MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2016 FRENETIC SELLING AS BOOK 3 OPENS CASSE FILLY SCORES FIRST by Jessica Martini >VICTORY= IN NATALMA The Keeneland September Yearling Sale continued its pattern of brisk bidding with the first of two Book 3 sessions Sunday, as numbers continued to be up from a year ago and with more than one buyer admitting the action was so competitive it was hard to get orders filled. For the session, 269 horses sold for $23,243,000. The average was $86,405--up 17.16% from last year=s opening Book 3 session--and the median rose 27.27% to $70,000. The buy-back rate was 26.3%. It was 27.72% a year ago. AI feel like today is the strongest day of all the sales,@ said Carrie Brogden of Select Sales. AI feel like there is a lot of trade here [Sunday]. We only had five RNAs and we got three of them done afterwards. For the good horses with the good physicals who can jump through some of the hoops, there are plenty of people to buy them. It will be interesting to see what happens when the quality of the physicals starts to tail off.@ Cont. p6 Victory to Victory | Michael Burns IN TDN EUROPE TODAY One day after champion Tepin (Bernstein)=s victory in the WEEKLY WRAP FOR SEPT. 19 GI Ricoh Woodbine Mile, Live Oak Plantation homebred Victory Chris McGrath examines this past week’s European results in his to Victory (Exchange Rate) capped off a stellar weekend at Weekly Wrap, including Polish wunderkind Va Bank (Ire) Woodbine for Canadian Hall of Famer Mark Casse Sunday by (Archipenko). Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. breaking her maiden in the newly-upgraded GI Natalma S. under Florent Geroux. Casse and Geroux teamed up to win last year=s renewal of this event with Catch a Glimpse (City Zip), who captured the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf next out and was named Canadian Horse of the Year. Adding blinkers for this AWin and You=re In@ event for that Breeders= Cup test, Victory to Victory, who was one of four Casse runners in the field, broke sharply from post 13 in this 14-horse affair and settled to track from a dual fourth as headstrong longshot Will She (Wando) ticked off sharp opening splits of :22.69 and :45.37. Ranging up about six wide turning for home, the chestnut stuck her nose in front halfway down the lane, kept on finding to put away Stormy Perfection in the final furlong and rolled clear to earn her diploma in style. AI think the blinkers made a big difference today,@ said assistant trainer Norm Casse, who saddled both Tepin and Victory to Victory for his father after plane trouble caused him to miss his trip from the Keeneland September Sale in Lexington to Woodbine. AWe knew she was a very talented horse, and she=s finally starting to figure things out.@ Cont. p3 PRESIDENT & CO-PUBLISHER Barry Weisbord @barryweisbord [email protected] SR. V.P. & CO-PUBLISHER Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected] V.P., INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Gary King @garykingTDN [email protected] Monday, September 19, 2016 EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN Associate Editors Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Ben Massam @BMassamTDN Assistant Editors Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Best Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistants Brittlan Wall @bwallTDN Alexa Reisfield Undefeated champion Songbird (Medaglia d'Oro) breezed a half-mile in :47.60 at Santa Anita Sunday morning in preparation for the $1 million GI Cotillion S. | Photo: Horsephotos Photo Editor/Dir. of Distribution Sarah K. Andrew @SarahKAndrew [email protected] ‘SAMARITAN’ TOO ‘GOOD’ IN SUMMER S. 4 Social Media Strategist The China Horse Club and WinStar Farm’s Good Samaritan Nichola Henry @NicholaHenryTDN (Harlan’s Holiday) took his record to a perfect two-for-two [email protected] with a decisive victory in the GII Summer S. Director of Customer Service Vicki Forbes NOT THIS TIME TO TRAIN UP TO BC JUVENILE 14 [email protected] Not This Time (Giant’s Causeway), an ultra-impressive winner Director of Information Technology of Saturday’s GIII Iroquois S., will go straight to the GI Breeders’ Ray Villa Cup Juvenile Nov. 5. [email protected] WORLDWIDE INFORMATION TODAY’S GRADED STAKES International Editor EDT Race Click for TV Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN 7:15p Presque Isle Downs Masters S.