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EISAMAN EQUINE Click Here Selling at Fasig-Tipton to see new head-on Midlantic 2-Year-Olds & gallop out videos at in Training Sale Monday, May 17 eisamanequine.com SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2010 For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. LOOKIN TO GET LUCKY AT PIMLICO NO SANTA ANITA LEASE FOR OAK TREE? He hasn=t been living up to his name. Eclipse cham- MI Developments yesterday announced it was ending pion Lookin At Lucky (Smart Strike) was sent off the its current contract with Oak Tree Racing Association. 4-5 chalk in the GI Santa Anita Derby, but bounced off Oak Tree, a non-profit association, has held a lease at the rail at the 5/16 pole and could do no better than Santa Anita in Arcadia, California, since 1969. While third, six lengths behind Sidney=s Candy (Candy Ride Oak Tree officials believed they would have a deal {Arg}). The bay was bet down to 6-1 favoritism to going forward at least until 2016, MID=s Chief Execu- rebound in the May tive Dennis Mills said that was not the case. AThey've 1 GI Kentucky talked about coming out in June and renegotiating a Derby, but once new lease,@ Oak Tree=s Executive Vice President again was roughed Sherwood Chillingworth told Daily Racing Form. AThey up while racing are telling us it will be very equitable, but until we see along the inside dur- it, we don't know.@ Mills would not discuss the poten- ing the opening ex- tial for a new contract. AIt's totally inappropriate to talk changes of the race. about those things at this period of time," he told DRF. Some would have AI'm sure they've got ideas on their own. We're not called it a day, but going to talk about specifics at this moment, because Lookin At Lucky was we think it's important for all of us to come up with a able to close some comprehensive plan that is doable, and we hope that ground to be sixth, we can accomplish that by the middle of June.@ He seven lengths adrift added, AThis is not personal with Oak Tree. The whole of Super Saver model needs review. Let's start with a clean slate and (Maria=s Mon). Can figure out how to make things work.@ The two entities he shake off the hex will meet next week to discuss the future; if Oak Tree to give trainer Bob Lookin At Lucky EquiSport cannot negotiate a new contract with MID, it could Baffert a fifth win in hold its meet at another California track, possibly Holly- the GI Preakness S.? Looking to change his luck, Baffert wood Park. We ve got the dates, Chillingsworth told took Garrett Gomez off the colt, giving Martin Garcia A = @ DRF. his first Preakness mount. AI wanted to try to just change our mojo a little bit,@ Baffert explained. AOur mojo just wasn=t working. It was just something differ- ent. If I=m going to come here, I want to do something different. He=s been in trouble; we=ve had bad luck three times in a row. That=s the only reason I did it.@ Cont. p2 Recent Kentucky Derby Winners in the Preakness Year KY Derby Winner Trainer PIM Finish/Odds 2009 Mine That Bird Woolley 2nd/6.60 2008 Big Brown Dutrow Jr 1st/0.20* 2007 Street Sense Nafzger 2nd/1.30* 2006 Barbaro Matz DNF/0.50* 2005 Giacomo Shirreffs 3rd/6.00 2004 Smarty Jones Servis 1st/0.70* 2003 Funny Cide Tagg 1st/1.90* 2002 War Emblem Baffert 1st/2.80* 2001 Monarchos Ward Jr 6th/2.30* 2000 Fusaichi Pegasus Drysdale 2nd/0.30* *denotes favorite www.coolmore.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 5/15/10 • PAGE 2 of 13 • thoroughbreddailynews.com FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI PREAKNESS MARQUARDT... MAKING THE SCENE It was an overcast Black-Eyed Susan morning yester- day at Pimlico, but the temps were pleasant enough and everyone seemed in a relaxed mood on the backstretch. For those who have- n't been to Pimlico, the barn that houses the Preakness runners doesn't sit on the backstretch, but instead is behind the grandstand, along with a second stakes barn for the weekend's other graded Mike Pegram LM Photos events. That set-up makes for a concentration of high-quality ani- mals that's pretty impressive. The runners kept the schedules they established a day earlier. Todd Pletcher's pair of Super Saver (Maria's Mon) and Aikenite (Yes It's True) headed to the track around 6:30 a.m., while trainer Bob Baffert's