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FRIDAY’S PEGASUS TRACKSIDE REPORT...P3 BRAVAZO: A TRUE THROWBACK...P8 STARLIGHT BUYS INTO YOSHIDA...P10 FERNANDO: ACCELERATE BRIGHT SPOT FOR LANE’S END...P11 HORSE HEALTH: FOALING ALERTS...P15

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FRIDAY’S PEGASUS TRACKSIDE REPORT

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By Christie DeBernardis HALLANDALE BEACH, FL.--With the two Pegasus races just around the corner, the Gulfstream backstretch was busier than usual with owners, trainers and plenty of media from around the world on site to get their final looks at the GI Pegasus World Cup and GI Pegasus World Cup Turf contenders on a cloudy and cool Friday morning. The gloomy sky and temperatures hovering in the low 60s had many wondering if we were in for rain. While trainer Marcus Vitali’s request to Siri for a weather report rendered news of a rain-free, but cloudy Friday, it also announced a 70% chance of rain for the big day Saturday. This forecast will have some connections doing a happy dance--or rain dance--and others in a mood that mirrors the weather report. Just like Thursday morning, Audible (Into Mischief), who is already a winner over this track and trip in last term’s GI Florida Derby, was first to hit the track as it opened for business with Turf runner Catapult (Kitten’s Joy) not far behind. Audible put in a good run to be third in a muddy renewal of the GI Kentucky Derby, so a wet surface for the Pegasus should not faze him or trainer Todd Pletcher. The newly crowned champion older male Accelerate (Lookin at Lucky) was also up and at ‘em early despite what was surely a late night of celebrating for his trainer John Sadler and the Hronis family, who were named owner of the year at Thursday night’s Eclipse Awards. Gunnevera (Dialed In) and Seeking the Soul (Perfect Soul {Ire}) followed soon after. City of Light (Quality Road) kept to his consistent 6 a.m. training slot, as did the Chad Brown-trained pair of Patternrecognition (Adios Charlie) and Bricks and Mortar (Giant’s Causeway), whose conditioner took home the hardware for top trainer for the third straight year. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 17 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 26, 2019

Track Report cont. offspring of blue-hen Delta Princess (A.P. Indy), jogged counter- In keeping with the previous day’s schedule, D. Wayne Lukas clockwise alongside a pony just before 8 a.m. The muscular dark led Bravazo (Awesome Again) onto the track as soon as the bay galloped by on his own a few minutes later, looking more tractors cleared out following the first break at 7:40 a.m. The than ready to go. Hall of Famer was all business Mexican sensation Kukulkan aboard his buckskin Quarter (Mex) (Point Determined) was Horse Starbuck as he supervised also out during the Pegasus his equally professional-looking frenzy. Easy to spot with a big charge. While not an imposing white blaze, he is on the smaller or eye-catching animal, Bravazo side, but he glides easily over has his head in the game every the Gulfstream surface and gives time he steps hoof on the the impression he is both quick racetrack--whether it be the and agile. morning or afternoon--and Aidan O’Brien’s Pegasus Turf continues to show up in each of contender Magic Wand (Ire) his races no matter the (Galileo {Ire}) was joined by competition or track conditions. stablemate and GIII William L. Stronach representative McKnight S. contender Hunting Something Awesome (Awesome Horn (Ire) (Camelot {GB}). The Again) cantered by a few Kukulkan | Christie DeBernardis pair jogged the wrong way in moments later. He also did not unison before turning around turn a hair at the flurry of activity, moving gracefully over the and galloping individually in the correct direction. Magic Wand track with his neck arched, ears up and eyes bright and alert. has been one of the physical standouts of the week, which is no ‘TDN Rising Star’ Delta Prince (Street Cry {Ire}), the final surprise given the barn she hails from. Cont. p5 From WINNER

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Pegasus cont. Recent GII San Gabriel S. victor Next Shares (Archarcharch) was on the muscle, galloping by strongly, and he fought his rider as he turned the dark bay around and attempted to pull him up. The gelding reluctantly broke to a jog, but continued to tug at his pilot as they exited the track. True Timber (Mineshaft) continued to give off good vibes as he came by minutes later. He was followed by the Bill Mott- trained pair of Turf runners Yoshida (Jpn) (Heart’s Cry {Jpn}) and Channel Maker (English Channel), who were escorted by their Hall of Fame conditioner and his assistant aboard their ponies. While they both looked in fine form, Channel Maker was a bit wide-eyed, looking around somewhat nervously, while Yoshida was calm, cool and collected with and without his red roan pony.

Next Shares | Christie DeBernardis

There was plenty of activity off of the Hallandale Beach main track with the Gulfstream Park team putting in the final preparations for the big day. The LIV Stretch Stage is set, which will play host to Snoop Dogg and Mark Ronson after racing concludes and everywhere you look Pegasus barriers are set up. With nine stakes on the card, featuring three of racing’s newly crowned champions and headlined by a pair of multi-million- dollar Grade Is, Saturday promises to be an exciting day of racing, rain or shine.

Correction: Champion turf male Stormy Liberal (Stormy Atlantic)’s sales history was incorrectly listed in the Jan. 25 edition of the TDN. The two-time GI Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint winner was a $165,000 FTSAUG ‘13 RNA before selling for $100,000 at OBS June the following year. We regret the error. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 6 OF 17 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 26, 2019

PEDAL TO THE METAL AS PEGASUS HEADLINERS CLASH IN CAREER FINALES

City of Light (pink) duels with Accelerate in last April’s GII Oaklawn H. | Coady Photo by Ben Massam Soon-to-be barnmates on the Lane’s End Farm stallion roster, newly crowned champion Accelerate (Lookin At Lucky) and versatile GI Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner City of Light (Quality Road) have one final score to settle on the racetrack as the clear headliners in the third renewal of the GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational at Gulfstream Park Saturday. With both horses’ careers set to come to a close at the conclusion of the $9-million affair and a green light seemingly given to run both tanks down to empty, the nine-furlong Pegasus seems likely to play out as a clash between City of Light’s tactical speed and Accelerate’s staying power. The duo met over the Pegasus distance in the GII Oaklawn H. in April, with Mr. and Mrs. William K. Warren’s City of Light besting Hronis Racing’s Accelerate by a neck in what would ultimately be the lone defeat of the latter’s 2018 campaign. Accelerate turned the tables on his third-place-finishing rival over 10 furlongs in the GI Gold Cup at Santa Anita in May, but the pair subsequently went their separate ways in campaigns that landed both in the winner’s circle at the Breeders’ Cup in November. Accelerate’s well-documented sweep of the major handicap events throughout the year in Southern California served as a precursor to a decisive victory in the 1 1/4-mile Classic for trainer John Sadler, while City of Light added a third Grade I victory to his resume with a wire-to-wire score in the Dirt Mile. City of Light figures to be forwardly placed once again from post three Saturday, while Accelerate also drew favorably in gate five. Cont. p7 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 7 OF 17 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 26, 2019

Pedal to the Medal cont. “He’s a horse that carries his speed a long way, so hopefully we get a nice, clean break and find ourselves in a good position going into the first turn and turning up the backside,” said City of Light’s trainer Mike McCarthy. Klaravich Stables and William H. Lawrence’s Patternrecognition (Adios Charlie) could play a major role in the Pegasus pace scenario, having drawn the often-problematic post 12 for his first try around two turns. The Chad Brown trainee was last seen wiring the GI Cigar Mile H. at Aqueduct Dec. 1. Should a lively pace develop, late-running local favorite Gunnevera (Dialed In) could add another feather to his cap, having finished third in last year’s Pegasus and runner-up, beaten just a length by Accelerate, at the World Championships in November. While Gunnevera qualifies as a horse for course as a four-time winner over the local strip, Todd Pletcher-trained Audible (Into Mischief)’s bid to stamp himself as a Gulfstream specialist was met with a surprising setback when the colt could do no better than second as the 1-10 favorite in the GIII Harlan’s Holiday S. Dec. 15. Audible, who captured the GI Florida Derby earlier in 2018 en route to a third-place finish in the GI Kentucky Derby, appeared to struggle to find his best stride over the sloppy/sealed surface and could not reel in longshot winner Sir Anthony (Mineshaft) late. By all accounts, Audible has trained forwardly in the wake of that effort and will unite with jockey Flavien Prat for the first time in his career Saturday. Calumet Farm’s Bravazo (Awesome Again) seemingly danced every dance in the 3-year-old division last year and returns from a brief freshening in search of his first Grade I win for Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas.

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BRAVAZO: A TRUE THROWBACK after the Belmont, when most people would put them away, he went out to Hollywood Park and won the Swaps S. out there and By Christie DeBernardis came back to run in the [GI] Travers [S.]. You don’t see many of HALLANDALE BEACH, FL.--For the most part, the days where a them like that, but we had two of them for sure. This one and horse showed up to every Thunder Gulch are very marquee racing event are gone similar.” and it is even rarer to see one Victor of the GII Risen Star S. who not only runs in each of 11 months ago, Bravazo has those major events, but also been winless in nine starts performs consistently well. since, but has hit the board five D. Wayne Lukas was known for times. The dark bay was the turning out many of those only horse besides Justify (Scat types of horses in his heyday in Daddy) to compete in all three the 90s, such as Thunder Gulch, legs of the Triple Crown and Serena’s Song and Tabasco Cat. ran in the Haskell, Travers, The Hall of Famer has a GI Pennsylvania Derby and modern-day version of those GI Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, hearty racehorses in MGISP where he finished a Bravazo (Awesome Again), who respectable third behind a will, of course, be in the gate powerhouse performance from for Saturday’s Bravazo & D. Wayne Lukas | Christie DeBernardis the re-opposing City of Light GI Pegasus World Cup. (Quality Road). He concluded his sophomore campaign last term “He is a little bit like Thunder Gulch,” Lukas said as he stood with a runner-up effort against his elders in the GI Clark H. against a fence supervising Bravazo as he grazed outside of Barn Nov. 23. Cont. p9 5 at Gulfstream. “Thunder Gulch made all of the dances. Even YOU LIKE THE SOUND OF SO ASTERN –HE’S THE BEST SON OF MEDAGLIA D’ORO, OF COURSE YOU DO! BUT THAT AUSTRALIAN PEDIGREE: IT’S ALL A BIT BAFFLING...

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When asked what might be next on the well-traveled Bravazo’s schedule, the Coach said, “I know Mr. [Brad] Kelley would like to go to Dubai, but I think we need to make a good showing here.”

D. Wayne Lukas & his wife Laurie overseeing Bravazo grazing | Christie DeBernardis

“He always makes sure we have enough money to get home even if we don’t win,” Lukas said, looking towards his charge with a fond smile. “He shows up every time and you always wonder if there is going to be a crack in the armor a little bit, but I think he has a toughness about him that you don’t see in many Bravazo | Christie DeBernardis horses. There is one out there with his name on it.” The Hall of Famer added, “He has had a little break from the Clark, but he has had more recency than most of the field. We PEGASUS TURF ATTRACTS DIVERSE BUNCH are looking for a good effort. He seems to have adapted well FOR MAIDEN FLIGHT by Ben Massam here.” Bravazo has drawn the rail for Saturday’s $9-million event in which he will face 11 opponents, including new champion Accelerate (Lookin at Lucky), the aforementioned City of Light and GI Florida Derby hero Audible (Into Mischief). “At first blush, I thought the post was not a good deal,” Lukas said. “But, the more I looked at it with the big sweeping turns and the configuration of the racetrack, I’m not too sure that it isn’t okay. You could win from this one. If you were in the Preakness or the Derby or something, I would say, ‘Well, I don’t want the one hole.’ But here, when it first came out, I thought, ‘oh boy,’ but now that I looked at it and analyzed it a little bit, I think it might be alright. We were going to let him run early anyhow.” Gulfstream’s leading rider Luis Saez climbs back aboard Yoshida training at Gulfstream Thursday | Zoe Metz photo Bravazo Saturday. The red hot jockey piloted the colt to runner- up efforts in both the GI Preakness S. and GI Haskell Invitational The inaugural running of the $7-million GI Pegasus World Cup S. Turf Invitational adds to the luster of a stakes-laden card at “The thing about it is we have got the rider that is just Gulfstream Park Saturday, having attracted a contentious field unbelievably hot here,” Lukas said. “Luis Saez just owns the of 10, headlined by dual Grade I winner and 5-2 morning line place. Everyday he keeps coming with one win right after favorite Yoshida (Jpn) (Heart’s Cry {Jpn}). another. He has a good feel for it and the horse has good speed, so I think we will just turn the two of them loose.” Cont. p10 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 10 OF 17 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 26, 2019

Pegasus Turf cont. STARLIGHT BUYS INTO YOSHIDA The Bill Mott-trained ‘TDN Rising Star’ will meet a diverse Starlight Racing has acquired an interest in Yoshida (Jpn) group in the starting gate, including fellow Japanese-bred (Heart’s Cry {Jpn}), the 5-2 favorite for Saturday’s GI Pegasus Aerolithe (Jpn) (Kurofune)--who makes her first appearance World Cup Turf Invitational, from WinStar Farm, which outside of her homeland off a November layoff--and Magic campaigns the versatile MGISW along with China Horse Club Wand (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who returns to the States and cuts and Head of Plains Racing. Starlight co-owned 2018 Triple Crown back in distance off an honest fourth-place effort in the winner and Horse of the Year Justify (Scat Daddy) with the same GI Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf Nov. 3. powerful ownership group, and is also partners on GI Pegasus Yoshida proved his versatility in 2018, capturing nine-furlong World Cup Invitational contender Audible (Into Mischief). Grade I events on both turf (May 5 GI Old Forester Turf Classic Starlight had a lease-for-racing deal with SF Bloodstock for S.) and dirt (Sept. 1 GI Woodward S.) before ultimately closing both Justify and Audible, and will also take no ownership in out his campaign with a rallying fourth-place finish behind Yoshida’s breeding rights. GI Pegasus World Cup favorite Accelerate (Lookin At Lucky) in Starlight campaigned Yoshida’s speedy dam Hilda’s Passion the Nov. 3 GI Breeders’ Cup Classic. The newly turned 5-year-old (Canadian Frontier). Just a $4,200 weanling RNA, she’d go on to has trained steadily at Payson Park in recent weeks and could win eight of 14, including the 2011 GI Ballerina S., before selling use the Pegasus as a stepping stone towards a return to dirt in to Katsumi Yoshida for $1.225 million at Fasig-Tipton November the Mar. 30 G1 Dubai World Cup, according to Mott, who also that fall. saddles GISW Channel Maker (English Channel) in the Turf Cup. “She was one of the most brilliant horses I’ve ever been With showers in the forecast for Hallandale Beach Saturday, a around,” Starlight principal Jack Wolf said of the dam. “[WinStar perfectly firm turf course seems like far from a given, but the President and CEO] Elliott [Walden] offered us a piece of local ground could provide a boost for rail-drawn Magic Wand, [Yoshida] right after he bought him in Japan [for approximately who notched a pair of close runner-up finishes over firm going $765,000 as weanling. At the time, I thought it was a bit too at Longchamp in the G1 Qatar Prix Vermeille and the G1 Prix de much to pay for the horse. Obviously I was wrong.” l’Opera Longines last year. Aerolithe, too, has put forth her best efforts over firm turf in Japan, including a close second-place finish behind Mozu Ascot (Frankel {GB}) in the G1 Yasuda Kinen last June. As is the case in nearly every major North American turf race, three-time reigning Eclipse Award champion trainer Chad Brown appears to have a live runner in the form of GSW Bricks and Mortar (Giant’s Causeway). The Klaravich Stables and William Lawrence colorbearer was hard to separate from Yoshida when the pair met three times in New York as sophomores, finishing within a length of each other in each event. Bricks and Mortar was subsequently sent to the sidelines for over 14 months, but returned to action with a confident allowance score going a mile over the local turf course Dec. 22. “He’s a horse that always showed a lot of promise as a 3-year-old and unfortunately had some injuries and needed a long time away from racing,” Brown told the Gulfstream notes

team. “We were able to get him back in time to have a real productive allowance race, and he seems ready to move forward.” DID YOU KNOW? Bricks and Mortar will meet his former stablemate Catapult Undefeated GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (Kitten’s Joy), who notched a pair of Grade II wins in Southern California for new trainer John Sadler before finishing a narrowly heroine Newspaperofrecord (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) beaten second behind Expert Eye (Acclamation {GB}) in the was tabbed as a “TDN Rising Star” GI Breeders’ Cup Mile Nov. 3. Visit the TDN Rising Stars section on our website!

