FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2014 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here INTENSE HOLIDAY DIES CLAIM TO FAME Starlight Racing=s Intense Holiday (Harlan=s Holiday-- By Steve Sherack Intensify, by Unbridled=s Song) was euthanized When Randy L. Morse dropped a $40,000 claiming Thursday after a battle with laminitis. The GII Risen slip on Moonshine Mullin (Albert the Great) out of a Star S. winner suffered a condylar fracture in his right runner-up effort at Remington last November, it=s pretty front leg during training May 25, and underwent safe to say that Saturday=s successful surgery May 27 at Hogan Equine Veterinary GI Stephen Foster H. at Churchill Clinic in New Jersey. Downs wasn=t on the 52-year- He was retired after old trainer=s radar. the surgery and AHe=s a nice-looking horse and I expected to make a thought he would be the type of full recovery and horse that would be good for eventually stand at Oaklawn in that $40,000 - stud, but he soon $50,000 range, and luckily he=s developed laminitis in turned out to be a little better both forelimbs that than that,@ an understated Morse became irreversible. commented when reached by AIt=s a tough day for Intense Holiday Lou Hodges Photo phone Thursday afternoon. me, our partners and The super game GII Alysheba our team,@ said Jack Wolf, Starlight Racing = = co-managing partner. AThis horse was a fighter and he S. hero isn t Morse s first Randy Morse fought for his life in the same way he battled on the success story to come via the ownerview.com track--with tenacity. It=s a terrible loss for all of us.@ claiming box. Millionaire Morluc Trained by Todd Pletcher, the $380,000 KEESEP (Housebuster)--haltered for $50,000 during his yearling was third in Gulfstream=s GII Holy Bull S. in sophomore season back in 1999--went on to win five January to kick off his sophomore season. He took the stakes races, including the GIII Aegon Turf Sprint S. Risen Star at Fair Grounds a month in February, and beneath the Twin Spires. The bay also suffered a pair was second in the GII Louisiana Derby Mar. 29. He was of heart-breaking defeats when second in back-to-back most recently 12th with a troubled trip in the GI renewals of the Hong Kong Sprint. Kentucky Derby May 3. Bred in Kentucky by Machmer Hall and Haymarket Farm, the dark bay earned Claim to Fame cont. p6 $551,900 from an overall record of 9-2-1-1. ATo lose such a strong and vibrant athlete like Intense Holiday just underscores the insidious, nondiscriminatory nature of acute laminitis,@ offered Dr. Patty Hogan, Intense Holiday=s attending veterinarian. ANo horse is immune to this disease and it can strike at any time and with little warning. Intense Holiday was an incredibly stoic patient and his toughness humbled those of us caring for him. To this day, laminitis in the horse remains such a poorly understood disease process and our treatment options are so limited. I regret that we could not prevent the progression of the disease in this wonderful colt. It is a tragedy to lose him." TREVE AMONGST WALES’S DECLARATIONS Last year=s G1 Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe heroine and Cartier Horse of the Year Treve (Fr) (Motivator {GB}) is amongst 11 six-day declarations for the G1 Prince of Wales=s S. June 18 at Royal Ascot. The 4-year-old filly, who also took last year=s G1 Prix de Diane, suffered her first defeat in six outings on seasonal debut Apr. 27 when going down by a valiant short neck to Cirrus Des Aigles (Fr) (Even Top {Ire}) in the G1 Prix Ganay. 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[email protected] Majestic Queen Racing Post Database Admin./Programming Specialist: Gregg Casillo [email protected] Page 7 WORLDWIDE INFORMATION Responses to Moss International Editor: Kelsey Riley [email protected] Thursday's op-ed from Randy Moss, When Tradition Fails The Test Of Time, on Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Sean Cronin changing the Triple Crown spacing provoked a flood of content. Moss provides a Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Tom Frary [email protected] clarification to his piece, and we round up a sample of responses to it. 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 • Red Bank, NJ 07701 Page 10 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.thoroughbreddailynews.com www.thetdn.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/13/14 • PAGE 3 of 13 • thoroughbreddailynews.com "Of course, it's disappointing that she got beat [in the Prix Ganay]. I think Treve had got Cirrus Des Aigles beat that day, then Christophe Soumillon got to the rail on that sticky ground and that was worth a length or so. She still ran a great race and the winner had had a couple of runs beforehand and has done brilliantly since." Treve cont. from p1 Herbert noted that if Treve handles Ascot, she could "She came out of her last race very well," said Al return for the G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Shaqab's Racing Advisor Harry Herbert. "[Trainer] S. back at the track July 26. Criquette [Head-Maarek] called me the next day and "We'll see how we go," he said. ACriquette put it said Treve hadn't left an oat, which was encouraging wonderfully. She said if Treve likes Ascot then we'll go after a tough race on sticky ground against a great back. The King George is the natural race for her, and racehorse. It has all been we've seen some great fillies and mares take this route. really encouraging news She's taking her training well, but it is one step at a since, the way she's been time. But personally, I'd love to see her come to the training. I spoke to Criquette King George. It would be a perfect race for her in many yesterday and, touch wood, ways. Criquette believes Treve can do that, the she's more than happy with Vermeille and the Arc. It is one step at a time." the filly. Ascot has been the Another high-class filly declared for the Prince of plan from the beginning and Wales=s is GI Breeders= Cup Filly & Mare Turf and we're nearly there. You'd GI Beverly D. S. heroine Dank (GB) (Dansili {GB}), have to think she'd go on although trainer Sir Michael Stoute noted the 5-year-old Treve Racing Post good-to-firm ground, mare could still be withdrawn in favor of the G1 Pretty although extremes are Polly S. at the Curragh June 29. Dank has not been always an issue. The trainer is confident Treve will go seen since finishing third in the G1 Dubai Duty Free well on faster ground.@ Mar. 29. Herbert was philosophical about the loss of Treve=s unbeaten record. Cont. p4 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/13/14 • PAGE 4 of 13 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Prince of Wales=s S. cont. "Dank is in very good shape,@ said Stoute. AI know that [owner] James Wigan prefers the Pretty Polly, but it would be nice to have a crack at the Prince of Wales's S. We will look at the opposition. I think she would get her ground at Royal Ascot." The Prince of Wales=s could turn out to be a mare=s affair, with triple Group 1 winner The Fugue (GB) (Dansili {GB}) also in the mix. The male contingent includes G1 Irish 2000 Guineas and GI Breeders= Cup Turf winner Magician (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), G1 Irish Derby hero Trading Leather (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}), and G1 Dubai World Cup runner-up Mukhadram (GB) (Shamardal), second in this race last year. DE KOCK ADMITS RAIN CONCERNS Trainer Mike de Kock has admitted that Soft Falling Rain (SAf) (National Assembly), the winner of last year=s G2 Godolphin Mile and G2 Joel S., has not had an ideal preparation for his assignment in Tuesday=s G1 Queen Anne S.