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GOFFS RELEASES FEBRUARY CATALOGUES The catalogues for Parts 1 and 2 of the Goffs February Sale are PRINCE KHALID BIN online. Part 1 of the sale will take place as a virtual live auction on Feb. 9 and 10, with 253 lots catalogued. The first day of the ABDULLAH DEAD sale comprises 89 2-year-olds by the likes of (GB), (Ire), (Ire), Dandy Man (Ire), (GB), (GB), (GB), Mehmas (Ire), (GB), (GB), Starspangledbanner (Aus), and Zoffany (Ire), followed by a draft of older horses, including entries from the Aga Khan. The second day of Part I is dedicated to breeding stock and includes several Aga Khan re-entries from the November Breeding Stock Sale. Highlights among the session include Soft Lips (GB) (Rahy) (lot 140), a two-time stakes producer and the dam of last year=s G3 Prix Francois Boutin third Unveil (Ire) (Showcasing {GB}) in foal to New Bay (GB). Cont. p10

IN TDN AMERICA TODAY Prince Khalid bin Abdullah, 1937 - 2021 | Horsephotos MCGRATH ON KENTUCKY : PART II Chris McGrath examines Kentucky stallions represented by their first sophomores in 2021. Click or tap here to go straight to By Kelsey Riley TDN America. His Highness Prince Khalid bin Abdullah, one of the most successful owner/breeders in the history of the sport through his Juddmonte Farms dynasty, died on Jan. 12 in his 84th year. Prince Khalid=s famous green, pink and white silks have been immortalized in the annals of the sport, having been carried transatlantically by 118 Grade/Group 1 winners headed by champions like (GB), (GB), (GB) and among many others. He campaigned over 500 stakes winners, of which he bred over 440. Douglas Erskine Crum, chief executive officer of Juddmonte, said on Tuesday, AThe whole of Juddmonte feels a huge sense of loss. Prince Khalid will always be remembered as a quiet, dignified, benevolent family man, whose horses spoke for him. He leaves a legacy that will stand the test of time. His contribution to the development of the will have long-lasting effects.@ Prince Khalid bin Abdullah was born in 1937 in and was a member of the House Of Saud, the Saudi Royal family, his father Abdullah bin Abdul-Rahman being a younger half-brother to King Abdulaziz, the founder and first monarch of Saudi Arabia. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 12 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 13 JANUARY 2021

Prince Khalid bin Abdullah Dead cont. from p1 Prince Khalid bought his first yearlings in 1978 and the following year, his advisors Humphrey Cottrill and James Prince Khalid studied in both Riyadh and the U.S. before going Delahooke signed for the two most expensive yearlings at the on to be an extremely successful businessman, chief among his Tattersalls Houghton Sale, including the record-priced Sand accomplishments in that realm Hawk (GB) ( {GB}) at being the development of the 264,000gns. While Sand Hawk private investment company would fail to truly build on his Mawarid Holding, which has promise, an diverse portfolios in financial selected at the same services, manufacturing, year certainly did not: Known construction, medical supplies, Fact would, in 1980, became telecommunications, the media Prince Khalid=s first Classic and more. winner in the G1 2000 Guineas Despite Prince Khalid=s less than a year after his silks extensive business successes, had graced a winner=s enclosure he will perhaps be best for the first time atop Charming remembered for his profound Native (Princely Native) in a contributions to the Windsor maiden race. In the Thoroughbred breed. The interim, Prince Khalid had also foundation for the quality that notched a first Royal Ascot win has reverberated unrelentingly Prince Khalid, Sir and Frankel after with Abeer (Dewan) in the G3 the 2011 Greenham S. | racingfotos.com throughout the Juddmonte Queen Mary S. in addition to genes over the past 40-plus years was laid right from the outset. =s scores at two in the S. and Middle Park S. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 12 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 13 JANUARY 2021

On the occasion of Known Fact=s Guineas victory, Prince Khalid In the meantime, the fillies recruited during Prince Khalid=s became the first Arab owner to win a British Classic, a realm in formative years as an owner were sowing the seeds of a which he went on to garner plenty of competition, with the broodmare band of nearly unprecedented proportions. Prince Maktoum family making their entrance to the sport only a short Khalid=s first homebred winner came in the form of Fine Edge time later. (GB) at Newmarket in 1982. The Known Fact went on to win prior year, Prince Khalid had the G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. and privately purchased Slightly earn champion miler honors for Dangerous () after she trainer before had won the G3 Fred Darling S. retiring as a foundation sire to at two for trainer Barry Hills, and Juddmonte=s nursery in she became the dam of Prince Wargrave-upon-Thames in Khalid=s dual Group 1 winner Berkshire. He relocated in 1987 as well as Prince to Juddmonte=s American Khalid=s 1993 Derby winner division at the former Belair Commander In Chief (GB), by his Farm south of Lexington, which great G1 Prix de l=Arc de Prince Khalid had purchased in Triomphe winner Dancing Brave 1982. Known Fact=s stud career (). Slightly Dangerous was highlighted by Gerald also left behind the Group 2 (l to r) , , Heat Haze and at Leigh=s champion miler Banstead Manor Stud | Juddmonte winner and sire Dushyantor (GB) and (Sadler=s Wells) and the GI Warning (GB), a top 2-year-old who went on to win the G1 scorer and multiple Classic-placed Yashmak Sussex S. and Queen Elizabeth II S. for Prince Khalid and sire five (), herself the dam of G1 Jean-Luc Lagardere winner Full Group 1 winners from Banstead Manor Stud. Mast (Mizzen Mast).

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Other fillies accrued during this era whose names still feature in the pedigrees of Juddmonte-bred luminaries today include Monroe (, out of Best In Show), whose descendants include Prince Khalid=s (GB), (GB), Bated Breath (GB), (GB) and ; and (Roberto), who among many other notable stakes winners is the second dam of Hasili (Ire) ( {Ire}), who produced a remarkable Senior Vice President Gary King five homebred Grade/Group 1 winners for Prince Twitter: @garykingTDN KhalidBChamps Elysees (GB), Intercontinential (GB), Banks Hill [email protected] (GB), (Ire) and Heat Haze (GB). All bar Heat Haze (Green + 1.732.320.0975 Desert) were by another Prince Khalid homebred, (Danzig). and Cacique both stood at International Editor Juddmonte=s Banstead Manor Stud alongside their full-brother Kelsey Riley (GB). Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN Frankel (GB) is a great-grandson of Rockfest (Stage Door [email protected] Johnny), who was purchased from Jock Whitney, while Enable=s European Editor fourth dam Fleet Girl (Ire) () was part of a handful of Emma Berry that were included in the Belair Farm deal. Prince Khalid Twitter: @collingsberry purchased Mofida (GB) ( {GB}) in foal to [email protected] from in 1981. The resulting filly was Zaizafon, who would produce the sires and Zamindar. The stakes- Associate International Editor winning Bahamian (Ire) (Mill Reef) was a 310,000gns yearling Heather Anderson purchase in 1986, and she went on to produce the G1 Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN winner (GB) (Dancing Brave) and is the ancestress Marketing Manager of two of Juddmonte=s best sires, Oasis Dream (GB) and Alayna Cullen (GB). Twitter: @AlaynaCullen All the while as his homebred stock began to step out, Prince [email protected] Khalid continued to supplement his program with yearlings purchased at the sales. Pivotal among those was Contributing Editors ( {Fr}), from the family of Slightly Dangerous and Alan Carasso bought by James Delahooke for $950,000 at Fasig-Tipton=s July Christina Bossinakis Yearling Sale in 1982. Rainbow Quest was good for Jeremy Tree Cafe Racing at two and three but blossomed into a champion at four to win Sean Cronin the G1 and the Arc. Rainbow Quest was Tom Frary honored by as the first horse since Mill Reef and [email protected] (GB) to earn a rating of at least 130 at ages two, three and four. Irish Correspondent Prince Khalid had purchased Banstead Manor Stud near Daithi Harvey Newmarket in 1987, and thus Rainbow Quest was the perfect candidate to be its foundation sire. Rainbow Quest was an Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake immediate hit, siring three Group 1 winners from his first crop Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele including (GB), who won the 1990 Derby for Khalid Abdullah and and was the first of three winners of the blue riband for his owner, later joined by Commander In Chief (GB) (Dancing Brave) for Sir Henry Cecil in IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY 1993 and (GB) (King=s Best) in 2010 for Sir Michael $1.9M COLT TOPS MAGIC MILLIONS Stoute. went to $1.9 million for a son of Snitzel on Day 1 at the Magic Millions Gold Coast sale. Click or tap here to go Cont. p5 straight to TDN Aus/NZ. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 5 OF 12 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 13 JANUARY 2021