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ACCELERATE IS BRIGHT SPOT FOR LANE'S END The sun is shining as brightly on Will Farish's Lane's End in Versailles as it does at his winter base in Boca Grande, Florida. "We're trying to keep things chugging along," said Bill Farish, who was stationed back at the farm in Kentucky and overseeing operations when I called on Tuesday, a wintry and cold day that had the younger Farish longing for the end of the week when he'd also be in the Sunshine State for the Eclipse Awards on Thursday and the Gl Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park Saturday. Of his father, who co-bred Horse of the Year and leading sire A.P. Indy and stood so many other standouts, including the top Mr. Prospector sons Fappiano, Kingmambo, and Smart Strike, he said: "He's very excited. You know, we talk a whole lot, and he's thrilled with everything." He ought to be.

Bill Farish | Keeneland Photo The farm's Quality Road (Elusive Quality) is sizzling and has entered the elite realm--his $35,000 advertised stud fee in 2017 doubled to $70,000 in 2018 and more than doubled to $150,000 this year. Candy Ride (Arg) (Ride the Rails) sired the 2017 Horse of the Year and 2018 Pegasus World Cup winner Gun Runner and came right back last year with undefeated Grade l winner and champion 2-year-old colt Game Winner. Union Rags (Dixie Union) already has four Grade l winners through three crops and threatens to have another with the Will Farish-bred Catalina Cruiser, an undefeated multiple Grade ll winner from only four starts before running off the board in the Gl Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile last year for trainer John Sadler and newly crowned Eclipse-award winning owner Kosta Hronis's Hronis Racing. Cont. p12 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 12 OF 17 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 26, 2019

Taking Stock cont. exceptions, do all the buying and selling for John Sadler." Meanwhile, the farm has a promising quartet of young sires in When Sadler got Hronis as a new client about eight years ago, Honor Code (A.P. Indy), Liam's Map (Unbridled's Song), Tonalist it was Ingordo who delivered the goods in with private purchase (Tapit), and Mr Speaker (Pulpit) ready to unload their first Lady of Shamrock (Scat Daddy), a subsequent multiple Grade l 2-year-olds this year. And its winner of $950,400 in 2012. She 2019 recruiting class is just as was Hronis Racing's first major top notch: Hronis Racing's winner, and she was sold later champion older horse and 2018 through Lane's End as a Gl Breeders' Cup Classic winner broodmare prospect for $2 Accelerate (Lookin At Lucky); million at Keeneland November Gary and Mary West's 2017 in 2013. champion 3-year-old colt West "And ever since then we've Coast (Flatter); and Mr. and Mrs. been on the team and it's like a William K. Warren Jr.'s multiple family deal. Everybody's loyal to Grade l winner and 2018 each other. We'll give each Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner other the best shots," Ingordo City of Light (Quality Road). said. Both Accelerate and City of There have been many other Light will end their careers in the successes since, including $9-million GI Pegasus World Cup David Ingordo | Keeneland Photo private purchase Stellar Wind Invitational before beginning (Curlin), a multiple Grade l new ones at Lane's End, where they, along with West Coast, are winner of $2,903,200 who was subsequently sold, also through already booked full for the season. Bill Farish's Woodford Racing Lane's End, for $6 million to Coolmore at Keeneland November partnership also will be represented on Saturday with multiple in 2017. She made her career swan song for her new owners in Grade ll winner and Gl Breeders' Cup Mile runner-up Catapult last year's Pegasus, finishing sixth at 40-1. Cont. p13 (Kitten's Joy) in the inaugural Gl $7 million Pegasus World Cup Turf. It's a potentially big day for the Lane's End team, its partners, and the syndicate members of Accelerate and City of Light. Catapult, a winner of $961,384, and Accelerate, with $5,792,480 in earnings, were both selected at auction by bloodstock agent David Ingordo, who famously bought Zenyatta as a yearling for only $60,000. He paid more for the two colts. Catapult was a $235,000 Keeneland January short yearling who was wheeled back by Lane's End at Keeneland September for $350,000, and Accelerate was a $380,000 September buy for Hronis from the Bluewater consignment at the same yearling sale. Ingordo is part of the team at Lane's End, and both horses are trained by Sadler, an "uncle" to Ingordo. "When John came on the racetrack, he was 21, and my father was a famous jocks' agent, and my dad took him around and took him under his wing. John Sadler has known me since I was in a bassinet-- maybe three months old. So, I've always called him ‘Uncle John,'" Ingordo said. "No one could figure out why we're always so inseparable on business. Everybody tries to go up and under and over, I mean, partly because we succeed. But my mother's one of his best friends, you know, and all that, so we're all very close. We've been very loyal to each other. I basically, with few TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 13 OF 17 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 26, 2019

Accelerate This year, Hronis and Sadler have "The Daddy" in the race in Accelerate, whose main competition figures to be City of Light. That gives Lane's End full coverage. Bill Farish said the relationships between Lane's End and the Accelerate camp gave the farm the inside track to land the horse. "We were obviously watching him very closely because of our relationship with Kosta Hronis and Sadler and David Ingordo,” he said. “As he kept winning Grade l races, we got more and more interested. The conversation was kind of ongoing all year, and we just said when the time is right, we're ready, willing, and able to get involved, and so we did. He's just had a phenomenal 2018." Farish noted that he and his father were pleased that Accelerate was loudly included in Horse of the Year discussions against a Triple Crown winner. "Any other year, he wins," Farish said.

Accelerate & Sadler at Lane’s End in November | Sue Finley Photo Accelerate, who is from Awesome Again's multiple stakes- producing daughter Issues, was originally syndicated into 40 shares for $75,000 a share but Farish said that "with kickers," the price ended up at $100,000 a share with a stud fee of $20,000--still very much a bargain for the combination of race record, pedigree, and physical that Accelerate brings to the table. Had he been a son of Smart Strike instead of by his son Lookin At Lucky, Accelerate would have stood for twice as much. Farish acknowledged this but said, "Lookin At Lucky is one of the most underrated stallions around, I think. From our standpoint, he is that line. It's a line that we've had a lot of luck with, not just with Smart Strike, but Mr. Prospector in general. The fact that he's a grandson of Smart Strike--you know, when Curlin moved, we lost our best son of Smart Strike; and we had English Channel, another Smart Strike, too, and he left--makes us feel very fortunate" to have Accelerate. Cont. p14 Contact Sue Finley for details at 732-747-8060 or [email protected] TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 14 OF 17 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 26, 2019

Taking Stock cont. SF Bloodstock on Board Accelerate's pedigree has similarity to Curlin's as well. The Accelerate is what SF Bloodstock, a global entity and the latter is by Smart Strike from a Deputy Minister mare while the owner of a powerful international broodmare band, was looking former is a grandson of Smart Strike from a granddaughter of for. The company also takes positions in stallions and had a 15% Deputy Minister. This structure will allow breeders the chance to stake in Justify's breeding rights before the Triple Crown winner copy patterns from some of Curlin's successes, including was sold to Coolmore. SF has now taken a significant position in inbreeding to Deputy Minister. Moreover, because Accelerate is Accelerate, according to SF's Tom Ryan, and will support the a half-brother to two Scat Daddy stakes winners, mares by that horse with at least 12 mares, "including the dams of Grade l sire should suit him as well. His own sire has two Southern winners California Chrome, Wild Dude, and Denman's Call; Hemisphere Group 1 winners from Scat Daddy mares to date, others include dams of graded stakes winners My Boy Jack and and the greater Curlin/Storm Cat cross is responsible for eight Miss Sunset." Ryan added, "When you look at his body of work non-restricted black-type winners so far, four of them graded paired with his physical, he fit perfectly into our portfolio. Our winners. preparedness to support is only Accelerate is inbred 5x5 to the a reflection of our belief in his top broodmare Smartaire, his ability and this sire line. Lookin fifth dam and the dam of At Lucky is really making people champion 2-year-old filly Smart pay attention. I remember back Angle and graded stakes winners when Smart Strike was getting Quadratic and Smarten. The going, selling a season in latter is the broodmare sire of February for $15,000 live foal Smart Strike. and another in December of the There's been a bit of a trend same year for $75,000 NG. lately for farms to stand We're excited to be involved." accomplished horses by stallions SF's participation in Accelerate that aren't "big names." is new for Lane's End, Farish WinStar's Tiznow (Cee's Tizzy, by said. "Our relationship was just Relaunch) and Lane's End's starting, and we're happy to Candy Ride (Ride the Rails, by Accelerate | Jamie Newell Photo have them involved and Cryptoclearance, by Fappiano) welcome their support. They are older successful examples of this, but recent ones include support stallions, and that's a prerequisite for us. We want Taylor Made's California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit, by Pulpit) and Hill breeders in [the syndicate] that will breed mares and not just ‘n' Dale's Bayern (Offlee Wild, by Wild Again). Accelerate fits investors for the stallion shares." with this group. Farish said that SF's and others' strong support the first year His physicality is also a big plus, Ingordo said. "He's about would allow Lane's End the luxury of having the firepower to 16.1 1/2 [or] 16.2. He's a big, stretchy, imposing horse. A little keep some of its own mares slotted for the stallion's second and bit of a throwback on his looks. He has all the good qualities of third books to ensure uniform quality before his runners hit the the Smart Strike line," Ingordo said, and he noted that as a track. Farish said the books of each of the new stallions would $380,000 yearling he was his sire's top price that year when the be limited to about 165 mares. Lookin At Lucky yearlings averaged $99,312. It's that type of strategizing with the right types of horses and Sent to the Mayberrys in Ocala for early training, Accelerate the right relationships that has kept Lane's End in the deep end "never had a bad day" despite being a May foal. "He's such a of the sire business since it opened its stallion division in 1985, cool horse and I'm excited about him as a stallion because I've and the future for the farm and for Will and Bill Farish certainly known him through all these different stages of his life. He's looks as bright as its past. always been good, and I think horses like that will reproduce. I think he'll imprint that genetic dominance that way. You know, Sid Fernando is president and CEO of Werk Thoroughbred he's as sound as can be. He's correct. He's had no surgeries that Consultants, Inc., originator of the Werk Nick Rating and I'm aware of or anything like that. I mean, horses like this are eNicks. really what a lot of people are looking for."

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‘ROSE’ FACES SHARP RIVALS IN RETURN TO ACTION by Ben Massam

ALERT - BABY ON THE WAY!

Shamrock Rose | Horsephotos

Fresh on the heels of being crowned champion female sprinter of 2018 at the Eclipse Awards at Gulfstream Park Thursday night, Conrad Farms’ Shamrock Rose (First Dude) will have the opportunity to extend her four-race win streak into 2019 when she goes postward in a competitive renewal of the GIII Fasig- Tipton Hurricane Bertie S. at the Hallandale oval. Shamrock Rose catapulted herself to the forefront of her division with an Jen Roytz Photo impressive second half of the 2018 season, which included a convincing score in the Oct. 20 GII Lexus Raven Run S. and a As we embark on a new year full of hope and promise, 'tis the furious last-to-first rally in the GI Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare season for early mornings, sleepless nights and seemingly Sprint Nov. 3. While both of those victories came at the endless anticipation for those in the breeding industry. Those Hurricane Bertie’s seven-furlong distance, the Mark Casse tasked with helping the next generation of equine athletes enter trainee finds herself in a spot with significantly less confirmed this world go to great lengths to be on-hand when each foal is early speed signed on, perhaps necessitating a slight change in born and do everything they can to ensure a successful delivery, tactics. or to call a veterinarian if any problems arise. Cleber J. Massey’s Blamed (Blame) appears to be the likely The foaling process is broken down into three stages. Stage 1 pacesetter, having set a pressured tempo en route to a runner- being early signs of labor; stage 2 is when the water breaks and up finish behind Shamrock Rose in the Raven Run prior to wiring the actual delivery of the foal; and stage 3 is the expulsion of the the field in the GIII Comely S. over nine furlongs at Aqueduct placenta. Nov. 23. The filly, who began her career competing in New Once a mare progresses to stage 2, it is imperative the foal be Mexico for trainer Joel Marr before being transferred to the delivered within 30 minutes or less to avoid hypoxia (oxygen barn of Hall of Famer Bill Mott, has never finished out of the deprivation), which can lead to brain damage or death of the exacta in eight career starts. foal. While regularly checking mares throughout the day and Once-beaten ‘TDN Rising Star’ Dream Pauline (Tapit) enters night is recommended as they near their due date, it is often a off a victory in the Dec. 15 GIII Sugar Swirl S. over a sloppy local game of minutes versus hours. track--a race in which she struck the front at the quarter pole Horses have evolved from foaling in the wild and needing to and had enough gas left to hold off the reopposing Stormy deliver a foal and stand in quick succession to protect Embrace (Circular Quay) by a neck. A Stonestreet Stables themselves and their newborn. By nature, stage 2 of equine homebred, Dream Pauline will make her first start at a distance labor (water breaks and foal is delivered) happens rapidly and beyond six furlongs Saturday. can be explosive. That explosive nature also means that when things go wrong, they go wrong quickly. Cont. p16 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 16 OF 17 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 26, 2019

Horse Health cont. leather crown piece of the halter. Real-time data can be "I'd say 80 to 85% of deliveries go routinely, but those 10 to accessed via a Smartphone, tablet or computer and an alert is 15% that don't are why it's so important for someone sent when the system signals a horse in distress due to foaling, knowledgeable to be present." said Dr. Bob Schwartz, a colic or being cast. veterinarian with Midland Acres in Bloomingburg, Ohio. Schwartz and his team foal out more than 200 mares a year. "An Perineal Monitoring Systems experienced attendant will know issues they can deal with Another group of foaling alert systems involve affixing the themselves, when they need to call a vet and when it's bad sensor to the mare's perineal area or within the vagina. enough that a mare needs to go immediately to the clinic." One popular model is Foalert, in which a transmitter containing While there are numerous brands and makers of foal alarms a magnet is sutured into the vulva lips one to two weeks prior to on the market today, they can generally be organized into two a mare's due date. When the vulva lips are opened due to the main categories: externally worn sensors and perineal foal's front hooves protruding as delivery begins, the magnet monitoring systems. dislodges from the transmitter, activating a signal to alert foaling attendants, either via telephone/pager or by sounding an alarm Systems with Externally Worn Sensors within close proximity to the transmitter. There are several devices on "I've used the Foalert for the market that utilize sensors years, both on my own mares affixed to the head or body of a and on client mares, and I find mare to react to classic them very reliable. You don't get presentations in a mare that the false alarms you can get with typically signal birth. some other system that attach EquiFone/EquiPage, Birth to the halter or girth area when Alarm and Breeders Alert a mare lays down or turns to systems, for example, utilize a itch," said Dr. Joan Tennant, device affixed to a mare's halter DVM, an equine practitioner or to a monitor connected to a based in Ocala, Florida. "I find girth strap that senses when the the alarm goes off when the mare is in the prone position amniotic fluid bubble is expelled, (i.e. lying flat out on her side-- so you get the alert even in the the typical position for labor). case of a dystocia that prevents The device transmits a signal to Jen Roytz Photo the foal from protruding." either a phone or a pager to The Birth Alert system uses a alert the person(s) on call that the mare is in foaling position. tampon-like sponge that is inserted into the mare's vagina in the Michele Graves of Hickory Hill Farm Thoroughbreds in Fort weeks leading up to her due date. When the mare's water Edward, New York near Saratoga Springs uses the EquiPage breaks, the device is expelled and the change in temperature system for her farm, which foals out 25 to 35 mares each year. activates the device to send a signal to the foaling attendant "With the EquiPage [system], we know the mare is going into that the mare is in labor. labor before the water breaks [due to being alerted to her The only disadvantage, according to Schwartz, is the possibility movements]. We also use it on the mares in the weeks after of the sponge and sensor being dispelled unintentionally and they give birth because so much can go wrong then as well," offering a false-positive. said Graves. "We use it for other scenarios too, such as horses "I think these systems have a lot of merit for those who don't that have just shipped long distances or those that showed signs have full time attendants through the night," said Schwartz. of colic during the day because they offer the same "There is less chance of false alarms with these types of systems, presentations when they are colicking that a mare would--the but if the foal is breech or otherwise malpositioned, you may looking at their belly, getting up and down, yawning. You do get not get an alarm." some false alarms, but those are worth it to know when a horse For these and similarly invasive systems, a sterile application is is in distress." key. It is recommended that a veterinarian apply/insert the Nightwatch takes this one step further, monitoring a horse's device to prevent infection or irritation. vital signs and behaviors via sensors embedded in the padded Cont. p17 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 17 OF 17 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 26, 2019

