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SIS CITY Returns in Del’ Oaks HEADLINE p. 2 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-M AIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2005 VINDICATION COLT HEADS JRHA FINALE JRHA SELECT SALE A colt by Vindication, champion two-year-old in the TUESDAY’S TOP FIVE COLTS U.S. in 2002, out of MGSW Roza Robata (Fire Maker) Hip Sire Dam Price headed the final day of action at the Japan Racing 186 Vindication Roza Robata $1,696,429 Horse Association’s Select Foal Sale, held at the North- Consigned by Northern Farm ern Horse Park on the island of Hokkaido. Masahiro Purchased by Danox Co Ltd Noda went up to $1,696,429 to beat out Riichi Kondo 200 Agnes Tachyon (Jpn) Queen Maud (Ire) $1,339,286 for the colt. Hip 186, who is a member of his sire’s first Consigned by Shadai Farm crop of foals, was consigned by Katsumi Yoshida’s Purchased by Hiroyoshi Usuda Northern Farm. Following on 176 Agnes Tachyon (Jpn) Biwa Heidi (Jpn) $1,116,071 the heels of a successful open- Consigned by Northern Farm ing session, Japanese stallion Purchased by Riichi Kondo Agnes Tachyon (Jpn) proved 233 Empire Maker Ms. Strike Zone $892,857 very popular again on the sec- Consigned by Shadai Farm ond day when Hip 200, a colt Purchased by A.H.S. out of G1 Prix Vermeille winner 221 Agnes Tachyon (Jpn) Whitewater Affair (GB) $803,571 Queen Maud (Ire) (Akarad {Fr}), Consigned by Shadai Farm reeled in a $1,339,286 final Purchased by A.H.S. bid. Purchased by Hiroyoshi Hip 186 JRHA Usuda, the colt was consigned TUESDAY’S TOP FOUR FILLIES by Teruya Yoshida’s Shadai Farm.The good times con- Hip Sire Dam Price tinued to roll for the seven-year-old Agnes Tachyon 203 Sakura Bakushin O Bisque Doll (Jpn) $366,071 Consigned by Northern Farm when Hip 176, out of the Japanese champion juvenile Purchased by Makoto Kaneko filly Biwa Heidi (Jpn) (Caerleon), brought $1,116,071. 198 Jungle Pocket (Jpn) Sermon Time $272,321 The colt was secured by Riichi Kondo, who owns the Consigned by Northern Farm foal’s three-quarter brother Admire Japan (Jpn), winner Purchased by Yoshinobu Hayashi of the G3 Keisei Hai earlier this year. “He was my pick 174 Symboli Kris S Assam Hill (Jpn) $267,857 of the sale,” said Kondo after the purchase. “I am very Consigned by Shiraoi Farm happy to acquire him.” Hip 233, the first representative Purchased by Zyuichi Hoshino of 2003 GI Belmont S. winner Empire Maker to go 249 War Emblem Sin For Me $267,857 through the sale’s ring, was purchased for $892,857. Consigned by Shadai Farm Consigned by Shadai Farm, the a half brother to GISW Purchased by Takaya Shimakawa Magistretti, was purchased by Takaya Shimakawa’s A.H.S. Inc. At the conclusion of two days of selling, 242 lots grossed $71,178,571, representing a 3.78- JRHA SELECT FOALS percent increase over last year. The average price was TUESDAY, JULY 12, 2005 $294,126--a modest 0.3-percent increase over 2004, while the median of $232,143 increased by 7.2 per- CUMULATIVE 2005 2004 No. Offered 302 308 cent. The buy-back rate of 19.9 percent was the lowest No. Sold 242 234 in sale history. “Japanese buyers are very strong,” said RNAs 60 74 Teruya Yoshida, vice chairman of JRHA. “This is the % RNA 19.9% 24.0% market which owners in this country cannot miss, and Gross (¥) 7,972,000,000 7,682,000,000 this is the market which Japanese breeders must send Average (¥) (% change) 32,942,149 (+0.34%) 32,829,060 the best horses they bred.” Median (¥) (% change) 26,000,000 (+7.21%) 24,250,000 www.taylormadefarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/13/05 • PAGE 2 of 7 P P R E V I E W P H C L A S S I C C O R N E R H Thursday, Longchamp, France TRIO ADDED TO OAKS JUDDMONTE GRAND PRIX DE PARIS-G1, i500,000, Sunday’s G1 Darley Irish Oaks had its potential field 3yo, c/f, 1½mT swollen by three supplementary entries at yesterday’s SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY five-day stage. His Highness the Aga Khan was respon- 1 5 Bellamy Cay (GB) Kris (GB) Hughes sible for two of those when paying the i40,000 for 2 4 Laverock (Ire) Octagonal (NZ) Blancpain both the Alain de Royer-Dupre-trained G3 Prix du 3 7 Desideratum (GB) Darshaan (GB) Soumillon Royaumont winner Shawanda (Ire) (Sinndar {Ire}) and 4 8 Plea Bargain (GB) Machiavellian Fortune the Listed Victor McCalmont Memorial S. scorer 5 1 Musketier (Ger) Acatenango (Ger) Thulliez Hazariya (Ire) (Xaar {GB}), from the John Oxx stable. 