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BILL OPPENHEIM HEADLINE p. 2-3 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com WEDNESDAY, OCT. 29, 2003 VOLPONI RETIRED NEW TRAINER FOR PAULSON HORSES Last year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Volponi Michael Paulson has transferred eight horses from (Cryptoclearance--Prom Knight, by Sir Harry Lewis) has trainer Laura DeSeroux to the barns of East Coast con- been retired from racing after a last-place finish in Satur- ditioners Bill Mott and Michael Matz, according to Daily day’s Classic, according to Daily Racing Form. The five- Racing Form. “Mike has decided his horses would do year-old has been sold to an better on the East Coast, so they are leaving on Fri- undisclosed Kentucky farm day,” De Seroux said. Paulson, who manages the living and will begin stud duties trust of his late father Allen, added, “I think most of next season. A 10-percent dad’s pedigrees are better suited to the East Coast. I interest in the stallion has think the tracks are a little softer and the worker’s been retained by owners comp situation in California is a factor.” DeSeroux Amherst Stable and Spruce trained Azeri (Jade Hunter) to 11 straight victories and Pond. “It was really great, a a Horse of the Year title in 2002 for the trust, but lot of fun,” trainer and part Paulson criticized the trainer’s choice of races for the owner P.G. Johnson said of mare this season after a loss in the GII Lady’s Secret Volponi’s racing career. “It Breeders’ Cup H. “If [Azeri] had run in one of those lifted everbody up. The finan- New York races and, by the grace of God, beaten cial part was great, sure, but Medaglia d’Oro or Mineshaft, she might be Horse of the having him in the family, that Year,” Paulson told the Form Monday. Azeri has been was the really great part at Ashford Stud in Kentucky since a tendon injury was about it.” In addition to his discovered last week. The eight horses include four currently in training and four recuperating from injury. Volponi Horsephotos 43-1 upset of last year’s Clas- sic, Volponi won the 2000 GIII Pilgrim S., the 2001 GII Pegasus H. and the 2002 TILLERMAN FAILS DRUG TEST Tillerman (GB) (In the Wings {GB}) will lose his GIII Poker H. He was second in this year’s GI Whitney second-place finish in the G1 Queen Anne S. at Royal H. and GI Suburban H. On the board in 24 of 31 races, Ascot June 17 after testing positive for the banned Volponi won seven times and earned $3,187,232. substance clenbuterol. Juddmonte Farms’ seven-year- old finished four lengths adrift of Dubai Destination in P P R E V I E W P the one-mile contest, but will be disqualified and Teddy Grimthorpe, Khalid Abdullah’s racing manager, revealed Wednesday, Aqueduct, post time 3:44 p.m. to the Racing Post that there are no plans to dispute DISCOVERY H.-GIII, $100,000, 3yo, 1 1/8m the decision. “We won’t be contesting it, but we are PP HORSE SIRE TRAINER WT extremely disappointed,” he told the Post. “Everything 1 Congrats A.P. Indy McGaughey 116 was followed within the guidelines, and it just doesn’t 2 During Cherokee Run Baffert 120 seem to have worked out.” A statement from condi- 3a Private City Carson City H A Jerkens 115 tioner Amanda Perrett read that Tillerman’s post-race 4 Chilly Rooster Arch H A Jerkens 112 sample “tested positive to Ventipulmin, which had been 5a Conservation Tamayaz Tagg 114 administered to Tillerman under veterinary advice up to 6 Newfoundland Storm Cat Pletcher 117 eight days before the race, which is the recommended 7 Colita Grindstone Pletcher 116 withdrawal period for Ventipulmin.” With his disqualifi- 8 New York Hero Partner’s Hero Pedersen 115 cation, Tillerman’s connections forfeit the £55,000 9 Unforgettable Max Northern Afleet Perkins 114 prizemoney. Right Approach (GB) (Machiavellian) will 10 Inamorato Tale of the Cat Albertrani 114 move up to second and Where or When (Ire) (Danehill 11 Sharp Impact Siphon (Brz) McLaughlin 114 Dancer {Ire}) will get third. Entry Deadline for Keeneland January is NOVEMBER 1 At the 2003 Keeneland January Sale, Taylor Made was the Leading Consignor by Average (of consignors who sold 15 or more horses). TAYLOR MADE Isn’t it time