Video Monitoring Closed-circuit video feeds can also play an important role in monitoring mares as they near their due date, especially when used on conjunction with foaling alert systems. "We've used NightWatch for the last six years or so and we also have cameras on all of the mares. The key for us is the audio that goes along with it," said Braxton Lynch of Royal Oak Farm in Paris, Kentucky. "In my opinion, you can't beat eyes and ears on a mare prior to foaling." There are also smartphone apps available, such as Foal App, which allow users to monitor your mare via video and movement and will alert those whose phones are connected to the app if the mare lays down for a prolonged period. While technology has afforded the luxury of many types of birth alarms, no device is 100% effective. All birth alarms should be used in conjunction with good horsemanship and monitoring practices, including regularly checking each mare every 30 to Giuliet Seattle & her Gun Runner filly | Shadai Farm 60 minutes when foaling is imminent. "What works for a large farm probably wouldn't work well for a small one and vice versa. If a farm with a large number of mares had monitors on each, they'd be getting false positives constantly, but they can afford to have staff on-hand around the clock," said Graves. "For a smaller operation that can't afford night staff, foaling alarms are a good solution." Added Schwartz, "You can't watch them 24 hours a day--you have to sleep too--so for smaller operations, foaling alerts can BLUESKIESNRAINBOWS MOVED TO be an important tool to help keep mares and newborn foals out OKLAHOMA of trouble." MGSW Blueskiesnrainbows (English Channel) has been moved to Sallisaw, Oklahoma, the home base of owner Kelly Mitchell’s Bad Boy Racing, to stand the 2019 breeding season. Commanding a $2,500 stud fee, he will stand at Dr. Marcinda Mitchell’s Sunlight Farm. “We are really excited to move STALLIONS’ FIRST FOALS Blueskiesnrainbows to Oklahoma to be a part of their excellent state-bred program,” said Dr. Mitchell. “He formerly stood in GUN RUNNER Indiana and his first foals will hit the track this year as • Horse of the Year Gun Runner’s first foal arrived at Japan’s 2-year-olds. His foals are looking fantastic and should prove Shadai Farm on Jan. 17. The filly is the first foal out of themselves very soon.” For more information, visit Argentinian MG1SW Giuliet Seattle (Arg) (Seattle Fitz {Arg}). http://blueskiesnrainbows.com/. • “The filly is a beautiful and well-balanced foal. She looks just like her father,” said Shadai’s Teruya Yoshida • “We are happy to announce the arrival of Gun Runner’s first OPEN HOUSE foal out of multiple Group I winner Giuliet Seattle bred by Shadai Farm,” said Tom Hamm, Director of Stallion Seasons at WHERE: Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions Three Chimneys, where Gun Runner is standing for $70,000 in WHEN: Sunday, Sept. 27, 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. 2019. “We look forward to more of Gun Runner’s foals arriving DETAILS: Coffee/light refreshments early, full lunch buffet at 12:30 p.m., drawing for one free season per stallion at 2:45 p.m. in the coming weeks off the exceptional book of mares he covered during his first year at stud.” For more info: www.ihdvstallions.com ON THE DERBY

made it back-to-back stakes wins with a wire-to-wire score in Friday’s $150,000 SMARTY JONES S. at Oaklawn, earning 10 points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby leaderboard in his initial start around two turns.

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OWNER: DWIGHT PRUETT BREEDERS: WYNNSTAY LLC, DONNA MOORE & JIM RICHARDSON TRAINER: WILLIAM H. FIRES

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Travis White 859.396.3508 | Liam Benson 859.397.0059 | TaylorMadeStallions.com Saturday, Gulfstream, post time: 5:36 p.m. EST PEGASUS WORLD CUP INVITATIONAL S.-GI, $9,000,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/8m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Bravazo Awesome Again Calumet Farm Lukas Saez 12-1 2 Something Awesome Awesome Again Stronach Stables Corrales Prado 20-1 3 City of Light K Quality Road Warren, Jr., Mr. & Mrs. William K. McCarthy Castellano 5-2 4 Seeking the Soul Perfect Soul (Ire) Charles E. Fipke Stewart Velazquez 12-1 5 Accelerate K Lookin At Lucky Hronis Racing LLC Sadler Rosario 9-5 6 Tom's d'Etat K Smart Strike G M B Racing Stall, Jr. Bridgmohan 20-1 7 True Timber K Mineshaft Calumet Farm McLaughlin Bravo 30-1 8 Gunnevera K Dialed In Margoth Sano Ortiz, Jr. 8-1 9 Kukulkan (Mex) Point Determined Cuadra San Jorge Gutierrez Dettori 30-1 10 Audible Into Mischief China Horse Club, Head of Plains Partners LLC, Starlight Racing, WinStar Farm Pletcher Prat 10-1 11 Imperative K Bernardini Ron Paolucci Racing, LLC and Imaginary Stables Quartarolo Gaffalione 30-1 12 Patternrecognition Adios Charlie Klaravich Stables, Inc. and Lawrence, William H. Brown Ortiz 10-1

Breeders: 1-Calumet Farm, 2-Adena Springs, 3-Ann Marie Farm, 4-Charles Fipke, 5-Mike Abraham, 6-SF Bloodstock LLC, 7-Mr. & Mrs. Marc C. Ferrell, 8-Brandywine Farm & Stephen Upchurch, 9-Rancho San Jorge, 10-Oak Bluff Stables, LLC, 11-Glencrest Farm LLC & Darley, 12-Ocala Stud

Saturday, Gulfstream, post time: 4:57 p.m. EST PEGASUS WORLD CUP TURF INVITATIONAL S.-GI, $7,000,000, 4yo/up, 1 3/16mT PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Magic Wand (Ire) Galileo (Ire) Tabor, Michael, Magnier, Mrs. John & Smith, Derrick O'Brien Lordan 9-2 2 Yoshida (Jpn) Heart's Cry (Jpn) China Horse Club International Ltd., WinStar Farm, Starlight Racing, Head of Plains Partners LLC Mott Ortiz 5-2 3 Channel Maker K English Channel Wachtel Stable, Barber, Gary, R. A. Hill Stable & Reeves Thoroughbred Racing Mott Castellano 12-1 4 Aerolithe (Jpn) Kurofune Sunday Racing Co. Ltd. Kikuzawa Geroux 15-1 5 Next Shares K Archarcharch Iavarone, McClanahan, Dunn, Marasa, Robershaw & Taylor Baltas Gaffalione 15-1 6 Fahan Mura K English Channel Bran Jam Stables and Clark, David W. Cerin Maldonado 30-1 7 Bricks and Mortar K Giant's Causeway Klaravich Stables, Inc. and Lawrence, William H. Brown Ortiz, Jr. 5-1 8 Delta Prince Street Cry (Ire) Stronach Stables Jerkens Dettori 15-1 9 Catapult K Kitten's Joy Woodford Racing, LLC Sadler Rosario 7-2 10 Dubby Dubbie Ice Box Ron Paolucci Racing, LLC Hess, Jr. Panici 30-1

Breeders: 1-Ecurie Des Monceaux & Skymarc Farm Inc, 2-Northern Farm, 3-Tall Oaks Farm, 4-Northern Racing, 5-Buck Pond Farm, Inc., 6-Michael J. Moran, 7-George Strawbridge Jr., 8-Adena Springs, 9-Breffni Farm, 10-Al Horton

Saturday, Gulfstream, post time: 3:00 p.m. EST LA PREVOYANTE S.-GIII, $200,000, 4yo/up, f/m, 1 1/2mT PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Holy Helena Ghostzapper Stronach Stables Jerkens Ortiz, Jr. 3-1 2 A. A. Azula's Arch K Arch A & A Farms Attard Saez 20-1 3 English Affair English Channel Calumet Farm Arnold, II Castellano 8-1 4 Beau Belle K Giant's Causeway Mark T. Anderson Albertrani Lopez 30-1 5 Tricky Escape K Hat Trick (Jpn) Jon A. Marshall Servis DeCarlo 9-2 6 La Manta Gris K Lemon Drop Kid Blackstone River Stable Arnold, II Hernandez, Jr. 20-1 7 Si Que Es Buena (Arg) Equal Stripes (Arg) Takaya Shimakawa Motion Landeros 6-1 8 Semper Sententiae The Factor John M. B. O'Connor Hennig Velazquez 8-1 9 Santa Monica (GB) K Mastercraftsman (Ire) Magnier, Mrs. John, Madaket Stables & Pearson, Deron Brown Ortiz 7-2 10 Rahway Eskendereya Out Of This World Racing LLC Maker Bridgmohan 10-1 11 Top Cats (Arg) Aussie Rules Copper Water Thoroughbred Company Ltd. Walsh Leparoux 15-1 12 Ickymasho (GB) Multiplex (GB) Triton Stable Attfield Geroux 20-1 Breeders: 1-Adena Springs, 2-Fox Hill Farms, 3-Calumet Farm, 4-Mr. Joseph Allen LLC, 5-Robert B. Trussell Jr. &John T.L. Jones III, 6-Nursery Place & Hendrickson, 7-Haras Abolengo, 8-Anastasie Astrid Christiansen-Croy, 9-D. J. Erwin Bloodstock, 10-George Krikorian, 11-Arroyo de Luna, 12-Allseasons Bloodstock

Saturday, Gulfstream, post time: 4:00 p.m. EST W. L. MCKNIGHT S.-GIII, $200,000, 4yo/up, 1 1/2mT PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Highland Sky Sky Mesa Young, McManis & McManis Tagg Landeros 10-1 2 Soglio K Scat Daddy Ramsey, Kenneth L. & Sarah K. Maker Ortiz 9-2 3 Winter Union Union Rags Augustin Stable Matz Gaffalione 15-1 4 Zulu Alpha Street Cry (Ire) Michael M. Hui Maker Ortiz, Jr. 4-1 5 Johnny Bear English Channel Colebrook Farms & Bear Stables, Ltd. De Paulo Saez 15-1 6 Can'thelpbelieving (Ire) Duke of Marmalade (Ire) Albert Frassetto Motion Bravo 12-1 7 Canessar (Fr) Kendargent (Fr) Guy Pariente Delacour Castellano 5-1 8 Hunting Horn (Ire) Camelot (GB) Tabor, Magnier & Smith O'Brien Lordan 8-1 9 Hunter O'Riley K Tiz Wonderful Shay, Sean & Ryan, Michael J. Toner Prat 20-1 10 Nessy Flower Alley Sierra Farm Wilkes Leparoux 20-1 11 Markitoff K Giant's Causeway Three Diamonds Farm Maker Geroux 20-1 12 Village King (Arg) Campanologist Angels of Catalina, Inc. Pletcher Velazquez 10-1 13 Postulation Harlan's Holiday Runnymede Racing LLC Matz Vargas, Jr. 20-1 14 Hay Dakota K Haynesfield Ron Paolucci Racing, LLC Quartarolo Hernandez, Jr. 30-1 Also Eligible: 15 Sentry Smart Strike Stuart S. Janney, III McGaughey III Rosario 20-1 16 All Go K Hard Spun Three Diamonds Farm Maker Lopez 20-1 Breeders: 1-Bonner Young, 2-Flaxman Holdings Limited, 3-Augustin Stable, 4-Calumet Farm, 5-Tall Oaks Farm, 6-G. Kelly, Milltownmore & Pinnacle B/S, 7-Haras De S.A. Aga Khan SCEA, 8-Lynch-Bages & Rhinestone Bloodstock, 9-Mike G. Rutherford, 10-Sierra Farm, 11-Alpha Delta Stables, LLC, 12-Santa Maria de Araras, 13-Juddmonte Farms Inc, 14-Brereton C. Jones, 15-Stuart S. Janney, III LLC., 16-G. Watts Humphrey Jr. & W. S. Farish

Saturday, Gulfstream, post time: 2:30 p.m. EST FASIG-TIPTON HURRICANE BERTIE S.-GIII, $150,000, 4yo/up, f/m, 7f PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Victory Rally Jump Start Richard L. Golden Matz Vargas, Jr. 20-1 2 Dream Pauline Tapit Stonestreet Stables LLC McLaughlin Castellano 3-1 3 Awestruck K Tapit G. Watts Humphrey, Jr. Arnold, II Hernandez, Jr. 6-1 4 Shamrock Rose First Dude Conrad Farms Casse Ortiz, Jr. 2-1 5 Blamed K Blame Cleber J. Massey Mott Leparoux 5-1 6 Ms Meshak Shackleford Northwind Thoroughbreds LLC Orseno Juarez 20-1 7 Pacific Gale K Flat Out Tobey L. Morton Kimmel Velazquez 20-1 8 Stormy Embrace Circular Quay Matalona Thoroughbreds, LLC O'Connell Gaffalione 4-1

Breeders: 1-Sycamore Hall Thoroughbreds, LLC, 2-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC, 3-Chester Prince & Anne Prince, 4-Best A Luck Farm LLC, 5-Sagamore Farm, 6-Northwind Thoroughbreds LLC, 7-Bally Breeders, 8-Matalona Thoroughbreds, LLC

Saturday, Gulfstream, post time: 3:30 p.m. EST FRED W. HOOPER S.-GIII, $150,000, 4yo/up, 1m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Coal Front Stay Thirsty LaPenta, Robert V. & Head of Plains Partners LLC Pletcher Velazquez 9-5 2 Storm Advisory Weigelia Ron Paolucci Racing, LLC Quartarolo Albarado 12-1 3 Conquest Big E K Tapit Daniel C. Hurtak Hurtak Lopez 20-1 4 Breaking Lucky K Lookin At Lucky West Point Thoroughbreds, Reeves Thoroughbred Racing, Young, Eric & R. A. Hill Stable Weaver Saez 9-2 5 Eye of a Jedi K Eye of the Leopard Steve Budhoo Budhoo Batista 30-1 6 Aztec Sense Street Sense Joseph E. Besecker Navarro Jaramillo 7-2 7 Fellowship Awesome of Course Jacks or Better Farm, Inc. Decker Gaffalione 20-1 8 Copper Town Speightstown WinStar Farm, China Horse Club & SF Racing Pletcher Castellano 6-1 9 Unbridled Juan Unbridled's Song Stronach Stables Corrales Cintron 8-1 10 Mo Dont No K Uncle Mo Ron Paolucci Racing, LLC Quartarolo Maragh 20-1

Breeders: 1-Michael Edward Connelly, 2-Epona Equine, LLC, Otto Draper &Wyn Oaks Farm, 3-Gainesway Thoroughbreds Ltd., 4-Christine Hayden, 5-Calumet Farm, 6-Charles Fipke, 7-Jacks or Better Farm Inc., 8-WinStar Farm, LLC, 9-Adena Springs, 10-Beechwood Racing Stable

Sunday, Sam Houston Race, post time: 6:58 p.m. EST HOUSTON LADIES CLASSIC S.-GIII, $300,000, 4yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 Song From Above Lucky Pulpit Stephanie Herb Herb Risenhoover 116 2 Remedy K Creative Cause Twin Creeks Racing Stables, LLC Cox Bravo 116 3 Viva Forever K Milwaukee Brew Ron Paolucci Racing, LLC Broberg Parker 116 4 Moonlit Garden K Malibu Moon Town and Country Racing, LLC Davis Ortiz 118 5 Heavenhasmynikki Majestic Warrior Loooch Racing Stables, Inc. Hess, Jr. Bracho 118 6 Prado's Sweet Ride Fort Prado Darrell & Sadie Brommer Scherer Geroux 123 7 Midnight Bisou K Midnight Lute Bloom Racing Stable, LLC, Madaket Stables LLC Asmussen Smith 123 & Allen Racing LLC

Breeders: 1-Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Williams, 2-Brereton C. Jones & B. Ned Jones, 3-Paul O'Sullivan, 4-Town & Country Farm, Corp, 5-Langsem Farm, Inc., 6-Mr. & Mrs. Darrell Brommer, 7-Woodford Thoroughbreds

Sunday, Sam Houston Race, post time: 6:15 p.m. EST JOHN B. CONNALLY TURF CUP S.-GIII, $200,000, 4yo/up, 1 1/2mT PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 Zapperini Ghostzapper Lloyd Madison Farms, IV LLC Foley Geroux 118 2 Team Colors Street Cry (Ire) Brad Grady Sharp Beschizza 120 3 Lawless West K Giant's Causeway Bryan Hawk Offolter Martin, Jr. 116 4 Bigger Picture Badge of Silver Three Diamonds Farm Maker Ortiz 123 5 Net Gain K Include Claim To Fame Stable Stuart Corbett 116 6 Some in Tieme (Brz) Shirocco (Ger) Alonso, Amancio and Some In Time, Inc Loza, Jr. Cruz 116 7 Budro Talking Tale of Ekati Jerry Durant Neatherlin Diego 120 8 Markitoff K Giant's Causeway Three Diamonds Farm Maker Smith 118 9 Cooptado (Arg) Equal Stripes (Arg) Imperial Racing, LLC Morley Saez 116

Breeders: 1-Lloyd Madison IV, LLC, 2-Joseph Allen, 3-Mikhail Yanakov, 4-Kenneth L. Ramsey & Sarah K. Ramsey, 5-Lane Thoroughbreds LLC, 6-Haras Santa Maria de Araras, 7-J. Adcock & Hume Wornall, 8-Alpha Delta Stables, LLC, 9-Abolengo SIRE LISTS Sponsored by

2018 Leading Broodmare Sires by G1/GISWs Northern Hemisphere-born progeny Earnings represent North American/European figures, stud fees listed are 2019 fees.

