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DEL MAR SET for RETURN to DIRT the CERTIFY SHOW CONTINUES the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club Will Begin the Re- Today=S G2 Balanchine S THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2014 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here DEL MAR SET FOR RETURN TO DIRT THE CERTIFY SHOW CONTINUES The Del Mar Thoroughbred Club will begin the re- Today=s G2 Balanchine S. at Meydan has drawn a installation of a conventional dirt surface in time for the compact but quality field of fillies and mares, and looks beginning of the 2015 racing season, track president somewhat like a rematch of the Jan. 30 G2 Cape Verdi Joe Harper told the San Diego Union-Tribune Tuesday. S., as it features the top four finishers that day. If the AThey said the life of the Polytrack was seven years, result looks at all similar, Certify and guess what, we=re seeing it,@ Harper told the (Elusive Quality) will be very publication. AThe asphalt is disintegrating because of tough to beat. The unbeaten the petroleum base in the wax. We had no other winner of the 2012 G1 Fillies choice. This is the safest Mile, the Godolphin colorbearer decision we could make.@ returned from 16 months on the Keeneland became the first sidelines with no signs of rust, North American racetrack to sitting off the pace before install the synthetic surface in swooping down the middle of 2006 and Del Mar followed the track and annihilating the suit in 2007. Harper told the opposition without seeing the U-T that the return to dirt will stick. The 4-year-old looks to require the permission of the extend her record to six straight Coastal Commission, but that Certify today for trainer Charlie Appleby. there should be no delays or DRC/Andrew Watkins "I have been very pleased with hiccups, given that the track Certify since the Cape Verdi, and will replace a petroleum-based the plan was always to go for the Balanchine product with one that is afterwards,@ Appleby said. "She is in very good Joe Harper thegmanifesto.com organic. Del Mar remains the condition and it is an easy nine furlongs at Meydan, so only track on the Southern the step up in distance shouldn't be a problem. She California circuit with a didn't have a hard race in the Cape Verdi and she synthetic track. The now-shuttered Hollywood Park moved up very easily under hands and heels. Coming raced over Cushion Track, while Santa Anita out of the race, she has got her racing head on now-- transitioned back to dirt after a period of racing over her action is better and she is sharper mentally.@ ProRide. While there is a perception that snythetic cont. p3 tracks are kinder to Thoroughbreds and in fact, fewer fatalities have been recorded, Harper was quick to point out that the dirt is also safe. ADirt isn=t the evil surface that Polytrack made it out to be,@ Harper told the newspaper. AWe=ll have [main track superintendent] Richard Tedesco, the best in the business, taking care of it.@ Del Mar is currently in the process of a renovation and widening of its turf course which, when finished, will accommodate up to 14 runners. The addition of dirt is seen by some as the last stumbling block to a Breeders= Cup bid, as soon as 2015. The development would leave Golden Gate Fields in Northern California as the only one of the state=s tracks to retain a synthetic surface--Tapeta Footings--in that case. TDN TODAY Headline News.. 5 pages IN THIS ISSUE CO-PUBLISHERS President: Barry Weisbord [email protected] @barryweisbord Vice President: Sue Finley [email protected] @suefinley BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Bond Holder to Miss Risen Star Director of Business Development: Gary King [email protected] EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief: Jessica Martini Managing Editor: Alan Carasso Racing Editor: Steve Sherack Racing Analyst/Social Media Director: Brian DiDonato Associate Editor: Justina Severni Assistant Editor: Christie DeBernardis Assistant Editor: Heather Likins Assistant Editor: Michael Illiano ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising: Alycia Borer Art Director: Lia Kusch Sr. Ad Coordinator/Dir. of Distribution: Sarah K. Andrew Bond Holder Advertising Designer: Amanda Crelin Benoit Photo Advertising Assistant: Amanda Foster GI FrontRunner S. winner Bond Holder (Mineshaft) will miss Saturday’s CUSTOMER SERVICE GII Risen Star S. According to trainer Doug O’Neill, the dark bay sustained [email protected] injuries on the flight to Louisiana and will be forced to miss the race. Director of Customer Service: Vicki Forbes Page 4 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Director of IT: Robert Williams [email protected] International News Database Admin./Programming Specialist: Gregg Casillo [email protected] Last year’s G1 Melbourne Cup winner Fiorente (Ire) (Monsun {Ger}) will make his first start since that victory in Saturday’s G2 Peter Young S. at WORLDWIDE INFORMATION Caulfield. International Editor: Kelsey Riley Page 5 [email protected] Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Sean Cronin Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 • Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) EST Race Click for TV www.thoroughbreddailynews.com 12:35p Balanchine - R5-G2, MEY (Amwest.com PPs) HRTV www.thetdn.