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FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here SO COMPOSED ELEVEN TO DANCE IN BALLERINA Lord Lloyd-Webber=s The Fugue (GB) (Dansili {GB}), Saratoga=s GI Ballerina S., a Win and You=re In for the undone by York=s GI Breeders= Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, will be headlined heavy rain showers by California shipper Book when runner-up in Review (Giant=s Causeway). the G1 Darley Though the Gary and Mary West Yorkshire Oaks a colorbearer is coming from the year ago, atoned for West Coast for this test, she is a rare disappointing no stranger to Saratoga, having unplaced effort last won an allowance affair there time in the last year when under the care of G1 Eclipse S. to trainer Chad Brown. She eeked turn this year=s out a win in Santa Anita=s GI La Brea S. in her first start after renewal into a Starship Truffles in the procession transferring to conditioner Bob Princess Rooney Baffert Dec. 26. She was runner- Thursday. Always Coady Photography The Fugue up in the GII La Canada S. Jan. traveling with her Racing Post Photo 20 and GII Santa Maria Feb. 16 before turning back to customary verve score in the GII A Gleam H. over the Betfair Hollywood under a confident William Buick, the homebred bay, Park synthetic July 13. who started as the 2-1 favorite, was unextended to Susan Wantz=s Dance to Bristol (Speightstown) looks overhaul Venus de Milo (Ire) (Duke of Marmalade {Ire}) to make it seven in a row and is installed as the 3-1 approaching the furlong pole before surging clear under second choice on the morning line. The consistent hand riding to score by four lengths in the Breeders= chestnut annexed the GIII Bed o= Roses H. at Belmont Cup >Win and You=re In= event. AEverybody at home has June 15 and the GII Honorable Miss H. here July 29. had so much confidence in her and she showed today Starship Truffles (Ghostzapper) will make her first how good she is,@ Buick said. AShe loves this ground, start here since topping the Fasig-Tipton July Horses of saw the trip out really well and was awesome today.@ Racing Age Sale. Castelton Lyons purchased her for Cont. p3 $1,000,000 after she upset Calder=s GI Princess Rooney H. July 6 under the colors of Chasing Tails IF AT FIRST... Stables. She remains in the Marty Wolfson stable. Knocking on the door in two of Britain=s major sprints Cont. p8 this season, Brian Joffee and Myron Berzack=s Shea Shea (SAf) (National Emblem {SAf) tries again in today=s G1 Coolmore Nunthorpe S. at York. More suited to this five-furlong trip than the stamina-stretching six of Newmarket=s G1 July Cup, the South African flag- bearer still managed a creditable fourth in that July 13 feature to add to his previous second to Sole Power (GB) (Kyllachy {GB}) in Royal Ascot=s G1 King=s Stand S. over this trip June 18. He had beaten that 2010 Nunthorpe hero in both the Mar. 9 Listed Meydan Sprint and G1 Al Quoz Sprint three weeks later and trainer Mike de Kock is hoping the cards fall right here. AI think this is a better track for him--flatter and faster [than Ascot and Newmarket],@ de Kock said. AHe=ll be much more suited to that than six furlongs up the hill at Newmarket and last time we may have been a little far back. Being his third run back from a rest, Shea Shea should possibly be at his best, but there=s always the luck in running--what happens on the day, how they break, how they don=t. 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Lifetime Record: Hwt. 3yo Filly-Eng, GISP-US, 11-4-2-3, ,684,104. Werk Nick Rating: A+++. *Triple Plus.* Click for eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. 2--Venus de Milo (Ire), 123, f, 3, Duke of Marmalade (Ire)-- Inchmahome (GB), by Galileo (Ire). (105,000gns wnlg >10 TATDEC; 220,000gns yrl >11 TATOCT). O-Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith; B-Tullpark Ltd; T-Aidan O=Brien; ,76,164. 3--Secret Gesture (GB), 123, f, 3, Galileo (Ire)--Shastye (Ire), by Danehill. (230,000gns RNA yrl >11 TATOCT). O-Qatar Racing Ltd & Newsells Park Stud; B-Newsells Park Stud; T-Ralph Beckett; ,38,117. Margins: 4, 3 1/4, 3 3/4. Odds: 2-1, 9-4, 6-1. Also Ran: Scintillula (Ire), Riposte (GB), Moment in Time (Ire), Emirates Queen (GB). Scratched: Wild Coco (Ger). AShe=s done well to come back after being so ill after Click for the Racing Post result, brisnet.com pedigree or the Eclipse,@ trainer John Gosden commented. AI brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, courtesy thought she would really get to the colts that day and Racing UK. give them a race and it is a testament to her that she Despite the ground reading officially >good-to-firm= for has come back, as she scoped with a horrible mucus in this race 12 months ago, the effect of the her and it flattened her considerably for two weeks. thunderstorm was sufficient to swing conditions in She has proven that she is tough and mentally strong favor of the French raider Shareta (Ire) (Sinndar {Ire}) and shown resilience. Last year, William kicked and and The Fugue was denied the chance to follow up her looked to have won the race, but got nailed by Shareta G1 Nassau S. success by a neck. Trouble in running so I told him to wait today. She likes this flat, galloping had arguably denied her a Classic win in the G1 Epsom track and top-of-the-ground and outsprinted them. She Oaks and also the GI Breeders= Cup Filly & Mare Turf, in has been unlucky in previous races, but that happens which she was caged up on the rail at a crucial stage and she is obviously the best of the elders. I would but connections were determined to return at four and consider the G1 Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe [at put matters straight. Third on her return in the Longchamp Oct. 6] if the ground is good or good-to- G1 Prince of Wales=s S. at Royal Ascot June 19, she soft, but not if it=s bottomless and then there is the reportedly returned sick after finishing last of the seven Breeders= Cup at the end of the year.@ that contested Sandown=s Eclipse last time July 6, but the signs were strong that she was back on song for this as the market support spoke volumes. Taken back We won and we’re in! early several lengths off the pace set by the positively The Fugue=s connections earn: ridden Scintillula (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), she traveled with *Automatic berth into the BC the elan that characterised her winning performance in Filly & Mare Turf last year=s G3 Musidora S. at this venue and by the *$20,000 in pre-entry fees time she reached mid-stretch clearly had the measure of *$20,000 in entry fees Venus de Milo ahead. Coaxed past the Ballydoyle *$10,000 or $40,000 travel award challenger with the final furlong to cover, she was for ALL Championship starters (based outside CA) quickly beyond reach to add another edition to her +$10,000 nominator award to Simon Marsh.