6 9 Annenkov (Ire) Danehill Peslier Also added to the mile-and-a-half Curragh Classic was 7 6 Scorpion (Ire) Montjeu (Ire) Fallon Lady O’Reilly’s G3 Blue Wind S. and G3 Noblesse S. 8 3 Orion Star (Fr) Sternkoenig (Ire) Jarnet winner Right Key (Ire) (Key of Luck), trained by Kevin 9 2 Airex (GB) Unfuwain Pasquier Prendergast. As expected, Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al All carry 128 pounds. Maktoum’s G1 Epsom Oaks heroine Eswarah (GB) (Unfuwain) will sidestep the race, which attracted a Saturday, Delaware Park total of 21, including the Sangster Family’s G1 Fillies’ DELAWARE OAKS-GII, $500,000, 3yo, f, 1 1/16m Mile winner Playful Act (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells). She re- PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY WT turned to take the G2 Lancashire Oaks at Haydock July 1 Lisaized Wayne County (Ire) Vaz 115 2 and her trainer John Gosden confirmed her on course 2 Bayou Breeze A.P. Indy no rider 115 for the Classic. “We are playing it by ear, but she is in 3 Pleasant Chimes Pleasant Tap no rider 119 good form,” he told the Racing Post. “At this stage, 4 Brooke’s Halo Southern Halo Lumpkins 119 there is no reason why she wouldn’t be running.” Also 5 R Lady Joy Vicar Lezcano 119 in the list is Helena Springfield Ltd’s G3 Hopping S. 6 Sis City Slew City Slew Prado 122 winner Dash to the Top (GB) (Montjeu {Ire}), Joseph 7 Dance Away Capote Capote Bejarano 119 Joyce’s G1 Irish 1000 Guineas scorer Saoire (GB) (Piv- 8 Round Pond Awesome Again Elliott 122 otal {GB}), Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s Epsom Oaks third Pictavia (Ire) (Sinndar {Ire}) and Tony JRHA SELECT FOALS and Frances Donnelly’s G1 Moyglare Stud S. heroine Chelsea Rose (Ire) (Desert King {Ire}). Track officials are TUESDAY, JULY 12, 2005 forecasting ground on the fast side of good, with a dry week in prospect. SESSION TOTALS 2005 2004 No. Offered 145 149 No. Sold 114 112 TDN TODAY RNAs 31 37 Headline News .....................7 pages % RNA 21.4% 24.8% Gross (¥) 3,556,000,000 3,663,500,000 Average (¥) (% change) 31,192,982 (-4.6) 32,709,821 Median (¥) (% change) 24,000,000 (NC) 24,000,000 All horses in the TDN are bred in North America, http://www.jrha.or.jp/eng/index.html unless otherwise indicated War Chant Keep sounding the drums Last week he had his 7th stakes performer from his first crop (at Hollywood Park), his 8th stakes performer overall (in France) and his three-quarter brother (IVAN DENISOVICH) www.threechimneys.com won the July S.-G2 at Newmarket. (859) 873-7053 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/13/05 • PAGE 3 of 7 Bartlett: When I came into the business, horse racing FROM THE DESK OF... represented 90 percent of legal betting turnover in Britain. During the 1980s it remained at about 70 per- Bill Oppenheim cent. Then soccer, greyhounds, what we call FOBTs (Fixed Odds Betting Terminals) and Virtual Racing were WARWICK BARTLETT INTERVIEW all promoted extensively, simply because the horse The legalization of bookmaking in the early 1960s racing product was the most expensive product for in Britain came none too soon for Warwick Bartlett. As bookmakers. As a result, horse racing is now about 35 a 12-year-old in 1960, he laid St. Paddy to win percent of betting turnover. As far as the Derby and was stung by “the people’s where it stands in the thinking of financial choice” (and, as he puts it, “the pupils’ choice, analysts, horse racing is just not on the too,”) Lester Piggott. He stuck with it. He radar screen at the moment. Analysts fol- worked in a local betting shop and, at 17, went low the money and, at the moment, on-line to something called The London School of Turf gaming, especially poker, is where the ac- Accountancy (is that great? If only they’d had one of those in Wichita). In June of 1966, aged tion is. This doesn’t mean to say it will not 18 ¼, he became the youngest person in the return at some stage, but that will be up to UK to be granted a bookmaker’s permit. An the horse racing industry itself, and the owner of independent betting shops in what way it adapts itself in the future. At the are called the West Midlands (Birmingham and moment, U.K. Racing is doing very little to suburbs,) Bartlett became involved in bookmak- move itself forward. Its main efforts are directed toward maintaining the subsidy ers’ trade organizations. By 1995, he was Warwick Bartlett chairman of the BBOA (British Betting Office and getting as much as possible from the Association,) which had the first internet website of any off-course betting industry.