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DEEP IMPACT NAMED JAPAN’S HORSE OF HEADLINE THE YEAR...p2 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2007 INVASOR IN A LANDSLIDE HOW THEY VOTED... Claiming 228 of the 271 votes cast, Invasor (Arg) (Candy Stripes) capped off a perfect stateside season Horse of the Year Invasor (Arg) (228), Barbaro (21), with a landslide victory for the title Bernardini (16) of 2006 Horse of the Year. The 2-Year-Old Male Street Sense (229), Circular Quay bay was virtually unchallenged in (13), Tiz Wonderful (11) the category of champion older 2-Year-Old Female Dreaming of Anna (265), horse, taking 262 of the votes; Octave (3) Lava Man garnered just eight, with 3-Year-Old Male Bernardini (210), Barbaro (56), one abstention. AIt was tough to Discreet Cat (4) vote against him,@ said his trainer, Kiaran McLaughlin. Indeed, Invasor 3-Year-Old Female Wait a While (138), Pine Island was unbeaten in four U.S. starts (108), Bushfire (18) last year, and put the exclamation Older Male Invasor (Arg) (262), Lava Man (8) Adam Coglianese point on the season when coming Older Female Fleet Indian (213), Round Pond back off a 90-day layoff to best three-year-old cham- (48), Asi Siempre (4) pion Bernardini (A.P. Indy) by a length in the Nov. 4 GI Sprinter Thor=s Echo (213), Discreet Cat Breeders= Cup Classic. Invasor was a hands-down win- (39), Henny Hughes (15) ner, but the vote for champion turf horse was tight. Male Turf Horse Miesque=s Approval (74), The Tin After the final tally, it was Miesque=s Approval Man (69), English Channel (63) (Miesque=s Son) edging The Tin Man (Affirmed) by five votes, 74 to 69, with English Channel (Smart Strike) Female Turf Horse Ouija Board (GB) (217), Gorella finishing third with 63 ballots in his name. Then seven, (Fr) (35), Wait a While (15) Miesque=s Approval fought his way out of the claiming Steeplechase McDynamo (239), Sur La Tete ranks to win five of his seven starts last year, including (6), Hirapour (Ire) (2) the GI Breeders= Cup Mile. Cont. p2 Owner Darley Stable & Lael Stables (110), Shadwell Stable (17), ECLIPSE AWARD WINNERS FOR 2006 Breeder Adena Springs (119), Mr & Mrs Horse of the Year Invasor (Arg) (Candy Stripes) Roy Jackson (47), Darley (44) Older Horse Invasor (Arg) (Candy Stripes) Trainer Todd Pletcher (194), Kiaran 2yo Male Street Sense (Street Cry {Ire}) McLaughlin (29), Michael Matz 2yo Female Dreaming of Anna (Rahy) (18) 3yo Male Bernardini (A.P. Indy) Jockey Edgar Prado (152), Garrett Gomez 3yo Female Wait a While (Maria=s Mon) Older Female Fleet Indian (Indian Charlie) (90), Russell Baze (14), Turf Male Miesque=s Approval (Miesque=s Son) Apprentice Jockey Julien Leparoux (254), Rosie Turf Female Ouija Board (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) Napravnik (7), Martin Garcia (6) Sprinter Thor=s Echo (Swiss Yodeler) Steeplechase McDynamo (Dynaformer) Owner Darley Stable and Lael Stables (tie) TDN’S SPECIAL ECLIPSE Breeder Adena Springs Trainer Todd Pletcher EDITION STARTS AFTER THE Jockey Edgar Prado App. Jockey Julien Leparoux HEADLINE NEWS www.juddmonte.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 1/23/07 • PAGE 2 of 4 Eclipse Awards cont. Sophomore Spotlight... P N E W S T O D A Y P Darley homebred Bernardini (A.P. Indy) bested Roy and Gretchen Jackon=s Barbaro (Dynaformer) for the DEEP IMPACT HONORED AGAIN Japanese super- Eclipse Award as top three-year-old, but the two never star Deep Impact (Jpn) (Sunday Silence) was yesterday had a chance to duke it out on the racetrack. What honored as the country=s Horse of the Year for the might have happened had Barbaro not suffered a devas- second straight season. The four-year-old, who re- tating injury in the GI Preakness S.? AWe might have ceived 287 out of 289 possi- had a flashback to Affirmed and Alydar,@ said Darley ble votes, is the fourth to USA President Jimmy Bell. ASheikh Mohammed and the claim Japan Racing Associa- Jacksons are in racing because they love to see the tion Horse of the Year titles in athletes perform. I know the Jacksons think as much of consecutive seasons. Winner Barbaro as we do of Bernardini, and we would have of the 2005 Japanese Triple loved to see the two compete.@ But Bell added, AIt Crown, Deep Impact ended would be too speculative to say who might have won. his career in 2006 with rous- They were both extraordinary horses.