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York Announces New Group 2 HEADLINE ...p. 4 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 WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2006 LAWYER RON OUT OF PREAKNESS PICTURE WEEKEND PEDIGREE Trainer Bob Holthus said yesterday that Lawyer Ron (Langfuhr), a disappointing 12th in Saturday’s GI Ken- PERSPECTIVES tucky Derby, emerged from the race with some swelling by Alan Porter to a hind ankle and will most likely not make an expected Saturday, Churchill Downs engagement in the GI KENTUCKY DERBY-GI, $2,213,200, CDX, 5-6, 3yo, Preakness S. "Looks like we 1 1/4m, 2:01 1/5, ft. probably aren't going to 1--BARBARO, 126, c, 3, by Dynaformer come," said Holthus from his 1st Dam: La Ville Rouge (MGSP, $262,594), by Carson City Churchill Downs base. "We 2nd Dam: La Reine Rouge, by King's Bishop looked at the x-rays and saw 3rd Dam: Silver Betsy, by Nearctic some inflammation in the O-Lael Stables; B-Mr & Mrs M R Jackson (KY); T-M R right hind ankle. Unless Matz; J-E Prado; $1,453,200. Lifetime Record: 6-6-0-0, Lawyer Ron $2,302,200. *1/2 to Holy Ground (Saint Ballado), SW. something good happens Horsephotos Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com before Saturday, it doesn't catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor look favorable." Lawyer Ron was considered one of the Made. favorites for the Run for the Roses off six straight vic- tories leading up to the race, including a win in the GII Back in 1955, the favorite for the Kentucky Derby Arkansas Derby. A majority interest in the chestnut was was Nashua. The previous year’s champion purchased just prior to the Derby by Stonewall Farm’s two-year-old, Nashua, would go on to take the Audry Haisfield, who will stand the colt at his Kentucky Preakness and Belmont Stakes, and end his sophomore nursery upon retirement. campaign as both champion High Finance a Possible for Preakness... three-year-old and West Point Stable's High Finance (Talk Is Money), an Horse of the Year. In impressive allowance winner at Belmont Park last the Kentucky Derby, Thursday, is now under consideration for the however, he was sur- Preakness. "We'll wait to see prised by Swaps, a how things unravel in the next Californian invader couple days which will give us who subsequently also a better idea," said his trainer, revealed himself to Rick Violette, Jr. Never off the Barbaro heading home in also be a true great. board in five starts, High Fi- Saturday’s GI Kentucky Derby Nashua subse- nance broke his maiden by Horsephotos quently defeated a 9 1/4 lengths in his fourth trip below-par Swaps in a to the post at Keeneland Apr. High Finance match race, but as far the Derby was concerned, 15, then came right back to as a youngster Swaps had the last-laugh, siring the 1963 winner, win a one-mile entry-level al- westpointtb.com Chateaugay. lowance in New York by five lengths last week, stopping the clock in 1:34 4/5 (104 Alan Porter cont. p2 BRIS). The colt, a $120,000 FTKJUL yearling purchase, All horses in the TDN are bred in North America, was produced by a three-parts sister to young sire Five unless otherwise indicated Star Day. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 5/10/06 • PAGE 2 of 7 Alan Porter cont. Before leaving Dynaformer, we can also observe that he is something of a reversal in trends as recent sires of As a sire, Nashua was responsible for 77 stakes Kentucky Derby winners go, in that he is both an estab- winners, but while he was represented by three C.C.A. lished leading sire (although his fee was once as low as Oaks winners--Shuvee, Marshua and Bramalea--at the $3,500) and that he is a proven source of stamina. highest level he was generally a disappointment as a Prior to this year, 10 of the last 14 Derby winners had sire of colts, as well as a sire of sires, and there’s never been sired by horses standing at $15,000 or less at the been a Derby winner from the Nashua male line. Thus, time they sired the Derby winner, and it also seemed his legacy to the breed has primarily been as broodmare that traditional staying-type stallions were being sur- sire of sires Roberto (out of the aforementioned passed by horses whose careers tended more to the Bramalea) and Mr. Prospector. And it’s through this pair sprinter/miler-type, the previous four winners being by that Nashua may well be the key ancestor in the pedi- Our Emblem, Distorted Humor, Elusive Quality and Holy gree of the 2006 GI Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro Bull (a very fast horse who could stretch his speed to 1¼ miles). (ironically, Secretariat, a