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HEADLINE NEWS For information about TDN, Good Luck to Dixie S. [G2] Runners call 732-747-8060. RA DER DEAN (Rahy) & PICK SIX (Dynaformer) www.thoroughbreddailynews.com SATURDAY, MAY 17, 2008 TDN Feature Presentation ‘STUDENT’ SHOWS UP IN PIMLICO SPECIAL There was only one Grade I winner in the line-up for GRADE 1 PREAKNESS STAKES the GI Pimlico Special yesterday, and it stayed that after the race was run. Student Council (Kingmambo), the GI Pacific Classic hero, ran down Gottcha Gold (Coronado=s Quest) to take it for Millennium Farms. Jim McCue/MJC OUR CONNECTION TO THE Cont. p3 PREAKNESS STAKES DATES BACK TO WINNER BEE BEE BEE IN 1972 I THINK I LOVE YOU Co-owner/breeder David Cassidy Good luck to all the participants! was on hand to watch Sweet Ven- detta (Stephen Got Even) splash BIG DEAL home late to take the GII Black-Eyed Unbeaten Big Brown (Boundary) will go postward as Susan S. at Pimlico. AShe=s almost a heavy favorite in today=s GI Preakness S. at Pimlico. A 17 hands and has that big loping sparkling and authoritative winner of the GI Kentucky stride,@ said winning trainer Gary Matt Goins photo Derby two weeks ago, the big bay still has to cover the Contessa. AWhen the heavens opened up last night that 1 3/16 miles faster than his 11 rivals in order to keep added more icing to the cake.@ Cont. p4 his date with destiny. He=ll break from midfield this time, as opposed to his CAN CREACHADOIR OPEN THE DOOR? outside-post scores in the Creachadoir (Ire) (King=s Best) will hope to give Kentucky and Florida Derbies. Godolphin their first 2008 European stakes victory in AIt=s all about the break for today=s G1 Lockinge S. at Newbury. Thrice a runner-up us,@ said trainer Rick Dutrow in Group 1 company last season, the bay started the Jr. AIf he breaks clean, things season with an eighth in the G1 Dubai Duty Free will be right there for him. If Mar. 29 at Nad al Sheba. AHe has been in great form he wants the lead or wants to and has done very well since the Duty Free,@ Godolphin Horsephotos sit off it, whatever.@ Dutrow Racing Manager Simon Crisford commented. Cont. p5-6 added, AI think that it=s our race to lose. I think that he is the best horse in the race and I think if he breaks with the field, he=ll win the race.@ Only one Churchill rival has turned up to face the Derby winner, and that is Gayego (Gilded Time), the GII Arkansas Derby hero who wound up 17th after encoun- tering traffic problems early. The dark bay will be equipped Horsephotos with blinkers this time. AThey=re very light blinkers-- they=re just to see if he pays attention a little bit more,@ said trainer Paolo Lobo. AI have been thinking since January about putting blinkers on him. He was doing well and running well, so I didn=t want to change for the Kentucky Derby. But now he=s going to run with blinkers.@ Cont. p2 The brisnet.com >Race of the Day= is the GI PREAKNESS S. at Pimlico. For pps and a complete race analysis, click here. www.coolmore.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 5/17/08 • PAGE 2 of 10 Bear Him in Mind... The lightly raced Kentucky Bear (Mr. Greeley) missed drawing into the Run for the Roses due to insufficient HARLAN’S earnings, but he=s been at Pimlico for more than a week in preparation for the Preakness. A sharp maiden win- HOLIDAY ner at Gulfstream (video), the chest- LEADING THE WAY! nut was a troubled seventh in the GII Fountain of Youth S. Feb. 24, but rebounded with a good third in the GI Toyota Blue Grass S. at Keeneland Apr. 12. Trainer Reade Baker likes his colt=s chances. AFrom the Blue Grass, www.readebaker.com he's really developed and put on weight,@ said Baker. AThere's no grass to graze on in Florida, and once he got to the grass at Keeneland and Churchill the horse has been doing phenomenal.@ Behindatthebar Scratched... $700,000 Hip #121 Behindatthebar (Forest Wildcat) was scratched yes- terday morning after sustaining a foot bruise. AThe way Barretts May he went this morning, he was a little bit off on his left SALES TOPPER front,@ said trainer Todd Pletcher. AIt appears that he=s Congratulations to Top Consignor Murray Smith got a foot bruise in the inside corner of his left front on another home run Harlan’s Holiday pinhook. hoof. It s unfortunate timing. The GII Coolmore = @ Best of Luck to Stonestreet Stables on this Lexington S. victor shouldn=t miss too much time. AI would expect that it could possibly be resolved by the blockbuster prospect. beginning of next week,@ Pletcher added. ASometimes foot abscesses or bruises can be tricky, but hopefully (859) 873-7270 www.airdriestud.com that won=t be the case and it will be quickly resolved.