Juddmonte dynasty, including Tree=s Beckhampton successor Roger Charlton, who enjoyed immediate success with G1 scorer and Derby victor Quest For Fame in the same season; and Andre Fabre, whose standouts in the pink, white and green were headed by the Classic and four-time Group 1 winner Zafonic. But the two training titans most closely associated with Prince Khalid in the post-Tree era were Sir Henry Cecil and Bobby Frankel. And while the two men could hardly be more different by nature, they will be inextricably linked in history by the greatest horse that Prince KhalidBand, perhaps, anyoneBever produced. A feature of Prince Khalid=s racing program was his enjoyment and patronage of American racing, and in addition to those he bred in Kentucky, Prince Khalid sent many a European- Khalid Abdullah and his longtime racing manager trained runner across the to try their hand on the Teddy Grimthorpe in 2007 | racingfotos.com American turf. As Rainbow Quest was fulfilling his prophecy on the , who has now trained for Prince Khalid for nearly racecourse, Delahooke ventured back to Kentucky for the 40 years, was the recipient of many of those runners when Keeneland July Sale in 1984, where he selected a bay son of based in California in the 1980s, and upon his return to Lyphard for $200,000. Put into training at two with Guy Newmarket it was the New Yorker Bobby Frankel who was the Harwood, the colt named Dancing Brave won a pair of main beneficiary. Incidentally, one of the most influential mares conditions races at two, and while Prince Khalid also to come through Prince Khalid=s program started out in Europe campaigned that year=s G1 William Hill Futurity winner with Gosden before later joining Frankel in California. Her name (The Minstrel), it was no secret who was regarded as was (), and she won the GI Gamely H. the better. Dancing Brave fulfilled all the hopes and before throwing four Grade I winners headed by GI Belmont S. expectations placed on him at three, taking the 2000 Guineas, winner and sire ()Bhis 13 Grade I S., King George VI and Queen Elizabeth S. and the Arc. winners as a sire include Juddmonte=s four-time top-level His only losses came in the Derby after a luckless run and the GI winner Emollient--and Honest Lady (), who is also Breeders= Cup Turf. Dancing Brave was unanimously voted the the dam of First Defence, who in turn sired Prince Khalid=s 2020 1986 Horse of the Year. G1 Irish 2000 Guineas winner as well as five-time Grade I Dancing Brave took up residence at Darley=s Dalham Hall, winner Close Hatches. Other Juddmonte standouts trained by where Prince Khalid supported him with great success, breeding Frankel included (), Exbourne (Explodent), the 1993 Derby winner Commander In Chief and the same Marquetry (Conquistador Cielo), Ventura (), year=s Irish Oaks victress Wemyss Bight. Midships (Mizzen Mast) and Champs Elysees. While that accomplishment was excellent on its own merits, Dancing Brave=s record as a sire paled in comparison to what Prince Khalid achieved with another colt sent away from home to stand at stud: Danehill. Bred by Prince Khalid out of Razyana (), Danehill was placed in the 2000 Guineas before winning the G3 Cork and Orrery S. (now the G1 S. at Royal Ascot) and the G1 for Jeremy Tree. Danehill was snapped up for a wildly successful transcontinental shuttle career by Coolmore; his record of 84 Group 1 winners was surpassed just last year by (Ire). Like Dancing Brave, Juddmonte patronised Danehill plenty, their many stakes winners by the sire including Frankel=s listed- winning dam (Ire). With the retirement of Jeremy Tree in the 1989, a handful of = trainers came to the fore who would be pivotal in shaping the Khalid Abdullah accepts Frankel s QEII trophy from The Queen | racingfotos.com TDN EUROPE • PAGE 6 OF 12 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 13 JANUARY 2021

Cont. Just like his trainer and now his owner, Frankel=s legacy lives on and continues to build; he has made an explosive start at When Bobby Frankel died in 2009, Khalid Abdullah set out to stud and his Group 1 winners include Khalid Abdullah select a colt of the highest quality to name in his honor. The man homebreds Logician (GB), winner of the 2019 G1 St Leger for that would have the honor of training the colt was Sir Henry John Gosden, and (GB), the champion 2-year-old Cecil, who had already repaid Prince Khalid=s patronage with the filly of 2019 trained by Roger Charlton at Beckhampton, right 1993 Derby victory of Commander In Chief, the 1997 Oaks score back where it all began. of and the 1000 Guineas win of in 1999, As Frankel was quietly building up to his racecourse debut in as well as multiple Group 1 winners like Passage Of Time (GB), 2010, Workforce was working his way through a memorable 3- (GB) and (GB) into the 21st century. But the year-old campaign for Prince Khalid from the yard of Sir Michael horse for whom they will Stoute. In May he handed both be best remembered his breeder his third win hadn=t yet stepped foot on in the Derby in just his a racecourse. But he was third start, and he would well worth the wait. become Prince Khalid=s A third generation fourth Arc winner, joining Juddmonte homebred by Rainbow Quest (1985), Galileo, Frankel (Ire) set Dancing Brave (1986) and the stage with a four-race (GB) (Dansili undefeated juvenile {GB}) (2006). The Prince campaign in 2010, but few came desperately close likely could have predicted, to getting another when or dared to dream of, what (GB) (Dansili would come next. After {GB}) finished runner-up winning the G3 Greenham in both 2014 and 2015 in S. by four lengths, Frankel the midst of a campaign took control of the 2000 that saw him win five Guineas from the break Grade/Group 1s in three and sprinted the mile on a Khalid Abdullah and Sir Henry Cecil after Twice Over and Midday finished one-two different countries. At the loose rein, winning by a in the 2011 Juddmonte International racingfotos.com same time, Kingman (GB) jaw-dropping six lengths. ( {Ire}) He would go on to add the G1 St James=s Palace S., G1 Sussex S. was stringing together a stellar 3-year-old campaign for John and G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. by season=s end. After absolutely Gosden in 2014, winning the G1 Irish 2000 Guineas, G1 St thrashing the opposition in the G1 Lockinge S., G1 Queen Anne James=s Palace S., G1 Sussex S. and G1 S. and the Sussex the following summer, he stepped up in trip to and earning Cartier Horse of the Year honours. Like Frankel, he similarly dominate the G1 Juddmonte International and the G1 has made an excellent start to his stud career, with three Group Champion S. Frankel is said to have been the exact dose of 1 winners including last year=s Cartier champion 3-year-old medicine Sir Henry needed while battling cancer, and the (GB). beloved Newmarket trainer sadly died a year and a half after Meanwhile, the career of another Juddmonte superstar was Frankel left his care on June 11, 2013. Frankel is the horse that budding in the U.S. Following the death of Bobby Frankel, Prince both Cecil and Abdullah will be best remembered for. But one Khalid spread his American-based horses mostly among Bob thing Prince Khalid will never be forgotten for among racing Baffert and Chad Brown, and in addition put in place a new circles is how he stood by Cecil through thick and thin, including business plan that saw him supplement his homebred program his well documented personal and professional struggles of the with a handful of colts purchased at auction and bred for the top late 1990s and early 2000s. Prince Khalid=s embarrassment of dirt races. His team spent $560,000 at Keeneland September in success on the racecourse is the mark of his success in sport and 2014 on a grey colt by Unbridled=s Song that they dispatched to business. His fierce belief in and loyalty to a man that had served Baffert. After quietly building up the colt with a gradual him so well is the sign of the true honour with which he introduction in Southern California, Baffert sent Arrogate to conducted himself. Saratoga for his stakes debut in the GI Travers in 2016. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 7 OF 12 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 13 JANUARY 2021

