the winning Mr. Greeley mare Rhumb Line, who has been sold five times at auction. The 13-year-old mare’s costliest sale price came in her most recent trip through the ring, when she was purchased for $850,000 by Bowden Global Equine at the 2011 Keeneland November mixed sale. In foal to Tapit, she was consigned by Gainesway, agent.

All of Rhumb Line’s foals to sell at auction have brought either six- or seven-figure prices, including Zazu, who fetched $2.1 million from Katsumi Yoshida at this past year’s Keeneland November mixed sale. She was consigned by Lane’s End, agent.

“We have her half sister, (stakes-placed) Art Princess (purchased by Katsumi Yoshida for $400,000 at the 2012 Keeneland January horses of all ages sale),” said Shunsuke Yoshida after signing the ticket for Zazu on his father’s behalf. “Zazu was a very nice racehorse, and we looked at her the first time here and decided we wanted her.”

Rhumb Line is also the dam of stakes winner Corinthian’s Jewel (by Corinthian). The mare’s youngest offspring is a yearling full brother to Flashback. She was bred to Tapit again for 2013.

Stakes winner Rosy Spectre (by Nijinsky II), the second dam of Rhumb Line, is a half sister to grade III victor Herecomesthebride and two other stakes winners.

Tapit, the sire of 40 stakes winners and leading sire of 2013, will stand the 2013 season for $125,000 at the Beck family’s Gainesway near Lexington.—E.M.

SANTA ANITA DERBY (gr. I ), Santa Anita Park , April 06, 2013 , $750,000 Guaranteed , value of race $750,750 , 3 yo , 1 1/8 miles , 1:48.76 Dirt FT .

On May 7, 1983, Sunny’s Halo won the Kentucky Derby (gr. I). The high-headed, blaze-faced chestnut became only the second Derby winner bred in Canada. A homebred for David Foster, the son of Halo out of the Sunny mare Mostly Sunny blended high-caliber sire power with a workmanlike female family.

Thirty years later Santa Anita Derby winner (gr. I) Goldencents, Sunny’s Halo’s fourth-generation nephew, will attempt to add more Derby laurels for his blue-collar female line.

The common denominator between the handsome bay with the want-to-be blaze and his chestnut kinsman is Doily. She is the fifth dam of Goldencents and the granddam of Sunny’s Halo. A non-winner in 18 starts, she, nevertheless, placed in the 1966 Land of Lincoln Stakes at Sportsman’s Park. Even though Doily was not much of a racehorse, she did have some noteworthy blood, being by Italian champion Daumier and out of a mare sired by Triple Crown winner Count Fleet.

As a broodmare in Canada, she produced foals (one a minor stakes-placed winner) by local stallions well below the radar of top-notch sires. One of her daughters, Mostly Sunny, set the durability standard for her family line. She started 48 times in her three-year career and finished in the top three 20 times, earning $30,162. She made notable history, however, with Sunny’s Halo.

Mostly Sunny’s half sister, the unraced Where To, foaled two added-money earners. The better of these was Kinto, who earned three black-type placings. Her 13 wins from 46 starts and more than $100,000 racing for Philip Kives’ K-5 Stables, earned her a better-class suitor in Bold Ruckus, a three-time leading Canadian sire.

The offspring of that union, Body Works, epitomized the durability and soundness equated with her family. In five years of racing, she forged a career similar to but surpassing in quality of her notable kinswoman Mostly Sunny. With 35 top-three finishes in 45 starts, the bay mare earned $252,755 for Kives. Among those wins, mostly in the western regions of Canada, were 13 stakes, including the Assiniboia Oaks, the Manitoba Matron Stakes, and the Canada Day Handicap. She also made forays into the U.S., winning the Lady Mannequin Handicap and the Queen Alexandra Stakes.

Golden Works, Body Works’ winning filly by Banker’s Gold, was purchased by Karyn Pirrello for $7,000 at the 2007 Keeneland January sale. Her 2009 mating to the newly retired grade I winner Into Mischief produced the Santa Anita Derby winner.

Into Mischief is the sire of three stakes winners. The son of Harlan’s Holiday stands at B. Wayne Hughes’ Spendthrift Farm, where his 2013 stud fee is $20,000.—T.H.