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HEADLINE THREE CHIMNEYS NEWS The Idea is Excellence. For information about TDN, EXCHANGE RATE in ’08: call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com 3 Sales Toppers & 4 2YO SWs MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2008 NEVER BETTER BOUND FOR STARDOM She entered the ring to a round of applause, even Her name says it all. Stardom Bound (Tapit--My White before the bidding started, but you could have heard a Corvette, by Tarr Road) first made headlines when she pin drop in the pavilion just before the hammer fell at a broke her maiden in the Sept. 1 GI Del Mar Debutante, new world record $14 million. The last horse through and she lived up to the hype with an eye-catching score the ring at yester- in the Oct. 24 GI Breed- day=s Fasig-Tipton ers= Cup Juvenile Fillies. November Sale in Ready for her close-up Lexington, when they hand out the Broodmare of the Eclipse Awards, the Year Better Than long-legged grey added Honour (Deputy to her reputation when Minister--Blush With bringing a final bid of Pride, by Blushing $5.7 million at Fasig- Groom {Fr}) was sell- Tipton yesterday. But ing to dissolve a part- the filly might have to nership, and it was share the spotlight with Stardom Bound EquiSport majority owner Mike her new owners. Mi- The hammer drops at $14 million on Moreno of Southern chael Iavarone signed the ticket and he wouldn=t reveal Better Than Honour Horsephotos Equine who was re- who his partners in Stardom Bound might be, but he sponsible for the final bid. Moreno already boasted a did say, AThere will be some fun people in the group, 70-percent share in the 12-year-old mare, and he never some celebrities--but I think they might be angry if we hesitated as the bidding sped million by million to the said who they are now.@ Iavarone outlasted a deter- final salvo. AI think we had live bidding up to $12-13 mined Frank Stronach who, bidding out back, went all million,@ Moreno said. AThere was no reserve on her. the way to $5.6 million. The proceedings seemed to But we were only going to sell her if it was a big num- stall at that point, but, just before the hammer fell to ber that we couldn=t refuse. Fourteen million wasn=t it-- Stronach=s volley, Iavarone, sitting with trainer Rick but we=d be willing to take offers.@ Cont. p2 Dutrow Jr. on the auctioneers= left, countered, and the pro-tem champion was his. Cont. p3 KEENELAND LOOKS TO CARRY ON There was a fair amount of momentum generated last night across town, and officials at Keeneland will hope there is something of a trickle-over affect when the auction house kicks off its massive November Breeding Stock Sale this morning at 10 a.m. A record 5,709 horses are set to go under the hammer over the course of the next 15 days, including 2,893 broodmares, 2,267 weanlings, 542 horses of racing age and seven stal- lion prospects. keeneland.com AKeeneland=s November Sale offers the largest and most diverse selection of quality breeding stock in the world,@ said Geoffrey Russell, Keeneland=s director of sales. ATop domestic and foreign buyers alike are at- tracted to the deep pool of stakes-winning and stakes-producing fillies and mares, as well as weanlings by some of the hottest stallions around.@ Cont. p17 www.overbrookfarm.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/3/08 • PAGE 2 of 31 Better Than Honour cont. Better Than Honour Timeline The dam of seven foals to date, Better Than Honour Feb., ‘96 Foaled by the 17-year-old mare Blush With Pride; bred by produced GI Belmont S. winner Jazil (Seeking the Gold), Foxfield champion Rags to Riches (A.P. Indy) and GSW Casino July, ‘97 Purchased for $750,000 as a KEEJUL yearling by trainer Drive (Mineshaft) in the three consecutive years. AShe=s John Kimmel, agent the best mare in the world,@ Moreno said. AShe=s a Pi- Oct., ‘98 Runs third to La Ville Rouge, later the dam of Barbaro, in a casso.@ The bay has the Belmont maiden race two-year-old Man of Iron Nov., ‘98 Wins GII Demoiselle S. (via DQ) at Aqueduct for owner (Giant=s Causeway) and a Robert K. Waxman yearling by Giant=s Cause- June, ‘99 Runs second in GI Acorn S., third in GI Mother Goose S. way. She slipped this year, three weeks later in final career start. Purchased privately but Moreno is not con- off the track by John Sikura cerned. AShe had seven ba- 2001 Produces first foal, the Storm Cat filly Teeming, for Sikura’s bies in a row--she needed a Hill ‘n’ Dale break,@ he remarked. ANow c. ‘01 Sold privately to the Gumberg family’s Skara Glen Stables she=s had a year off, and Jan., ‘02 Produces second foal, A.P. Indy filly Magnificent Honour, hopefully she=ll have another for breeder Skara Glen Stables four or five in a row.