Arrogate absolutely demolished the opposition in track record will be but one small bud on a towering oak that branches off in time at 11-1, and built on that effort with sublime performances so many directions. Today, Juddmonte stands six Grade/Group 1 in the GI Breeders= Cup Classic, GI Pegasus World Cup and winners and/or sires in two countries. Its consignments of fillies GI , in the latter stumbling out of the gate and and mares at Tattersalls, annually without fail, draws a vibrant sitting last before circling the entire field. Arrogate will be international crowd ringside, all intoxicated by the notion that represented by his first they may be able to capture runners this year, and if he a small piece of that passes a modicum of his Juddmonte magic for onto his progeny his untimely themselves. Many have. death last June at the age of The enormity of the loss of seven will prove a huge blow. His Highness Prince Khalid By the time Arrogate=s racing bin Abdullah to the global career was winding down in Thoroughbred industry is the autumn of 2017, Prince immeasurable. He was a Khalid had yet another sportsman who loved the superstar very much out in the game of racing and breeding open in Europe with Gosden. and the challenge of Enable (GB) ( {Ire}) matching up his homebreds had made her considerable to produce superior talent well known with a five- athletes. It is quite possible length romp in the G1 Epsom we will never see his Enable | Scoop Dyga Oaks, and by season=s end had equal. But as many of Prince compiled a glowing record after adding wins in the G1 Irish Khalid=s lines continue to grow strong after 40 years, it is likely Oaks, G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth S., G1 Yorkshire we will be paying homage to him for many generations to come. Oaks and the Arc. It is a nod to just how remarkable Enable was, however, that by the time she retired from racing another three Charlton Leads Tributes To Prince Khalid Abdullah last years later last autumn, those lofty 3-year-old Roger Charlton, who trained Quest For Fame (GB) and accomplishments seemed a distant memory. After missing most Sanglamore to win the Derby and Prix du Jockey Club for of her 4-year-old campaign due to setbacks, Enable pulled off an Juddmonte in 1990, said on Sky Sports Racing, AI think the whole incredible Arc double off just one prep race before shipping to of the racing industry appreciates what Prince Khalid achieved to take the GI Breeders= Cup Turf on the same with Juddmonte Farms. Life is full of luck and being in the right card that Prince Khalid won the GI Mile with another homebred, place at the right time and how lucky was I? He was a wonderful (GB). A much more traditional campaign at five saw owner to deal with and I owe him everything. It=s a huge loss. Enable take the G1 Coral-Eclipse, and a second King George and AHe was always a great pleasure to talk to before a race and/or , but the very soft going likely contributed to her after a race, and of course he was hugely knowledgeable. He unraveling in the very late stages of her third Arc attempt and had huge passion for it and I think that=s really important. Any succumbing to (GB) (Galileo {Ire}). owner/breeder goes through rough patches, bad horses, bad It was widely assumed that Enable would now be headed off stallions, but his passion was always there right to the end. It to join Prince Khalid=s broodmare band, his decision in keeping was that he had horses like Arrogate, Kingman, his precious in training until five being such a sporting one. Frankel and Enable towards the end. It was a real testament to a But in confirming that Enable would try once again for a historic fantastic operation. third Arc in 2020, Prince Khalid laid bare his for the sport AGenerally speaking it=s fair to say that every trainer, jockey, that had been so good to him, and he it. Enable indeed did breeder and owner in this country had immense respect for record a historic treble, but it was in the King George, with the Prince Khalid. I don=t think too many people ever fault great mare managing just sixth in another soft-ground Arc on with what he did. He was , in sponsoring some great Oct. 4. She was retired thereafter with 15 wins from 19 starts, races as well as owning horses. His life was full of great credit including 11 Group 1s, and earnings of over ,9.6-million. She is and he was very humble. set to visit Kingman for her first mating this spring. AHe was a colossal contributor to racing. I shall personally miss That resulting foal, the progeny of two Horses of the Year, will him a lot and I=m forever grateful that I=ve been able to train the be incredibly anticipated by many. Such is the breadth of Prince horses that I have.@ Khalid bin Abdullah=s Juddmonte legacy, however, that he or she TDN EUROPE • PAGE 8 OF 12 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 13 JANUARY 2021

Khalid you talk about loyalty. In this changing world this was a great quality that shone out from the man.@ , trainer of Breeders= Cup Classic and Dubai World Cup winner Arrogate, told Sky Sports Racing, AHe was definitely one of the titans of racing. He was such a gentleman, a really low-key kind of guy who trusted his trainers. The biggest compliment a horse trainer in America could get is if he wanted you to train his horses.@ Lady Jane Cecil, trainer of G1 Champion S. winner (GB), reflected on the longstanding relationship between Prince Khalid and her late husband, Sir Henry Cecil. She said, AThey had a special friendship which meant a great deal to Henry. They were very different but they got on very well and I Kingman | racingfotos.com think Henry amused the Prince. A[The Prince] was so loyal. him allowing me to train John Gosden, trainer of Enable (GB), Kingman (GB) and Oasis Noble Mission. He=s Frankel=s full-brother and with him allowing Dream (GB), reflected, AHe sparked an interest going racing in me to do that, and being loyal and supportive, which of course Paris in the 1950s and then some 15 or 20 years later decided to was an extension of his loyalty to Henry, it meant that Warren set up a breeding operation with Jeremy Tree as his advisor. Place had that fantastic day at Ascot which will live with me What he created in the first 20 years, never mind 40 years, is forever.@ beyond extraordinary, and to be a leading owner in Europe and : AHe was a great of the sport. I had one of my America within the period he did it speaks bounds for his early Group 1s aboard a horse he owned called in the knowledge and his strategic approach. He knew the pedigrees of , who was trained by John [Gosden]. He was his horses inside out--you could never catch him out on amazing and a true giant of the sport. You could go on naming pedigrees. all the great horses he has owned, but you would have to say AHe was the most charming man. He was incredibly humorous, Enable, Frankel and Dancing Brave are the three that stand out. steely, tough--you=d better be on your mettle with him--but the AEnable will always be the apple of my eye and the last time I most amazing man to train for. We all had an awful lot of fun saw him was when she won her second Arc. He was a real together because he enjoyed being with the horses. It was his gentleman and he loved his horses. He was very passionate and passion and he always referred to it as his one great luxury. knowledgeable about them and the results speak for APrince Khalid wasn=t particularly well while Kingman was themselves. What he has done for the whole industry is racing but he was in Deauville when he won the Jacques le fantastic. Marois. He didn=t come to the races but he came to the stables a couple of hours later and we stood the horse up for him and he stood there and looked at the horse, walked around him and patted him. He had the most wonderful affinity with horses. With Enable, he saw her in the Arc in 2018 and he enjoyed that very much but he was quite fragile by that stage and we never saw him at the races after that, but he watched every race on television.@ , trainer of Emulous (GB) and Famous Name (GB), said, AI=d like to extend my sympathy firstly to his family. He is a huge loss to the racing industry because he was one of the pillars of the breeding industry in the world for the last 50 years. He was the man who raced Frankel, Kingman, Enable, and he gave us though this brilliance these wonderful horses to enjoy. ATwo words I=d like to say: when you talk about Juddmonte you talk about excellence, and when you talk about Prince Arrogate | Coglianese TDN EUROPE • PAGE 9 OF 12 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 13 JANUARY 2021

