A PERFECT 10 Horse of the Year Azeri Wins Her 10Th Straight Stakes Race and Her 8Th Grade I with a Win in the Vanity H
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Man Among Men Sidelined HEADLINE p.3 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2003 P S O P H O M O R E S C E N E P P N E W S P Team Frankel On the Move MISTER BAILEYS INFERTILE Belmont S. winner Empire Maker (Unbridled), Peace Mister Baileys (GB) (Robellino--Thimblerigger {GB}, by Rules (Jules), who won the GI Blue Grass S., and GIII Sharpen Up {GB}) will be retired after being found to be Swale S. victor Midas Eyes (Touch Gold) all visited irrevocably infertile, the Racing Post reported yesterday. Belmont Park’s main track this The winner of the 1994 G1 2000 Guineas will move week as trainer Bobby Frankel from his current base at Chris Harper’s Whitsbury prepares the talented sopho- Manor Stud in Hampshire to the home of Paul Venner, mores for their upcoming East chief executive of Baileys Horse Feeds. After his Classic Coast starts. Empire Maker season, in which he was also fourth in the G1 Epsom breezed five panels Tuesday in Derby, he was due to stand at the National Stud, but :58 4/5 and his stablemate Mi- was stricken with grass sickness and after his recovery das Eyes covered the same dis- was taken possession of by his insurers. After a tance in 1:02 4/5. Juddmonte five-season spell at Vinery, where he sired 163 foals, Farm’s homebred is likely to he was purchased by Kern Lillingston Associates and make his next start in the GII Jim Warrender Associates, acting on behalf of a 45-share Dandy S. at Saratoga Race- syndicate headed by Whitsbury Manor, in 2000. He course while the latter, owned produced 51 foals in 2002 and 38 in the current crop. by Edmund Gann, will be tar- “We stopped covering the first week in April, after 35 geted for Belmont’s GII Dwyer S. [mares] in a row scanned empty,” said stud manager Peace Rules Horsephotos Charlie Oakshott. “We had the testing done and the labs July 6. On Wednesday’s found an increase in abnormal sperm and a decrease in worktab, another Gann-owned star Peace Rules blazed their longevity. The combination of those two things through four furlongs in :45 2/5, the fastest of 69 was just too much.” From his five crops, Mister Baileys moves on the day. sired five stakes winners, including this year’s GIII Mr. Sky Mesa Readies For 2003 Debut Prospector H. winner Bailey’s Edge and Cool Ashlee, second in the GI Mazarine Breeders’ Cup in 1999. Undefeated Sky Mesa (Pulpit), who won the GI Hope- ful S. at Saratoga last summer, is likely to make his BELLE DU JOUR RETIRED seasonal debut in the GII Dwyer July 6, although an Belle Du Jour (Aus) (Dehere--Delightful Belle {NZ}, by allowance start against older foes is not out of the Balmerino {NZ}) has been retired to stud, it was an- question. “With a stake [Dwyer], you know it’s going to nounced yesterday. Following a career highlighted by a go. There will be some experienced horses in there,” win in the G1 Golden Slipper at Rosehill in 2000 and G1 said trainer John Ward Jr. “You can’t count on any of Newmarket H. at Flemington Mar. 8, the six-year-old the allowance preps to go.” According to assistant will visit Sadler’s Wells. Transferred to Dermot Weld trainer Donna Ward, the $750,000 KEESEP yearling after a fourth-placing in the G1 Dubai Golden Shaheen purchase came out of a handy five-furlong work, which at Nad al Sheba Mar. 29, her best subsequent effort he covered in :59 over Belmont’s main strip Tuesday, in came when runner-up in the G3 Ballyogan S. at Cork good order. “He didn’t get very tired [Tuesday], but I June 15. She was 15th in Saturday’s G1 Golden Jubi- wanted him to get a little bit tired,” said Donna Ward. lee S. at Royal Ascot. Weld told PA Sport, “She retires “I think he’s stronger than last year. He’s very mature to stud sound, although she got a gash over her hock and settled in. He knows what’s going on.” at Royal Ascot on Saturday.” Belle Du Jour, Australian All horses in the TDN are bred in North America, champion juvenile filly in 1999-2000, retires with nine unless otherwise indicated wins from 35 starts and earnings of $1,899,598. A PERFECT 10 Horse of the Year Azeri wins her 10th straight stakes race and her 8th Grade I with a win in the Vanity H. John G. Sikura, President PHONE: (859) 255-8290 FAX: (859) 281-6148 www.hillndale.net JADE HUNTER is having another banner year TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/26/03 • PAGE 2 of 3 WEEKEND PEDIGREE Like Fine Wine... Wild and Wicked’s dam Wicked Witchcraft has also PERSPECTIVES produced two horses who showed significant progress by Alan Porter with age. Her 1989 Far North colt The Wicked North didn’t take a stakes until he was a four-year-old, when OHIO DERBY-GII, $300,000, TDN, 6-21, 3yo, 1 1/8m, he captured the GIII Bing Crosby H. and GIII San Fran- 1:50, ft. cisco H. The following year, he gained honors as cham- 1--@#WILD AND WICKED, 114, c, 3, by Wild Again pion handicap horse with three graded stakes triumphs, 1st Dam: Wicked Witchcraft (MSW, $218,559), headed by the GI Californian S., in which he set a new by Good Behaving track record for nine furlongs, and the GI Oaklawn H. 2nd Dam: Surrogate, by *Yatasto Similarly, Wicked Witchcraft’s 1995 filly, A Lady 3rd Dam: Alibhai Lynn, by *Alibhai From Dixie (by Dixieland Band), had to wait until her O/B-Mr & Mrs Robert David Randal (KY); T-Kenneth G four-year-old season to earn black-type, but at that age McPeek; J-S J Sellers; $180,000. Lifetime Record: she captured the GII Chula Vista H. and finished third in 3-3-0-0, $238,480. *1/2 to Wicked Destiny (Top the GI Three Chimneys Spinster S. Command), MSW, $182,880; The Wicked North (Far It’s the same story when we look at the racing career North), Ch. Older Horse, MGISW, $1,180,750; and A of Wicked Witchcraft herself. A winner of 10 races and Lady From Dixie (Dixieland Band), GSW & GISP, $218,559, she took both her stakes wins, the Gover- $383,718. nor’s Lady H. and the Marion H. Van Berg H., as a five- Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com year-old. catalogue-style pedigree. Wicked Witchcraft is a daughter of Good Behaving, Although it has been a subject of some debate, the winner of the Swift, Gotham and Wood Memorial S., in general consensus is that stallions tend to lose potency the spring of his three-year-old season. Her dam Surro- with age. As a result of that belief, it’s conventionally gate is a daughter of the Argentinean-bred Yatasto, and accepted wisdom that one should not breed an older is half sister to the relatively minor stakes winners Sight mare to an older stallion. That, however, didn’t stop to See and Lynnheim. The next dam, the Alibhai mare Mr. & Mrs. Robert David Randal from sending their mare Wicked Witchcraft to Wild Again, a mating which Alibhai Lynn, was a very accomplished performer in involved parents who would both be 20 years old at the California, when she won the Los Cerritos, San Mateo, time the foal was born. The result of this convention- Bing Crosby and Golden Poppy H., and equaled Santa bucking mating is Wild and Wicked, who maintained his Anita’s track-record for six furlongs. When we studied unbeaten record with a 3¼-length victory in Saturday’s the pedigree of Wild Again’s daughter Shine Again, we GII Ohio Derby. mentioned that Wild Again has worked with a remark- Since this was only his third start, it will be no sur- ably wide range of mares. prise if Wild and Wicked, whose connections briefly He’s now got stakes winners out of mares by 70 considered pointing him for the GI Belmont S., contin- different broodmare sires and no one broodmare sire is ues to improve. That is certainly what his pedigree responsible for more than three Wild Again stakes win- suggests. The offspring of Wild and Wicked’s sire Wild ners. At the time we suggested that the key to this Again often progress with age, a point underlined by pattern is that Wild Again has a pedigree which is much the fact that two of his best representatives this year older than most of his mates, his paternal grandsire are six-year-olds; Milwaukee Brew, who took back-to- Nearctic being born in 1954 and his maternal grandsire back runnings of the GI Santa Anita H.; and GII Genuine horse Khaled was a foal of 1943. As a consequence, Risk H. winner Shine Again. Incidentally, the veteran strains close up in the pedigree of Wild Again--he has sire is having another excellent year as his other scorers Nearco 3x4 and Hyperion 4x3--and their backgrounds include the GIII Hawthorne H. victor Keys to the Heart are found back in a large proportion of the breed, en- and GIII Holy Bull S. winner Offlee Wild. abling a sizeable segment of the broodmare population to have the potential to supply Wild Again with rein- forcements of the key ancestors in his pedigree.