@ The Feb., ‘03 Produces third foal, Seeking the Gold colt Jazil, for breeder mare will be bred to A.P. Skara Glen Stables. Jazil later sells to Shadwell for $725,000 at KEESEP Indy. AWhy fix something Feb. ‘04 Produces fourth foal, A.P. Indy filly Rags to Riches, for that=s not broken?@ Moreno breeder Skara Glen Stables. Rags to Riches later sells to said. AHopefully we=ll have Demi O’Byrne for $1.9 million at KEESEP her [to the breeding shed] Nov., ‘04 Sold by the Gumbergs for $2 million to BBA Ireland Ltd., early. She=s open and ready Southern Equine principle Mike representing Coolmore principals, at KEENOV to breed--we ll have her Moreno with Eric Guillot = Mar. ‘05 Produces fifth foal, Mineshaft colt Casino Drive, for breeder there at the end of Febru- (background) Horsephotos Shell Bloodstock. Casino Drive later sells to Nobutaka Tada ary.@ He added, ANow we for $950,000 at KEESEP just need another Rags to Riches and we=ll be in good Mar. ‘06 Produces sixth foal, Giant’s Causeway colt Man of Iron shape.@ Very active at the Keeneland September sale June, ‘06 Jazil wins GI Belmont S. since 2006, Moreno is shifting his focus. AI=m in this for c. ‘06 Sikura re-acquires Better Than Honour in a private the long term, and I primarily want to breed to race,@ he transaction, purchasing the mare in partnership with said. AI want to focus on the broodmare side. It=s the Southern Equine best way to have success. Going into this business by Mar., ‘07 Produces seventh foal, still unnamed Giant’s Causeway buying auction yearlings, to me, is not the way to do it. colt for breeders Hill 'n' Dale Equine Holdings, Inc. & When you buy mares, you are buying assets. And with Southern Equine Stables this mare, I have a pedigree that only I and a few others June, ‘07 Rags to Riches wins GI Belmont S. own.@ Jan., ‘08 Rags to Riches named champion three-year-old filly Apr., ‘08 Named 2007 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year June, ‘08 Casino Drive, previously winner of GII Peter Pan S., TDN TODAY scratched on eve of GI Belmont S. Headline News.................... 31 pages Nov., ‘08 Sells to Southern Equine for $14M at FT November P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/3/08 • PAGE 3 of 31 Stardom Bound cont. Humble Beginnings... Bought for just $50,000 as a KEESEP yearling by ARick wouldn=t let me say no,@ Iavarone remarked. Michael Yates, Stardom Bound was pinhooked for AWe wanted her. She came in at a little more than we $375,000 as an OBSMAR juvenile. The John Hancock wanted, but if you=re going to spend $5 million, you on the ticket was that of trainer Christopher Paasch, might as well go for $5.7 million. But we were getting buying for owner Charles Cono. pretty close to the end. One more bid and we might Paasch liked the filly right from the beginning. have been out of it; I don=t think we were going more AYou know when you=ve got a good horse when you than one more.@ start putting the babies together, galloping them,@ he Still, the IEAH Stables principal was more than satis- said. AShe would drop her head on go fied with the final outcome. with the other horses, and the other AShe=s a big beautiful filly, and we know she can run. horses would come back winded and She has plenty of residual value, and we=ve taken big- she=d come back just playing and buck- ger risks than that,@ he said. ing.@ Dutrow added, AI love her--I told Mike after the Breed- Consignor John Sikura of Hill >n= Dale ers= Cup, >We=ve got to get this one--we=ve got to have kept Cono in the bidding until it reached her.= And when I went to see her, she seemed so sweet $4 million, then bowed out. and laid back. She=s our kind of horse. I can=t wait to Charles Cono AWe just wanted to make sure it was a train her.@ kentuckyoaks.com fair market, to make sure there wasn=t Does the New York horseman expect Stardom Bound some aberration and she brought half of to be as tough to beat at three as she was at two? what she should have,@ Sikura said ABut the mare sold AWhat=s going to stop her?@ he laughed.