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TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2011 For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. EVENTFUL TRIP TO KY FOR UNCLE MO PRIMAL FORCE DIES Champion Uncle Mo (Indian Charlie) arrived safely at Primal Force (Blushing Groom {Fr}--Prime Prospect, Churchill Downs at noon by Mr. Prospector), the 2000 Broodmare of the Year, Monday, but not without died Sunday at Adena Springs in Paris, Kentucky, due incident. The Tex Sutton to complications while foaling. She was 24. Her foal, a plane that was carrying full-sister to champion Macho Uno (Holy Bull), was Uncle Mo, as well as saved. Bred and raced by R Heat Lightning (Trippi), Mrs. Bert Firestone, Primal likely favorite for the May Force had four wins and two 6 GI Kentucky Oaks, was thirds from her eight career diverted to Dulles Airport starts. Frank Stronach pur- in Washington D.C. after chased the bay for $95,000 a warning light flashed on as a broodmare prospect at shortly after take-off from KEEJAN 1992. One of just New York. The problem three mares to boast multiple Uncle Mo Reed Palmer proved minor, and the Breeders Cup champions, she = Macho Uno adenastallions.com flight was back on its way, landing in Louisville two produced Awesome Again hours late. ARepresentatives from Tex Sutton had called (Deputy Minister), winner of the GI Breeders= Cup Clas- and said there was a slight sic, GI Whitney H., GII Stephen Foster H., GII Saratoga hiccup--something mechanical BC H., GII Jim Dandy S., GIII Hawthorne Gold Cup and or some sort of a warning the Queen=s Plate, and earner of $4,374,590; and Ma- light,@ Michael McCarthy, as- cho Uno, who captured the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile, sistant to trainer Todd GI Grey BC S., GII Massachusetts H. and GIII Pennsyl- Pletcher, said. AThe horses are vania Derby and bankrolled $1,851,803. Both stallions here, everybody=s bedded stand at Adena in Kentucky. APrimal Force was the down and everybody=s fine. foundation mare for Adena Springs,@ Stronach said. We=ll take it with a grain of AShe was part of our family and is responsible for much salt.@ The Pletcher trainees are of the success we have had as breeders. She will be scheduled to gallop at Chur- greatly missed by all of us.@ chill this morning. Also ship- ping into Churchill Monday was Mucho Macho Man (Ma- cho Uno), who vanned north from Gulfstream Park. He ar- rived at about 2:30 in the Mucho Macho Man morning. AHe=s doing super,@ Reed Palmer trainer Kathy Ritvo said. AHe=s very consistent. He gives it his all every day. He has a great attitude--just great energy.@ DUBAI PRINCE TO MISS THE CLASSICS Godolphin=s early Classic pretensions have been dealt a major blow with the news that the unbeaten Dubai Prince (Ire) (Shamardal) is injured. Having been pointed at next Saturday=s G1 2000 Guineas, the former Dermot Weld-trained G3 Killavullan S. winner has suf- fered a hairline fracture of his right ilial wing in training and faces weeks on the shelf. AIt is a big shame, as he click for video had been shaping up nicely this spring,@ Racing Man- ager Simon Crisford commented. AHe will now need a few weeks off, but he should be fine for later in the season.@ TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 4/19/11 • PAGE 2 of 6 • thoroughbreddailynews.com PEDIGREE INSIGHTS Triple B Y A N D R E W C A U L F I E L D TOYOTA BLUE GRASS S.-GI, $750,000, KEE, 4-16, Threats 3yo, 1 1/8m (AWT), 1:50 4/5, ft. 1--#@BRILLIANT SPEED, 123, c, 3, by Dynaformer Astrology Headed to Jerome... 1st Dam: Speed Succeeds, by Gone West Stonestreet Stables and George Bolton=s Astrology 2nd Dam: Daijin, by Deputy Minister (A.P. Indy), runner-up in the Mar. 27 GIII Sunland Park 3rd Dam: Passing Mood, by Buckpasser Derby, will now be pointed for the GII Jerome S. at O-Live Oak Plantation; B-Live Oak Stud (FL); Aqueduct Apr. 23. AWe think the Jerome is a nice spot T-Thomas Albertrani; J-Joel Rosario; $450,000. for him coming off the Sunland Derby, a race in which Lifetime Record: 8-2-2-2, $515,750. Werk Nick Rat- he ran hard,@ trainer Steve Asmussen said in a press ing: B. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. release, adding, AWe feel that running him in the [May 7 GI] Kentucky Derby off one prep race is too much to Click for the brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs or ask of him at this point.