Freshman sire Caracaro collected the first ‘TDN Rising Star’ trophy for his case when Casalu sailed home a debut winner on Sunday afternoon at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club.  Spotlighted in the Sunday edition of TDN’s Summer Breezes and Racing Insights, the Three Amigos-owned juvenile who went off at sixty cents on the dollar here was looking to make good on a bullet workout she posted at Santa Anita July 8 when she went four furlongs in :46.40 (1/54). The heavy favorite blazed out of the gate and clearly announced her presence with authority up the backstretch. The $775,000 OBS April grad felt some hoofbeats around the far turn, but entering the lane her jets kicked in. The bay ended up winning by 5 1/2 lengths

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