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SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 2015 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here CORONATION TIME Stephen Foster Handicap So far, everything that Queen=s Jewel (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) has done has had the hallmark of stardom attached, and Sunday=s G1 Prix de Diane Longines at Chantilly is poised to STARS COME OUT ON FOSTER NIGHT provide the Wertheimer With Triple Crown winner American Pharoah homebred with her (Pioneerof the Nile) receiving a hero=s welcome while rightful crowning parading on the GI Stephen moment. Always highly Foster H. undercard before a regarded by Freddy Head, crowd of 28,968, Saturday the chestnut managed to night=s main event at look abundantly green Churchill lived up to the but ultimately vastly billing, with John Oxley=s superior to her peers in Queen’s Jewel Noble Bird (Birdstone) holding the G3 Prix Penelope Scoop Dyga off Lea (First Samurai) in a over this trip at thriller. He was a painful Saint-Cloud Apr. 14 and the 10-furlong G1 Prix Noble Bird second in the GII Alysheba S. Saint-Alary at Longchamp a month later. On the latter Reed Palmer last time May 1. AI=ve been occasion, she overcame a slow start and lazy mid-race around a lot of good horses tendencies to overpower the opposition and win by an and he s been working about as good as I have seen a = unlikely three lengths, and so her wide draw may not horse train, just week after week,@ assistant trainer be such a disadvantage. Queen=s Jewel=s mettle will be Norman Casse said. AHe=s trained extremely well and he tested more fully here, with two above-average English wanted to win just as bad as we did. We=d probably have to look at the older horse races at Saratoga. I fillies in attendance in Jon and Julia Aisbitt=s Malabar think he deserves to be in that discussion.@ Cont. p3 (GB) (Raven=s Pass) and Lady Bamford=s Star of Seville (GB) (Duke of Marmalade {Ire}). The former, who took last year=s G3 Prestige S. at Goodwood, was fourth in Shoemaker Mile the May 3 G1 1000 Guineas at Newmarket before finishing eighth in the Irish equivalent three weeks later, but was denied good fortune by being posted in 14 for Sunday=s race. Cont. p11 SHOE FITS FOR A >TAL= UPSET Talco (Fr) (Pivotal {GB})--a respectable second behind the highly regarded Bal a Bali (Brz) (Put It Back) in the GIII American S. May 9--punched his ticket to the GI Breeders= Cup Mile with a last-to-first 13-1 upset in Santa Anita=s GI Shoemaker Mile Saturday. Last term=s GII Del Mar Derby hero Midnight Storm (Pioneerof the Nile), favored at even- money, was a half length back in second after sitting a stalking trip. AWhen we saw the early fractions we felt pretty good, and we=re happy that this win pays his fee for the Breeders= Cup [Mile at Keeneland Kosta Hronis Oct. 31],@ winning owner Kosta Benoit Photo Hronis said. AHe was first or second in his last four races and he got the pace today.@ Jockey Rafael Bejarano added, AMy horse gave me such a big kick off the turn, we were able to challenge him right away and then we outran him to the finish. The whole key to winning today was being able to stay inside around the far turn and really kicking well.@ Cont. p5 IN THIS ISSUE President & Co-Publisher: Barry Weisbord [email protected] @barryweisbord Sr. V.P. & Co-Publisher: Sue Finley [email protected] @suefinley V.P., International Operations: Gary King [email protected] @garykingTDN EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief: Jessica Martini Managing Editor: Alan Carasso Senior Editor: Steve Sherack Racing Editor: Brian DiDonato Associate Editor: Justina Severni Associate Editor: Christie DeBernardis Assistant Editor: Heather Likins Assistant Editor: Ben Massam ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising: Alycia Borer Art Director: Lia Kusch Sr. Ad Coordinator/Dir. of Distribution: Sarah K. 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Cecil International Editor: Kelsey Riley trained the Juddmonte homebred through three championship seasons from 2010- [email protected] 2012. Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Page 14 Sean Cronin & 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 9:45a Prix de Diane Longines-G1, CHA ------------------------ ----------- www.thetdn.com 11:00a Prix du Lys Longines-G3, CHA ------------------------ ----------- 11:05a Munster Oaks S.-G3, COR ------------------------ ----------- 11:10a Oppenheim-Union-Rennen-G2, COL ------------------------ ----------- 12:20p Prix Bertrand du Breuil Longines-G3, CHA ------------------------ ----------- 5:45p Woodbine Oaks, WO (TJCIS.com PPs) TVG TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/14/15 • PAGE 3 of 15 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Hoppertunity, winner of the GII Clark H. here last FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI STEPHEN FOSTER H. November, ran on late to be a non-threatening third. Noble Bird=s unraced dam produced a colt by Mineshaft in 2013; a filly by Smart Strike in 2014; and a colt by Tale of the Cat in 2015. AHe just ran in the Alysheba and ran a really big race in that, and he=s just gotten better from there and he rewarded our confidence,@ Casse continued. ALast summer, we had him here before we went out to Del Mar and I told Dad [trainer Mark Casse] back then that I thought that he was a very talented dirt horse. Things The progressive Noble Bird--a maiden winner at Del just didn=t happen that way and then he went to Mar at the tail end of that meet last August--took a Oaklawn and he had to run on the dirt, obviously. I just one-mile Oaklawn allowance Mar. 21 and held on to think that=s a testament to how gutsy this horse is.@ defeat >TDN Rising Star= Top Billing (Curlin) at Keeneland Apr. 8 before just being outfinished by Cont. p4 Protonico (Giant=s Causeway) in the Alysheba. " " " He took plenty of pari-mutuel action into 9-2 from a morning line of 10-1 here and was away well from the four hole. Noble Bird tugged Shaun Bridgmohan into w CRITERIA w second as the longshot Paganol (Tiz Wonderful) led TDN through lively early fractions of :23.39 and :46.81. The The races covered in the TDN are as follows: Mark Casse trainee claimed that one traveling strongly w Stakes: purses of $50,000/up leaving the three-furlong pole and turned for home w Allowance Races: purses of $20,000/up comfortably in front, but 2014 GI Donn H. hero Lea w Optional Claiming Races: purses of $20,000/up loomed a menace in upper stretch. Noble Bird kicked w Maiden Special Weight Races: purses of $18,000/up hard and put a couple of lengths on the favorite into w Maiden Claiming Races: purses of $18,000/up & a the final furlong, then just held sway at the wire as Lea minimum claiming price of $40,000 whittled the winning margin down to about a neck. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/14/15 • PAGE 4 of 15 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Saturday, Churchill Downs The runner-up Lea was making his first start since a STEPHEN FOSTER H.-GI, $500,000, CD, 6-13, 3yo/up, third-place finish in the G1 Dubai World Cup Mar. 28. 1 1/8m, 1:47.94, ft. AHe had a good trip and he ran well,@ trainer Bill Mott 1--#@&NOBLE BIRD, 116, c, 4, by Birdstone said. AWe just couldn=t get there. It looked like if they=d 1st Dam: Anyhow, by Tiznow gone three more jumps we could have had him, but the 2nd Dam: Charlotte Augusta, by Chief's Crown race was a mile and an eighth. It wasn=t a mile and an 3rd Dam: Noble Damsel, by Vaguely Noble eighth and three or four jumps.@ Mott added that Lea ($105,000 Ylg '12 FTKJUL). O-John C. Oxley; B-Jack would be pointed toward Saratoga=s GI Whitney Aug. Swain (KY); T-Mark E. Casse; J-Shaun Bridgmohan. 8. Jockey Joel Rosario added of the runner-up, AEvery $303,800. Lifetime Record: 10-4-3-0, $531,278. time I came to that horse [Noble Bird], he just kept on Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the going. My horse ran well and he did everything well, eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. but every time I began to get to the winner, he would Brookdale Foaled, Raised, & Sold respond. For a second I thought I would get there, but Congratulations to breeder Jack Swain every time I came to him he would just keep on going.@ Larkin Armstrong Bloodstock Mating 2--Lea, 120, h, 6, First Samurai--Greenery, by Galileo Purple indicates Breeders= Cup Win & You=re In Race; (Ire).