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EI Fallout Continues in Australia p. 6 HEADLINE For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. NEWS www.thoroughbreddailynews.com TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2007 MAJESTIC WARRIOR UPSETS HOPEFUL ‘REBEL’ RETIRED AFTER FREAK INCIDENT The short four-horse field was expected to be a This year=s dual Guineas hero Cockney Rebel (Ire) (Val match race between GII Sanford S. winner Ready=s Royal {Fr}--Factice, by Known Fact) has been retired Image (More Than Ready) and after sustaining a freak injury yesterday morning at $4.6-million debut sensation Newmarket. Explaining the incident that prompted the Maimonides (Vindication), but colt=s retirement, trainer Geoff Huffer said, AHe was Majestic Warrior (A.P. Indy) flew cantering [Monday] morning and spooked at a piece of from last to first down the lane paper, and his hind leg hit his near-fore on the tendon,@ to win yesterday=s GI Hopeful S. Huffer said. AHe pulled up sound, but there was a slight by a widening 2 1/4 lengths. AHe bump there when we took him back to the yard. The put in a tremendous run and he scan shows there is a slight injury which would take has to be a good horse to make three months or so to heal, so I called [owner] Phil up that kind of ground,@ trainer [Cunningham] and he has been over to see him and Horsephotos Bill Mott said of the Kinsman decided to retire him.@ Cont. p4 homebred. AHe was 10 out of it when they turned for home, and he rolled by them.@ TIMBER FELLS THE COMPETITION The Hopeful victory, the first of his Hall of Fame career, Trainer John Kimmel was concerned his Timber Re- capped a stellar 2007 spa meet for Mott, who captured serve (Forest Camp) might not have the seasoning to his ninth trainer=s title at the Spa with 27 wins. AWords win the GII Pennsylvania Derby, but the dark bay colt can=t describe [the meet],@ Mott said. AIt doesn=t get proved he was more than up to much better than this.@ Cont. p2 the task with a determined neck victory in the nine-furlong contest Monday, Saratoga at Philadelphia Park yesterday. HOPEFUL S.-GI, $237,500, SAR, 9-3, 2yo, 7f, 1:23, ft. Timber Reserve sat a stalking sec- 1--#@MAJESTIC WARRIOR, 120, c, 2, by A.P. Indy ond as Cable Boy (Jump Start) 1st Dam: Dream Supreme (MGISW, $1,007,679), set fractions of :23.04, :46.44 by Seeking the Gold Equi-Photo and 1:10.55. He moved to the 2nd Dam: Spinning Round, by Dixieland Band lead in upper stretch as the pace- 3rd Dam: Take Heart, by Secretariat setter began to tire and had just enough left to hold off O-Kinsman Stable; B-Kinsman Farm (KY); T-William I the late rush of Xchanger (Exchange Rate) in stakes- Mott; J-Garrett K Gomez; $150,000. Lifetime Record: record equaling time of 1:47 3/5. Timber Reserve=s 2-2-0-0, $187,200. *Full to Crystal Current, SW, finish already has Kimmel looking ahead. AI think he had $109,380. more gas in the tank,@ Kimmel said. AHe galloped out 2--Ready's Image, 120, c, 2, More Than Ready--Clever well in front of them, which is a good sign of things to Phrase, by Clever Trick. ($410,000 yrl '06 KEESEP). come.@ Cont. p3 O-James T Scatuorchio; B-Dark Hollow Farm (MD); T-Todd A Pletcher; $50,000. GAME, SET, MATCH FOR SET PLAY 3--Maimonides, 120, c, 2, Vindication--Silvery Swan, Set Play (Van Nistelrooy), a 14-1 longshot, bounded by Silver Deputy. ($4,600,000 yrl '06 KEESEP). to the lead at the top of the lane and went on to take O-Zayat Stables, LLC; B-Needham/Betz yesterday=s GI Del Mar Debutante by a confident two Thoroughbreds,Liberation Farm & Hill 'N' Dale (KY); lengths. The chestnut filly became the second graded T-Bob Baffert; $25,000. stakes winner and first Grade I victoress for her Irish Margins: 2 1/4, 3 1/4, 7HF. Odds: 6.50, 0.60, 1.60. group-winning freshman sire. Cont. p2 Also Ran: Georgetown. www.juddmonte.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 9/4/07 • PAGE 2 of 10 (cont. from p1) I’M VERY HOPEFUL NOW R E S U L T S Maimonides, who became an overnight sensation P P with an 11 1/2-length debut win sprinting 5 1/2 fur- Monday, Del Mar longs at Saratoga Aug. 8, appeared to be travelling DEL MAR DEBUTANTE S.