AThough Enable will always stand out to me, Frankel will AHis loyalty to Sir Henry Cecil through all the ups and downs always be the best horse that I=ve seen and have had to race was very admirable. That loyal patronage paid off in the best against. I went to see Dancing Brave win the 2000 Guineas in possible way you could have imagined with Frankel. He had a 1986--I wasn=t riding then and he was incredible. He was then great understanding of horses and was very easy to deal with beaten in that famous Derby before winning the King George and very approachable. It=s a sad day and my thoughts go out to and the Arc. his family and friends and everyone that worked for him. I will AI grew up in an era watching horses like Dancing Brave win look back with great pride that I had some involvement with and you were always very excited that one day you might get to him.@ wear those silks--ones that had been associated with such great Andre Fabre: AIt=s a great loss for everyone. Personally he had success.@ the sort of charm that made you want to do well for him, though , rider of Frankel: AI was very fortunate and lucky he was a quiet man. I was lucky enough to train a lot of great to ride dozens of pattern race winners for Prince Khalid horses for him. Above all, he was a man that everyone throughout my career. He was a gentleman to ride for, his respected and loved. It is bad news. Juddmonte operation has been a huge success and leaves a Chad Brown via Twitter: APrince Khalid was the definition of legacy which will live on for a long time. I was very lucky to ride class and sportsmanship. It was one of the greatest honors of what was arguably his best horse. It was the work of years and my life to be asked to train horses for him...the phone call every years of breeding to produce a horse with the excellence of trainer has dreamed of getting. He raised the bar to unthinkable Frankel. heights, always putting the horse first. RIP."

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Statement from Breeders= Cup: APrince Khalid bin Abdullah AThough he was a major presence on the international stage, we was one of the world=s most passionate and influential leaders at Keeneland treasure the long friendship we enjoyed with in and breeding, and one who exemplified Prince Khalid. His Juddmonte Farms is a prominent consignor great dignity and class. Prince Khalid was an early advocate and and buyer at Keeneland sales, where he bought Known Fact, staunch supporter of the Breeders= Cup program and became one of his earliest classic winners, at the 1978 July Selected one of its most ardent and successful owners. Under the banner Yearling Sale, and purchased his champion and Breeders= Cup of Juddmonte Farms, racing fans were thrilled by the Classic winner Arrogate at the 2014 September Yearling Sale. magnificent performances of Arrogate and Enable, among the Juddmonte Farms has also strongly supported Keeneland=s Prince=s seven Breeders= Cup champions, and by the brilliance of philanthropic mission and its racing program as sponsor of the Frankel, and many others on the international scene. We extend Grade I Juddmonte Spinster since 2005. Prince Khalid=s our heartfelt condolences to his family and to his dedicated distinctive pink, green and white silks have been carried to management and staff.@ numerous wins at Keeneland, earning for him a Keeneland Tray Statement from Churchill Downs Racetrack President Mike as part of the track=s distinguished Milestone Trophy Program. Anderson: AThoroughbred racing and breeding icons like Prince On behalf of Keeneland, we extend our deepest condolences to Khalid bin Abdullah are few and far between. For decades, the Prince Khalid=s family and the entire Juddmonte Farms team.@ Juddmonte Farms racing and breeding operation has represented top-class on an international stage thanks to the vision and dedication of Prince Khalid. His unforgettable pink, green and white silks made numerous trips to the Churchill Downs winner=s circle with regally-bred horses--from 2001 winner Flute to 2018 Breeders= Cup Turf champion Enable--and they are fondly remembered by the Churchill Downs family as part of his significant legacy.@ Statement from National Thoroughbred Racing Association Goffs Releases February Catalogues cont. from p1 President Alex Waldrop: AThe contributions of Prince Khalid bin Abdullah to the Thoroughbred breeding and racing industry over Also offered during Part I is Margarita (Ire) (Marju {Ire}) (lot the past 40 years will be felt for generations to come. From 141), a stakes-producing full-sister to (Ire) in foal to Empire Maker to Frankel to Enable, his operation produced Starspangledbanner (Aus); Gracefully Done (Ire) (Australia {GB}) many of this sport=s all-time greats who carried his famous (lot 190), a daughter of Grade I winner Sense Of Style (Thunder green, pink and white silks to victory in the world=s most Gulch) in foal for the first time to (Ire); Shehreen prestigious races. Our deepest condolences go out to his family (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}) (lot 193), a winner for the Aga Khan and and the entire Juddmonte Farms team.@ fourth in a Group 3 who is a half-sister to two pattern race Keeneland President and Chief Executive Officer Shannon winners; Topaz Clear (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}) (lot 214), a winning Arvin: APrince Khalid bin Abdullah was foremost a man of half-sister to Forgotten Rules (Ire) (Nayef) in foal to Zoffany (Ire); extraordinary class, and the excellence he achieved in and the New Zealand listed winner Rubira (Aus) ( Thoroughbred racing and breeding globally will continue to {Ire}) (lot 253) in foal for the first time to New Bay. influence the breed for generations.@ TDN EUROPE • PAGE 11 OF 12 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 13 JANUARY 2021