@ Saturday, Pimlico Racecourse, post time: 6:15 p.m. EDT 133rd Running of the PREAKNESS S.-GI, $1,000,000, 3yo, 1 3/16m. All carry 126 pounds. PP HORSE OWNER BREEDER TRAINER/JOCKEY ODDS 1 Macho Again West Point Thoroughbreds Milan Kosanovich-FL Stewart 20-1 (c, Macho Uno--Go Donna Go, by Wild Again) Leparoux 2 Tres Borrachos Greely/Greely IV/Houchens Shapiro/Greely IV/Houchens-KY Greely 30-1 (g, Ecton Park--Pete=s Fancy, by Peteski) T Baze 3 Icabad Crane Earle Mack Gallagher=s Stud-NY Motion 30-1 (c, Jump Start--Adorahy, by Rahy) Rose 4 Yankee Bravo R Duggan/Bienstock/Winner T Burberry & B Hay-KY Gallagher 15-1 (c, Yankee Gentleman--Vickey Jane, by Royal Academy) Solis 5 Behindatthebar Padua/Shustek/Stanley Justice/Meadow Oaks Farm-KY Pletcher 10-1 (c, Forest Wildcat--Rhiana, by Runaway Groom) Flores 6 Racecar Rhapsody Carroll/Kaplan/Plattner/Guilfoyle G Watts Humphrey-KY McPeek 30-1 (c, Tale of the Cat--Reflect the Music, by A.P. Indy) Albarado 7 Big Brown IEAH Stables & Paul Pompa Jr Monticule-KY Dutrow Jr 1-2 (c, Boundary--Mien, by Nureyev) Desormeaux 8 Kentucky Bear Bear Stables Ltd Alexander Valley Breeders-KY Baker 15-1 (c, Mr. Greeley--Tate, by Afleet) Theriot 9 Stevil Robert LaPenta John Piehl II-KY Zito 30-1 (c, Maria=s Mon--Company Storm, by Storm Creek) Velazquez 10 Riley Tucker Zayat Stables LLC Formal Gold LLC-KY Mott 30-1 (c, Harlan=s Holiday--My Sweet Country, by Bold Ruckus) Prado 11 Giant Moon Albert Fried Jr Albert Fried Jr-NY Schosberg 30-1 (c, Giant=s Causeway--Moonlightandbeauty, by Capote) Dominguez 12 Gayego Cubanacan Stables Hargus & Sandra Sexton-KY Lobo 8-1 (c, Gilded Time--Devils Lake, by Lost Code) Smith 13 Hey Byrn Beatrice Oxenberg Arthur Appleton-FL Plesa Jr 20-1 (c, Put It Back--Restraining Order, by Skip Trial) Lopez P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 5/17/08 • PAGE 3 of 10 Friday, Pimlico MARYLAND LOTTERY PIMLICO SPECIAL H.-GI, $250,000, PIM, 5-16, 4yo/up, 1 3/16m, 1:54 4/5, my. 1--STUDENT COUNCIL, 118, h, 6, by Kingmambo 1st Dam: Class Kris (MGSW, $582,189), by Kris S. 2nd Dam: Classic Value, by Copelan Winners’ Circle Report 3rd Dam: Queen Pat, by Crozier For the week ending May 16, 2008 O-Millennium Farms; B-W S Farish (KY); T-Steven M Asmussen; J-Shaun Bridgmohan; $150,000. Lifetime Record: 26-8-3-3, $1,307,731. *1/2 to Gradepoint (A.P. Indy), GSW, $144,285. Werk Nick Rating: C+. Click for the eNicks report and 5-cross pedigree. 2--Gottcha Gold, 118, h, 5, Coronado's Quest--Gottcha Last, by Pleasant Tap. O/B-Centaur Farms Inc (FL); T-Edward Plesa Jr; $50,000. Dynaformer 3--Sir Whimsey, 117, c, 4, Jump Start--Apogee, by Star Dynaformer Colt Earns Epsom Derby Consideration de Naskra. ($55,000 yrl '05 KEESEP; $75,000 2yo Dynaformer’s 83rd stakes winner is TAJAAWEED (05 c. o/o >06 OBSMAR). O-Turtle Bird Stable; B-Chance Farm Uforia, by Zilzal), who became a clear Epsom Derby prospect (VA); T-James J Toner; $27,500. when he took the Dee Stakes [G3] at Britain’s Chester Margins: NK, 5 3/4, 1. Odds: 7.20, 2.10, 4.00. Racecourse May 9. The winner of two of three lifetime starts, Also Ran: Temporary Saint, Grasshopper, Ryan's for he overcame an outside post and traffic to gain the advantage Real, Xchanger. Scratched: Wanderin Boy, A. P. Arrow. nearing the wire. “He [overcame] a lot of obstacles and has Purchased privately after finishing second to Brass a nice turn of foot,” said jockey Richard Hills. Owner: Sheikh Hat in a Churchill optional claimer last July, Student Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Breeder: Herman Sarkowsky. Council posted a 23-1 upset in the GI Pacific Classic in August for Vladimir Cerin, then claimed the GII Haw- Rahy thorne Gold Cup Sept. 29 for Steve Asmussen. The bay FR-G1 Win for Rahy Colt RIO DE LA PLATA failed to hit the board in each of his next four outings th while shuttling between the aforementioned barns, Rahy’s 8 stakes horse of 2008 is Poule d’Essai des Poulains however, and came into this contest off a seventh in [G1] (French Two Thousand Guineas) runner-up RIO DE LA PLATA (05 c. Express Way, by Ahmad (ARG)). The effort was the GIII John B. Connally H.