Rank Stallion BTW BTH GSW GSH G1SW G1SH Starters Wnrs Highest Earner Earnings 1 Unbridled's Song 25 58 12 26 6 8 721 362 2,675,714 26,659,347 (1993) by Unbridled Crops: 16 Stands: Taylor Made Stallions USA (Dead/Ret/Exp) Suave Richard (JPN) 2 Giant's Causeway 20 47 11 25 3 5 684 306 7,000,000 28,289,641 (1997) by Storm Cat Crops: 11 Stands: Ashford Stud USA (Dead/Ret/Exp) Gun Runner 3 Deputy Minister 8 20 5 9 3 4 265 136 2,059,870 11,352,980 (1979) by Vice Regent Crops: 28 Stands: USA (Dead/Ret/Exp) Sungrazer (JPN) 4 A.P. Indy 30 61 12 28 2 9 622 329 1,496,000 21,572,655 (1989) by Seattle Slew Crops: 19 Stands: Lane's End Farm KY Fee: Pensioned Game Winner 5 Kingmambo 12 19 5 9 2 4 415 195 3,275,302 17,979,582 (1990) by Mr. Prospector Crops: 18 Stands: Lane's End Farm USA (Dead/Ret/Exp) Cross Counter (GB) 6 Elusive Quality 15 33 4 9 2 3 495 252 1,660,000 14,154,348 (1993) by Gone West Crops: 13 Stands: Jonabell Farm USA (Dead/Ret/Exp) Roy H 7 Rahy 11 22 4 9 2 2 392 192 1,555,025 12,852,756 (1985) by Blushing Groom (Fr) Crops: 21 Stands: Three Chimneys Farm USA (Dead/Ret/Exp) Alpha Centauri (IRE) 8 Street Cry (Ire) 12 27 7 14 2 3 370 193 1,190,000 12,616,268 (1998) by Machiavellian Crops: 10 Stands: Darley USA (Dead/Ret/Exp) Diversify 9 Mr. Greeley 12 28 5 9 2 4 506 226 809,600 12,555,934 (1992) by Gone West Crops: 16 Stands: Gainesway Farm USA (Dead/Ret/Exp) Lone Sailor 10 Stormy Atlantic 7 21 3 9 2 2 328 166 2,541,394 10,403,859 (1994) by Storm Cat Crops: 12 Stands: Hill 'n' Dale Farms KY Fee: $10,000 Glorious Forever (GB) 11 Ghostzapper 7 13 5 7 2 3 122 73 3,798,000 8,647,804 (2000) by Awesome Again Crops: 6 Stands: Adena Springs KY Fee: $85,000 Justify 12 Royal Academy 6 18 4 9 2 2 367 162 1,007,426 7,776,846 (1987) by Nijinsky II Crops: 21 Stands: Ashford Stud USA (Dead/Ret/Exp) Lightning Spear (GB) 13 Theatrical (Ire) 8 18 3 6 2 2 208 95 558,064 5,961,385 (1982) by Nureyev Crops: 24 Stands: Hill 'n' Dale Farms USA (Dead/Ret/Exp) Oscar Performance 14 Orientate 6 12 2 4 2 3 164 100 1,384,200 5,757,282 (1998) by Mt. Livermore Crops: 9 Stands: MD Fee: N/A Jaywalk 15 Marquetry 5 6 3 4 2 4 130 61 931,080 5,624,508 (1987) by Conquistador Cielo Crops: 18 Stands: USA (Dead/Ret/Exp) Promises Fulfilled

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Saturday, January 26, 2019

TODAY=S RACING INSIGHTS: MEDAGLIA 4th-GP, $60K, Msw, 3yo, 1m, post time: 1:00 p.m. D=ORO FTKOCT TOPPER KICKS OFF LOADED PEGASUS CARD Sponsored by Alex Nichols Agency by Joe Bianca 1st-GP, $60K, Msw, 3yo, 1 1/16mT, post time: 11:30 a.m.

Samaronti in the ring as a yearling | Keeneland photo Sumaya US Stables went to $725,000 at Keeneland September to bring home SAMARONTI (Violence), who debuts for the Chad Brown barn in this dirt mile. Stabling at Palm Meadows since early November, the bay shows an upbeat series of works, capped by a half-mile spin in :49 1/5 (16/103) Jan. 19. Second Broadway d=Oro as a yearling | Fasig-Tipton photo dam Get Ready Bertie (More Than Ready) was a SW/MGSP full- sister to GSW Uptown Bertie and a half to GSW Whirlie Bertie As is frequently the case with blockbuster racing days, maiden special weights on the GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational card (Stormin Fever). Juddmonte Farms homebred Hidden Scroll Saturday at Gulfstream came up salty, and the action gets (Hard Spun) has the look of a runner for trainer Bill Mott, underway early with the morning opener featuring a full field of rattling off a handful of quick breezes at Payson Park, topped by 14 sophomore males going two turns on the grass. Headlining a half-mile move in :49 flat (2/23) Jan. 21. The rail-drawn colt is the field is John C. Oxley and Baccari Racing Stable=s debuting out of an unraced half-sister to four-time GSW Starformer BROADWAY D=ORO (Medaglia d=Oro), who easily topped all lots (Dynaformer) and his second dam is G1SW Etoile Montante at the 2017 Fasig-Tipton October Fall Yearling Sale when (Miswaki). TJCIS PPs hammering for $700,000. The dark bay is a full-brother to MGSW Golden Lad and a half to MGSW/GISP Broadway=s Alibi (Vindication) and MSW/GISP R Gypsy Gold (Bernardini) out of the SW Broadway Gold (Seeking the Gold), herself a half to Ï Ò GISW and successful young sire Dialed In (Mineshaft). Broadway d=Oro shows a steady stream of Palm Meadows works for trainer Mark Casse, finished with an easy half-mile in :51 (81/103) over the dirt Jan. 19. Adding intrigue to the party is another firster, Colts Neck Stables= homebred Friary (War Front). The bay is a half to GISW and young sire Wicked Strong (Hard Spun) out of Moyne Abbey (Charismatic), a half to MGSW/GISP Gulch Approval (Gulch) and MGSW/GISP Rusty Slipper (Lemon Drop Kid) who hammered for a cool $1 million at Fasig-Tipton November in 2014. Friary also has been prepping at Palm Meadows for his unveiling and drilled a full six furlongs in 1:13 4/5 (2/3) on the turf there Jan. 19. TJCIS PPs TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 2 OF 7 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 26, 2019

race of the season when he wired the Dec. 22 Sugar Bowl S. going six furlongs at Fair Grounds. That performance was hot on the heels of the 81 Beyer he received in breaking his maiden at Churchill Downs Nov. 25. Scratched entrant Jack Van Berg (To Honor and Serve) won the only race Gray Attempt had lost, a Churchill maiden Nov. 2., and four of the eight who went to post IN ORDER OF PURSE: all had blacktype victories on their resumes. SMARTY JONES S., $150,000, Oaklawn, 1-25, 3yo, 1m, 1:36.94, Breaking from the outside in this two-turn debut, Gray ft. Attempt gave a little hop at the start and went straight to the 1--GRAY ATTEMPT, 119, c, 3, by Graydar front on his own accord. The gray sat parked on the lead 1st Dam: Attempt to Name, by Consolidator through fractions of :23.12 and :46.86. Coming into the stretch, 2nd Dam: Capacity, by Capote the winner was pressured from both the inside and the outside, 3rd Dam: Rare Opportunity, by Danzig Connection but a few cracks of the right-handed whip did the trick to eke ($47,000 RNA Wlg '16 KEENOV; $50,000 Ylg '17 FTKJUL). out the victory. O-Dwight Pruett; B-Wynnstay LLC, Donna Moore & Jim Gray Attempt is one of five foals for his dam, whose last Richardson (KY); T-William H. Fires; J-Shaun Bridgmohan. reported offspring is juvenile filly Tap N Sway (Tapiture). The $90,000. Lifetime Record: 4-3-0-0, $184,700. extended family includes MGSW & GISP Tower of Texas (Street Sense) and GSW Street Sounds (Street Cry {Ire}). Gray Attempt is the third stakes winner for his young sire. Click for the 2--Long Range Toddy, 122, c, 3, Take Charge Indy--Pleasant Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Song, by Unbridled's Song. O/B-Willis Horton Racing LLC (KY); T-Steven M. Asmussen. $30,000. INTERBOROUGH S., $101,500, Aqueduct, 1-25, 4yo/up, f/m, 7f, 3--Boldor, 115, c, 3, Munnings--Senate Caucus, by Siphon (Brz). 1:25.74, gd. ($100,000 Ylg '17 FTSAUG; $700,000 2yo '18 OBSAPR). O-Ed & 1--DAWN THE DESTROYER, 120, m, 5, Speightstown--Dashing Susie Orr; B-Carlos S. E. & Gillian Gordon-Moore (VA); T-Steven Debby (SW), by Medaglia d'Oro. 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. M. Asmussen. $15,000. O-Stonestreet Stables LLC; B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Margins: NK, NK, 1. Odds: 2.20, 5.10, 12.30. Holdings LLC (KY); T-Kiaran P. McLaughlin; J-Junior Alvarado. Also Ran: Six Shooter, Sleepy Eyes Todd, Bankit, Super Steed, $55,000. Lifetime Record: GSP, 13-4-2-2, $231,405. *1/2 to Forloveofcountry. Scratched: Jack Van Berg. Bronze Star (Tapit), MSW, $195,555.

2--Sower, 122, f, 4, Flatter--Enth, by Seeking the Gold. ($120,000 2yo '17 OBSAPR). O-Leonard C. Green; B-Claiborne Farm & Adele B. Dilschneider (KY); T-Linda Rice. $21,000.

3--Honor Way, 122, m, 5, Caleb's Posse--Truth and Honor, by Yes It's True. ($23,000 Wlg '14 KEENOV; $47,000 RNA Ylg '15 OBSAUG; $29,000 RNA 2yo '16 OBSMAR; $77,000 2yo '16 OBSOPN). O-Aron S. Yagoda; B-Candy Meadows LLC (KY); T-Linda Rice. $12,000. Another Yearling Graduate from Stuart Morris, Agent

Margins: 1 3/4, 1 1/4, 1 3/4. Odds: 1.40, 5.70, 39.50. Gray Attempt | Coady Also Ran: Your Love, Yorkiepoo Princess, Miss Mimosa, Short Kakes, Silent Sonet. Gray Attempt had secured the best last-out Beyer Speed Dawn the Destroyer, a well-beaten third as the 5-2 favorite in Figure (92) in the field of Oaklawn=s first Kentucky Derby points the 2017 GII Prioress S. at Saratoga, entered off a sharp score TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 3 OF 7 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 26, 2019 over runaway next out La Verdad S. heroine Kathryn the Wise 13 Capla Temptress (Ire) Lope de Vega (Ire) Rosario Mott 7-2 (Uncle Mo) in a $62,500 optional claimer here Nov. 29. Favored 14 Andina Del Sur Giant’s Causeway Saez Albertrani 12-1 to register her first stakes victory in this one, she chased in fifth, Also Eligible: took the overland route into the stretch and came over the top 15 Fashionably Wild Unbridled’s Song Batista Penna 30-1 16 Peach of a Gal Curlin Prado Motion 30-1 to run them down. "With the little bit of time off since she's been back, she's really been training well,@ said Joe Lee, Saturday, Aqueduct, post time: 3:49 p.m. EDT assistant to winning trainer Kiaran McLaughlin. AI expected her JAZIL S., $100,000, 4yo/up, 1 1/8m to run well today and I'm just glad she did.@ The winner=s dam PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML had a colt by Frosted in 2018 and was bred back to 1 Holiday Bonus Harlan’s Holiday Rodriguez Cannizzo 10-1 Speightstown. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, 2 Backsideofthemoon Malibu Moon Reyes O’Brien 8-1 sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. 3 Title Ready More Than Ready Lezcano Asmussen 4-1 4 Hero’s Welcome Street Cry (Ire) H. Hernandez Contessa 30-1 Saturday, Gulfstream Park, post time: 12:30 p.m. EDT 5 Mr. Buff Friend Or Foe Alvarado Kimmel 5-1 GULFSTREAM PARK TURF SPRINT S., $150,000, 4yo/up, 5fT 6 Thebigfundamental Uncle Mo Davis Pletcher 9-2 PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML 7 Sunny Ridge Holy Bull Franco Ja. Servis 1-1 1 Singandcryindubai Victor’s Cry J. Ortiz Navarro 15-1 2 Oak Bluffs Defrere Landeros Eppler 20-1 3 Stormy Liberal Stormy Atlantic Rosario Miller 8-5 4 World of Trouble Kantharos I. Ortiz Jr. Ja. Servis 6-5 5 Little Chesney City Zip Leparoux Vaccarezza 30-1 6 Pay Any Price Wildcat Heir Lopez Baxter 6-1 7 Belle Tapisserie Tapizar Montalvo Mejia 30-1 8 Recruiting Ready Algorithms Saez Hough 10-1 IN ORDER OF PURSE: Saturday, Gulfstream Park, post time: 1:31 p.m. EDT 7th-Oaklawn, $78,000, Alw (NW1X)/Opt. Clm ($62,500), 1-25, GULFSTREAM PARK LADIES’ TURF SPRINT S., $150,000, 4yo/up, f/m, 5fT 3yo, f, 5 1/2f, 1:04.76, ft. PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML RAINTREE STARLET (f, 3, Get Stormy--Birdie Told Me, by 1 Surrender Now Morning Line Saez Miller 6-1 Eavesdropper), a runaway maiden winner at second asking at 2 Miz Mayhem Yesbyjimminy Rosario Plesa 12-1 Hawthorne Jan. 4, made it two straight wins at odds of 6-1 here. 3 Painting Corners Pleasant Strike Prat Miller 9-2 She forced the issue from the outside, took over on the far turn, 4 Cherry Lodge Bernardini J. Ortiz Pletcher 12-1 and had 1 1/4 lengths over 63-1 chance Mucha Mezquina 5 Morticia Twirling Candy Gaffalione Arnold 7-2 (Mucho Macho Man) on the wire. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-1, 6 Just Talkin Midshipman I. Ortiz Jr. Ja. Servis 6-1 $60,100. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored 7 Razorback Lady Overdriven Maragh Biancone 20-1 by Fasig-Tipton. 8 Smiling Causeway Giant’s Causeway Castellano Delacour 4-1 O-Nancy A. Vanier & Horseplayers Racing Club LLC; B-Nancy 9 Pastime Lonhro (Aus) Landeros Oliver 20-1 10 Blue Bahia Wildcat Heir Lopez Ja. Servis 6-1 Vanier & Horse Player Racing Club (KY); T-Brian Williamson.

