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DANEHILL GETS HIS DUE HEADLINE ... p4-5 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2002 DANZIG COLT TOPS KEENELAND DAY 1 TOP 11 COLTS He isn’t sure whose colors the colt will carry when he Hip# Sire Dam Price gets to the races, but trainer D. Wayne Lukas went to 132 Danzig Aquilegia $2,400,000 $2.4 million to get Hip #132, the Consigned by Middlebrook Farm, agent top seller at the opening session of Purchased by D. Wayne Lukas, agent the Keeneland September Yearling 219 Seeking the Gold Gioconda $2,150,000 Sale in Lexington yesterday. The Consigned by Three Chimneys Sales, agent bay, a May 12 foal from the con- Purchased by D.L. O’Byrne signment of Helen Alexander’s 243 Deputy Minister Highest Glory $1,650,000 Middlebrook Farm, agent, is by Consigned by Middlebrook Farm, agent Danzig out of MGSW Aquilegia Purchased by John Ferguson Bloodstock (Alydar), making him a full-brother 108 Storm Cat Unbridled Wind $1,000,000 to European Group winner and mul- Consigned by Mill Ridge Sales, agent tiple Group 1-placed Bertolini and a Purchased by Mrs. M. J. Dance Jr. half-brother to SW Amelia (Dixie- 119 A.P. Indy Wild Planet $1,000,000 land Band). His second dam is the Consigned by Lane’s End, agent Hip #132 Horsephotos blue hen mare Courtly Dee, who Purchased by Reynolds Bell, Jr., agent produced eight stakes winners, including champion 266 Storm Cat La Affirmed $925,000 Althea and Grade I winners Ali Oop and Ketoh. “The Consigned by Eaton Sales, agent pedigree was exceptional and he truly is an outstanding Purchased by Overbrook Farm individual,” Lukas said. “We’ll have to see where we’re 043 Deputy Minister Runup The Colors $750,000 going with him. I’m going to have to get together with Consigned by Lane’s End, agent some of my people on this one.” Alexander, who is Purchased by Mrs. M.J. Dance Jr. selling 20 lots at Keeneland September, was more than 299 Kingmambo Mother of Pearl (Ire) $725,000 pleased with the sale. “We were thrilled,” she said. “I Consigned by Paramount Sales, Agent XLII would hesitate to say we ever expect to have one sell Purchased by John Ferguson Bloodstock like that--you can only hope. But he’s a very nice horse 036 Arch Resurge $700,000 with a good pedigree and people liked him. If we’d Consigned by John Williams, Agent LLC gotten a milion, I wouldn’t have been over the moon, Purchased by John Ferguson Bloodstock but I would have been satisfied.” Alexander, who races 113 Danzig Weekend in Seattle $700,000 in partnership with her mother, Helen Groves, and her Consigned by Lane’s End, agent sister, Dorothy Alexander Matz, campaigned Aquilegia. Purchased by Mrs. M.J. Dance Jr. “We pretty much sell all the colts and keep the fillies 160 Saint Ballado Carols Folly $700,000 out of that family,” she explained. “If we keep a colt, Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent for Summer Wind Farm it’s because he had a bad X-ray or was an RNA. The Purchased by Glen Hill Farm only time we would sell a filly from that family would be in a year when we didn’t have any colts to sell.” KEENELAND SEPTEMBER STATISTICS Middlebrook, the leading consignor by average yester- MONDAY, SEPT. 9, 2002 day, sold all four lots they sent through the ring for a total of $4,825,000 and an average of $1,206,250, SESSION TOTALS 2002 2001 although Hip #165, a filly by Unbridled’s Song, was No. Sold 195 156 purchased for $200,000 by Helen Groves. They also Gross $50,431,000 $60,331,000 accounted for the third-highest priced colt, a son of Average $258,621 $386,737 Deputy Minister who brought $1,650,000 from leading Median $170,000 $250,000 buyer John Ferguson Bloodstock. www.keeneland.com First Crop Two-Year-Olds, three winners plus Tricks Her, 2nd Sorrento S.-G2, Landaluce S.-G3 FAVORITE TRICK Phone Trick S Evil Elaine, by Medieval Man Winning the world over 859 299.0473 • www.walmac.