GOFFS UK DONCASTER JANUARY CATALOGUE ONLINE Goffs UK has released the catalogue for the first of two parts of its Doncaster January Sale. Part 1 will be a timed online breeding stock and horses in training sale with 89 horses on Jan. 26 and for which the catalogue is now online. Part 2 will be a physical sale of National Hunt short yearlings at Doncaster on Feb. 17, with the catalogue to be released at a later date. Goffs UK Managing Director Tim Kent said, AWe were all hopeful that we could start off 2021 with a January Sale held on its scheduled date at our Doncaster Sales Complex but new restrictions have meant that is not possible. Taking into account Photo courtesy Goffs that mares are in-foal or are soon to be covered, we wanted to assist breeders and facilitate an outlet for them and hence we No horses, buyers or vendors will be present at Kildare have turned to our proven and user-friendly online platform to Paddocks for Part 1 of the sale. Part 2 will take place as an in- offer these mares along with the horses-in-training. Goffs have person sale on Mar. 2 and will comprise 223 flat and National demonstrated that online sales can be very effective and that, Hunt short yearlings. The standouts on paper include lot 311, a along with the superb support received from breeders, owners Harry Angel (Ire) filly who is the second foal out of the French and trainers who have sent us some outstanding horses, gives us listed-placed First Destinity (Fr) ( {Fr}); lot 346, a Kodiac confidence that we can conduct another successful online sale. (GB) colt out of G3 Musidora S. winner Liber Nauticus (Ire) AThis catalogue will be online only, there will be no printed ( {Ire}) and a half-brother to the listed-placed Miss catalogues, and we encourage prospective buyers to keep an Celestial (Ire) ( {Aus}); lot 355, a (GB) eye on their desired lots on Goffs Online as we receive photos, colt out of the Moyglare blueblood Mad About You (Ire) (Indian videos, vet certificates, pregnancy and breeding certificates etc. Ridge {Ire}); lot 386, a Dandy Man (Ire) half-brother to G3 in the build up to the sale.@ Zetland S. winner Max Vega (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}); lot 409, a (Ire) half-brother to the prolific Australian runner Tom Melbourne (Ire) ( {Ire}) from the family of G1 Melbourne Cup winner Fiorente (Ire) (Monsun {Ger}); and REGISTRATION OPEN FOR ITBF WEBINAR lot 507, a (Aus) colt who is the first foal out of a Registration for the International Thoroughbred Breeders= sister to pattern race winners Ernest Hemingway (GB), Toulifaut Federation=s free webinar Jan. 21 at 1:00 p.m. (London, U.K.) is (Ire) and South Sea Pearl (Ire). Those wishing to attend Part 2 of now open and available by clicking the following link. Outlining the sale must complete a health questionnaire in advance, and racing=s challenges, threats and opportunities, the webinar will strict Covid-19 safety protocols will be enforced. address: AGoffs February Sale is consistently the market-leading $ THE ROLE OF WEATHERBYS with Sir Johnny Weatherby mid- sale in Europe and, while the format this year may KCVO and Simon Cooper be different due to the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, $ LATIN AMERICA B ECONOMIC CHALLENGES & the quality remains unchanged and we are delighted to present BLOODSTOCK OPPORTUNITIES with John Fulton two strong catalogues that should hold great appeal for $ AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA with Dr. pinhookers and end-users at home and abroad,@ said Goffs John Grewar BVSc, MSc, PhD Group Chief Executive Henry Beeby. AWe very much hope to $ WEST NILE VIRUS IN EUROPE with Dr Guillaume Fortier return to our scheduled onsite sales at Goffs for the remainder DVM, Dip.Pasteur Inst.,PhD., HDR Normandy Univ. of 2021, however for now our Goffs Online platform, which $ AN UPDATE ON NOCARDIOFORM PLACENTITIS IN received such positive feedback throughout the Autumn, is a CENTRAL KENTUCKY with Dr. Barry Ball DVM, PhD proven vehicle to buy and sell the categories of horses featured For those who cannot attend the webinar live, register to in the Part 1 catalogue during our live online sale, and then we receive the video recording link following the event. look forward to welcoming horses, vendors and buyers back to Kildare Paddocks for Part 2 of the sale on 2 March for our live onsite sale which will also be supported by Goffs Online.@ TDN EUROPE • PAGE 12 OF 12 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 13 JANUARY 2021

SON OF REST, FLASH GORDON TO MEELIN Chance (GB) (Fountain of Youth {Ire}) in the final yards, the 16-1 shot recorded a short-head verdict. The dam is a half to Front STUD House (Ire) (Sadler=s Wells), winner of the G2 Gold Circle Oaks A pair of new Flat stallions--Son Of Rest (GB) (Pivotal {GB}-- and G2 Dubai City of Gold, and also to Access All Areas (Ire) Hightime Heroine {Ire}, by Danetime {Ire}) and Flash Gordon (Approach the Bench {Ire}) who was runner-up in the G1 (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}--Oasis Sunset {Ire}), by Oasis Dream {GB})--will Phoenix S. Sales history: 42,000gns Ylg >19 TATOCT. Lifetime stand at Paddy McCathy=s Meelin Stud in West Cork. Son of Rest Record: 2-1-0-0, $4,633. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. will stand for i3,000 and Flash Gordon will be offered at O-Saeed Manana; B-Denis McDonnell (IRE); T-James Tate. i1,500 for the 2021 season. AThey are two great stamps of horses and I am delighted to CONDITIONS RESULTS: have them for my first into Flat stallions,@ said 4th-Newcastle, ,20,000, 1-12, 4yo/up, 5f (AWT), :59.11, st/sl. McCathy. AI have been working to offer speed horses that could VENTUROUS (IRE) (h, 8, Raven=s Pass--Bold Desire {GB}, by produce types for some time and am excited for the {GB}) Lifetime Record: 50-9-5-4, $159,343. future." O-Mr Laurence O=Kane/Harrowgate Bloodstock Ltd; B-John Son of Rest, fourth for Fozzy Stack in the G1 National S. at two, Doyle (IRE); T-David Barron. *110,000gns Wlg >13 TATFOA; won a pair of races the following season before finishing third in ,44,000 HRA >16 GOYHIT. *1/2 to Parliament Square (Ire) the G2 Flying Five S. At four, he returned in the Flying Five to (Acclamation {GB}), SW-Ire, G1SP-Fr, $143,595. finish a close-up second and later landed the Ary Gold Cup. Bred by Cheveley Park Stud, he is from the family of Champion 5th-Newcastle, ,20,000, 1-12, 4yo/up, 8f 5y (AWT), 1:39.42, 2-year-old Forest Flower. st/sl. ASon Of Rest is absolutely gorgeous, a magnificent horse,@ BLESS HIM (IRE) (g, 7, {Ire}--Happy Land {Ire}, by added McCathy. AHe stands about 16.2h and is a great stamp of {Ire}) Lifetime Record: 22-5-2-2, $175,328. a horse..He retired sound.@ O-Tony Perkins & Partners; B-Knocklong House Stud (IRE); Also standing at Meelin Stud this season, Flash Gordon, who T-David Simcock. *65,000gns Wlg >14 TATFOA; 100,000gns Ylg was trained by Jessica Harrington, placed in the G3 Lacken S. >15 TATOCT; i600,000 2yo >16 ARQMAY; 31,000gns HRA >18 and Listed Tetrarch S. at three and also placed in the 2020 Sprint TATAHI. S. at Naas. A 220,000gns yearling, he is out of juvenile winner Oasis Sunset, who is a half-sister to Champion juvenile and ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNER: G1 Cheveley Park S. scorer Seazun (Zietan). The 5-year-old is The Hulk (GB), g, 3, Due Diligence--Flighty Clarets (Ire), by from the family of G2 Molecomb S. winners Brown Sugar and Bahamian Bounty (GB). Lingfield, 1-12, 6f 1y (AWT), 1:12.33. Classic Ruler as well as Champion 2-year-old . B-Whitsbury Manor Stud (GB). *2,000gns RNA Wlg >18 AFlash Gordon is a gorgeous, very athletic horse,@ he TATFOA; ,65,000 Ylg >19 GOFFPR. continued. AHe is a Group 2-placed son of Kodiac that won first time out. He cost 220,000gns as a yearling and is obviously a good-looking horse. He is a great walking horse and stands about 16h.@

Tuesday=s Result: 6th-Newcastle, ,5,300, Novice, 1-12, 3yo, 7f 14y (AWT), 1:29.16, st/sl. NEW DYNASTY (IRE) (c, 3, {Ire}--Brown Diamond {Ire}, by Fastnet Rock {Aus}), who was last of seven in a mile novice on debut at Chelmsford in December, languished towards the rear early. Delivered on the rail to overhaul As If By

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$ The Day 1 clearance rate reached a very healthy 85.71 per SNITZEL COLT PROPELS cent, up from 83 per cent after the first session in 2020. $ The median price dropped slightly in comparison to last year BRIGHT START AT MAGICS from $180,000 to $170,000.