you came to Taylor Made? www.taylormadefarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/29/03 • PAGE 2 of 6 Though he trails European freshman sires Fasliyev FROM THE DESK OF... (also by Nureyev) and Cape Cross, Stravinsky is still North America’s leading freshman sire after Breeders’ Bill Oppenheim Cup weekend. Victory U.S.A.’s game third behind Halfbridled moved her sire Victory Gallop into second, GRAND SLAM HOME RUN ahead of Doneraile Court, whose Ruler’s Court won the Once again the Breeders’ Cup proved a great show- GII Norfolk so impressively, but was among the missing case for the sport, with plenty of drama, excitement, for the Juvenile. Minister Eric’s second behind Action interesting stories, and excellent racing. There is an This Day propelled Old Trieste into fourth, with two undoubted California bias when the races are held there sons of Storm Cat, Stormin' Fever and Forestry, in fifth (so what’s going to happen in Texas?). The score was: and sixth, respectively. California 5, Europe 3, Rest of America 1, counting the dead-heat as two wins. Even so, Dick Mandella’s re- One of the most interesting developments to follow- cord-breaking four wins was the story of the day, and a ers of the stallion market, though, had to be Cajun great result for a team that’s always been well re- Beat’s impressive (Beyer 120) win in the Sprint, send- spected, if not so frequently in the limelight. Even ing his sire Grand Slam past Distorted Humor as the though by the end of the day he was in the same zone leading North American second-crop sire of 2003. On Frankie Dettori was in the day he rode the card at form before the race, four horses stood out: Aldebaran Ascot--come on, one-two in the Juvenile, dead-heat in and three horses who all ran at Calder on July 12, the the Turf, and win the Classic--Mandella's most impres- day I think they call the Summit of Speed--they have six sive winner was Halfbridled. She was wide every step sprint stakes races on the card. Anyway, Valid Video of the way and still won in a canter, earning a Beyer (who went on to win the GI King’s Bishop) beat Cajun figure of 99. Mandella’s Juvenile winner--what was his Beat (who went on to win the GIII Kentucky Cup name?--won a decidedly substandard colts’ race in a Sprint) in one of the races, and Shake You Down ran a 92. The European contingent had a big day, too, with 121 winning another. So when they run those races at Six Perfections, Islington, and dead-heater and now Calder next year, I think I’ll be paying attention. I think I dual Turf winner High Chapparal reproducing their best did happen to see those races this year, but I had no form in spite of shipping to California. Tellingly, Sir idea at the time what I was watching. Michael Stoute, Islington’s trainer, was quoted as say- It is both an advantage and a disadvantage to have ing Europeans were now really pointing their horses for the numbers ‘going for’ him that Grand Slam has. The these races. It also helps that the development of the huge foal crops, at least theoretically, give him more Asian circuit means many of the better European horses chance of siring champions, but they also mean a sig- have the option of finishing the season in December in nificant percentage of breeders and other observers Hong Kong instead of in October. criticize him for not tallying higher success percentages. There were, as always, mass implications for divi- In my opinion, the jury is very much out on the whole sional championships and, more importantly, sire lists. Kris S. now has the winner of the Juvenile--Action This question. They may be working with a population of Day, of course I remember--and Epsom Derby winner mares that isn’t capable of producing 10-percent stakes Kris Kin this year, so his stature, even if posthumously, winners, but that’s a series of research questions, and has really been boosted. He has now vaulted to the top we just don’t know the answers. Here’s what we do of the Juvenile Sire List, dethroning Storm Cat. Tale of know. From two huge crops, this year Grand Slam has the Cat is now third, Halfbridled's sire Unbridled moves sired 66 winners. 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