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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here ‘CENTER’ OF ATTENTION MANDURO FILLY TOPS MM YEARLINGS Belmont Stakes week officially kicked off with the A well-related filly by Manduro (Ger) from the traditional Media Luncheon held in Rockefeller Center in Patinack Farm reduction realized a final bid of Manhattan Tuesday afternoon. A$500,000 (US$481,845) to top the first session of Hall of Fame trainer Shug the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale Tuesday on McGaughey was the first to the Gold Coast. Catalogued as lot 1529, the Oct. 14 head to the podium to discuss foal is a daughter of Endless (GB) (Sadler=s Wells), a Saturday=s main event with half-sister to MGI/GISW NYRA=s Andy Serling after a Powerscourt (GB) and half- replay of the GI Kentucky sister to the dam of Derby stretch run played on a undefeated champion Frankel pair of in-house monitors. (GB). (Galileo {Ire}). Endless was part of the Patinack How many times has reduction as well and was Shug McGaughey McGaughey watched the video sold at last week=s National of his first Derby win? Broodmare Sale to Sheikh Lot 1529 Magic Millions photo AThat was the first time,@ McGaughey joked, getting a Mohammed bin Khalifa al good rise out of the crowd, including celebrity chef and Maktoum for A$1.05 million. Patinack had acquired NYRA Board Member Bobby Flay. Endless for 105,000gns as a horse in training at As he=s been asked to do throughout the Triple Tattersalls December in 2009, then bred her to Crown trail, McGaughey recalled the unforgettable Manduro on Southern Hemisphere time in late 2010. rivalry between Easy Goer and Sunday Silence in 1989, Lot 1529 is her first foal. Magic Millions signed the and Orb (Malibu Moon)=s somewhat unexpected rise to winning ticket on lot 1529 on behalf of an undisclosed the top of the division earlier this spring. buyer. The session=s second most-expensive youngster, AEasy Goer was a precocious 2-year-old champion, lot 1497, also emerged from the Patinack reduction. A and Orb didn=t really starting showing us anything like daughter of More Than Ready, the Sept. 9 foal is a that until probably Jan. 1, and he just kept improving daughter of the stakes-winning Danehill Smile (Aus) as time went along,@ McGaughey commented. (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) and is bred on the same cross as As for the task at hand this weekend following a Group 1 winners Sebring (Aus) (champion), Perfectly disappointing performance in the GI Preakness S., Ready (Aus) and Dreamaway (Aus). Magic Millions McGaughey continued of the Phipps Stable/Stuart S. signed the winning ticket for lot 1497 as well on a bid Janney III colorbearer, AAnytime you have a come-from- of A$280,000 (US$269,552). Cont. p8 the-back horse, you=d like to see a solid pace. In a 1 1/2-mile race at Belmont Park, the rider is really going to have to be able to read the race. You turn down that backside at Belmont Park--it=s not like Churchill Downs or anywhere else. You=ve got a long way to go, and you better be patient. If not, it=ll get you.@ McGaughey concluded by paying the ultimate tribute to his staff, including Orb=s exercise rider Jennifer Patterson. AEverybody at the barn has had my back,@ McGaughey said proudly. AI don=t think I=d be standing up here today if it weren=t for her.@ Hall of Famers D. Wayne Lukas and Gary Stevens were next up to bat. The duo last shared the stage in Pimlico=s winner=s circle courtesy D. Wayne Lukas Calumet Farm=s Oxbow (Awesome Again)=s front-running score at 15-1 in the Preakness. 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Coverage begins page 10 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/5/13 • PAGE 3 of 12 • thoroughbreddailynews.com West Point Thoroughbreds, St. Elias Stable and At the Belmont Stakes... Spendthrift Farm LLC=s Freedom Child (Malibu Moon) seeks to become the first GII Peter Pan S./Belmont hero since A.P. Indy pulled off the feat in 1992. West Point ...with Steve Sherack head Terry Finley was quick to pay homage to Dogwood Stable=s Cot Campbell and his key role in AI didn=t look at it as redemption,@ Lukas commented. creating horse racing partnerships. AI was a lot happier for Gary than I was for myself.@ AWe have eight partners on Freedom Child, and every Lukas now stands alone as the all-time winning trainer one of them owns this horse,@ Finley said. AIn other in Triple Crown history with 14 victories. Oxbow words, when they=re at church or in the office, they=re became his first Classic winner since Commendable talking about their horse, and it spreads around. They=re (Gone West) upset the 2000 Belmont. on Twitter and Facebook, and they bring their family AI got congratulatory messages from everybody but and friends to the track, and they bet, eat, etc. They NYRA and NBC,@ Lukas quipped. AWe=ve got a chance really make it a good experience. I=m very thankful to for two out of three; Meat Loaf had a pretty good song Cot Campbell for inventing the partnership back in the about that.@ late >60s. I think we all owe him a debt of gratitude.@ Stevens reflected on a phone call that he received from Lukas back in January regarding Oxbow and his potential as a Derby horse just as he was beginning his monumental comeback to the saddle. AHe=s always been a huge supporter of mine and Belmont S. Week Events we=ve got a lot of confidence in each other,@ Stevens said of his relationship with the Coach. AAfter all these June 5 Belmont S. Draw 11 a.m. years--I=ve been away for seven years--why am I getting Old Friends at Oheka Castle 6 p.m. this phone call? It was pretty cool.@ June 6 Belmont S. Charity Celebration 6 p.m. Stevens continued, AOxbow took two steps forward June 7 Belmont Fan Festival in NYC 8 a.m. that day [in the Preakness]. He reminds me a lot of a Belmont Child Care Association Reception 6 p.m. horse that surprised me back in 1995, [Derby/Belmont Garden City Belmont Festival 6 p.m. winner] Thunder Gulch.@ TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/5/13 • PAGE 4 of 12 • thoroughbreddailynews.com AHe=s got very, very good energy,@ Rodriguez FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI BELMONT S. continued. AYesterday, we tried to graze him a little bit and he was bucking and kicking. He=s been very happy. Maybe he likes Belmont. I hope so.@ Giant Finish Puts in Final Work... Giant Finish (Frost Giant) covered four panels in :49.04 under Hall of Fame jockey Edgar Prado at Big Sandy Tuesday morning in his last work before Saturday=s Classic (video). AHe did it nice and easy to the pole, and I let him out a little bit,@ said Prado. AHe got over the track well and finished up good. It was Vyjack Tunes Up for Belmont S... really a maintenance work.@ Pick Six Racing=s Vyjack (Into Mischief) put in his final work before Saturday=s GI Belmont S. with trainer Home Field Advantage Could Help Orb... Rudy Rodriguez aboard (video). The GII Jerome S. and GI Kentucky Derby winner Orb (Malibu Moon) GIII Gotham S. winner went five furlongs in :59.00. The continues to re-establish himself well at this home track bay was scheduled to breeze Monday, but due to heavy of Belmont Park this week, according to trainer Shug rain the work was postponed until Tuesday. AI just McGaughey. Since the bay breezed four panels in wanted him to work the right way, and he did what we :48.30 over the track on Sunday he has continued to asked him to do,@ Rodriguez said.