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FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2012 732-747-8060 • TDN Home Page Click Here PRINCESS ARABELLA RETIRED SHAMARDAL COLT SHINES AT CRAVEN Peachtree Stable’s undefeated J “TDN Rising After Wednesday’s quiet opener, last night’s Star” J Princess Arabella (Any Given Saturday) has concluding session of the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up been retired due to a soft-tissue injury. An eight-length Sale seemed like a different winner of the Sunland Park Oaks last time Mar. 25, the event with an evening headed sophomore filly was one of the by a 500,000gns (US$842,912) favorites for the May 4 Shamardal colt. The dearest GI Kentucky Oaks. “She came breeze-up horse sold in Britain back with a soft-tissue problem for four years, he rocketed in and was going to need six or price as John Ferguson, seven months off,” explained accompanied in the sales trainer Bob Baffert on HRTV pavilion by Sheikh Mohammed, Thursday. “So we decided, in eventually outbid Peter Kelly of Lot 138 - Shamardal colt her best interest, to retire her Emerald Bloodstock, who was www.tattersalls.com taking orders from County Princess Arabella Coady and send her back to Kentucky [to be bred]. It’s such a shame Tipperary trainer David Marnane. The colt was because she was such a brilliant filly and we were really consigned by Tally-Ho Stud in County Westmeath. looking forward to a big Kentucky Oaks run. All her "He was a very athletic individual, he breezed races were so effortless. It’s a big blow to the Baffert exceptionally well and is by a sire we know and trust,” barn--they’re so hard to come by when you get a freaky said Ferguson. “Hopefully, he’ll be a top 2-year-old.” For Roger O’Callaghan, who now helps his parents filly like that.” Baffert and John Fort’s operation teamed Tony and Anne with the day-to-day running of Tally-Ho, up to complete last term’s Sunland Oaks/Kentucky it was a memorable result. O’Callaghan had bought the Oaks double with Plum Pretty (Medaglia d’Oro) and colt for 53,000gns as a foal, and bought him back for they still have fellow “TDN Rising Star” and J J 45,000gns as a yearling. recent GII Fantasy S. heroine Mamma Kimbo (Discreet "He was easily the biggest sale we have had,” Cat) penciled in for the first Friday in May. Cont. p3 O’Callaghan said. “We loved him from the day we bought him as a foal, and we were hoping for SECRET CIRCLE INJURED, OUT OF DERBY 100,000gns-150,000gns, but this far exceeded our In another loss for the Baffert barn, Watson, Weitman expectations.” Cont. p4 & Pegram’s J “TDN Rising Star” J Secret Circle (Eddington), winner of the inaugural Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint last November and one of the most consistent members of this year’s 3-year-old crop, will pass on the GI Kentucky Derby. Despite amassing a perfect record over sprint distances in 2011, Secret Circle has raced exclusively at two turns this Secret Circle Coady year, finishing second in the GIII Sham S. over a mile Jan. 7, then made the first of his three trips to Arkansas a successful one, taking the faster of the two divisions of the GIII Southwest S. Feb. 20. Though many questioned his ability to stretch out even further, the attractive bay colt held on to land the 1 1/16-mile GII Rebel S. by a half-length Mar. 17 and was closest to stablemate Bodemeister (Empire Maker) in last Saturday’s GI Arkansas Derby going nine panels, crossing the line 9 1/2 lengths behind the possible Derby favorite. Secret Circle has amassed a career record of 7-5-2-0 and earnings of $1,018,990. In This Issue JUST AN EASY SPA DAY 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 Jerry and Ronald Frankel, Steve Laymon and (732) 747-8060 Bradley Thoroughbreds’s Dayatthespa (City (732) 747-8955 (fax) Zip) upped her 2012 record to three-for-three as www.thoroughbreddailynews.com she led her GIII Appalachian S. foes on a merry www.thetdn.com chase at Keeneland Thursday. Returnee Somali Lemonade (Lemon Drop Kid) took second. 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Every time I led her out I didn’t have to worry if she was going to get beat or not. There are very few that give you that feeling.” Peachtree principal John Fort said that Princess Arabella is currently in Kentucky at Taylor Made Farm, and said that he hoped to send her to Tapit this year. Bred in Kentucky by Greenwich Cattle Company, the $47,000 KEESEP RNA is out of a full-sister to Peachtree’s GI Kentucky Derby runner- up Invisible Ink (Thunder Gulch). “I hope I don’t sound like an owner bragging about his horses, but she was just a little more than another good racehorse,” Fort said in an interview on TVG. “She was " " " so explosively brilliant. I’ve Take Charge Indy Works at Gulfstream... never seen a horse quite like Chuck and Maribeth Sandford’s GI Florida Derby hero that and I’ve been involved Take Charge Indy (A.P. Indy) breezed five furlongs in an in racing for 35 years.” Fort easy 1:01.47 at Palm Meadows Thursday morning as Fort with last year’s Oaks was quick to compare his he preps for the GI Kentucky Derby May 5. Under trophy Reed Palmer star-crossed runner with one exercise rider Eric Rodriguez, the dark bay got his of racing’s greats. “I’m from opening quarter in :24.06 and half in :48.26. The drill South Carolina and, of course, Frank Whiteley trained came in company with Transplendent (Sky Mesa), a there at Camden and I remember him saying that every maiden member of the John Kimmel barn. “The horse is time they took Ruffian to the track they just sort of ready, the horse is fit,” said Pat Byrne, Take Charge held their breath. And, this filly, because she put so Indy’s conditioner. “Eric said he was like a Cadillac. much into it and she was so fast, you just were so He’ll have one more work here next week, but he won’t afraid that something might happen. This filly gave have any company. I’m going to do something next everyone who watched her train the same feeling.“ He week just to do something.” Byrne said that his Derby continued, “What a big, gifted filly--16.2 [hands] with a hope will ship from Florida to Churchill Downs May 1. stride from here to Texas. It’s that kind, unfortunately in this business that can get hurt. What an honor to I’ll Have Another Tunes Up at Hollywood... have owned her, what an honor that she was J. Paul Reddam’s I’ll Have Another (Flower Alley), undefeated and untested. I hope the Thoroughbred who will enter this year’s GI Kentucky Derby world will recognize her and always think about her in undefeated in two starts, tuned up for the big race with that pantheon of champions. There are so many ways a six-furlong work in 1:13.60 over the Hollywood to achieve greatness. You can have a long career, you Cushion Track Thursday morning. “He worked alone can win a few marquee races or you can have three and went great,” trainer Doug O’Neill said of the GI races that were just absolutely brilliant and that was Santa Anita Derby hero. “He got stronger as he went.