-GII, PID TJCIS PPs TVG [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry [email protected] Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 15 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • SEPTEMBER 19, 2016 GI Natalma S. AShe broke very sharply from the gate,@ said Geroux. AFrom there, we got a nice position without taking any bumping or anything. Turning for home she gave me a very nice kick.@ Rallying to be fifth after a troubled trip when unveiled in a Sunday, Woodbine Saratoga turf sprint Aug. 12, Victory to Victory split the NATALMA S.-GI, C$253,400, WO, 9-18, 2yo, f, 1mT, 1:35.24, fm. reopposing Tapa Tapa Tapa (Tapit) and Stormy Perfection when 1--#@&VICTORY TO VICTORY, 121, f, 2, by Exchange Rate second next out in a seven-panel allowance over this course 1st Dam: Points of Grace (Ch. Turf Mare-Can, GSW, Aug. 27. $502,353), by Point Given 2nd Dam: Fateful, by Topsider Pedigree Notes... 3rd Dam: Fate's Reward, by Key to the Mint Charlotte Weber=s Live Oak Plantation purchased the winner=s O-Live Oak Plantation; B-Live Oak Stud (FL); T-Mark E Casse; dam Points of Grace for just $170,000 as a yearling at the Fasig- J-Florent Geroux. C$150,000. Lifetime Record: 3-1-1-0, Tipton August sale and she went on to win the 2009 GII Dance $127,468. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Smartly S., that year=s Sovereign Award as the Canada=s best Werk Nick Rating: C+. grass mare and over a half-million dollars. Victory to Victory is 2--Stormy Perfection, 121, f, 2, Tale of the Cat--Silent the mare=s third and most recent foal. Points of Grace was sold Perfection, by Perfect Soul (Ire). O/B-Charles E Fipke (KY); for just $30,000 at last year=s Keeneland November sale after T-Michael J Doyle. C$50,000. failing to get in foal to Into Mischief and she was most recently Training Graduate bred to Amira=s Prince (Ire). Victory to Victory also hails from the 3--Beat the Benchmark, 121, f, 2, Speightstown--Tabarin, by El family of Group 1 winner Favourable Terms (GB) (Selkirk). Prado (Ire). ($300,000 Ylg '15 FTSAUG). O-Klaravich Stables Inc & William H Lawrence; B-Dixiana Farms LLC (KY); T-Chad C Brown. C$25,000. LANE’S END Sales Graduate " " " Margins: 2HF, 1HF, 2HF. Odds: 7.85, 14.05, 4.25. Also Ran: Thora Barber (GB), Erin Commodity, Tapa Tapa Tapa, Black Canary, Cold Hearted Pearl, Lapinski, I'll Take the Cake, Follow the TDN staff on Twitter Conquest Rapiduno, Red Lodge, Will She, Enstone. Scratched: Thoroughbred Daily News The Craic. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, @kelseynrileyTDN @BDiDonatoTDN @SteveSherackTDN sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. @bwallTDN @JessMartiniTDN @CDeBernardisTDN Victory to Victory’s connections earn: @EquinealTDN @HLAndersonTDN @BMassamTDN Automatic berth into the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf @MKane49 @barryweisbord @suefinley & $30,000 in Pre-Entry & Entry Fees $10,000 or $40,000 travel award for ALL BCWC starters @garykingTDN @SarahKAndrew @thorntontd (based outside CA) + $10,000 nominator award to Charlotte C. Weber @JBiancaTDN @NicholaHenryTDN @theTDN TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 15 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • SEPTEMBER 19, 2016 GII Summer S. Good Samaritan took his record to a perfect two-for-two Sunday, following a professional debut graduation with his first graded tally in this AWin and You=re In@ event for the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Sunday, Woodbine Turf. Away alertly, the SUMMER S.-GII, C$206,400, WO, 9-18, 2yo, 1mT, 1:34.38, fm. bay was rated back to 1--#@GOOD SAMARITAN, 122, c, 2, by Harlan's Holiday trail the field early as 1st Dam: Pull Dancer, by Pulpit 60-1 shot The Craic 2nd Dam: Mayhavebeentheone, by Arch (Sidney=s Candy) and 3rd Dam: Emmaus, by Silver Deputy fellow New York invader O-China Horse Club Ltd & WinStar Farm Ltd; B-WinStar Farm Harlan=s Harmony (Spring Good Samaritan | Michael Burns LLC (KY); T-William I Mott; J-Joel Rosario. C$120,000. Lifetime At Last) duked it out Record: 2-2-0-0, $140,616. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the through early fractions of :23.21 and :46.01. Patiently handled eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. by pilot Joel Rosario, Good Samaritan was inched closer on the backstretch and swung out six wide to launch a bid turning for home. Powering down the center of the course, the juvenile 2--Conquest Farenheit, 122, c, 2, Scat Daddy--Holy Smokie, by swiftly inhaled his rivals and cruised clear under a hand ride to Holy Bull. ($130,000 Ylg '15 FTKOCT). O-Conquest Stables LLC; win as he pleased. B-Meadow Lane Stables LLC (KY); T-Mark E Casse.