Magnier Fights Hard to Get Snitzel Colt It took a bit of determination, and some vintage auctioneering theatre from Steve Davis, but Coolmore's Tom Magnier secured the Snitzel colt he so desired, in Lot 115, for $1.9 million. The first-born son of stakes-winning mare Bonny O'Reilly (NZ) (O'Reilly {NZ}), who was purchased by Widden Stud and Redvers Bloodstock for $1.2 million in foal with this colt at the 2019 Magic Millions Broodmare Sale, proved the day's hottest property, with a terrific bidding dual the clear highlight of an electric first day on the Gold Coast. Magnier looked the party least likely to land the colt as every one of his bids was quickly countered by a rival down the back of the auditorium. Davis' experience in auctioning big lots came $1.9M Snitzel colt, Day 1 Topper at Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale to the fore, as he elicited several last second bids from the Magic Millions Coolmore contingent, who with one last throw, decided to jump in a $100,000 increment to see off the determined rival. By Bren O'Brien, Paul Vettise and Georgie Dennis The tactic worked a treat and the son of Snitzel is headed to The Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale has started in trainer Chris Waller to wear the famous Coolmore navy colours. robust fashion with a vibrant market driving year-on-year "He was a really nice horse. All the top people seemed to be growth and the day's top lot, a colt by Snitzel, fetching on him. You saw what we had to pay for him, but he was a nice $1.9 million to the bid of Coolmore's Tom Magnier. colt and we=ve got a great group of people to race the horse At A Glance: with," Magnier said. $ Coolmore's Tom Magnier secured the day's top lot, winning a spirited bidding dual to secure Lot 115, a colt by Snitzel for $1.9 million. $ Widden Stud sold the day's top two lots within minutes of one another, with Lot 113, a filly by I Am Invincible, selling to Bussutin Racing for $950,000. That ensured Widden was also the day's leading vendor. $ Waller Racing and Mulcaster Bloodstock were the leading buyers, spending $3.035 million across eight lots, highlighted by the $800,000 they paid for Lot 7, a colt by I Am Invincible. $ Yarraman Park's I Am Invincible had three of the top eight lots and was the leading sire on aggregate (10 lots for $5.405 million), but Arrowfield Stud's Snitzel leads the averages on $628,571. $ The Day 1 average was $248,169, up from $239,236, albeit Coolmore=s Tom Magnier (left) and Andrew Williams with a longer session last year. Magic Millions TDN AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND • PAGE 2 OF 4 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 13 JANUARY 2021

"He was a lovely colt and there are plenty of people here this "It was just great for Magic Millions to get Steve out of New week that have got good money to pay for colts. So if you are Zealand to do the sales series for them and it was great theatre going to get the good ones, you have to pay for them. All the and well sold." team were very positive on him and he comes from a good Thompson was also pleased that the colt would get every farm. chance of fulfilling his potential at Coolmore. "He was a lovely physical and the whole team were really "The number one operation in the world, their keen. Chris Waller and commitment to Australia is well everyone." and truly on show here today. It Magnier is no stranger to has been for a long time," he paying a significant amount for said. colts, and is aware that "When you look at the securing him for Coolmore is commitment of Mick Flanagan just the first part of the and MV Magnier to do journey. quarantine and be here at the "We are going to need some Sale, it speaks volumes. MV luck, but we are in a great wanted to be here at the Sale country to do that. It=s just with his brother Tom to really great to be able to go to the identify the best horses in the Gold Coast and there are just Sale and buy them. some great horses here. Fair "Their commitment to the play to the Magic Millions, Australian industry is on show they've got all the people here. Millie & Tom Magnier, Widden=s Antony Thompson (center) there. I think there is a real There are a great bunch of and MV Magnier (right) | Magic Millions sense of gratitude, not only horses," he said. from Widden, but from Magic Millions and the entire industry." Bonny O'Reilly, who foaled a Zoustar colt last spring before heading to I Am Invincible, won eight of her 16 starts, including a Vinnie Filly Heads to Victoria Listed Helen Coughlan S. for her trainer Bjorn Baker. She is a It concluded a big five minutes for Widden, who also sold Lot three-quarter sister to Group 2 winner Rare Insight (NZ) (O'Reilly 113, the filly by I Am Invincible out of Bonaria (Redoute's {NZ}), the dam of Group 1 winner Steps In Time ( Choice), for $950,000 to Busuttin Racing. {Ire}), and a half-sister to Listed winner Pretty To See (NZ) Bonaria boasts pedigree and race performance, having won a (Ocean Park {NZ}). G1 Myer Classic and being a half-sister to Legally Bay (Snippets), the dam of multiple Group 1 winner and stallion , Widden Celebrates Bumper Result and Thompson always felt her third foal, and first filly, would The result was a terrific one for Widden Stud, with principal find plenty of interest in the market. Antony Thompson genuinely surprised the colt was able to "She's blue chip, and she is an absolute queen. She was born reach such a price. good, she's just a wonderful type physically, from probably the "We were always hopeful. The feedback was that he was best pedigree in the book. Her Mum is a Group 1 winner by possibly the best colt in the Sale. Under the circumstances, we Redoute's. It's the family of Merchant Navy. She's a foundation weren=t sure exactly what that meant. We were a bit anxious on broodmare and Trent and Natalie have put together a syndicate how the market sat," he said. to get this filly," Thompson said. "He'd been admired by so many of the trainers, agents and "While everybody is buying these colts, they have decided to stallion groups that had formed. So many of our peers at other tack when everybody is ticking and I think the syndicate have stallion farms. We were hopeful he would sell well, but never in identified a blue chip filly. You have seen through mares like your wildest dreams did we think he'd make that." Sunlight, what they can be worth off the track. The tension orchestrated by the auctioneer in the sales ring "There's very little downside with a filly like that. She has earned the admiration of the day's leading vendor, who was just enormous residual and I'm sure she=ll be something special on grateful to have his star colt under Davis' command in the ring. the racetrack. It was quite a thrill and I know that her breeder "The Steve Davis was at his best. That's why Robert Anderson, who raced Bonaria, who couldn't be at the Steve gets the big bucks, Steve is a fantastic auctioneer. He Sale, is so proud of the filly and excited by the fact she sold so brings so much theatre to the auditorium," Thompson said. well." TDN AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND • PAGE 3 OF 4 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 13 JANUARY 2021