Saturday, Gulfstream Park, post time: 2:02 p.m. EDT 2nd-Fair Grounds, $40,000, Alw, 1-25, (NW1X), 4yo/up, f/m, 5 SOUTH BEACH S., $125,000, 4yo/up, f/m, 7 1/2fT 1/2fT, 1:04.35, gd. PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML FLASHLY (f, 4, Denman {Aus}--Sheave, by Mineshaft), a first-out 1 Fire Key Friesan Fire J. Ortiz Catanese 10-1 maiden winner on grass at Arlington Park last July for trainer 2 Vendita Smart Strike Maragh Biancone 20-1 Wayne Catalano, was making her third start in two months at 3 Youngest Daughter The Factor Albarado Oliver 20-1 Fair Grounds for Brad Cox. With a last-out second when taken 4 Everyonelovesjimmy Jimmy Creed Landeros Wilkes 12-1 off the turf New Year=s Day, the dark bay or brown filly was the 5 Lover’s Key Frost Giant Gonzales Nagle 20-1 public=s choice here at 3-2. Chasing the pace from the inside, she 6 Miss O’Hara Colonel John Jimenez Arnold 20-1 swung wide off the turn and ground down the leaders to prevail 7 Fizzy Friday (GB) Royal Applause (GB) Leparoux Correas 10-1 by 2 3/4 lengths over Awesome Figure (Paynter), who had been 8 Corps de Ballet Speightstown Geroux Attfield 20-1 9 Dolce Lili Scat Daddy Velazquez Mott 5-1 prominent throughout. Flashly is a half-sister to GI Kentucky 10 Conquest Hardcandy Candy Ride (Arg) Gaffalione Sano 15-1 Oaks winner Cathryn Sophia (Street Boss), GISW, $1,229,720, 11 Piedi Bianchi Overanalyze Prat Pletcher 20-1 who sold at the 2017 KEENOV sale for $2.3 million while in foal 12 Road to Victory Quality Road I. Ortiz Jr. Casse 4-1 to Pioneerof the Nile. Their dam, who was sent to Japan in 2016, TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 4 OF 7 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 26, 2019 had a full sister to Cathryn Sophia in 2017, which was her last Record: 2-1-1-0, $61,400. Click for the Equibase.com chart or reported foal. Sales History: $190,000 Ylg '16 KEESEP. Lifetime VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Record: 5-2-1-0, $54,200. Click for the Equibase.com chart. O-Shadwell Stable; B-Hadi Al Tajir (KY); T-Daniel C. Peitz. O-Zayat Stables, LLC; B-Robert T Manfuso (MD); T-Brad H. Cox. EQB Yearling Purchase for Zayat Stables 6th-Oaklawn, $77,000, Msw, 1-25, 3yo, f, 6f, 1:10.41, ft. MOTION EMOTION (f, 3, Take Charge Indy--Golden Motion, by Smart Strike) started her career at Emerald Downs, tiring to fourth Sept. 8 in her debut for trainer Michael Puhich. Shipped to Churchill Downs and trainer Thomas Van Berg, her next start Nov. 1 resulted in a ninth-place finish over a sloppy surface. Back on a fast strip here, the bay broke sharply at 13-1 and was sent straight to the front. With Jon Court sitting chilly until leaving the turn, she eased away from her pursuers to graduate IN ORDER OF PURSE: 1 1/2 lengths better than Ultimate Mo (Uncle Mo). The winner=s 9th-Oaklawn, $77,000, Msw, 1-25, 3yo, 1 1/16m, 1:45.80, ft. dam has 2-year-old filly Tizemotionalgold (Tiznow), as well as a LAUGHING FOX (c, 3, Union Rags--Saskawea {MSW & GSP, yearling colt by Bodemeister. A number of graded stakes horses $753,937}, by Stormy Atlantic) successfully stretched out to are in the immediate family, including GI Breeders= Cup Filly and two turns here after showing speed in two seven-furlong Mark Turf winner Shared Account (Plesantly Perfect). Sales attempts, first at Saratoga Aug. 11 for trainer Ron Moquett and History: $55,000 Ylg '17 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 3-1-0-0, then at Churchill Downs Nov. 17 after being transferred to Steve $47,945. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored Asmussen=s barn. Neither try landed an on-the-board finish. by Fasig-Tipton. Parked in fourth on the rail here, he was covered up through O-Mark DeDomenico LLC; B-WinStar Farm, LLC (KY); T-Thomas L. fractions of :24.03 and :48.68. As the pace quickened coming off Van Berg. the turn, he searched for a seam and found it in the final SELECT SALES Graduate...Exceeding Expectations furlong. He pounced on the pacesetter, Passion Play (Hold Me Back), snatching away the lead in the waning strides to score by a neck as the 5-2 favorite. With a distinctive big blaze, the winner is the last foal produced by his dam, who was bred to 6th-Charles Town, $23,000, Msw, 1-24, 3yo, f, 4 1/2f, :54.51, sy. Super Saver for this term. They hail from the immediate family TOP HAT DARLIN (f, 3, Dialed In--Darlin' Diane, by of Noholdingback Bear (Put It Back), Canada=s champion sprinter Speightstown), a 7-1 chance making her career debut, showed in 2016. Sales History: $120,000 Ylg '17 KEESEP; $375,000 2yo good early speed and was vying for the early lead when bumped '18 OBSMAR. Lifetime Record: 3-1-0-0, $49,118. Click for the three furlongs from home. But she dealt nicely with that spot of Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. trouble, rallied three deep into the lane and was resolute in O-Alex & JoAnn Lieblong; B-Chester & Anne Prince (KY); posting a neck success over fellow debutante Gold and Strike T-Steven M. Asmussen. (Greeley=s Conquest). Sales history: $22,000 Ylg '17 BARSEL; Baccari Bloodstock Sales Graduate $16,000 2yo '18 OBSOPN. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $13,620. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig- Tipton. 4th-Oaklawn, $77,000, Msw, 1-25, 3yo, f, 6f, 1:11.56, ft. O-Top Hat Thoroughbreds; B-Terry C Lovingier (CA); T-Wayne SHAHARAZAD (f, 3, Street Sense--Ascot Eye, by Daaher) ran Potts. huge in her debut at odds of 17-1 Nov. 10 at Churchill Downs over this distance, rallying from far back to finish second, beaten only a neck. Getting first-time Lasix here, the 4-1 shot wasn=t in a hurry out of the gate and was still no better than seventh with two furlongs to go. She was sent at least five wide on the turn and relentlessly wore down pacesetter Adari (Graydar), going clear late to win by 1 1/4 lengths. The winner=s dam has been Gray Attempt (Graydar) handles the stretch out in bred to Bernardini for three straight seasons, with a 2-year-old distance with a front-running win in Smarty Jones. filly named Rasees and a yearling colt on the ground. Lifetime

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136 foals of racing age/13 winners/0 black-type winners 3-Sam Houston Race, Msw 5 1/2f, DAISY CAN, 4-1

Flashback (Tapit), Diamond B Farm, $7,500 175 foals of racing age/15 winners/0 black-type winners 4-Gulfstream, Msw 1m, TRIPWIRE, 12-1 $75,000 FTK JUL yrl IN THE UAE: Kunani, g, 5, Arch--Sweet Sonnet (MSP-Eng), by Seeking the He's Had Enough (Tapit), Woodford Thoroughbreds, $5,000 Gold. Jebel Ali, 1-25, Hcp., 1800m, 1:49.46. B-Darley (KY). 139 foals of racing age/13 winners/0 black-type winners *AED30,000 HRA >17 ERASEP. 9-Oaklawn, Msw 6f, REPLETE, 30-1 Bois de Boulogne, h, 5, Street Cry (Ire)--Rosa Parks (GB) (MSP- $62,000 FTK JUL yrl; $370,000 OBS APR 2yo Eng, SP-Ity), by Sadler=s Wells. Jebel Ali, 1-25, Rated Cond., Itsmyluckyday (Lawyer Ron), Spendthrift Farm, $8,000 1950m, 1:59.21. B-Darley (KY). *AED30,000 HRA >17 ERASEP. 134 foals of racing age/16 winners/0 black-type winners 4-Gulfstream, Msw 1m, YOUSHOULDBESOLUCKY, 20-1

Magician (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), Haras de Corlay, $12,500 126 foals of racing age/9 winners/0 black-type winners 3-Fair Grounds, Msw 1 1/16mT, MERLIN'S SONG, 15-1

Moro Tap (Tapit), Double Infinity Ranch, $2,500 50 foals of racing age/5 winners/0 black-type winners 3-Sam Houston Race, Msw 5 1/2f, DANCING AWESOME, 8-1 $1,500 RNA TTA MIX yrl; $2,200 HER OCT yrl; $10,000 TTA APR 2yo

Revolutionary (War Pass), WinStar Farm, $7,500 148 foals of racing age/17 winners/2 black-type winners 3-Aqueduct, Aoc 1m, MAIDEN BEAUTY, 4-1 $15,000 FTN MIX wnl; $40,000 OBS APR 2yo

FIRST-CROP STARTERS TO WATCH: SATURDAY, JANUARY 26 Speeding Again (City Zip) Abstraction (Pulpit), Doubletree Farm, $3,000 4 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners 59 foals of racing age/6 winners/1 black-type winner 1-Mahoning Valley, Msw 6f, NUMEROUS TICKETS, 20-1

4-Sunland, Msw 6f, DAUX, 6-1 Strong Mandate (Tiznow), Three Chimneys Farm, $10,000 4-Sunland, Msw 6f, GERDA'S GONE, 15-1 138 foals of racing age/11 winners/0 black-type winners 8-Mahoning Valley, Msw 6f, ATTACK ANGLE, 2-1 Alpha (Bernardini), Darley/Sequel, $8,500 $12,000 RNA KEE NOV wnl; $80,000 FTK JUL yrl 94 foals of racing age/4 winners/0 black-type winners 3-Fair Grounds, Msw 1 1/16mT, FLAT CREEK, 15-1 5-Aqueduct, Msw 5 1/2f, JUDGE STANTON, 10-1 $90,000 KEE SEP yrl $14,000 OBS OCT yrl; $120,000 OBS APR 2yo 9-Oaklawn, Msw 6f, JUSTICE OF WAR, 6-1

Beggarthyneighbor (Half Ours) $60,000 FTK OCT yrl; $550,000 OBS APR 2yo

17 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners Thomas Jefferson (Mr. Greeley) 9-Oaklawn, Msw 6f, HALF OURS TO KEEP, 30-1 1 foal of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners

Cairo Prince (Pioneerof the Nile), Airdrie Stud, $10,000 1-Mahoning Valley, Msw 6f, NOTHINLASTSFOREVER, 20-1

228 foals of racing age/19 winners/3 black-type winners Tritap (Tapit), Heritage Stallions, $2,500 9-Oaklawn, Msw 6f, ONCEWEWEREBROTHERS, 4-1 42 foals of racing age/10 winners/1 black-type winner $67,000 KEE NOV wnl; $220,000 OBS APR 2yo 9-Laurel, Aoc 6f, KNOCK OUT KID, 5-2 8-Mahoning Valley, Msw 6f, WEMADEITTOFIFTY, 20-1 $1,000 RNA EAS JAN yrl; $1,000 EAS OCT yrl $77,000 RNA KEE SEP yrl; $45,000 OBS APR 2yo Well Spelled (Spellbinder), Godstone Farm, $1,500 Can the Man (Into Mischief), Spendthrift Farm, $5,000 TDN REGIONAL REPORT • PAGE 6 OF 7 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 26, 2019

24 foals of racing age/2 winners/1 black-type winner 4th-Fair Grounds, $40,000, (S), (NW1X)/Opt. Clm ($12,500), 6-Penn National, Msw 6f, EL PISTOLERO, 4-1 1-25, 4yo/up, f/m, 1mT, 1:39.79, gd. JUS WOW (f, 4, Dunkirk--Alicantina {Arg}, by Mutakddim) Will Take Charge (Unbridled's Song), Three Chimneys Farm, Lifetime Record: 3-2-1-0, $55,400. O-Ellen Addison; B-Pine Knoll, $30,000 LLC (LA); T-Steven M. Asmussen. 207 foals of racing age/15 winners/1 black-type winner 9-Oaklawn, Msw 6f, CABOT, 6-1 4th-Charles Town, $26,500, Opt. Clm ($25,000), 1-24, 4yo/up, $160,000 KEE NOV wnl; $400,000 FTS AUG yrl 7f, 1:27.39, sy. FOLLOW THE NOTION (g, 8, Great Notion--Follow the Queen, by Not For Love) Lifetime Record: SW, 34-10-5-6, $259,040. O/T-Gary L Williams Jr; B-Gary Williams (WV).

7th-Charles Town, $24,500, (S), 1-24, (NW1X), 4yo/up, 6 1/2f, 1:21.06, sy. ASTRO RIDER (g, 4, Astrology--Inca Girl, by Touch Gold) Lifetime Record: 11-3-1-1, $48,245. O-Matthew Schera; B-Maurice F Casey (WV); T-John C Carlisle. *$45,000 Ylg '16 KEESEP. 1/2 sis selling at OBSWIN with Select Sales - HIP #26 SELECT SALES Graduate...Exceeding Expectations

ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: Marco Island, c, 3, City Zip--Caxambas Pass, by Tiznow. Laurel, 1-25, (C), 1m, 1:37.87. B-Phipps Stable (KY). *$17,000 2yo '18 OBSOPN. Classy Chasie, g, 3, Creative Cause--Bourbonette, by Honour ALLOWANCE RESULTS: and Glory. Golden Gate Fields, 1-25, 1m (AWT), 1:39.79. 1st-Santa Anita, $79,411, 1-25, 4yo, f, 1mT, 1:34.94, fm. B-Upson Downs Farm (KY). *$17,000 RNA Ylg '17 KEESEP. STREAK OF LUCK (f, 4, Old Fashioned--Valeria, by Elusive She'sonthewarpath, f, 3, Declaration of War--Ha Ha Tonka (SW, Quality) Lifetime Record: GSP, 16-5-2-2, $230,238. O/B-Roncelli $156,400), by Distorted Humor. Fair Grounds, 1-25, 5 1/2fT, Family Trust (CA); T-Matthew Chew. 1:05.06. B-Robert & Lawana Low (KY). Lord Dragon, c, 3, Oxbow--Broken Spell (GISP, $222,622), by 7th-Aqueduct, $72,947, (S), (NW2$X)/Opt. Clm ($40,000), 1-25, Broken Vow. Tampa Bay Downs, 1-25, 1m 40y, 1:41.05. 4yo/up, f/m, 1m, 1:40.05, gd. B-Calumet Farm (KY). *$130,000 Ylg '17 KEESEP. NO HAYNE NO GAYNE (m, 5, Haynesfield--Star Orchid, by Successful Appeal) Lifetime Record: MSP, 20-4-3-6, $234,616. Souixper Charger, c, 3, Portobello Road--My Angel's Halo, by O-Toby Sheets, ZBS Thoroughbreds & Paradise Farms Corp.; Southern Forest. Oaklawn, 1-25, (S), 6f, 1:11.00. B-Anderson B-ZBS Thoroughbreds (NY); T-Steven M. Asmussen. Farms (AR). Silk From Heaven, f, 3, Richard's Kid--Elegant in Silk, by Hard 2nd-Aqueduct, $72,344, (S), (NW2$X)/Opt. Clm ($40,000), 1-25, Spun. Santa Anita, 1-25, (S), 6f, 1:11.85. B-DP Racing, LLC (CA). 4yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:12.25, my. *$32,000 Ylg '17 BAROCT. FAIR REGIS (m, 5, Bustin Stones--Lake Song, by Prime Timber) Sweet Daddio, f, 4, Scat Daddy--Street Crew, by Street Cry (Ire). Lifetime Record: 22-7-5-2, $265,271. O-Drawing Away Stable; Tampa Bay Downs, 1-25, 6f, 1:10.96. B-Hardacre Farm (FL). B-John F Carberry (NY); T-Robert N. Falcone, Jr. *$135,000 Ylg '16 OBSAUG; $47,000 RNA 2yo '17 OBSMAR. 8th-Delta Downs, $49,000, (S), 1-24, (NW2X), 4yo/up, 7f, 1:27.99, ft. Spring Drama, m, 5, Big Drama--One Spring Storm, by Wekiva FINAL ARGUMENT (g, 4, Closing Argument--Figurative, by Springs. Aqueduct, 1-25, (S), 6f, 1:12.47. B-Nancy Harris, John Broad Brush) Lifetime Record: 8-5-0-0, $90,880. O-Circle H Allen, Christina & Greg Nunn (NY). Farms; B-Darrell C & Jo Ann Comeaux (LA); T-Alan Klanfer.

