FRIDAY, MAY 19, 2017 SHAMAN GHOST BACK IN PIMLICO SPECIAL THURSDAY=S TRACKSIDE by Ben Massam PREAKNESS REPORT Stronach Stable=s two-time Grade I winner Shaman Ghost (Ghostzapper) looms squarely as the one to beat for trainer Jimmy Jerkens in Friday=s GIII Pimlico Special S. traveling the GI Preakness S. distance of 1 3/16 miles. Exiting four consecutive tries at the highest level--including a runner-up finish behind champion Arrogate (Unbridled=s Song) in the GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational Jan. 28 and a win in the Mar. 11 GI Santa Anita H.--the 5-year-old appears to be only getting better with age. APeople are realizing that Ghostzapper is a good stallion,@ Jerkens said. AHis horses develop in time and that=s what you want. It seems like it takes them a while to get their [act] together, but once they do, they like it and they=re competitive and they show good quality, just like he was.@ Shaman Ghost has worked six times since his Big >Cap triumph --including an impressive bullet five-furlong move in :59.05 at Belmont May 10. Cont. p6 Gunnevera checks out a crowd of photographers at Pimlico Thursday morning | Sherackatthetrack IN TDN EUROPE TODAY by Steve Sherack PERMIAN DERBY-BOUND AFTER DANTE WIN BALTIMORE, MD - With the sky briefly lit up in shades of pink Permian (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) is set to be supplemented to the G1 just as the sun began to rise, GI Kentucky Derby winner Always Investec Derby after winning the G2 Betfred Dante S. at York on Dreaming (Bodemeister) put on a show once again during his Thursday. 5:30 a.m. training session on a sultry morning at Pimlico. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. Just as he=s done all week in Baltimore, the GI Preakness S. 4-5 morning-line favorite showcased tremendous energy throughout his 1 1/2-mile gallop, clearly ready for more beneath his acclaimed exercise rider Nick Bush. Saturday=s 6:48 p.m. post time for the second jewel of the Triple Crown can=t come soon enough. AThe tank seems full,@ trainer Todd Pletcher said. AWe=re just trying to keep him on the ground one more day.@ The nine remaining Preakness entrants all visited the track throughout the morning as well, with GIII Stonestreet Lexington S. winner Senior Investment (Discreetly Mine) next up at 5:50 a.m. The handsome blaze-faced chestnut galloped down the stretch as a large group of fans enjoying >Sunrise at Old Hilltop= made their way through the grandstand. A pair of youngsters watching by the fence even got a nice wave and a smile from his exercise rider on the way back. Multiplier (The Factor), hero of the GIII Illinois Derby, got his first look at Pimlico Wednesday beneath trainer Brendan Walsh and briefly crossed paths with Senior Investment as that one jogged back along the outer rail. Cont. p3 PRESIDENT & CO-PUBLISHER Barry Weisbord @barryweisbord [email protected] SR. 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Thursday, the TDN’s international editor Kelsey Riley paid her a visit at Hill `n’ [email protected] Dale | Kelsey Riley Photo Social Media Strategist Justina Severni ‘RAGS’ SEEKING REDEMPTION IN ‘SUSAN’ 4 Director of Customer Service A Grade I winner in 2016, Dancing Rags (Union Rags) looks to atone Vicki Forbes for a below-par seasonal debut when she goes postward in a wide- [email protected] open looking renewal of the GII Black-Eyed Susan S. at Pimlico. 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Cloud Computing (Maclean=s Music) and Lookin at Lee (Lookin at Lucky) shared the spotlight at 7:15 a.m. Cloud Computing, a well-beaten third in the GII Wood Memorial S. at the Big A Apr. 8, bounded onto the track with good energy and really caught the eye during his gallop. Lookin at Lee=s braided mane flopped back and forth as the Derby runner- up was under a very snug hold coming off the far turn. Hence (Street Boss) Classic Empire | Sherackatthetrack quietly snuck back through the Mark Casse | Sherackatthetrack backstretch as the media got the latest on Always Dreaming Gunnevera (Dialed In) and Classic Empire (Pioneerof the Nile) during Pletcher=s daily press conference adjacent the Stakes were both out just before 6:30 a.m. The former was a bit Barn at 8:10 a.m. hesitant to enter the track as a large group of photographers No fewer than three hours after Always Dreaming stepped were lined up by the gap, but the popular chestnut was all foot onto the track, Term of Art (Tiznow) and Conquest Mo business once it was go time. Money (Uncle Mo) were the last two Preakness runners to head Trainer Mark Casse, sporting a white Classic Empire Preakness out for exercise after the renovation break with the baseball cap, met last year=s juvenile champ on the track and temperatures now climbing in the low 80s. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 16 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • MAY 19, 2017 Thursday Trackside Report cont. Term of Art, sporting a patented Doug O=Neill red shadow roll, was ridden by Johnny Garcia, who, of course, also guided the stable=s recent Derby winners I=ll Have Another and Nyquist through their morning preparations. Conquest Mo Money, second most recently in the GI Arkansas Derby, briefly stood by the rail after galloping two miles beneath jockey Jorge Carreno as training hours began to wind down with the crowd heading toward the annual Alibi Breakfast. Term of Art | Sherackatthetrack >RAGS= SEEKS REDEMPTION IN BLACK-EYED SUSAN by Ben Massam Chadds Ford Stable=s GI Darley Alcibiades S. winner Dancing Rags (Union Rags)=s 2017 debut in the Apr. 9 GIII Adena Springs Beaumont S. was intended to be a set-up race for the May 6 GI Kentucky Oaks, but when the bay was a punchless sixth in the seven-furlong dash, trainer Graham Motion opted to wait two weeks and re-route her to Friday=s GII Black-Eyed Susan S. at Pimlico. Motion reasoned that the filly, whose two wins as a juvenile came at distances of a mile or greater, may not have been sharp enough to handle the cutback in distance off a five-month layup. AI was disappointed with the Beaumont, of course, and I was hoping she would run well,@ Motion said. AIf she did that, we were going to hopefully go to the Oaks with her. Obviously that didn=t materialize and it=s unfortunate.@ Cont. p5 For $300, your job will run on this page in the TDN, be posted on the careers section of our website for one month, and be promoted through our social media channels: FACEBOOK (34,673 Likes) TWITTER (17,100 Followers) INSTAGRAM (20,600 Followers) Contact the TDN Ad Staff: [email protected] for details or to post a job TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 16 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • MAY 19, 2017 Black-Eyed Susan Preview cont. Gary Barber=s Summer Luck (Lookin At Lucky) is logically sitting on a big race in her second try around two turns. The Mark Dancing Rags will have the services of jockey Trevor McCarthy, Casse trainee closed steadily in three stakes tries around one who recently celebrated his 1,000th career victory, for the first turn at Gulfstream Park this winter and was last seen reporting time Friday. The bay tuned up for the Black-Eyed Susan with a home a pace-compromised fifth in the GI Ashland S. at bullet five-furlong drill in 1:01 flat at Fair Hill May 12. Keeneland Apr. 8. Casse and Barber BLACK-EYED SUSAN S.-GII, 3yo, f, 1 1/8m also pair to send PP. Horse Sire out Corporate 1. Shimmering Aspen Malibu Moon Queen (Colonel 2. Tapa Tapa Tapa Tapit John), owned in 3. Dancing Rags K Union Rags partnership with 4. Full House K Discreetly Mine Bobby Flay. 5. Lights of Medina Eskendereya Like Casse, 6. Corporate Queen K Colonel John trainer Todd 7. Moana K Uncle Mo Pletcher will send 8.