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 2/20/14 • PAGE 3 of 6 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Balanchine S. Preview cont. Thursday, Meydan, United Arab Emirates, post time: 12:35 p.m. ET L=Amour De Ma Vie (Dansili {GB}) was a clear-cut BALANCHINE S.-G2, $200,000, NH 4yo/up & SH 3yo/up, f/m, 1800mT second best in the Cape Verdi, going down by three- PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 Pearl Of Africa (Ire) Jeremy Spencer Lynam 126 quarters of a length, but without Certify in the race, K she would have been a near five-length winner. The 5- 2 Certify Elusive Quality Barzalona Appleby 129 year-old was making her Dubai debut that day, having 3 L'amour De Ma Vie K Dansili (GB) Guyon Brandt 126 4 Flotilla (Fr) Mizzen Mast Lemaire Delzangles 126 previously campaigned exclusively in France. She was 5 Moment In Time (Ire) Tiger Hill (Ire) Crowley Simcock 126 last seen winning the Listed Prix Miss Satamixa at 6 Banoffee (Ire) Hurricane Run (Ire) Hughes Morrison 126 Deauville Dec. 29. L=Amour De Ma Vie was purchased for $30,000 as a Saturday, Caulfield, Australia, post time: 1:45 a.m. ET 2-year-old from the Palides Investment dispersal at OAKLEIGH PLATE-G1, A$400,000 (US$359,018), 3yo/up, 1100mT Keeneland November in 2011. Pearl of Africa (Ire) SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT (Jeremy) recovered from a tardy start in the Cape Verdi 1 10 Bel Sprinter (Aus) Bel Esprit (Aus) Rodd Warren 128 2 12 Spirit of Boom (Aus) Sequalo (Aus) Oliver Gollan 124 to get up late for third, and her back class shows she 3 8 Lankan Rupee (Aus) Rdout’s Choice (Aus) Newitt Price 123 could hit the board again tonight. Winner of the Listed 4 16 General Truce (Aus) Brief Truce Mallyon Maund 121 Cooley Fillies S. at Dundalk Nov. 1, Pearl of Africa 5 13 First Command (Aus) Commands (Aus) Browne Freedman 120 finished third in the G3 Dance Design S. and fourth in 6 9 Richie’s Vibe (Aus) Danerich (Aus) Hill Vasil 119 7 3 Dystopia (Aus) Rdout’s Choice (Aus) Boss Waller 118 the G2 Blandford S. in her prior two outings. Flotilla (Fr) 8 1 Happy Galaxy (Aus) Nadeem (Aus) Baster Hawkeses 117 (Mizzen Mast), who collected a formidable double in the 9 5 Knoydart (Aus) More Than Ready McDonld Snowden 117 2012 GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and last 10 14 Vatican (Aus) God’s Own (Aus) Egan Cozamanis 117 year=s G1 French 1000 Guineas, came up empty in the 11 2 Shamal Wind (Aus) Dubawi (Ire) Maloney Smerdon 116 lane in the Cape Verdi to finish fourth while looking to 12 18 Flamberge (Aus) Excd and Excel (Aus) Duric Moody 114 13 4 Karacatis (Aus) Hussonet Lane Jolly 114 rebound from two straight losses. She should not be 14 17 Magnus Reign (Aus) Magnus Moloney Hore-Lacy 114 discounted for a rebound, however, with added fitness 15 15 Kuroshio (Aus) Excd and Excel (Aus) Holland Snowden 112 and another shot at good ground. 16 11 Gregers (Aus) Commands (Aus) Williams Hayes 110 17 19 Iconic (Aus) Bel Esprit (Aus) Schofield McEvoy 110 K 18 7 Minaj (NZ) Commands (Aus) Yendall Freedman 110 Look for the throughout the TDN graded stakes Also Eligible entries, denoting Keeneland sales graduates. 19 6 Brilliant Bisc (Aus) Elvstroem (Aus) No rider Moody 110 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 2/20/14 • PAGE 4 of 5 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Saturday, Caulfield, Australia, post time: 12:35 a.m. ET FUTURITY S.-G1, A$500,000 (US$451,650), 3yo/up, 1400mT RACETRACK ROUND-UP SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER 1 2 Sizzling (Aus) Snitzel (Aus) Newitt Waller 2 6 Momnt of Chnge (Aus) Brely a Momnt (Aus) Nolen Moody BOND HOLDER OUT OF RISEN STAR 3 4 Pinwheel (Aus) Lonhro (Aus) Browne Snowden Bond Holder (Mineshaft) has been scratched from 4 3 Sertorius (Aus) Galileo (Ire) Maloney Edwrds&Elkngtn 5 1 Smokin’ Joey (Aus) Encsta de Lgo (Aus) Benbow Hunter Saturday=s GII Risen Star S. at Fair Grounds due to 6 9 Clear For Action (Aus) Commands (Aus) Zahra Conlan injuries sustained during his flight from California to 7 8 Lidari (Fr) Acclamation (GB) Schofield Moody Louisiana, conditioner Doug 8 7 Polanski (Aus) Rakti (GB) Yendall Laing O Neill said. 9 5 Bull Point (Aus) Fastnet Rock (Aus) Oliver Waterhouse = All carry 130 pounds bar Polanski and Bull Point, 122 pounds AThis morning we scratched Bond Holder from the Risen Star Saturday, Laurel Park, post time: 4:24 p.m.
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