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Ostini, g, 5, Decarchy--Autumn Light, by North Light (Ire). Santa Anita, 1-25, (S), 1mT, 1:34.97. B-Richard Barton Enterprises (CA). *$3,000 Ylg '15 BARSEL.

ASTROLOGY, Astro Rider, g, 4, o/o Inca Girl, by Touch Gold. ALW, 1-24, Charles Town BIG DRAMA, Spring Drama, m, 5, o/o One Spring Storm, by Wekiva Springs. MSW, 1-25, Aqueduct BIG DRAMA, Who's Your Drama, g, 6, o/o Be Silver, by Silver Graydar=s Gray Attempt hits the ground Buck. Chrysaor S., 1-25, Gulfstream running from his outside draw | Coady BUSTIN STONES, Fair Regis, m, 5, o/o Lake Song, by Prime Timber. AOC, 1-25, Aqueduct MSW, 1-25, Tampa Bay CITY ZIP, Marco Island, c, 3, o/o Caxambas Pass, by Tiznow. MCL, PIONEEROF THE NILE, Baffin Bay, g, 3, o/o Open Water, by 1-25, Laurel Include. Bellerophon S., 1-25, Gulfstream CLOSING ARGUMENT, Final Argument, g, 4, o/o Figurative, by PORTOBELLO ROAD, Souixper Charger, c, 3, o/o My Angel's Broad Brush. ALW, 1-24, Delta Downs Halo, by Southern Forest. MSW, 1-25, Oaklawn CREATIVE CAUSE, Classy Chasie, g, 3, o/o Bourbonette, by RICHARD'S KID, Silk From Heaven, f, 3, o/o Elegant in Silk, by Honour and Glory. MSW, 1-25, Golden Gate Hard Spun. MSW, 1-25, Santa Anita DECARCHY, Ostini, g, 5, o/o Autumn Light, by North Light (Ire). SCAT DADDY, Sweet Daddio, f, 4, o/o Street Crew, by Street Cry MSW, 1-25, Santa Anita (Ire). MSW, 1-25, Tampa Bay DECLARATION OF WAR, She'sonthewarpath, f, 3, o/o Ha Ha SPEIGHTSTOWN, Dawn the Destroyer, m, 5, o/o Dashing Debby, Tonka, by Distorted Humor. MSW, 1-25, Fair Grounds by Medaglia d'Oro. Interborough S., 1-25, Aqueduct DENMAN (AUS), Flashly, f, 4, o/o Sheave, by Mineshaft. ALW, STREET SENSE, Shaharazad, f, 3, o/o Ascot Eye, by Daaher. 1-25, Fair Grounds MSW, 1-25, Oaklawn DIALED IN, Top Hat Darlin, f, 3, o/o Darlin' Diane, by TAKE CHARGE INDY, Motion Emotion, f, 3, o/o Golden Motion, Speightstown. MSW, 1-24, Charles Town by Smart Strike. MSW, 1-25, Oaklawn DUNKIRK, Jus Wow, f, 4, o/o Alicantina (Arg), by Mutakddim. UNION RAGS, Laughing Fox, c, 3, o/o Saskawea, by Stormy AOC, 1-25, Fair Grounds Atlantic. MSW, 1-25, Oaklawn GET STORMY, Raintree Starlet, f, 3, o/o Birdie Told Me, by YES ITS LEGAL, Misschief Maas, m, 5, o/o Forest Retreat, by Eavesdropper. AOC, 1-25, Oaklawn Forest Camp. Eos S., 1-25, Gulfstream GRAYDAR, Gray Attempt, c, 3, o/o Attempt to Name, by Consolidator. Smarty Jones S., 1-25, Oaklawn GREAT NOTION, Follow the Notion, g, 8, o/o Follow the Queen, by Not For Love. AOC, 1-24, Charles Town HAYNESFIELD, No Hayne No Gayne, m, 5, o/o Star Orchid, by Successful Appeal. AOC, 1-25, Aqueduct MACHO UNO, Uno Mas Modelo, g, 6, o/o Granny Spinster, by Distorted Humor. Perseus S., 1-25, Gulfstream MINESHAFT, Yako, f, 3, o/o Most Awesome, by Awesome Again. Andromeda S., 1-25, Gulfstream OLD FASHIONED, Streak of Luck, f, 4, o/o Valeria, by Elusive Quality. ALW, 1-25, Santa Anita OXBOW, Lord Dragon, c, 3, o/o Broken Spell, by Broken Vow.

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should not be forgotten than among the 10 career wins of STALLIONS FOR ALL Sheikh Fahad Al Thani's Dunaden (Fr) (Nicobar {GB}) are also the G1 Caulfield Cup and G1 Hong Kong Vase. Then there's G1 Irish SEASONS AT OVERBURY Derby hero Jack Hobbs (GB) (Halling), a fellow high-earner thanks also to his victory in the G1 Dubai Sheema Classic. Another to have landed the spoils on Dubai's biggest raceday is Cityscape (GB) (Selkirk), the Juddmonte-bred G1 Dubai Duty Free winner who made eye-catching strides with his first crop of 3-year-old runners last season. To reinforce the breadth of stallion talent on offer at Overbury, one of the busiest members of the crew last year was Ardad (Ire), whose similarity to his sire Kodiac (GB) mixed with his commercial market appeal of speed and precocity had the owners of 132 mares beating a path to his door during his debut season. In looks and background, he is almost a polar opposite to the 16.3-hand Schiaparelli (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}), whose 12 victories--including five Group 1s--from 21 starts across four seasons tell their own tale of his particular brand of reliable Kayf Tara at Overbury Stud | Emma Berry German engineering. As if this line-up wasn't enough, a late entry announced just By Emma Berry last week is the well-bred Frontiersman (GB), a son of Dubawi Within hollering distance of jump racing's unofficial (Ire) and Ouija Board (GB), no less, who didn't quite scale the headquarters of Cheltenham sits Overbury Stud. There could be heights of his Derby-winning half-brother Australia (GB) (Galileo no more appropriate base for the horse who has been Britain's {Ire}) on the track but on pedigree alone deserves a chance at champion National Hunt sire nine times, but there is much more stud. to lure breeders to step inside the honeystone walls of this Cont. p2 understated farm than just Kayf Tara (GB) (Sadler's Wells). At 25, the Meon Valley Stud-bred dual G1 Ascot Gold Cup winner has bragging rights as the stallion who put Overbury, in IN TDN AMERICA TODAY its current guise, on the map, but he is far from the only IT’S PEGASUS DAY AT GULFSTREAM PARK top-class racehorse within the stallion yard. Kayf Tara's fellow No less than $16 million is at stake Saturday at Gulfstream Park near residents have been well travelled in their quest for success. Top Miami for the $9-million GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational and the of the tree on prize-money earnings is the horse who is instantly inaugural running of the $7-million GI Pegasus World Cup Turf. synonymous with his Melbourne Cup victory of 2011, but it Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 26 JANUARY 2019

Stallions For All Seasons At Overbury cont. from p1 particularly on the Flat side of things as well." From the newest arrival to the farm's lynchpin, eagle-eyed He continues, "Tim Holland-Martin had finished and moved observers will have spotted a link with Sheikh Mohammed's on, and Penelope Bossom, who owns the estate, didn't want to Godolphin operation. It is an association which has helped carry on the breeding enterprise, which had obviously been Simon Sweeting, who leases the stud from the Bossom family, hugely successful with [treble Classic winner] Grundy (GB) being return Overbury to a thriving the pinnacle." Thoroughbred breeding Sweeting's arrival marked a operation since his arrival there new era for the farm as a in late 2000. stallion operation, with Kayf "I was very fortunate that Tara, freshly retired with eight Sheikh Mohammed was happy victories at Group 1 and Group to trust, on his agent's advice, to 2 level to his credit, a notable send horses here," says first incumbent. The stallion Sweeting, a former assistant to master can be forgiven his Luca Cumani and Henry Cecil obvious soft spot for his who grew up on his family's veteran. "He's been an absolute Conduit Farm Stud in superstar--a horse that you Oxfordshire. "They were horses Click for an interview with Simon Sweeting on the Overbury stallions dream about but you'd never that [Darley] wanted to retire, expect to get," he says. "Really, but didn't necessarily want to have at Dalham Hall Stud at that if I'd known how difficult it is, and how tough it is to find a horse stage. An example of that was Bertolini, who came here in 2002, like that I probably never would have started the enterprise at and was a huge success in his first year. They didn't necessarily all. He came and he was popular, and he's never put a foot want to be selling all the stallions or the potential stallions as wrong for us. He's been the horse that we've built the business they had done in the past. So it helped us get established, on, it's as simple as that. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 26 JANUARY 2019

Stallions For All Seasons At Overbury cont. He's kept going, he's been very fertile, he's got tremendous libido, and he's been a success at stud. He's done everything for us that we could have possibly dreamt that he might do." With a much smaller pool of National Hunt mares in Britain compared to Ireland and France, the UK has often struggled to compete when attempting to attract appealing jump stallions. To an extent, Kayf Tara can be credited with turning the tide, and the recent retirement of Telescope (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) to Shade Oak Stud, as well as some classy French imports to Yorton Vice President, International Operations Farm, means that the British National Hunt stallion scene is Gary King gradually improving. Twitter: @garykingTDN Whether Schiaparelli can follow the example set by a number [email protected] of other sons of Monsun in the jumping ranks remains to be + 1.732.320.0975 seen, and it will also take time to establish the imposing Jack International Editor Hobbs, who drew many favourable comments at this week's Kelsey Riley TBA National Hunt Stallion Showcase at Goffs UK, and whose Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN book of 168 in 2018 contained only four Flat mares. [email protected]

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Jacks Hobbs and Frankie Dettori | Sarah Farnsworth Contributing Editor Alan Carasso Twitter: @EquinealTDN Sweeting says, "He is a horse who 20 years ago would have been very popular at the start of his career as a Flat stallion. Cafe Racing Nowadays, unless you are the Derby winner, and a highly-rated Sean Cronin one at that, middle-distance horses don't get the same Tom Frary opportunities at stud. Commercially, people want faster [email protected] stallions, they want more precocious stallions. So in a way it's Irish Correspondent good luck for us, really. We've had a chance to stand him as a Daithi Harvey National Hunt stallion from the start. It's great for UK-based National Hunt breeders to have a horse like that. I think he is as Regular Columnists good a racehorse to retire to the National Hunt ranks, or to be Andrew Caulfield priced up as a National Hunt stallion straight away, that I can John Berry remember." Kevin Blake With the Sharpen Up sireline hanging on by a thread, Overbury Tom Peacock Stud is a rarity in being able provide a double dose, with Cityscape backing up Jack Hobbs in this regard. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 26 JANUARY 2019

Stallions For All Seasons At Overbury cont. And as we work our way down the distance spectrum we Physically reminiscent of both his sire and grandsire, the arrive, eventually, at the speedball Ardad, whose first foal long-striding chestnut with the broad blaze made many arrived last week and who, like Jack Hobbs, joined Overbury breeders sit up and take note last season when he was Stud last season from John Gosden's Clarehaven Stables. responsible for the Classic trial winners Dan's Dream (GB) and "He's totally the opposite kind of animal [to Jack Hobbs]," says Give And Take (GB), as well as listed-winning sprinter The Sweeting of the G2 Flying Childers S. winner. "He's a small horse, Broghie Man (GB). Furthermore, his son formerly known as he's well put together, a ball of muscle, really. He always looked Urban Aspect (GB) and trained by Andrew Balding, recently a sharp type of horse and he is what the market wants at the made an explosive debut in Hong Kong under his new moniker moment. He's by Kodiac, he's a Royal Ascot-winning 2-year-old, of Ka Ying Star and runs Sunday in the Hong Kong Classic Mile. and he made plenty of money at the breeze-up sales. So if he can produce foals that look like him, I very much hope that the breeders will make some money from him, and that we'll have another good stallion. He's had some shrewd support, a lot of what I would describe as the hard-nosed commercial breeders have supported him. That's only going to help him, but it's all in the lap of the gods. We'll wait and see what his foals look like."

LEGENDARY SPORTS REPORTER MCILVANNEY DIES By John Berry Sporting press rooms around the world have lost a bit of both joie de vivre and gravitas with the passing of Hugh McIlvanney Simon Sweeting and some future stars at Overbury | Emma Berry OBE at the age of 84. McIlvanney, who retired in March 2016, was born in Ayrshire, "Now that he's had 3-year-old runners we know what he can Scotland, in February 1934 and started his working life with the do. I think that owner-breeder interest in him will be picking up Kilmarnock Standard before moving to the Scottish Daily now that they can see the results," says Sweeting who bought Express. He is, though, most synonymous with two of Britain's Cityscape from Juddmonte in a partnership which includes Dan's most respected Sunday newspapers, The Observer and The Dream's breeder Steven Smith of Hunscote Stud. "Breeders Sunday Times. He was the principal sports writer for the former know what they can expect from mares that they might use, and for 30 years before occupying the same role with the latter for they can use him with confidence. The fact that he has 9.4% 23 years. The only sports journalist ever to have been voted stakes horses to runners, which is a huge number for any stallion Journalist of the Year in Great Britain, McIlvanney was an really, but particularly an animal that hasn't had Group 1 mares authority and a passionate devotee of all sports, and published all the way through, people know that he's going to upgrade." critically acclaimed books on three: McIlvanney on Boxing He adds, "We're very excited about Urban Icon (GB), who's (1982), McIlvanney on Football (1994) and McIlvanney on with Richard Hannon. He was bred by Willie Carson, who Horseracing (1995, co-written with Sir Peter O'Sullevan). Of all incidentally bred Jack Hobbs, and he was two-for-two last year the sports, though, one got the impression that racing was his as a juvenile." first love. Hopes will be high that Dunaden, who may just have been To sum up the magic of McIlvanney's writing, one could pick usurped as Sheikh Fahad's favourite horse by Roaring Lion, can from any one of several hundred articles. One, though, springs post a similarly positive record with his first 3-year-old runners particularly to mind. 'QIPCO British Champions' Day' is actually this season, with breeders and owners of this particular crop in British racing's second attempt at holding a showpiece autumn the running for extra reward from the premium scheme set up fixture at Ascot, following the Ascot September Meeting by the sheikh to help Dunaden on his way at stud. becoming 'The Festival of British Racing' in 1989. At the time this was a very big deal, and a commemorative booklet, Sport Of Kings, was published to mark the occasion. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 5 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 26 JANUARY 2019

