MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 F-T MIDLANTIC SALE STARTS MONDAY >COMPUTING= RETURNS TO by Jessica Martini N.Y., FAMILIAR FACES The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale begins its two-day run Monday morning at the Maryland State EXPECTED FOR BELMONT Fairgrounds in Timonium, with the first horse scheduled to go through the sales ring at 11 a.m. A day after a record-setting renewal of the GI Preakness S. and roughly 10 miles north of Pimlico, activity was brisk at the sales barns on an overcast Sunday morning. AI think it=s going to be a great sale,@ consignor Randy Miles smiled from just outside his Barn E. AWe=ve been very busy. The horses have been shopped hard. Up here in this sort of regional market, a lot of those guys will come out on Sunday and Monday and do a lot of looking. So we=ve been busy up to this point and I expect it will get even busier.@ Cont. p5 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Cloud Computing (outside) edges out Classic Empire | Horsephotos CARAVAGGIO RETURNS IN STYLE AT NAAS Aidan O’Brien’s Caravaggio (Scat Daddy) made a sparkling As the dust settled Sunday morning following Klaravich Stables return to action in the G3 Lacken S. at Naas on Sunday. Click and William Lawrence=s Cloud Computing (Maclean=s Music)=s or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. victory in the GI Preakness S., trainer Chad Brown reported the winner had arrived safely back at his barn at Belmont Park in fine condition. The colt, who forged past champion Classic Empire (Pioneerof the Nile) to prevail by a head, gave Brown his first Preakness win in his first start in the race. AWe=re thrilled with the result,@ Brown said, adding that he was very pleased with Cloud Computing=s trip beneath jockey Javier Castellano. AThe horse looks well and our team here is just so happy with the race yesterday.@ Now back in New York, Cloud Computing could take a crack at the GI Belmont S. at his home track. Brown noted that while the race is a possible next spot for his trainee, he would take a wait-and-see approach in the coming days. AWe haven=t ruled it out,@ Brown said of the final leg of racing=s Triple Crown. AWe=re just going to evaluate the horse this week and, probably by next weekend, we may have a decision.@ Cloud Computing secured sufficient qualifying points for the May 6 GI Kentucky Derby, but his connections elected to bypass the race and point the lightly raced colt towards the Preakness. That decision proved fruitful Saturday, rewarding a strong partnership between trainer and owners. Cont. p3 PRESIDENT & CO-PUBLISHER Barry Weisbord @barryweisbord [email protected] SR. 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Everything aligned perfectly [Saturday].@ $ Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming (Bodemeister), a head-scratching eighth in the Preakness after setting a pressured pace, was also in fine condition Sunday morning, according to trainer Todd Pletcher. The dark bay, who carried a four-race win streak to Pimlico and was sent off as the 6-5 post-time favorite, vanned back to Belmont Park early Sunday morning. AWhen I spoke to the ownership after the race yesterday, we all decided that we wouldn=t make any decisions until we got him home and evaluated how he=s doing,@ Pletcher said. AI don=t think it=s a good idea to make those types of decisions right after a race. We=ll process it for a little while...He looks good, bright, alert, sound, healthy, happy. We=ll head to Belmont and regroup.@ Pletcher was still struggling to find an obvious explanation for Always Dreaming=s poor performance Saturday, but acknowledged that he was concerned with what he was seeing early in the race. AI didn=t love the way he broke,@ Pletcher continued. AHe broke kind of awkwardly and hit the gate a little bit. Johnny [Velazquez] lost his iron for a second because he brushed the side of the gate and he had to adjust his stirrup a couple times. He said in spite of that, when he was reaching down to grab his stirrup the horse was taking him to where he wanted to be. Coming by the wire the first time I was a little bit concerned. You could see Classic Empire was right on him and he wasn=t maybe taking a firm hold of Johnny.@ $ John Oxley=s Classic Empire, meanwhile, appears to be headed to the Belmont after a valiant runner-up effort in which he put away Always Dreaming and nearly held off a late surge from the winner. The colt was scheduled to van back to trainer Mark Casse=s Churchill Downs base Sunday evening. AHe was a better horse yesterday than he was two weeks ago for the Kentucky Derby,@ Casse said of Classic Empire. AJulien [Leparoux] rode him perfectly. The only thing, if Always Dreaming had carried him a little farther, I think he probably wins. But he didn=t, and so we go on. He tried to re-engage. That Always Dreaming | MJC horse had some momentum on him--he ran a great race, too.@ TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 9 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • MAY 22, 2017 Casse said he would look Afor the same thing we always look PREAKNESS SHATTERS HANDLE AND for@ when making sure that the Belmont is the correct target for Classic Empire=s next ATTENDANCE RECORDS race. Saturday=s 142nd GI Preakness S. set a new high bar for both $ Fern Circle Stable=s attendance and handle at Pimlico Race Course, the Maryland Senior Investment Jockey Club announced late Saturday. The crowd of 140,327 on (Discreetly Mine) hand to see Cloud Computing (Maclean=s Music) capture the followed his win in the middle jewel of the Triple Crown broke last year=s record of GIII Stonestreet 135,256. Likewise, total handle on the 14-race program was Lexington S. with a $97,168,658, an increase of 3% over the previous record of good third-place finish $94,127,434 and a 14% increase over 2015 wagering. in Saturday=s The Maryland Jockey Club also announced that in-state handle Preakness. Trainer Ken was up 7.1% from last year and 10.4% from 2015. McPeek said the AFrom morning into evening, we witnessed an incredible day chestnut will van to of world-class racing and eclectic entertainment,@ said Sal Belmont Park to begin Sinatra, President of the Maryland Jockey Club. AThe sport of preparations for the Thoroughbred racing is being rejuvenated and reimagined by Belmont S.--a race he the Stronach family. Their commitment to this sport is won in a 70-1 upset remarkable and unparalleled. Their vision is being embraced by with Sarava (Wild horsemen and fans around the country.@ Again) in 2002. Horsephotos $ Hall of Fame conditioner Steve Asmussen said both fourth-place finisher Lookin At Lee (Lookin At Lucky) and ninth-place runner Hence (Street Boss) both emerged from their races in good order. Lookin At Lee, runner-up in the Kentucky Derby, was to van to Asmussen=s Belmont Park barn Sunday to prepare for the final leg of the Triple Crown.