@ On the board in all six career the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, starts, Astrology captured the GIII Iroquois S. at Chur- sponsored by Taylor Made. chill last October, and ended the season with a second in the GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. the following Barbaro=s majestic victory in the Kentucky Derby still month. The Sunland Derby was his sophomore bow. burns brightly in the memory nearly five years on. It was inevitable, then, that many of the breeders using • TRIPLE THREATS WORKTAB • Dynaformer the following year would try to replicate Barbaro=s excellence by sending him more mares from CHURCHILL DOWNS the Mr. Prospector line--especially since Barbaro was far Silver Medallion (Badge of Silver), 4f, :51 2/5, 35/48 from an isolated example. In addition to siring Barbaro from a Carson City mare, Dynaformer had also shown considerable potential with daughters of Seeking the Gold, Kingmambo and of Mr. Prospector himself. From only four runners out of Seeking the Gold mares, Dynaformer has been represented by the Grade I winner Riskaverse; his first foal out of a Kingmambo mare was Ocean Silk, the highest-rated English-trained 3-year-old staying filly of 2003; and his eight runners out of Mr. Prospector mares were headed by the Grade I winner Film Maker. The intervening years have seen the merits of the Dynaformer/Mr. Prospector cross further advertised by the Grade I winners Gozzip Girl and Wiener Walzer (both out of Kingmambo mares), the Grade II winner Masseuse (Mr. Prospector) and the Grade III winners Vacation (Seeking The Gold), Haka (Mr. Prospector) and Silver Medallion Works at Churchill Reed Palmer Bearpath (Unbridled=s Song). TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 4/19/11 • PAGE 3 of 6 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Pedigree Insights cont. Godolphin=s filly White Moonstone became the crop=s When I wrote about Gozzip Girl and Wiener Walzer in first Group 1 winner when she retained her unbeaten July 2009, I commented that we could expect record in the Fillies= Mile last September. She is one of Dynaformer to come up with an avalanche of good Dynaformer=s first 28 foals out of Seeking the Gold winners from granddaughters of Mr. Prospector over mares--a collection which has so far produced three the next few years. graded winners, one stakes winner and four This none-too-difficult prophecy is already coming to graded-placed performers. fruition thanks to Dynaformer=s 70-strong 2008 crop, Now the last-ditch victory by Brilliant Speed in the which includes 19 youngsters out of granddaughters of Blue Grass S. has raised the possibility that Dynaformer Mr. Prospector. has another viable Kentucky Derby contender, following BRILLIANT SPEED, c, 2008 Blumin Affair, third to Go For Gin in 1994, Perfect Drift, Turn-To who chased home War Emblem and Proud Citizen in Hail to Reason Nothirdchance 2002, and Barbaro in 2006. Roberto Nashua Brilliant Speed is the first good winner to emerge Bramalea Rarelea from Dynaformer=s first 14 foals out of Gone West Dynaformer *Ribot mares, four of them 3-year-olds of 2011. However, His Majesty Flower Bowl Derby success would be nothing new for Gone West in Andover Way Olympia the role of broodmare sire, as one of his daughters On the Trail Golden Trail produced Motivator, winner of the 2005 Epsom Derby. Raise a Native Awesome Feather, last year=s champion juvenile filly, is Mr. Prospector Gold Digger another out of a Gone West mare. Gone West Secretariat Gone West never managed to sire a Kentucky Derby Secrettame Speed Succeeds Tamerett winner, with Proud Citizen representing his best effort Unraced Vice Regent when second in 2002, but he did sire a Belmont S. 4Fls, 1GISW Daijin Deputy Minister MSW Mint Copy winner in Commendable, and his son Elusive Quality 8Fls, 1Ch, 1GSW Passing Mood Buckpasser made an indelible mark on the Triple Crown with 1SW 9Fls,1Ch,2GSW,3SW Cool Mood Smarty Jones. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 4/19/11 • PAGE 4 of 6 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Pedigree Insights cont. There is also a link to a winner of a Triple Crown event in Brilliant Speed=s female line, as his second dam, the good Canadian filly Daijin, is a sister to Touch Gold, hero of the 1997 Belmont S. Daijin is also a half-sister to the Canadian Triple Crown winner With Approval, who later ran second in the Arlington Million and Breeders= Cup Turf, so there is no shortage of stamina in this family. Brilliant Speed=s third dam Passing Mood was a leading Canadian 2-year-old. However, her pedigree was more that of a top performer at around a mile and a quarter, as she was by Buckpasser and her first two dams were by Northern Dancer and Mahmoud. The Northern Dancer mare was Cool Mood, a winner of the Canadian Oaks, and the Mahmoud mare was Happy Mood, winner of the Acorn S., so this is a family of consistent quality.