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DECLAN’S MOON returns at Hollywood HEADLINE p. 2 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2006 BAZE ECLIPSES PINCAY FOR RECORD DEAUVILLE HOST FINALE The 48-year-old Hall of Famer Russell Baze became ARQANA will stage the last major auction of the the winningest jockey of all time yesterday, notching 2006 season today when its December Mixed Sale gets his 9,531st career victory at Bay Meadows. Baze tied underway in Deauville. The first three sessions include Laffit Pincay Jr.=s mark of 9,530 at the track Thursday, broodmares and fillies in and out of training, 182 foals then earned the milestone in yesterday=s fourth race, and two stallions in Epistolaire (Ire) (Alzao), consigned guiding Butterfly Belle to a 2 1/4-length victory in a turf by Haras de la Haie Neuve as hip 194; and Volochine claiming race. Facing a wall of (Ire) (Soviet Star), offered by Haras de Preaux as hip horses in the stretch, Baze sent 195. This afternoon=s action the four-year-old filly up the rail sees the consignment of a and she burst clear for the record- notable highlight in Haras des breaking victory. An elaborate win- Capucines= hip 82, the nine- ner=s circle celebration immedi- year-old Mandalara (Ire) ately followed, and Baze, after (Lahib). She is the dam of the achieving what undoubtedly will Baze & Pincay recently crowned champion Vassar Photography be one of the most enduring ac- sophomore filly Mandesha complishments in racing, was typ- (Fr), winner of the G1 Prix Mandesha, whose dam ically modest. AWho would've thought 32 years ago a d=Astarte, G1 Prix Vermeille skinny little kid with no experience would be standing Mandalara sells today and G1 Prix de l=Opera. Sold France Galop here today?@ asked Baze, who stood alongside Pincay. for i16,000 to the French Pincay had been at Bay Meadows since Saturday in Bloodstock Agency at this sale in 2004, Mandalara was anticipation of Baze breaking the record. AHe=s been exported to Turkey, where she was successfully cov- extremely gracious, said Baze. There s not a greater @ A = ered by the Vettori (Ire) stallion Dinyeper (GB) this year. rider in the history of horse racing.@ Cont. p4-5 Tuesday=s session features 158 yearlings and 61 horses FIVE NEW GRADE I RACES FOR 2007 in training before Wednesday=s dispersal by the leading After reviewing 722 unrestricted U.S. stakes races jumps trainer Thomas Trapenard. The 654-lot catalog with purses of at least $75,000, the American Graded include consignments from His Highness The Aga Khan, Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Darley, Wertheimer et Frere, Haras de la Louviere, Breeders Association yesterday added five Grade I races Shadwell, Edouard de Rothschild, Alec Head, Mme de to the calendar, while demoting two Grade I events to Moussac, Haras de Fresnay le Buffard, Gestut Grade II. The five new Grade I stakes are the Darley Schlenderhan and Gestut Farhof. In recent years, the Alcibiades S. at Keeneland, Goodwood BC H., Lady=s dams of the top-class Gorella (Fr), Tawqeet, Torrestrella Secret BC H. and Norfolk S. at Oak Tree, and the Del (Ire), Commercante (Fr), Papal Bull (GB) and Touch of Mar Futurity. Losing Grade I status are the Clark H. at Land (Fr) have gone through the ring here, and top Churchill and the Matron S. at Belmont. A total of 474 broodmare sires such as Danehill, Diesis (GB), Darshaan graded races will be run in the U.S. next year, one less (GB), Rainbow Quest, Sadler=s Wells and Zafonic are than in 2006. The Massachusetts H., which was represented. While the list of covering sires include the awarded Grade II status in 2006, was canceled and is proven Anabaa, Dansili (GB), Galileo (Ire), Highest ineligible for grading in >07. There will be 107 Grade I Honor (Fr), Invincible Spirit (Ire) and Marju (Ire), also races, (22.6 percent of the graded total); 157 Grade IIs, among the list are the exciting prospects Antonius Pius, (33.1 percent); and 210 Grade IIIs, (44.3 percent). Azamour (Ire), Dalakhani (Ire), Dubai Destination, Complete list of changes in graded races, p5 Dubawi (Ire), High Chaparral (Ire) and Whipper. Selling DUE TO THE LATE POST TIME, DELTA DOWNS RE- starts at 1 p.m. today. Catalogues and updates can be SULTS WILL APPEAR IN SUNDAY=S TDN. found on www.deauville-sales.com. 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The and Always Loyal. announcement deprives the Japa- nese racing public of a rematch in Hip 25, f, 3, Daleela (Ire) (Grand Lodge--Dalara {Ire}, by Doyoun {Ire}) this year=s Arima Kinen Dec. 24. Consigned by His Highness the Aga Khan=s Studs Bred and raced by the Yoshida This unraced filly has tremendous broodmare value as Family=s Shadai Race Horse Co. a daughter of the excellent producer Dalara, who sold Ltd., the attractive bay was for i1 million at last year=s Goffs November Sale. runner-up in the 2004 Japanese Daleela is a half to Daliapour (Ire) and Dalampour (Ire) Derby, but rose to international from the family of Darshaan (GB) and River Dancer (Ire). prominence late last year, finish- Heart’s Cry in Dubai Hip 72, m, 11, Lesgor (Irish River {Fr}--Let s Sgor {NZ}, ing second by a nose to Alkaased = Horsephotos by Creag-an-Sgor {Ire}) in the Japan Cup. He proved that Consigned by Haras de Beauvoir effort was no fluke in his next, fending off Deep Impact This daughter of the New Zealand champion Let=s by a half-length in the Arima Kinen in front of no fewer Sgor produced this year=s G1 Epsom Oaks fifth Guilia than 162,000 racegoers at Nakayama Racecourse on (GB).