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ARRAVALE RETURNS AT WOODBINE H EADLINE p7 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com SUNDAY, JULY 22, 2007 RED GIANT SAYS NO DEAL OCTAVE A CAPABLE UNDERSTUDY This time, it was a giant who did the slaying. While GI Belmont S. winner Rags to Riches nears her Peachtree Stable=s Red Giant (Giant=s Causeway), the return to training after spiking a temperature earlier in least-preferred of a trio of horses sent out by leading the week, her stablemate Octave (Unbridled=s Song) trainer Todd Pletcher, stepped up and filled those shoes, posting a workman- got his nose down on like victory over a game Lear=s Princess (Lear Fan) in the the line to hand Rich- GI Coaching Club Ameri- ard Santulli=s Strike a can Oaks yesterday at Deal (Smart Strike) yet Belmont Park. Godolphin=s another excruciating Folk (Quiet American) set defeat. It was another the pace and yielded four lengths back to grudgingly to be third in Florida invader Sol- her first start in nearly dier=s Dancer (Lost four months. Odds-on Soldier), who had GIII Octave jumped well and Red Giant (foreground) gets up to win Colonial Turf Cup hero was content to stalk from second, as Folk wanted to the $1-million Virginia Derby Summer Doldrums Octave Adam Coglianese overrace in the early go- J Coady/Coady Photography (Street Cry {Ire}) be- ing. The favorite was sent up to tackle the leader in hind him in fourth. The earnest turning for home, edged by and held sway late disappointment of the race was Circular Quay (Thunder as Lear=s Princess rallied belatedly. AThis filly=s been a Gulch), sent off the 19-10 post-time favorite. The slight gem of consistency,@ trainer Todd Pletcher said by chestnut took up his customary position towards the phone from Chicago. AShe=s had a great career. I back of the pack and passed a few tiring horses late, thought [jockey] Johnny [Velazquez] rode her perfectly; finishing a non-threatening sixth. Virginia Derby cont. p2 he didn=t let Folk get away too easy, but he kept her Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com fresh enough to hold off Lear=s Princess.@ Cont. p3 catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com Made. catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor Made. Saturday, Colonial Downs VIRGINIA DERBY-GII, $1,000,000, CNL, 7-21, 3yo, 1 1/4mT, 1:59 3/5 (NTR), fm. 1--@RED GIANT, 116, c, 3, by Giant=s Causeway 1st Dam: Beyond the Sun (MSP), by Kingmambo 2nd Dam: Carnet Solaire, by Sharpen Up (GB) 3rd Dam: Konafa, by Damascus ($350,000 yrl '05 KEESEP). O-Peachtree Stable; B-Edward & Marilyn Seltzer (KY); T-Todd A Pletcher; J-Horacio Karamanos; $600,000. Lifetime Record: 8-4-1-1, $712,410. *1/2 to Carnera (Old Trieste), SW & MGSP, $271,724. 2--Strike a Deal, 116, c, 3, Smart Strike--Shag, by Dixieland Band. ($350,000 yrl '05 KEESEP). O-Richard Santulli; B-Bee Zee LLC (KY); T-Alan E Goldberg; $200,000. 3--Soldier's Dancer, 118, g, 3, Lost Soldier--Heather's Dancer, by Gate Dancer. ($4,200 wlng '04 FTKNOV). O-Herman Heinlein; B-Franks Farm (FL); T-David A Vivian; $110,000. Margins: NO, 4, 3/4. Odds: 37.00, 4.50, 22.30. Also Ran: Summer Doldrums, Blazing Dynamo, Circular Quay, Duveen, Love Dubai, Inca King, Top Cross. P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 7/22/07 • PAGE 2 of 8 A Million Reasons to Smile... Inca King (Sir Cat) was sent for the early lead by jockey Shaun Bridgmohan and set dead-even fractions of :24.47 and :48.91, but was never allowed a breather, as Strike a Deal shadowed his every move. Blazing Dynamo (Dynaformer) raced comfortably in third, just ahead of Red Giant, who always traveled Dirt to Turf... smoothly in fourth. Strike a Deal, let go in the wagering Red Giant was something other than a complete at 9-2 despite his consistency and narrow defeat at the disappointment in three tries on the main track to begin hands of Summer Doldrums in the July 16 GIII Colonial his career, finishing a midpack fifth in a six-furlong Turf Cup, turned up the pressure on the frontrunner maiden at Aqueduct on Breeders= Cup day before im- nearing the quarter and set sail for home under a right- proving to third in a one-mile test at the New York oval handed stick from jockey Ramon Dominguez. The son Nov. 25. He made one start under the of Smart Strike stole a 