Lookin At Lucky (Smart Strike) waited until just after the 8:15 a.m. renovation break to go out. Baffert, rocking out the ostrich-skin boots, was joined by several colleagues, including Lookin At Lucky's co-owner Mike Pegram. Asked just after watching 'Lucky' jog 1 3/8 miles if he was beginning to get ner- vous, Pegram smiled and said, "Me? Nahhhh." Baffert kept the group amused by relating the story of when Silver Charm stopped suddenly and dropped rider Larry Damore on the clubhouse turn at Pimlico one pre-Preakness morning. "He didn't even know he was loose; he was just jogging around out there," Baffert said. "I told a reporter the rider's name was Larry DaMoron." Joining the Lookin At Lucky team was Pegram's friend Mike Tice, former coach of the Minnesota Vi- kings and current offensive line coach for the Chicago Bears. At 6'7" and 250 pounds, Tice is roughly the size of a Winnebago. At one point yesterday, a security guard, trying to determine who belonged where, asked Tice if he was part of the group. "I am the group," Tice replied. Preakness Coverage cont. p3 859-873-7270 • www.airdriestud.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 5/15/10 • PAGE 3 of 13 • thoroughbreddailynews.com New Shooters... Preview Eight of the last 10 Derby winners have hit the board in the Preakness, and four have won it. Monarchos, the Triple Threat? other son of Maria=s Mon to wear Immediately after guiding Super Saver (Maria=s Mon) the blanket of roses, could do no to victory in the GI Kentucky Derby two weeks ago, better than sixth in 2001. No less jockey Calvin Borel went on national TV and guaranteed than seven of today=s 12 starters a Triple Crown victory. He was sounding just as confi- will be looking to knock Super dent on the eve of the second leg of the Crown. AI think Saver off the podium, including this colt is starting to peak at the right time, and it=s a Cal-bred Caracortado (Cat Dreams). big, big plus,@ Borel said. AHe worked so good Monday The gelding missed out on a Derby morning, you wouldn=t imagine.@ He backed off a little berth through a lack of graded to remark, AI=d love to win the Triple Crown, but if it earnings, but his co-owner Donald Caracortado EquiSport happens, it happens. If it doesn=t, it doesn=t. But the Balhut took the disappointment in colt is coming into the race super good.@ Super Saver, stride. AWe would have liked to have had enough points forwardly placed in his first six starts, did rate a little to get there, but it wasn=t to be,@ said Blahut. AWe=re farther back in fourth in the Derby. But he could be on really not devastated by it. I think this is the race we fit the front end today. AIt=s going to be a totally opposite better in of the three races. I think if we have some race, I think,@ Borel said. AIt won=t have the speed in it, racing luck, we=ll be all right.@ Caracortado won his first like it did in the Derby. If somebody wants to go, I think five races, including the GII Robert B. Lewis S. He was I can let him go and lay right off of him. If they don=t, fourth in the Apr. 3 GI Santa Anita Derby last time out. we=ll take it to them.@ Saturday, Pimlico, post time: 6:12 p.m. EDT PREAKNESS S.-GI, $1,000,000, 3yo, 1 3/16m PP HORSE OWNER BREEDER TRAINER/JOCKEY ML 1 Aikenite Dogwood Stable Brylynn Farm Inc-Fl Pletcher 20-1 (c, Yes It=s True--Silverlado, by Saint Ballado) J Castellano 2 Schoolyard Dreams K Eric Fein & Anthony Mitola John E Little-Ky D Ryan 15-1 (c, Stephen Got Even--Hear This, by Prospector=s Music) Coa 3 Pleasant Prince Kenneth L & Sarah K Ramsey Adena Springs-Fl W Ward 20-1 (c, Indy King--Archduchess, by Pleasant Tap) Leparoux 4 Northern Giant K Westrock Stables LLC Dell Ridge Farm LLC & Ashford Stud-Ky Lukas 30-1 (c, Giant=s Causeway--Jessi Take Charge, by War Chant) Thompson 5 Yawanna Twist K Steel Your Face Stables Steel Your Face Stable LLC-NY Dutrow Jr 30-1 (c, Yonaguska--Twist and Pop, by Oliver=s Twist) Prado 6 Jackson Bend Robert V LaPenta & Fred J Brei Jacks or Better Farm Inc-Fl Zito 12-1 (c, Hear No Evil--Sexy Stockings, by Tabasco Cat) Smith 7 Lookin At Lucky K K Watson, M Pegram & P Weitman Gulf Coast Farms LLC-Ky Baffert 3-1 (c, Smart Strike--Private Feeling, by Belong to Me) M Garcia 8 Super Saver WinStar Farm LLC WinStar Farm LLC-Ky Pletcher 5-2 (c, Maria=s Mon--Supercharger, by A.P.