@ ing victories in the G1 Japan Deep Impact JRA Cup and in the G1 Arima JAPAN RACING ASSOCIATION 2006 CHAMPIONS Kinen. He was also named top older horse. Tsutomu Setoguchi conditioned two champions in his final year Horse of the Year/Best Older Horse of training. Setoguchi saddled champion three-year-old Deep Impact (Jpn) (Sunday Silence) Meisho Samson (Jpn) (Opera House {GB}) to victories Best Two-Year-Old in two Triple Crown races, as well as champion steeplechaser Maruka Rascal (Jpn) (Grass Wonder). Dream Journey (Jpn) (Stay Gold {Jpn}) Four years after his death, 1989 Kentucky Derby win- Best Two-Year-Old Filly ner Sunday Silence was represented by three JRA Vodka (Jpn) (Tanino Gimlet {Jpn}) champions, while his son Stay Gold (Jpn) was responsi- Best Three-Year-Old Colt ble for champion juvenile Dream Journey (Jpn). Meisho Samson (Jpn) (Opera House {GB}) Best Three-Year-Old Filly & JAPAN RACING ASSOCIATION 2006 CHAMPIONS Best Horse by Homebred Sire Best Trainer (Races Won) & Best Trainer (Technique) Kawakami Princess (Jpn) (King Halo {Jpn}) Hideyuki Mori Best Older Filly or Mare Best Trainer (Winning Average) Dance in the Mood (Jpn) (Sunday Silence) Yasutoshi Ikee Best Trainer (Money Earned) Best Sprinter or Miler Hiroyoshi Matsuda Daiwa Major (Jpn) (Sunday Silence) Grand Prize Jockey Best Dirt Horse (Races Won, Winning Average & Money Earned) Alondite (Jpn) (El Condor Pasa) Yutaka Take Best Steeplechase Horse Best Steeplechase Jockey Maruka Rascal (Jpn) (Grass Wonder) Makoto Nishitani TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 1/23/07 • PAGE 3 of 4 P EDIGREE INSIGHTS BY ANDREW CAULFIELD SANTA YNEZ S.-GII, $150,000, SAX, 1-15, 3yo, f, 7f, 1:23 2/5, ft. 1--@#JUMP ON IN, 118, f, 3, by Jump Start 1st Dam: Lucky'n Loved, by Fire Maker 2nd Dam: Hop a Jet, by Riva Ridge 3rd Dam: Pleasant Flight, by Bold Ruler ($25,000 wlng '04 KEENOV; $45,000 yrl '05 FTKJUL; $410,000 2yo >06 BESMAY; $65,000 2yo >06 FTFFEB). O-CRK Stable; B-J Herbener Jr (KY); T-J Sadler; J-Corey S Nakatani; $90,000. Lifetime Record: 5-3-1-0, $176,800. *First graded stakes winner for sophomore sire (by A.P. Indy). Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor Made. Early last August, shortly after Storm Cat had been represented by a pair of graded winners out of A.P. Indy mares, I wrote about the current passion for in- breeding to the great Secretariat through Storm Cat, A.P. Indy and Gone West. These three, together with such as Chief=s Crown, Dehere, Secreto and Summer Squall, all have 1992=s champion broodmare sire as the sire of their dam. I pointed out that, as there are numerous broodmares by these stallions, plus numerous stallion sons of the likes of A.P. Indy, Gone West and Storm Cat, there are considerable opportunities to inbreed to Secretariat. I concluded at the time that the statistics didn=t gen- erally provide any notable incentive for pursuing this ploy, even though there were inevitably some notable exceptions to the rule, and little has happened in the subsequent five months to change my mind. For exam- ple, daughters of A.P. Indy have a total of around 45 foals of racing age by sons of Storm Cat and Gone West, but there are no black-type winners among them so far. Storm Cat=s broodmare daughters have more foals of racing age by A.P. Indy than by any other stallion. This sample of around 38 includes only one graded winner in Jump Start, who looked very promising until he seri- ously damaged his left fore in the 2001 Breeders= Cup Juvenile. It is a similar story with Gone West=s progeny out of Storm Cat=s daughters, as there is only one stakes winner among a 23-strong sample. That stakes winner, though, is none other than the Breeders= Cup Sprint winner Speightstown. Similarly, daughters of Storm Cat have over 80 foals by sons of A.P. Indy and Gone West. Only two of them B-Pulpit=s son Sky Mesa and Mr. Greeley=s son Horse Greeley-Bhas so far scored at graded level. However, some encouragement is offered by the Breeders= Cup Juvenile victory of Stevie Wonderboy, who has a son of A.P. Indy as his sire and a daughter of Summer Squall as his dam. www.coolmore.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 1/23/07 • PAGE 4 of 4 Pedigree Insights cont. With a fistful of other black-type performers to his There is still nothing better than two Grade III win- credit, Jump Start is certainly shaping up nicely for an ners among the first 63 foals by sons of Storm Cat out inexpensive stallion. of daughters of Gone West, and Gone West mares have As Jump On In is the product of a $5,000 season yet to produce a stakes winner to either A.P. Indy or and is out of a mare who fetched only $7,500 as a any of his sons.