grandson of Nashua’s sire Barbaro’s Mr. Prospector strain comes through his Nasrullah, similarly disappointed as a sire of sires and broodmare sire Carson City, a son of Mr. Prospector. A also made his greatest mark as a broodmare sire of precocious two-year-old and high-class sprinter, Carson sires. In that role he is doubled in the pedigree of City was, until his death in 2004, one of the most Barbaro’s Derby runner-up Bluegrass Cat). reliable sires of speedy and precocious horses in the Barbaro’s Roberto strain comes through his sire, country. Oddly enough, Barbaro’s dam, La Ville Rouge Dynaformer. Although Dynaformer earned both his turned out to be a very untypical Carson City. She was graded victories--the GII Jersey Derby and GII Discov- four times graded placed, those performances including ery Handicap--on dirt, much of his considerable reputa- thirds in the 2000 renewals of the GII Long Island H. tion has been made as a sire (an off-the-turf affair that year) and the grassy GII of turf horses (he himself set Sheepshead Bay H., both at 11 furlongs. a course record for 1½ miles BARBARO, c, 2003 on that surface), and of *Turn-To course Barbaro opened his Hail to Reason Nothirdchance career by going Roberto Nashua three-for-three on the grass, Bramalea Rarelea including wins in the Laurel Dynaformer *Ribot Futurity and GIII Tropical His Majesty Flower Bowl Park Derby. Despite the turf Andover Way Olympia On the Trail Dynaformer proclivities of many of his Golden Trail T Leonard/threechimneys.com offspring, we can note that Raise a Native Mr. Prospector Dynaformer had already Gold Digger Carson City been responsible two third-place runners in the Ken- Blushing Groom La Ville Rouge Blushing Promise tucky Derby in Perfect Drift and Blumin Affair. Perfect MGSP Summertime Drift went on to defeat Horse of the Year Mineshaft in 3 Fls, 1 GSW, Round Table La Reine Rouge King’s Bishop the GI Stephen Foster H., and Dynaformer is also re- 1 SW SW Spearfish sponsible for other dirt Grade I winners Starrer and 14 Fls, 1 GSW Silver Betsy Nearctic Critical Eye. 1 SW 6 Fls, 1GSW, 1SW Silver Abbey 859.455.9388 vinery.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 5/10/06 • PAGE 3 of 7 Alan Porter cont. It may well be that the shared background is what Like Barbaro and Dynaformer, La Ville Rouge was has been particularly instrumental in making the effective on both turf and dirt, and, in addition to her Roberto/Mr. Prospector combination a rather potent Long Island H. effort, was beaten only a length in the one. As far as Dynaformer is concerned, the cross has GIII Tempted S. on the main track at two. been a very profitable one, as it has produced four It appears that La Ville Rouge was something of an other stakes winners, headed by Grade I scorers Film anomaly, as her sister, three-time stakes winner and Maker and Riskaverse. In all, Roberto and Mr. Prospec- Grade I placed Lucky Lavender Girl, was a sprinter, as is tor are combined within the first four generations of at Lucky Lavender Girl’s stakes-winning daughter Laven- least 150 stakes winners, and in addition to last year’s der Lass. Against that, we can note that La Ville champion three-year-old Afleet Alex (a reverse cross to Rouge’s half-brother, Green Alligator, did win the GIII Barbaro, being by a Mr. Prospector-line stallion out of a California Derby. Barbaro’s granddam, La Reine Rouge, Roberto-line mare) they include other such well-known won the Toddler S., a juvenile sprint, and was a daugh- horses as Rock Hard Ten, Hollywood Wildcat, Maid’s ter of the sprinting King’s Bishop, but she was also Causeway, First Samurai, Shamardal, You, Dubawi, half-sister to La Reine Elaine, successful in the GIII Johar and Tweedside. Alan Porter may be contacted at Gallorette S., a new track-record holder for 8 1/2 fur- [email protected]. Please cc TDN management longs at Pimlico. Another half-sister to La Reine Elaine, at [email protected]. Marlodge, was unplaced in her only start, but is the granddam of the young Cherokee Run stallion During, winner of four graded events, including the GII Swaps P C L A S S I C C O R N E R P S., GII Jerome H. and GII San Fernando Breeders’ Cup S. With his stamina up to 1½ miles virtually guaranteed NELSON ON COURSE FOR DERBY Aidan O'Brien on pedigree, and with his proven performance on grass, issued an upbeat bulletin yesterday regarding Susan it would be fascinating to see Barbaro tackle Europe’s Magnier and Diane Nagle’s Horatio Nelson (Ire) best in a race like King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S.

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