Legendary Sports Reporter McIlvanney Dies cont. Churchill Downs, Saratoga and those two smaller Maryland The best racing writers contributed, including Peter Willett, battlegrounds, Laurel Park and Bowie." Joe Hirsch, Ivor Herbert, Ian Wooldridge, Paul Haigh and Howard The article ends with McIlvanney explaining the greatest Wright, but McIlvanney's piece was the icing on the cake. sporting omission of his life: he was in New York on Saturday Under the headline 'In Pursuit of a Punter's Paradise', June 9, 1973, the day that Secretariat won the Belmont S., but McIlvanney's golden prose walked the reader through the he was in an office in Manhattan, rather than at Belmont Park, author's lifelong love affair with the turf. He recited a litany of when the race was run. He thus enjoyed the glorious but great sporting occasions into which he had been able to insert agonising delight of seeing the greatest racing performance of an unscheduled day at the races, starting with the Moscow all time live on television from a spot only a few miles away Olympics in 1989, during which he managed to sneak away from from the action. the business in hand to sample the delights of the Moscow "As a result, I had a direct, contemporaneous experience of Hippodrome. watching what Secretariat did that afternoon. Yet, though that "Emptying our pockets seemed to be official policy. The fact in itself was unforgettable, it wasn't at all the same as being one that the lady who took our wagers did her reckoning on an of the 68,000 who watched the big red horse in the flesh while abacus was disconcerting he surged through what may enough but it was much well have been the greatest more disturbing to discover mile-and-a-half ever that selecting winners was galloped by a Thoroughbred. almost irrelevant as far as "In June of this year I was the prospects of profit were in the Press Box for the concerned. We hit three in a 121st running of the row and were still just Belmont, and seeing Easy marginally in front. We did Goer win by eight lengths in not investigate the details of the second-fastest time the the tax applied to our bets in race has produced was a that far-off era before tremendous thrill, especially glasnost and perestroika but as it came only four days it had to be on a scale to after witnessing Nashwan's make the Levy Board drool. pulverising brilliance at Still, even that Hugh McIlvanney last January | Getty Epsom. But to appreciate inconvenience was a tolerable penalty to pay for the pleasures how miraculous Secretariat's run was we need only remember of the afternoon. Next day Seb Coe, Steve Ovett or some of the that in annihilating his nearest challenger by 31 lengths he other great athletes who enabled the Olympics of 1980 to rise covered the 12 furlongs in 2 minutes 24 sec. dead, two full above their problems (which, you will recall, included little seconds inside Easy Goer's time, and shattered the world record aggravations like a U.S. boycott) might be enthralling us again. out of recognition. The official account from 1973 tells us that But for the moment we were glad to be away from de the wind was against Secretariat in the backstretch. The wind Coubertin's Games and back at the punting game. should have known better. For a couple of minutes at least, he "I have made similar defections in many corners of the globe, was a greater force of nature than it was. slipping away from a touring England football team in Australia "None of us can ever expect to see the like of that again. But to scuffle with the bookmakers at the Warwick Farm course in let's go on climbing up into the stands, just in case." Sydney, interrupting coverage of Super Bowl preparations in San Recent generations of readers have been very fortunate that Diego to cross the Mexican border and engage the enemy at Hugh McIlvanney did indeed go on climbing up into the stands Agua Caliente in Tijuana, briefly deserting the World Cup in and then sharing his wonder at what he saw. He was a titan of Argentina to sample the Buenos Aires equivalent of Sandown, sports reporting, and racing was truly blessed that he loved the using a heavyweight championship fight in Caracas, Venezuela, sport so dearly. as an excuse to visit a track which offered breathtaking views but not a glimpse of a winner. And, of course, dozens of assignments in the States have encouraged me to play truant at Aqueduct and Belmont, Santa Anita, Hialeah, Gulfstream, TDN EUROPE • PAGE 6 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 26 JANUARY 2019

ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: Metal Exchange (GB), f, 3, Helmet (Aus)--Bochafina (Fr), by High Chaparral (Ire). Newcastle, 1-25, 5f (AWT), 1:01.96. B-Mr N. E. F. Luck (GB). *13,000gns Wlg ‘16 TATFOA; £14,000 Ylg ‘17 GOUKPR. Harvey Dent (GB), g, 3, Mayson (GB)--Accede (GB), by EIGHT ADDED TO GOFFS FEBRUARY Acclamation (GB). Lingfield, 1-25, 10f (AWT), 2:05.33. B-Mrs D. O. Joly (GB). *£17,000 Ylg ‘17 GOUKPR; 27,000gns 2yo ‘18 Eight supplementary lots have been added to the Goffs TATHIT. **1/2 to Poster Girl (GB) (Excellent Art {GB}), GSP-US, February Sale on Feb. 5 and 6. Supplemented to the first day’s $126,498. yearling session is a colt by Sea The Stars (Ire) who is the second foal out of the G3 Prix du Bois winner Fly On The Night (GB) Irish breeders will be centre stage on Saturday, Jan. 26 for the (Equiano {Fr}). He will be offered as lot 140A from Ballintry Stud. ITBA Breeding & Racing Awards. The ceremony will be The second day features 2-year-olds, horses in training and streamed live on www.itba.ie from 10 p.m. local time. breeding stock, and the supplementary entries for that session include 2-year-old fillies by Heeraat (Ire) (lot 292A) and Gale Force Ten (GB) (lot 302A) from Shamrock Bloodstock. Sommersby consigns Navajo Storm (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) (lot 347A), a maiden mare from the family of Group 1 winners Wince (GB) and Quiff (GB).

Friday’s Results: 5th-Chantilly, €25,000, Mdn, 1-25, 3yo, f, 9 1/2f (AWT), 1:57.77, st. SERENDIPITE (FR) (f, 3, Le Havre {Ire}--Instant, by Gone West), who was previously fourth in a maiden on Deauville’s Polytrack over this trip Nov. 28, was forced to race worse than mid- division in the over-crowded pack. Still with plenty to do a Friday’s Result: furlong from home, the 18-5 favourite found a surge late to 1st-Newcastle, £5,800, Mdn, 1-25, 3yo, 8f 5y (AWT), 1:45.38, st. upstage Visorana (Fr) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}) in the shade of the SPARKLE IN HIS EYE (GB) (c, 3, Sea the Stars {Ire}--Nyarhini {GB} post and score by a short head. The dam, who also has a {MSP-Eng}, by Fantastic Light), runner-up to Juddmonte’s yearling colt by New Approach (Ire), was purchased for the third promising Set Piece (GB) (Dansili {GB}) on debut over this course time since she left Juddmonte’s collection of esteemed and distance Jan. 8, was allowed to coast in mid-pack early broodmares for just 60,000gns at the Tattersalls December tracking his market rival You Little Ripper (Ire) (Rip Van Winkle Mares Sale in 2012. A daughter of the operation’s GI Alabama S. {Ire}). Allowing that runner first run, the 8-15 favourite managed and GI Kentucky Oaks heroine Flute (Seattle Slew), she is to reel him in close home for a half-length success. Nyarhini, therefore a half to the GII Goldikova S. winner and GI Just a who was third in the Listed Lupe S., produced Token of Love Game S. and GI Jenny Wiley S. runner-up Filimbi (Mizzen Mast) (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) who took the Listed Dick Hern Fillies S. and the dam of the GI Ashland S. scorer Weep No More for these connections, SW-Eng, $130,292. A half to the (Mineshaft). Sales history: €110,000 RNA Ylg ‘17 ARAUG. G1 Coronation S. scorer and G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. runner-up Lifetime Record: 3-1-0-0, €15,200. Video, sponsored by Rebecca Sharp (GB) (Machiavellian) and four other black-type Fasig-Tipton. performers, she is connected to the Hascombe and Valiant O-Ecurie Normandy Spirit & Ecurie La Vallee Martigny EARL; B- Stud’s G1 Epsom Derby, G1 Eclipse S., G1 Irish Champion S. and Ecurie La Vallee Martigny EARL (FR); T-Freddy Head. G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe hero Golden Horn (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}). Her 2-year-old filly by Kingman (GB) is named Coto Donana (GB). Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, $7,460. Video, BOOKMARK sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. http://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/getLatest.php O-Mr A. E. Oppenheimer; B-Hascombe and Valiant Studs (GB); to download the latest edition of the TDN each day. T-William Haggas. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 7 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 26 JANUARY 2019

7th-Chantilly, €25,000, Mdn, 1-25, 3yo, c/g, 9 1/2f (AWT), 1.55.38, st. FAIRMONT (FR) (g, 3, Orpen--Figurelibre {Ire}, by Verglas {Ire}), fourth over a mile on debut at Bordeaux Le Bouscat in September, was settled in mid-division throughout the early stages. Unleashed approaching the furlong pole, the 17-10 favourite quickly settled matters and galloped with relish to an IN THE UAE: emphatic 3 1/2-length success from Albiceleste (Fr) (Olympic Iftitah (Ire), g, 5, Harbour Watch (Ire)--Solstice (GB), by Dubawi Glory {Ire}). The dam, whose sole win came on the all-weather, (Ire). Jebel Ali, 1-25, Hcp., 1200m, 1:11.92. B-Palmerston is related to the group winners Kandidate (GB) (Kabool {GB}) Bloodstock Ltd. *62,000gns Wlg ‘14 TATDEF; 55,000gns Ylg ‘15 and Star Valley (Fr) (Starborough {GB}). Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, TATOCT. €14,300. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Atta Alla (GB), h, 6, Archipenko--Rosa De Mi Corazon, by O/B-Michael Motschmann (FR); T-Christophe Ferland. Cozzene. Jebel Ali, 1-25, Maiden, 1200m, 1:11.93. B-Miss K Rausing. *5,500gns Ylg ‘14 TATJUL. CONDITIONS RESULT: Pinter (GB), g, 7, Exceed and Excel (Aus)--Pickle (GB) (MGSW- 4th-Chantilly, €28,000, 1-25, 3yo, 7f (AWT), 1:25.65, st. US, $220,955), by Piccolo (GB). Jebel Ali, 1-25, Hcp., 1400m, ADMIRAL ROUS (IRE) (c, 3, Henrythenavigator--Bulrushes {GB}, 1:24.35. B-New England, Mount Coote & P Barrett. *1/2 to by Byron {GB}) Lifetime Record: 7-2-2-1, €48,630. O-Mrs Susan Gusto (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), MSW-Eng, SW-Fr, $123,940; Davis & Mrs Melissa O’Neill; B-Bluegate Stud (IRE); T-Eoghan Beauly (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), SW, $160,805. **120,000gns O’Neill. *€47,000 Ylg ‘17 TIRSEP. **1/2 to Ross Castle (Ire) Wlg ‘12 TATDEF; 220,000gns Ylg ‘13 TATOCT. (Bushranger {Ire}), GSW-Fr, $194,209, & to Snazzy Jazzy (Ire) High On Life (GB), g, 8, Invincible Spirit (Ire)--Lovely Thought (Red Jazz), GSW-Fr, $177,546. (GB), by Dubai Destination. Jebel Ali, 1-25, Rated Cond., 1000m, :59.16. B-Moyns Park Estate & Stud Ltd. *MSP-UAE. ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNER: **£55,000 Ylg ‘12 DONAUG; £70,000 RNA 2yo ‘13 DONAPR; Le Baol (Fr), c, 3, Orpen--La Teranga (Fr), by Beat Hollow (GB). 190,000gns HRA ‘14 TATHIT. Pau, 1-25, 1950m (AWT), 2:05.20. B-M Mbacke (FR). *1/2 to La Signare (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}), GSW-US, $145,913.

Friday, Jebel Ali, UAE JEBEL ALI MILE-G3, AED575,000 (£119,636/€137,898/ Friday’s Result: US$156,569), Jebel Ali, 1-25, 3yo/up, 1600m, 1:36.88, ft. 5th-Dundalk, €15,000, Mdn, 1-25, 3yo, f, 7f (AWT), 1:26.60, st. 1--SECRET AMBITION (GB), 126, h, 6, by Exceed and Excel (Aus) ALTAIR (IRE) (f, 3, Australia {GB}--Eccentricity, by Kingmambo), 1st Dam: Inner Secret, by Singspiel an 8-1 shot on debut, was slowly away and forced to sit at the 2nd Dam: Mysterial, by Alleged tail of the field early. Starting to roll inside the last quarter mile, 3rd Dam: Mysteries, by Seattle Slew *1ST STAKES WIN. 1ST GROUP WIN. (AED150,000 HRA ‘16 the homebred honed in on Paris Duvet (Ire) (Clodovil {Ire}) late ERAAPR). O-Nasir Askar; B-Darley; T-Satish Seemar; J-Richard on and rushed by in the final yards to win by a half length. Mullen; AED345,000. Lifetime Record: 29-8-6-1, $328,866. Acquired from the Niarchos operation for just €11,000 at the *1/2 to Crystal River (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), SW-Fr; and Royal 2013 Goffs November Mares Sale, Eccentricity--who is a Marine (Ire) (Raven’s Pass), G1SW-Fr, $281,091. Werk Nick daughter of the G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup winner Shiva (Jpn) Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report & five-cross pedigree. (Hector Protector)--duly produced her first black-type performer 2--Shamaal Nibras, 126, g, 10, First Samurai--Sashay Away, by in Radiantly (GB) (Aussie Rules), who was runner-up in the Farma Way. ($25,000 Ylg ‘10 KEESEP; 45,000gns 2yo ‘11 G3 Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial. This is the family of the TATAPR). O-EERC (Mgr: Mrs Rebecca Byrne); B-Andrew Cohen G1 Epsom Oaks heroine Light Shift (Kingmambo) and her & Gary Tolchin (KY); T-Doug Watson; AED115,000. G1 Juddmonte International and G1 Eclipse-winning son Ulysses Hidden Brook Foaled, Raised & Sold (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $10,448. O-Mrs A. M. O’Brien; B-Whisperview Trading Ltd (IRE); T-Joseph O’Brien. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 8 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 26 JANUARY 2019

3--Behavioral Bias, 126, g, 5, Shackleford--Rosie Dooley, by Snaith is struggling to split the pair and speaking to the Cape Trempolino. ($65,000 RNA Wlg ‘14 KEENOV; $100,000 Ylg ‘15 Times said, "If Do It Again wants to win the Met he is going to FTKJUL; $27,000 2yo ‘16 FTMMAY). O-Marwan Abdul Rahman have to beat Oh Susanna. Since her win last year this is the best I Mohd Sharif Al Baidhaei; B-Doug & Felicia Branham (KY); have had her. But that said, it is going to be tough to beat Do It T-Satish Seemar; AED57,500. Again. He has won the July and the Queen's Plate and he Purchased & Consigned by de Meric Sales deserves to be favourite." Snaith also saddles Made To Conquer (SAf) (Dynasty {SAf}), who finished second to the favourite in the Durban July and sports first-time blinkers in an effort to bridge that gap. Sean Tarry's eight-time Group 1 winner Legal Eagle (SAf) (Greys Inn) Margins: 1 3/4, NK, 1 3/4. returns for a fourth time in his bid for an elusive first Met but Click for the Emirates Racing chart. Click for the free has his work cut out on the evidence on his most recent fourth Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. behind Do It Again in the Queen's Plate. There is also the strong suspicion that he is better over a mile. Another with genuine claims is the Eric Sands-trained Rainbow Bridge (SAf) (Ideal World), who has the services of former champion jockey Anton Marcus.

SNAITH HOLDS STRONG HAND IN MET A field of 13 go to post for the G1 Sun Met at Kenilworth Racecourse on Saturday, with trainer Justin Snaith holding a very strong hand in the 10-furlong contest. Snaith is responsible for four challengers and they include both last year's winner Oh Susanna (Aus) (Street Cry {Ire}) and market leader Do It Again (SAf) (Twice Over {GB}), who arrives to the Met on the back of two top-class displays in winning the G1 L'Ormarin's Queen's IN SINGAPORE: Plate at Kenilworth earlier this month and the G1 Vodacom Heliosphere (Aus), c, 4, Sebring (Aus)--Purrfection (NZ) (SP-NZ), Durban July last year. With top-level wins over both a mile and by Tale of the Cat. Kranji, 1-25, Hcp. (A$72k), 1600mT, 1:35.20. 11 furlongs, Saturday's trip holds no fears for him. B-Northern Lodge Stud (Vic). *A$66,000 Wlg ‘15 INGJUN; Drakenstein Stud's Oh Susanna also comes into the race in top A$160,000 Ylg ‘16 INGEAS. VIDEO form, having won the G1 Cartier Paddock S. on Queen's Plate day Jan. 5. IN SOUTH AFRICA: Roy’s Stingray (Aus), f, 4, Charge Forward (Aus)--Mythical Play (NZ) (Ch. 3yo Filly-SAf, MG1SW-SAf), by Defensive Play. Greyville, 1-25, Hcp., 1600m (AWT), 1:35.50. O-Roy Moodley; B-Bronte Bloodstock Pty Ltd, NSW, Packaging Investments Australia Pty Ltd, Stud Consultants Pty Ltd; T-Alyson Wright. *Full to Andromache (Aus), MSP-NZ. **A$16,000 Wlg ‘15 INGMAY.