-GI, $250,000, DMR, 9-3, easily on the front end of yesterday=s Hopeful, setting 2yo, f, 7f (AWT), 1:26 3/5, ft. fractions of :22.60, :45.00 and 1:09.40, while favored 1--#@SET PLAY, 117, f, 2, by Van Nistelrooy Ready=s Image (More Than Ready) was being nudged 1st Dam: Boldy's Reflection, by Bold Ruckus along by John Velazquez to keep pace. Turning for 2nd Dam: Govan, by Gone West home, Ready=s Image began to assert himself and took 3rd Dam: Classy Twist, by Twist the Axe over at the quarter pole while Maimonides faded. Ma- ($27,000 yrl '06 OBSAUG; $105,000 2yo 2007 jestic Warrior trailed the field after an awkward break, OBSMAR). O-Gerson Racing and Charleville Stables; but closed powerfully with a four-wide move down the B-Carolin Von Rosenberg DVM (FL); T-Peter Miller; lane, inhaling the two favorites to win going away. J-Brice Blanc; $150,000. Lifetime Record: 4-2-1-1, AAfter three-eighths of a mile, I had to squeeze him,@ $220,920. *Third stakes winner, second graded admitted winning rider Garrett Gomez. ASome of his stakes winner and first Grade I winner for freshman greenness was showing. I just tried to give him some sire (by Storm Cat). confidence. He=s a nice colt. Class exudes from him.@ 2--Spring Awakening, 117, f, 2, In Excess (Ire)-- As for what is next for Majestic Warrior, Bill Mott said, Catchofthecentury, by Carson City. O-Gerald Frankel, Obviously, he proved today that he can handle the A Robert Strauss and Coit; B-Gerald Frankel (CA); best colts we have on the East Coast. Probably the next T-Mike R Mitchell; $50,000. logical step is to look at the [Oct. 6 GI] Champagne.@ 3--Izarra, 117, f, 2, Distorted Humor--Arlucea, by Broad Connections of the second and third-place finishers Brush. O/B-Janis R Whitham (KY); T-Ronald L were not discouraged by their charge=s efforts. AWhen McAnally; $30,000. you are in a situation where you have two horses to Margins: 2, HF, 2HF. Odds: 14.70, 3.00, 4.20. beat, and one of them has speed and the other comes Also Ran: Sunday Geisha, Wild Baby Girl, Comical Va- from way back, you have a decision to make,@ said cation, Sweet August Moon, Foxy Danseur, Magic Todd Pletcher, trainer of Ready=s Image. AWe wanted to keep [Maimonides] honest. Today, when [Ready=s Im- Myth, Ididntmeantoo, Ever So Pretty, Treadmill. age] got there and the other horse fell off, I think he Scratched: The Golden Noodle, Tasha's Miracle. got to wandering around a little bit. The winner had a Set Play, a debut winner at Hollywood June 17, was nice set-up.@ Bob Baffert, trainer of Maimonides, com- third behind The Golden Noodle in the June 30 mented, AHe got tired. There is a big jump going to seven Landaluce S. and second behind Tasha=s Miracle in the furlongs. I was hoping things would be easier on the Aug. 8 GIII Sorrento S. With those two rivals scratched front end. Once Ready=s Image stayed with us, I knew here, the chestnut chased the pacesetters from fourth, it would be tough.@ Majestic Warrior is the son of an- went to the lead turning for home and pulled clear other Kinsman homebred trained by Bill Mott, MGISW despite drifting in. AShe was ready to run today,@ said Dream Supreme (Seeking the Gold). Now 10, Dream winning jockey Brice Blanc. AI had a great trip. We were Supreme won the GI Test S. and GI Ballerina S. at outside and just going nice and easy in a beautiful Saratoga in 2000. She is the dam of four-year-old position. When the leaders started to come back to us, stakes winner Crystal Current (A.P. Indy) and has a she was ready to go. I waited as long as I could, then I yearling colt by El Prado (Ire) and a weanling filly by asked her and she was very game.@ Click for brisnet. com Giant=s Causeway. Click for brisnet.com chart or free brisnet.com chart or brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor Made. Taylor Made. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 9/4/07 • PAGE 3 of 10 Sunday, Philadelphia Park Monday, Saratoga PENNSYLVANIA DERBY-GII, $1,000,000, PHA, 9-3, GLENS FALLS H.-GIII, $111,200, SAR, 9-3, 3yo/up, 3yo, 1 1/8m, 1:47 3/5 (ESR), ft. f/m, 1 3/8mT, 2:13, fm. 1--#@TIMBER RESERVE, 114, c, 3, by Forest Camp 1--@ROSINKA (IRE), 119, f, 4, by Soviet Star 1st Dam: Fountain Square (MSP, $202,889), 1st Dam: Last Drama (Ire) (MSP-Fr), by Danzig Connection by Last Tycoon (Ire) 2nd Dam: Whitesburg Express, by Whitesburg 2nd Dam: Drama, by Sir Ivor 3rd Dam: Frozen Expression, by In a Trance 3rd Dam: *Drury Nell, by Bold Lad ($400,000 2yo >06 FTFFEB; $195,000 yrl '05 (58,000gns yrl '04 TATOCT).