SUNDAY, 2 APRIL, 2017 O=BRIEN IN TROUBLE AT DUNDALK IT=S SOMEWHAT INDEED Since the Turf Club amended Rule 212 in an effort to clamp down on alleged non-triers Irish race day stewards have been IN THE DONCASTER busy implementing the new rule. The latest trainer to feel its wrath is Aidan O=Brien who was hit with a fine of i2,000 over the running of Music Box (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) at Dundalk on Friday evening. Wayne Lordan, who rode the newcomer into third place behind stable-mate Asking (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) was handed a five-day ban for making insufficient effort while the horse received a 42-day ban. O=Brien was not present at Dundalk but was represented by Pat Keating who expressed his satisfaction It=s Somewhat | Bronwen Healy with the ride and was also by Kelsey Riley delighted with the filly=s It=s Somewhat (Dynaformer) has been an honest servant to run. Godolphin both in Europe and Australia, and on Saturday he Lordan also expressed recorded the biggest win of his career when wiring the G1 his delight with her run Doncaster H.--a Breeders= Cup Mile AWin And You=re In@ contest- and informed stewards -on opening day of The Championships at Royal Randwick. that in his opinion the filly Taking up the lead under Zac Purton after the first few hundred was doing her best work metres, It=s Somewhat was pressed through the opening half of at the finish and that she Aidan O=Brien | Racing Post the race by Testashadow (Aus) (Testa Rossa {Aus}) before had run a nice race under opening up two lengths on that rival approaching the 600-metre a nice educational ride from which she should improve. Having mark. Still in front by that margin turning for home, It=s considered the evidence and reviewed the race the stewards Somewhat turned back the challenge of the Victorian filly I Am A were satisfied the rule had been breached and handed out the Star (Aus) (I Am Invincible {Aus}) as Happy Clapper mounted a relevant sanctions. When contacted, O=Brien was reluctant to challenge in the three path. It=s Somewhat had just enough left in the tank as Happy Clapper (Aus) (Teofilo {Ire}) put in a comment on the situation merely to describe the steward=s belated rally to run the margin to a half-length. It=s Somewhat decision as Abizarre@. earned a trip back to his country of birth with the win in the Breeders= Cup Challenge Series race for the GI Breeders= Cup Mile. Precocious enough to win the Listed Denford Stud S. at two in addition to being twice Group 2-placed while racing as Somewhat under the care of trainer Mark Johnston in Britain, It=s Somewhat failed to win in seven tries at three but picked up IN TDN AMERICA TODAY a Group 1 placing when third in the Coral-Eclipse S. Gelded late in 2014 and sent to Australia to Godolphin=s private trainer John ALWAYS DREAMING LANDS FLORIDA DERBY O=Shea, It=s Somewhat immediately repaid that decision when Always Dreaming (Bodemeister) romped in the GI Florida Derby winning the G3 Liverpool City Cup first-up in February of 2015. at Gulfstream Park Saturday. Click or tap here to go straight to Cont. p2 TDN America. born running precocity in equine form The only trifecta in an Australian Group 1 two-year-old feature in 30 years Invader beats Summer Passage (left) & Trapeze Artist (right) in the Group 1 Inglis Sires’ Produce Stakes DISCOVER GREATNESS www.arrowfield.com.au TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 17 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 2 APRIL, 2017 G1 The Star Doncaster Mile H. always back myself. If you win it=s great and if you lose well at least you lose trying.@ O=Shea added, AIt=s unbelievable to think we=ve won it. Daz [Darren Beadman] and I watched it in the jockey=s room and we G1 Doncaster Cont. from p1 were having an ordinary day to be fair. When he shot clear I He would have to wait more than a year for his next win, thought, >should we cheer yet?= I forgot who was riding it.@ however, which came in last March=s G2 Ajax S. going 1500 ATo be fair, he=s had a really good prep into the race,@ O=Shea metres at Rosehill. He doubled up in the G3 Neville Sellwood S. added. AWhen he won first-up he wasn=t ready. We thought going 2000 metres prior to finishing sixth in the G1 Queen he=d finish in the top four or five. He worked brilliantly with Elizabeth S. over that same trip, and picked up another Group 1 Hauraki on Wednesday morning. No matter what he did he was placing before the season was out in the G1 Doomben Cup. always going to run well.