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 9/10/02 • PAGE 2 of 6 Getting More Reserved... First Session Wrap-Up... Becky Thomas, who buys yearlings to pinhook, was As expected, the figures for the opening session also on the other end of the market yesterday, selling were down, with the gross off 16.4 percent, the aver- horses with Lakland LLC as consignor. She said the key age down 33.1 percent and the median dropping 32 to getting her horses sold was setting realistic reserves. percent. Last year, there were nine seven-figure year- “The horses that we are selling from our breeding entity lings on opening day, but only six this year. But there aren’t making a whole lot, but they are certainly sell- were fewer buybacks, with 77 failing to reach their ing,” Thomas said. “We kept pretty conservative re- reserves this year compared to 88 last year. “The mar- serves on them because we thought the market was ket has shown an adjustment of about a third all year,” going to be down. I was very realistic--we placed them Geoffrey Russell, Keeneland’s director of sales, said. at half what we thought they should be at. It is becom- “The consignors have done a good job in adjusting their ing a thinner market, as our two-year-old market al- expectations. The major players were buying...they just ready has.” Still, Thomas was having a tough time seemed to have less money to spend.” He added, buying during yesterday’s opener. “We’ve been unsuc- “When the breeders planned these matings three years cessful with the horses we’re trying to buy,” Thomas ago, the world was a much different place. But the said. “We bought two horses that were buybacks...it is market, overall, has been consistent.” very difficult for us to buy these kind of horses.” Taylor Made Happy With Day 1 Results... TOP 5 FILLIES While they didn’t have a seven-figure yearling, Taylor Hip# Sire Dam Price Made Sales Agency were satisfied with their opening- 192 Thunder Gulch Drina $1,200,000 day results. The leading consignor by gross on the day, Consigned by Mill Ridge Sales, agent they sold 31 hips for a total of $6,470,000 and an Purchased by D.L. O’Byrne average of $208,709. “People have readjusted their 075 Unbridled Solar Colony $900,000 mindset and we’re getting our horses sold,” Duncan Consigned by Lane’s End, agent Taylor said. “I don’t know how many buybacks there Purchased by Brushwood Stable are, but for us, they are down. We have less than the 183 Unbridled’s Song Desert Queen $725,000 year before. The sale is going better than I anticipated.” Consigned by Runnymede Farm, Inc., agent Taylor Made was the second-leading consignor by gross Purchased by R.N. Scanlon, agent at last year’s September Sale, selling 239 yearlings for 277 Storm Cat Lovlier Linda $650,000 $23,699,800, an average of $95,179. Consigned by Paramount Sales, Agent IX Purchased by Mary & Howard Lester Dance Stable Rebuilding... 006 Theatrical (Ire) Noble Times (NZ) $635,000 Laddie Dance had a tough meet at Saratoga. He lost Consigned by Paramount Sales, agent one of his string to a bowed tendon while another, the Purchased by Lael Stable/Nicoma Bloodstock, agent $650,000 Keeneland September yearling Peppermint Kid (Kingmambo), who won an allowance race on the turf at Belmont Park in July, had to be euthanized. But, What They’re Saying At The Sales... undaunted, he was a major force at yesterday’s ses- sion. With Mrs. M.J. Dance Jr. signing the tickets, he Helen Alexander, Middlebrook Farm: was the fourth-leading buyer by gross, purchasing four “I think the really top horses are going to sell very yearlings for a total of $2,950,000, an average of well. They won’t be at the same level as last year, but $737,500. “Saratoga was not too kind,” Dance said, they are still selling. But it is pretty much a buyers’ adding, “We’re quite happy with what we got [yester- market. As a consignor, you have to be conservative in day] and we’re happy with the prices we paid. We’re your valuation.” restocking.” Dance’s biggest buy was Hip #108, a colt by Storm Cat out of SW Unbridled Wind (Unbridled), Dan Rosenberg, Three Chimneys Sales: who is herself a full sister to champion Banshee Breeze. “There is a lot of capital from the market that just The dark bay, from the Mill Ridge Sales consignment, isn’t here...there is less money here today than in ear- brought $1 million. lier years. People just aren’t spending that money.” From the farm that has raised Three Grade 1 winners in 2002: ORIENTATE — SARAFAN — SKY MESA BROAD BRUSH Graham J. Beck, President Inquiries: Michael Hernon 859-293-2676 Fax 859-299-9371 www.gainesway.com Don’t miss Hip 305 Today...a Special Colt by Leading Sire Broad Brush. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 9/10/02 • PAGE 3 of 6 Asahi Challenge Cup cont. P R E S U L T S P American-bred Tap Dance City saved ground early, then shifted to the outside in the stretch and prevailed Saturday, Buenos Aires, Argentina gamely over Ibuki Government, setting a new course GRAN PREMIO POLLA DE POTRANCAS-G1, $32,000, record in the process.

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