1 1/2-length auspices of Anthony Sciametta at the advantage entering the final furlong Gulfstream meeting, a fourth going and looked to have the race in the two turns Jan. 12, but has really bag, but Red Giant, under constant turned the corner with a switch in urging by jockey Horacio Karamanos, surfaces. After graduating by 5 1/2 kept plugging away and was able to lengths over the Aqueduct lawn take a hard-fought battle as the lon- Apr. 7, Red Giant was runner-up in a gest shot on the board. Karamanos May 2 Belmont allowance, and got was not advised that he had the ride back in the win column with a two- until just before the day=s first race. length score in Elmont June 3. AMy agent called Todd Pletcher and he Wheeled back on two weeks= rest, he said I had a 90-percent chance to ride was sent to Monmouth for the Red Giant (far left) rallies to win the Virginia this horse,@ the veteran reinsman com- June 17 Restoration S. and was up in Derby Jeff Coady/Coady Photography mented. AI got the chance. I am so the final jump to win by a nose, a trait happy to win.@ which would serve him well yesterday. Seltzers Bathed in Success... Circular Quay Fails to Fire... Ed and Marilyn Seltzer, whose sire Greatness (Mr. Circular Quay is bred top and bottom to handle the Prospector) was represented by his first winner yester- switch to the turf, but never did any real running, day, bred Red Giant from the multiple stakes-placed checking in sixth, beaten nearly nine lengths. He was Beyond the Sun (Kingmambo). The couple has sold well making his first start since finishing fifth to Curlin in the from the mare, including Red Giant=s stakes-winning GI Preakness S. May 19. AWhen he needed to make his half-brother Carnera (Old Trieste), a $550,000 move, there was a horse on the outside,@ said Ginny de Keeneland September yearling. The Seltzers tasted Pasquale, assistant to trainer Todd Pletcher. AHe does more success last September when their then-yearling his best running when he's on the outside and he just Shan Naa (Forest Wildcat) was hammered down for never made it to that spot.@ $600,000 to Rick Nichols representing Sheikh Hamdan=s Shadwell Estate Co. Ltd. Beyond the Sun, All horses in the TDN are bred in North America, barren in >06 and >07, is currently in foal to Vindication. unless otherwise indicated Success is our Driving Force STRIKE A DEAL A tremendously brave performance in the $1 Million Virginia Derby-G2, beaten a nostril in course-record time of 1:59.62. Congratulations to owner Richard Santulli and trainer Alan Goldberg Purchased for $350,000 at KeeSep 2005 P Lifetime Record: 7-3-3-0, Earnings $489,765 Tel: (859) 223-2500 • Mobile: (859) 621-8546 • www.mikeryanbloodstock.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 7/22/07 • PAGE 3 of 8 Saturday, Arlington Park P R E S U L T S P AMERICAN DERBY-GII, $250,000, APX, 7-21, 3yo, 1 3/16mT, 1:54 4/5 (NSR), gd. Saturday, Belmont Park 1--#@LATTICE, 119, c, 3, by Arch COACHING CLUB AMERICAN OAKS-GI, $300,000, 1st Dam: Lateral, by Rahy BEL, 7-21, 3yo, f, 1 1/4m, 2:02, ft. 2nd Dam: Northabout, by Northern Dancer 1--OCTAVE, 121, f, 3, by Unbridled's Song 3rd Dam: Alluvial, by Buckpasser 1st Dam: Belle Nuit (SW & GSP, $162,392), O-Adele B Dilschneider, Claiborne Farm & Seth W by Dr. Carter Hancock; B-Claiborne Farm & Adele B Dilschneider 2nd Dam: Belle Noel, by Tom Rolfe (KY); T-William I Mott; J-Robby Albarado; $144,000. 3rd Dam: *Christmas Belle II, by Santa Claus Lifetime Record: 5-3-1-0, $219,699. *1/2 to Cross ($350,000 yrl '05 KEESEP). O-Starlight Stable & (Mighty), SW, $124,830. Donald J Lucarelli; B-Mr & Mrs Martin J Wygod (KY); 2--Going Ballistic, 121, c, 3, Lite the Fuse--Holy T-Todd A Pletcher; J-John R Velazquez; $180,000. Lightning, by Holy Bull. ($4,000 yrl '05 KEEJAN). Lifetime Record: 10-4-6-0, $1,227,934. *1/2 to Belle O-Kindred Thoroughbreds LLC, Mike & Mary Kindred; Cherie (Belong to Me), MGSW, $426,861; and Be B-Adena Springs (FL); T-Donnie K Von Hemel; Mine Tonight (Belong to Me), SW, $159,210. $48,000. 2--Lear's Princess, 121, f, 3, Lear Fan--Pretty City, by 3--Eighteenthofmarch, 119, g, 3, Wild Event--Oopsy Carson City. ($60,000 yrl '05 KEESEP; $110,000 Daisy, by Evansville Slew. O-Donie Burke; B-Mr 2yo >06 OBSMAR). O-West Point Stable; B-Palides Gabriel Dixon (FL); T-John Good; $26,400.