@ Third behind Winx (Aus) (Street Cry {Ire}) in the G1 Colgate Optic O=Shea said It=s Somewhat would likely wrap up his autumn White S. in September, It=s Somewhat collected Randwick=s 2000 campaign the same way as last year, in the G2 Hollindale S. and metre G3 Craven Plate two weeks later. The gelding had just G1 Doomben Cup. one start this prep heading into the Doncaster, repeating in the AWe=ll probably just stick with what we were going to do,@ he Ajax S. on Mar. 11. said. AGo to Queensland for the Hollindale and the Doomben Purton said the heavy track condition on Saturday played to Cup. He=s going there on fresh legs, second-up today and his mount=s strengths. hopefully he can pick up something else up there.@ AIt=s been hard to make up ground today,@ the Hong Kong- based rider said. AI went back and looked at his race when he Pedigree Notes... won here over 2000m and I really liked the way he used his It=s Somewhat is the ninth and most accomplished produce of action. The plan wasn=t necessarily to lead but I got there the unraced Sometime, who is also responsible for the British comfortably and I just let him bowl along so it worked out well. listed winner Manyana (Ire) (Alzao); the G3 Dee S. winner Art In Sydney most of the races are run at pretty slow tempos, and Deco (Ire) (Peintre Celebre); and the GIII Hawthorne Derby third when you roll along a little bit more you take a gamble, but I=ll Friendly Banter (Distorted Humor). Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 17 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 2 APRIL, 2017 G1Doncaster Cont. While Sometime never saw the racetrack, she earned a shot at a career as a broodmare via the accomplishments of her Group 1-winning siblings Taipan (Ire) (Last Tycoon {Ire}), Ali-Royal (Ire) (Royal Academy) and Sleepytime (Ire) (Royal Academy), the latter of which produced three stakes winners and five stakes horses. Sometime is also a half-sister to the Grade II-winning and stakes-producing Oonagh Maccool (Ire) (Giant=s Causeway). VICE PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS G1 Prix d=Ispahan and G1 Prix Lupin winner Croco Rouge (Ire) Gary King Twitter: @garykingTDN (Rainbow Quest) headlines numerous stakes winners appearing [email protected] under It=s Somewhat=s third dam. + 1.732.320.0975 International Editor Kelsey Riley Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] It’s Somewhat’s’s connections earn: Automatic berth into the Breeders’ Cup Mile European Editor Emma Berry & $60,000 in Pre-Entry & Entry Fees Twitter: @collingsberry $10,000 or $40,000 travel award for ALL BCWC starters [email protected] (based outside CA) Contributing Editors Heather Anderson Alan Carasso Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Saturday, Royal Randwick, Australia Sean Cronin DONCASTER H.-G1, A$3,139,250 Tom Frary [email protected] (US$2,395,404/,1,909,601/i2,248,147), ATC, 4-01, 3yo/up, Open Handicap, 1600mT, 1:39.17, Heavy. Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey 1--&IT'S SOMEWHAT (USA) , 55.0, g, 6, by Dynaformer (USA) 1st Dam: Sometime (IRE), by Royal Academy (USA) Regular Columnists 2nd Dam: Alidiva (GB), by Chief Singer (IRE) Bill Oppenheim Andrew Caulfield 3rd Dam: Alligatrix (USA), by Alleged (USA) John Berry ($190,000 RNA Ylg >12 KEESEP). O-Godolphin; B-B.P. Walden Kevin Blake Tom Peacock Jr, P.W. Madden Et Al, USA; T-J A O'Shea; J-Z Purton; A$1,894,250. Lifetime Record: 31-8-3-7, SW & G1SP-Eng, Send Press Releases to: A$2,893,679. *1/2 to Manyana (Ire) (Alzao), SW-Eng; Art Deco [email protected] (Ire) (Peintre Celebre), GSW-Eng, $213,740; and Friendly Send Advertisements to: Banter (Distorted Humor), GSP-US, $224,033. Werk Nick [email protected] Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. 2--Happy Clapper, 55.5, g, 6, Teofilo (Ire)--Busking, by Encosta de Lago. O-M W Thomas; B-Mr M Thomas ACT; T-P J Webster; J-B Shinn; A$570,000. 3--Sense of Occasion, 52.5, g, 6, Street Sense (USA)--Saywaan, by Zabeel (NZ). (A$80,000 Ylg 2012 WI Sydney Easter Yearling Sale). O-A J Hall, D R S Hall, The Estate Of J W B Wragge, D W F Blunden, R F Scott, L E Curtis & S M Bilich; B-Shadwell Stud Australasia Ltd NSW; T-K A Lees; J-C W Brown; A$300,000. Margins: HF, 3HF, HF. Odds: 30.00, 6.00, 60.00. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 OF 17 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 2 APRIL, 2017 G1 Doncaster Cont.