Do It Again winning the Queen’s Plate | Liesl King GROUP FIELDS

Saturday, Kenilworth, South Africa, post time: 5:10 p.m. SUN MET CELEBRATED WITH G.H. MUMM-G1, R2,850,000 (£159,595/€180,853/A$286,669/US$205,536), 3yo/up, 2000mT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 11 Legal Eagle (SAf) Greys Inn Hewitson Tarry 132 2 10 Head Honcho (SAf) Querari (Ger) de Melo Nel 132 3 8 Hat Puntano (Arg) Hat Trick (Jpn) Dillon Ramsden 132 4 4 Made To Conquer (SAf) Dynasty (SAf) Khumalo Snaith 132 5 6 Milton (SAf) Lateral (GB) Simons Prestage 132 6 1 Kampala Campari (SAf) Querari (Ger) Domeyer Nel 132 7 7 Do It Again (SAf) Twice Over (GB) Fourie Snaith 131 8 12 Undercover Agent (SAf) Captain Al (SAf) Orffer Crawford 131 9 2 Rainbow Bridge (SAf) Ideal World Marcus Sands 131 10 13 Tap O’ Noth (SAf) Captain Al (SAf) Byleveld Marshall 131 11 9 Eyes Wide Open (SAf) Dynasty (SAf) Lerena Kotzen 131 12 3 Doublemint (SAf) Twice Over (GB) Strydom Snaith 131 13 5 Oh Susanna (Aus) Street Cry (Ire) Fayd’Herbe Snaith 126 Saturday, Kenilworth, South Africa, post time: 3:00 p.m. BETTING WORLD CAPE FLYING CHAMPIONSHIP-G1, R1,000,000 (£55,220/€62,985/A$100,511/US$71,539), Open, WFA, 3yo/up, 1000mT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 11 Bold Respect (SAf) Bold Silvano (SAf) Orffer Crawford 132 2 14 Sergeant Hardy (SAf) Captain Al (SAf) Khan Snaith 132 3 4 Rebel’s Champ (SAf) Rebel King (SAf) Gomez Peter 132 4 8 Attenborough (SAf) Western Winter Khumalo Ramsden 132 5 7 Kasimir (SAf) Captain Al (SAf) Fourie Snaith 132 6 3 Trip To Heaven (SAf) Trippi Hewitson Tarry 132 7 10 Pacific Trader (SAf) Sail From Seattle Cheyne Crawford 132 8 1 Speedpoint (SAf) Var Zackey Ramsden 132 9 9 Dutch Philip (SAf) What a Winter (SAf) Fayd’Herbe Bass-Robinson 132 10 2 Search Party (SAf) Captain Al (SAf) Dillon Crawford 132 11 16 Sand And Sea (SAf) Twice Over (GB) Marcus Drier 132 12 15 Quinlan (SAf) Sail From Seattle Munger Bremner 132 13 18 Rocky Valley (SAf) Seventh Rock (Aus) Kennedy Dawson 132 14 12 Sir Frenchi (Aus) Choisir (Aus) de Melo Snaith 132 15 13 Princess Rebel (SAf) Rebel King (SAf) Strydom Bremner 126 16 17 Pleasedtomeetyou (SAf) Querari (Ger) Lerena Nel 124 Reserves: 17 9 Tevez (SAf) Caesour No Rider Bass-Robinson 132 18 5 Vision to Kill (SAf) Kildonan (SAf) No Rider Gadsby 126 Saturday, Kenilworth, South Africa, post time: 3:35 p.m. GBETS CAPE DERBY-G1, R1,000,000 (£55,220/€62,985/A$100,511/US$71,539), 3yo, 2000mT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 2 Thanksgiving (SAf) Dynasty (SAf) Khan Howells 132 2 18 Charles (SAf) Trippi Marcus Crawford 132 3 11 Bunker Hunt (SAf) Dynasty (SAf) Fourie Snaith 132 4 3 Ovation Award (SAf) Stagelight (Ire) Kennedy van Zyl 132 5 10 Roll Of Drums (SAf) Seventh Rock (Aus) Khumalo Soma 132 6 15 Atyaab (Aus) Dundeel (NZ) De Gouveia de Kock 132 7 6 Hudoo Magic (Aus) Choisir (Aus) Orffer Crawford 132 8 17 Senatla (SAf) Potala Palace (SAf) Cheyne Crawford 132 9 12 Belgarion (SAf) Dynasty (SAf) Fayd’Herbe Snaith 132 10 13 Herodotus (SAf) Trippi de Melo Kotzen 132 11 7 Perpetual Flame (SAf) Irish Flame (SAf) Lerena Kotzen 132 12 20 Sailing Lizard (SAf) Sail From Seattle Simons Nel 132 13 9 Knights Templar (SAf) Dynasty (SAf) Veale Snaith 132 14 5 Seattle Force (SAf) Mambo in Seattle Zackey Kotzen 132 15 19 Line Editor (SAf) Jay Peg (SAf) Byleveld Ennion 132 16 16 Lloyd George (SAf) Fort Wood Strydom Greef 132 17 8 Gun Hill (SAf) (Marchfield) Munger Bremner 132 18 1 Second Request (SAf) Twice Over (GB) Hewitson Tarry 126 19 14 Santa Clara (SAf) Duke of Marmalade (Ire) Domeyer Bass-Robinson 126 20 4 Helen’s Ideal (SAf) Ideal World Dillon Reeves 126 Saturday, Kenilworth, South Africa, post time: 4:10 p.m. BIDVEST MAJORCA S.-G1, R1,000,000 (£55,220/€62,985/A$100,511/US$71,539), WFA, 3yo/up, f/m, 1600mT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 1 Lady In Black (SAf) Dynasty (SAf) Veale Drier 132 2 12 Snowdance (SAf) Captain Al (SAf) Fourie Snaith 132 3 6 Fresnaye (SAf) Western Winter Fayd’Herbe Ramsden 132 4 9 Brave Move (SAf) Horse Chestnut (SAf) Zackey Marcus 132 5 3 Rose In Bloom (SAf) Gimmethegreenlight (Aus) Dillon Ramsden 132 6 11 Fiorella (SAf) Captain Al (SAf) Khan Howells 132 7 8 Miyabi Gold (SAf) Silvano (Ger) Strydom Snaith 132 8 13 Love To Boogie (SAf) Trippi Khumalo Nel 132 9 2 Freedom Charter (SAf) Elusive Fort (SAf) Hewitson Bass-Robinson 132 10 10 Goodtime Gal (SAf) Royal Air Force (SAf) Mbhele Robinson 132 11 5 Sylvan On Fire (SAf) Silvano (Ger) Lerena Dawson 132 12 4 Front And Centre (SAf) Dynasty (SAf) Marcus Crawford 121 13 7 Clouds Unfold (SAf) What a Winter (SAf) Domeyer Bass-Robinson 121 Sunday, Sha Tin, Hong Kong, post time: 4:05 p.m. CENTENARY VASE H.-G3, HK$3,250,000 (£317,832/€366,544/A$584,725/US$414,239), 3yo/up, 1800mT (PPs) SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 3 Time Warp (GB) Archipenko Ho Cruz 133 2 6 Exultant (Ire) Teofilo (Ire) Purton Cruz 132 3 5 Glorious Forever (GB) Archipenko de Sousa Lor 131 4 9 Singapore Sling (SAf) Philanthropist Teetan Millard 124 5 8 Pingwu Spark (NZ) Mastercraftsman (Ire) Leung Yung 122 6 2 Romantic Touch (Aus) Northern Meteor (Aus) Chadwick Cruz 114 7 1 Insayshable (Ire) Rajj (Ire) Moreira Size 113 8 7 Horse of Fortune (SAf) Stronghold (GB) Lai Yip 113 9 4 Dinozzo (Ire) Lilbourne Lad (Ire) Wong Size 113 Sunday, Sha Tin, Hong Kong, post time: 4:05 p.m. HONG KONG CLASSIC MILE-LR, HK$10,00,000 (£977,409/€1,128,418/A$1,799,472/US$1,274,546), NH/SH4yo, 1600mT (PPs) SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 12 Dark Dream (Aus) All American (Aus) de Sousa Lor 126 2 9 Easy Go Easy Win (NZ) Savabeel (Aus) Schofield Moore 126 3 7 Furore (NZ) Pierro (Aus) Bowman Lor 126 4 13 Harmony Victory (Brz) Public Purse Badel Shum 126 5 10 Superich (NZ) Red Giant Purton Lor 126 6 5 Mr So and So (Aus) So You Think (NZ) Moreira Size 126 7 14 Ka Ying Star (GB) Cityscape (GB) Ho Cruz 126 8 3 Gold Win (Fr) Showcasing (GB) Teetan Cruz 126 9 8 Packing Warrior (Ger) Dabirsim (Fr) Sanna Cruz 126 10 4 Tigre Du Terre (Fr) Le Havre (Ire) Whyte Fownes 126 11 6 Charity Go (Ire) Harbour Watch (Ire) Boudot Shum 126 12 2 Heavenly Thought (Aus) So You Think (NZ) van Niekerk Lor 126 13 1 Mission Tycoon (Aus) Written Tycoon (Aus) Leung Lor 126 14 11 Green Luck (Aus) Street Cry (Ire) Chadwick Fownes 126 S1 Kings Shield K Scat Daddy No Rider Lor 126 S2 Righteous Doctrine (Fr) Siyouni (Fr) No Rider Chang 126

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(One Pound Stirling {Ire}) whose 16 wins included the G1 NZ CHRIS WALLER: FROM Derby in 1989, the G1 Wellington Cup in 1991, ’92 and ’94, the G1 Auckland Cup in 1992 and the G1 Caulfield S. in the same OBSCURITY TO DOMINANCE year. He was also placed in both the G1 Melbourne Cup and G1 Sydney Cup. Waller started work for Busuttin when he left school, impressing his boss so quickly that he was asked to accompany Castletown on a trip to Sydney when still a teenager. From the outset, Waller’s dream was to be a trainer; and the dream became a reality, albeit in a very small way, after Busuttin accepted an offer to train in Singapore in 1997. In the winter of 1998, Waller was running a 4-year-old maiden called Party Belle (NZ) (Oregon {USA} around the lesser tracks in the central and southern areas of the North Island. She wasn’t doing particularly well. Her trainer, though, was bold enough to take her across the Tasman to race in New South Wales. She had turned five by the time that she started racing there but, remarkably, she won at the third attempt in Australia, Chris Waller and Winx taking a 2100m maiden at Wyong in September 1998, ridden by Waller’s compatriot Opie Bosson. She backed up two weeks By John Berry later by taking a Class 1 at Kembla Grange; in another two weeks Twenty years ago very few people had heard the name Chris she completed a hat-trick in a Class 2 at the same track. She Waller. In 1998 the young Kiwi lad from Foxton took a mare on a finished her preparation by contesting a listed race at Randwick journey to success at Wyong; the rest, as they say, is history. in October when, unsurprisingly, she was out of her depth. Anticipation is already brewing as the resumption of the It had, though, been a very rewarding trip, and it gave her mighty Winx (Street Cry {Ire}) approaches. The likelihood is that young trainer plenty to think about on his return to Foxton. this preparation will be as successful and exciting as her After five unsuccessful runs in New Zealand over the summer previous ones and that she will once again be the focus of all and autumn, Party Belle and her trainer were back in Sydney the eyes in the racing world. following winter when, astonishingly, the mare again came alive She has been handled superbly by Chris Waller. The pressure again, scoring a hat-trick in town in May 1999 (at Randwick, which he faces every time she races, and every time a race is Warwick Farm and Randwick) under another Kiwi hoop, Larry chosen for her, must be huge but he stands calm and assured in Cassidy. Omens don’t come any stronger than this one. Waller’s the eye of the storm, his dignity and composure matched only future surely lay in Sydney rather than Foxton. by his humility, courtesy and candour. Redevelopment work at Rosehill at the end of the last century Like Winx, he is a credit to the sport, just as he has been ever meant that there were vacancies for new trainers there. Waller since he arrived in Sydney as a complete unknown only a couple let the Sydney Turf Club know that he was available and was of decades ago. duly offered stabling. And the rest is history. Unlike so many who have made it to the top of the training Despite starting with a seemingly minimal chance of filling the tree, Waller, the son of a dairy farmer from Foxton, about 100 20 boxes which he had been allocated because virtually nobody km north of Wellington on New Zealand’s North Island, started knew who he was and he had no money, Waller just kept his out with neither family connections nor money behind him. nose to the grindstone, concentrating on the few horses which Foxton might only have a population of about 3,000, but it has he did have, conducting his business with friendliness and a racecourse and training track. For many years it also had integrity, and working very, very hard. Paddy Busuttin, one of the leading trainers in the land and forever synonymous with the great gelding Castletown (NZ) TDN AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND • PAGE 2 OF 2 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 26 JANUARY 2019

Initially the Waller household could only rely on the earnings Another high-profile addition to Waller’s list of clients came in of his wife Stephanie from her modelling career, but slowly the 2014 when Denise Martin announced that she would henceforth Sydney racing establishment began to notice that there was a be directing her Star Thoroughbreds syndicates towards him young Kiwi making a great fist of the training out at Rosehill; and rather than, as previously, Gai Waterhouse. This, particularly, he seemed to be a nice guy, and honest too. Success started to has helped Waller to break into the one area in which he was follow. previously less of a force: Australia’s biggest races for 2- and Chris Waller’s first Group 1 winner came in April 2008 when 3-year-olds. Triple Honour (NZ) (Honours List {Ire}) landed the G1 Doncaster Top-class success with the likes of Foxplay (Foxwedge) and H. at Randwick. Sydney’s premier mile race went on to play a D’Argento (So You Think {NZ}) has resulted from the Star massive part in the expansion of Waller’s success. Thoroughbreds association, sure to bring more fruit in the He won it again in 2010 with Rangirandoo (NZ) (Pentire {GB}), upcoming season with exceptional 2-year-old Accession (Brazen a terrific horse who finished in the first three in seven Group 1 Beau). races in Sydney between 2009 and 2012. Sacred Falls (NZ) Having started the new century on the bottom rung of the (O’Reilly {NZ}), who had won the G1 NZ 2,000 Guineas from ladder, Chris Waller moved into third place in the Sydney Tony Pike’s Cambridge stable five months previously, gave the trainers’ premiership in 2007/’08, behind Gai Waterhouse and trainer his third Doncaster in 2013, and then won the race again Peter Snowden. In 2009/’10 he advanced to second place the following year. That latter success was particularly notable (behind Snowden, with Waterhouse in third). In 2010/’11 he as Waller saddled the trifecta. became champion trainer for the first time, and has Twelve months later Waller won the race again when consolidated that position ever since. Kermadec (NZ) Teofilo (Ire) got home in front of the Japanese The 2012/’13 campaign was notable not only in that he broke raider Real Impact (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}). And then in 2016 T. J. Smith’s 37-year-old record of 156 winners in town, but also Winx (Street Cry) helped him to take the race for the sixth time because he reached a level of dominance which saw his total in nine years. (167.5) more than double that achieved by the runner-up Gai While NZ-breds enabled Waller to establish himself as the man Waterhouse (who sent out 83 winners). to beat in the Doncaster, he was having similar success with his Last season was his best yet with 189 winners in town, 95 imports from Europe. Lacking the patronage in the early days to ahead of runner-up James Cummings. Those winners formed be competitive at the top end of the yearling market, he became part of a massive state-wide total for the campaign of 258. the pioneer in the now well-travelled road of importing proven During the course of the campaign he sent out eight individual middle-distance and staying gallopers from Europe, achieving horses to win a nationwide total of 13 Group 1 races (with seven notable success with a large number of horses bought either at in Sydney and three each in Melbourne and Brisbane). In Horses-in-Training sales or privately by roving Kiwi bloodstock addition to Winx, Who Shot Thebarman and D’Argento, his agent Guy Mulcaster. Group 1 winners during the season were Shillelagh (NZ) Two of these won the G1 Sydney Cup: Stand To Gain (Ire) (Savabeel), Unforgotten (Fastnet Rock), Comin’ Through (Fastnet (Hawk Wing {USA}) in 2011 and Grand Marshal (GB) (Dansili Rock), Youngstar (High Chaparral {Ire}) and The Autumn Sun {GB}) in 2015. More recently, Waller won the race in 2018 with (Redoute’s Choice). With the 2018/’19 season just under the veteran Who Shot Thebarman (NZ) (Yamanin Vital {NZ}), a halfway through, Chris Waller is on schedule to break his own 9-year-old gelding who already had Melbourne and Sydney Cup metropolitan and state-wide records. Which is pretty good going minor placings on his CV. for someone very few people in Sydney had even heard of 20 It has not just been imports from New Zealand and Europe years ago. who have helped Chris Waller’s journey in less than two decades from obscurity to dominance. Financial constraints meant that they were the mainstays early on, but success has bred success and he now receives his quota of Australia’s best-bred yearlings each year. Jamieson Park’s Karaka Draft One notable advance in this respect came after the Ingham family sold the entire Woodlands Stud operation to Sheikh Mohammed in 2008. Bob Ingham wished still to race a much Dream, Freedman Seize Immortal Opportunity smaller string of high-class horses in the famous cerise silks – and Chris Waller was chosen to train them. Group 1 Options For Weir’s In-Form Mare