Widden leads all vendors after Day 1 with four sales for $3.395 "We loved him. We have seen him at the farm a couple of million, clear of Coolmore, which has sold 10 for $2.85 million, times. We saw him pre-Christmas as well. We think he is going and Yarraman Park, which sold six for $2.17 million. to come early and Jamie (Richards) will give him every chance to do that. Fillies Step It Up The colt, who was offered by Coolmore, boasts a stallion's While it was expected the colts would dominate the Sale, with pedigree, being out Ciarlet (Northern ) a sister to the several colts' syndicates active on the buying bench, it was the multiple Group 1 winner and Widden Stud stallion Zoustar. fillies who actually He was one of three averaged more through the purchases for Ellis, who also ring on Day 1, at $252,164, secured another of Fastnet compared to $240,065. Rock's progeny, Lot 109, a The overall average of filly out of Blue Blue Sky $248,169 was up on the (Lonhro) for $600,000 and a first session last year, as Lot 159, a filly by I Am was the clearance rate, Invincible for $500,000. defying the pre-Sale "David has got three lovely expectation that the buying horses. The Fastnet Rock is bench might be diminished just a lovely filly. The I Am by border restrictions and a Invincible filly is very, very lack of international nice and the colt, as participation. mentioned, is very good. Magic Millions Managing "They'll go back to Te Akau Director Barry Bowditch with Jamie Richards to train was understandably and they will given every pleased with how the first $950K I Am Invincible filly, Lot 113 | Magic Millions chance." day progressed. AIt was a huge day for us with a very solid day=s trade with a Mulcaster, Waller Get Involved Early clearance rate of over 85 per cent and I must thank the vendors Also sold for $800,000 was Lot 7, a colt by I Am Invincible out for that, to be honest. They have brought their very best horses of Zighy Bay (USA) ( {USA}), offered by Attunga Stud and here and they=ve met the market with them; they are being very purchased by Guy Mulcaster and Chris Waller in consort with realistic and the buyers have got a lot of confidence to step in Coolmore. and bid on horses at all levels," he said. The youngster is a half-brother to the G1 South Australian AWhat you are seeing out there is a huge spread of buyers and Derby and G2 Angus Armanasco S. winner Qafila (Not A Single everyone getting a turn. You suspect there=s plenty of people Doubt) and an international family that includes the G1 missing out at this stage. We=ve got a long way to go, but it Takamatsunomiya Khan winner Mozu Superflare (USA) bodes well for the next few days. ( {USA}). AI think we have got an outstanding group of fillies and I think AHe=s a lovely, nice-moving horse by a great sire and the mare you=ll see over the next few days, fillies making a lot of money has done a good job. The other won (Qafila) out of the mare was and that=s kudos to our team who have gone out and found a winner from 1000 to 2500 metres so very versatile,@ Mulcaster these key horses." said. AThis colt will tell us in time where he ends up and he will go to Te Akau Pounces on Fastnet Colt Chris Waller. We are very happy with the group we bought last Three horses were sold for $800,000, including Lot 163, a colt year and we=ve only had two or three step out and there=s some by Fastnet Rock, late in the day to bloodstock agent Andrew nice ones to come in the next few weeks. Williams, who was bidding on behalf of leviathan New Zealand AWe go around looking for good types and he fitted into what owner David Ellis of Te Akau Racing. we wanted and we=re lucky enough to get him. We take each "He loves Fastnet Rocks and he wanted the get the best horse on type and if the pedigree matches we have a go at Fastnet Rock colt at the Sale. We identified that as being the them.@ best Fastnet Rock colt," Williams said. Cont. p4 TDN AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND • PAGE 4 OF 4 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 13 JANUARY 2021

Mulcaster, who together with Waller was the leading buyer on Tony Fung Investments and Phoenix Investments combined to Day 1, didn=t necessarily believe such a major sale so early in the spend $2.245 million across four lots, including Lot 161, by auction would be a forerunner of things to come at the Gold Written Tycoon out of Choux Diva (NZ) (Thorn Park), the sister Coast. to multiple Group 1 winner Jimmy Choux (NZ). AIt=s just the way they draw, there are good ones scattered all James Bester Bloodstock and Coolmore paid $625,000 for through the catalogue and be another Written Tycoon some bargains for other colt, Lot 27 from Silverdale people,@ he said. Farm. Zighy Bay was a US$225,000 Consigned by Silverdale (AU$292,500) Keeneland Farm, Bester likened him to September Sale graduate. R. Listed Magic Millions AWe purchased the mare as 2YO Classic and G1 Golden a yearling a long time ago in Slipper S. winner Capitalist America and she was bought and believes he will be up by my good friend Hubert and running for those races Guy,@ Woodpark Manager this time next year. Jean Dubois said. AHe=s a fast looking colt in AShe was just okay as a the mould of Capitalist, racemare, but the purpose those Written Tycoons that was to have her as a win the Golden Slippers broodmare as the stallion and Magic Millions 2YO Tapit is so good. Classics, with a pedigree AShe=s already got a Group 1 Guy Mulcaster | Magic Millions too. His half-brother by winner so all the best for Shooting To Win was Coolmore. He will be trained by the best of the best and he will second in the Group 1 Atkins and probably should have won it. get every chance to be a good horse.@ He=s just an early, precocious, fast looking animal we thought.@ The colt was bred by Two Bays Farm and is the fourth foal out Maher Goes Strong to Get Vinnie Filly of placed mare Alcatraz (Fastnet Rock), who is also responsible The third lot to go for $800,000 was Lot 100, a filly by I Am for Kubrick (Shooting To Win), and she is a half-sister to Listed Invincible out of Bidii Babe (), offered by winner Chic Choice (Redoute=s Choice). Yarraman Park and sold to Ciaron Maher Bloodstock. The filly is the first foal of Bidii Babe, who won a Listed Bright Shadow S. "She's by a hot sire out of a Not A Single Doubt mare. We have had a lot of success with those. Obviously I have got a very high opinion of her and she just looks sharp and early and should hopefully hit the track as a 2-year-old," Maher said. Next Generation At Lindsay Park "Yarraman are great breeders. They keep producing horses year after year. This filly, I saw her on the farm three months TDN AusNZ Trivia ago, and I felt she was one of the fillies of the Sale and while it was a little more than I expect, when you buy quality like that, you always have to go a bit higher. Enthaar Blitzes Rivals In Trial "She's got a enough strength and size and muscle. Hopefully, she can come back here and we can turn that $800,000 into Isotope Draws Seven For Guineas $2 million." Maher purchased 10 horses either under his own name or in Boss Confident In Fake Love partnership, spending $2.74 million, including another I Am Invincible filly, Lot 144, from Tyreel Stud for $620,000 in partnership with Mathiesen Racing.

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DISPERSALS FUEL KENTUCKY SIRES FOR 2021: FIRST SOPHOMORES--PART I JANUARY MARKET by Chris McGrath The stallions we reach today are the first actually to have given some initial clue as to their ability to replicate those assets that earned them a place at stud. True, only their most precocious stock have so far tested the water and it should be obvious that limited conclusions can be drawn from so small a sample of their work. But we know the apathy of commercial breeders about producing racehorses. So long as they maximize their value as yearlings, the rest is gravy. That's why they get behind stallions yet to expose the flimsy parapets of marketing to the unsparing fire of the racetrack. Cont. p16

IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Regal Glory | Keeneland PRINCE KHALID BIN ABDULLAH DEAD Juddmonte’s Prince Khalid bin Abdullah, one of the most by Jessica Martini & Christie DeBernardis successful owner/breeders in the history of the sport, has Propelled by the strength of a pair of marquee dispersals, the died. Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale churned out a Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. powerful second session in Lexington Tuesday. Early in the day, Peter Brant=s White Birch Farm purchased Regal Glory () (hip 403) from the Lane=s End consignment of the dispersal of the Estate of the late Paul Pompa, Jr. for $925,000. That bid was matched later in the session when Antony Beck=s Gainesway Farm purchased Danceforthecause (Giant=s Causeway) (hip 587) from the Sam-Son Farm dispersal. The two dispersals were responsible for the sessions top nine offerings. AThe of the dispersal was very obvious here today,@ said Keeneland=s Director of Sales Operations Geoffrey Russell. AIt was bittersweet, but we appreciate the trust they put in us to put this show on today.@ While shoppers may have come into the January sale hoping to find bargains in a down market, the dispersals proved demand was still healthy at the top of the market as breeders looked ahead to what Keeneland President Shannon Arvin called, Ablue skies.@ AThe opportunity, especially with the Sam-Son dispersal, to get into these mares has been limited over the years,@ Russell said. ASo people are hungry to get into these strong female families. And the same is true with the mares of Mr. Pompa. Cont. p3 A PICTURE IS WORTH…

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Photographer/Photo Editor Sarah K. Andrew @SarahKAndrew [email protected] MGSW Regal Glory (Animal Kingdom–Mary’s Follies, by More Than Ready) sparked early fireworks at Keeneland Tuesday, summoning $925,000 from Peter Brant’s White Social Media Strategist Birch Farm just three hips into the session. Keeneland January coverage continues on Justina Severni page 3. | Keeneland Associate Producer Katie Ritz SAM-SON CONSIGNMENT DOMINATES 6 Director of Customer Service Vicki Forbes The Sam-Son Farm Broodmare Dispersal dominated the results at [email protected] Keeneland Tuesday, as 21 mares sold for a gross of $6,733,000 and an average of $320,619. Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen @AlaynaCullen CITY OF LIGHT FOALS PROVE POPULAR Director of IT/Accounting 12 Ray Villa Foals from the first crop of City of Light were very popular during [email protected] the November sales and continued to be in demand as short yearlings [email protected] in the January sale. A filly by the Lane's End stallion was the day's highest-priced yearling, summoning $400,000 from Larry Best's WORLDWIDE INFORMATION International Editor OXO Equine (Hip 660). Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected]

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KEEJAN cont. from p1 Russell said, AThese are strong female families and, as Shannon quite rightly said, breeders are looking for blue skies ahead. And they have to have the product to produce yearlings to sell.@ During Tuesday=s session, 247 head sold for $23,319,400. The session average was $94,411 and the median was $40,000. Through the auction=s two Book 1 sessions, 456 horses have sold for $35,484,800 for an average of $77,818 and a median of $37,000. AI thought the market was very strong,@ Russell said. AI thought the foals sold exceptionally well today. Obviously, Mr. Pompa had some foals in there, but the non-dispersal foals sold very, very well. It was strong from start to finish.@ Larry Best, who purchased the top-priced lot during Monday=s opening session of the auction, again purchased the top-priced short yearling Tuesday, going to $400,000 to secure a filly by City of Light (hip 660) from the Lane=s End consignment. Lane=s End sold 41 horses Tuesday for a total of $5,601,000 and an average of $136,610. Cont. p4

KEENELAND JANUARY SALE SESSION TOTALS 2021 *2020 $ Catalogued 411 411 $ No. Offered 318 303 $ No. Sold 247 238 $ RNAs 71 65 $ % RNAs 22.3% 21.5% $ High Price $925,000 $640,000 $ No. Over $200k 29 21 $ Gross $23,319,400 $17,414,300 $ Average $94,411 $73,169 $ Median $40,000 $40,000

CUMULATIVE TOTALS 2021 *2020 $ Catalogued 819 824 $ No. Offered 620 640 $ No. Sold 456 434 $ RNAs 164 206 $ % RNAs 26.5% 32.2% $ High Price $925,000 $640,000 $ No. Over $200k 39 38 $ Gross $35,484,800 $30,675,600 $ Average $77,818 $70,681 $ Median $37,000 $38,500 *2020 Figures include post-sale transactions. A PICTURE IS WORTH…

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3 Won Robert Lewis-G3 & Shared Belief S. - defeating Honor A. P. with a 104 Beyer

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ATo be honest, I feel like it is fairly spotty,@ Lane=s End=s Allaire Ryan said of the market. AIt is pretty light for the average horse and the below average horses are tough to get moved. If you come up here with no expectations and no reserves, you can get them sold.@ Gainesway=s Alex Solis II agreed the top of the market remained strong. AI think it is very fair,@ Solis said of the market. AAnything that is quality is bringing a lot of money.@ The Keeneland January sale continues through Thursday with sessions beginning daily at 10 a.m.

Regal Glory Jump Starts Pompa Dispersal MGSW and >TDN Rising Star= Regal Glory (Animal Kingdom) got the dispersal of the Estate of the late Paul Pompa, Jr., off to Regal Glory & the late Paul Pompa | Sarah Andrew a quick start, summoning $925,000 from Peter Brant=s White of the dispersal to go through the ring. Birch Farm just three hips into Tuesday=s session. Hip 403 sold as AShe was one of the top-class mares in this catalogue and was a racing or broodmare prospect. consistently competitive at the top of her generation,@ said Pompa, who campaigned the likes of dual Classic winner Big Lane=s End=s Allaire Ryan. AIn this setting, one like her just stands Brown (Boundary) and Grade I winner Connect (Curlin), passed out. We were really pleased with that and the fact she is going away unexpectedly Oct. 10. In keeping with his wishes, his entire back to Chad [Brown] at the track. Hopefully, she will do more stock--which is a total of 39 horses, including broodmares, good things.@ yearlings and racehorses--is being dispersed at this sale through A daughter of MGSW Mary=s Follies (More Than Ready), Regal the Lane=s End consignment. Regal Glory was the first member TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 21 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 13, 2021

Regal Glory | Keeneland Glory currently boasts a record of 11-6-3-0 with earnings of $773,884. Trained by Chad Brown, the chestnut reeled off a trio of victories in the Penn Oaks, GIII Lake George S. and GII Lake Placid S. in 2019 and placed in two additional graded events. Kicking off 2020 with a second to her MGISW stablemate (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) in Belmont=s GIII Intercontinental S. June 6, the 5-year-old mare was fourth to that foe again in that venue=s GI Just a Game S. 21 days later and closed out the year with a win in the GIII Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf S. Sept. 12. Mary=s Follies (Hip 725) went through the ring much later in the day, bringing $500,000 from BBA Ireland. She was followed by her 2020 Connect colt (Hip 726), who sold for $185,000 to Larry Best=s Oxo Equine. AShe=s just a class mare through and through,@ Ryan said of Mary=s Follies. AThat type of quality doesn=t go unnnoticed. Despite the fact that she wasn=t pregnant, she was a mare that when people came to see her, she had the appeal. Even though she wasn=t pregnant, her produce record made her easy to like.@ Pompa privately purchased Mary=s Follies after her victory in the 2009 GIII Boiling Springs S. at Monmouth Park for trainer John Forbes. Transferred to Rick Dutrow, the bay finished second in the Lake George in her first start for Pompa and went on to win the GII Mrs. Revere S. at Churchill in 2010. The now-15-year-old mare has been a blue hen for Pompa=s operation. Her first foal, Night Prowler, carried Pompa=s silks for five seasons, winning two graded events and placing in two others. He was claimed away from Pompa in 2018 and won the Barbados Gold Cup this term. Regal Glory was her fourth foal and she was followed by Cafe Pharoah (), a $475,000 OBSMAR buy, who is a multiple graded stakes winner in . Beautiful Lover (Arch) was another big-figure sale for the A PICTURE IS WORTH…

3YO: Won Robert Lewis-G3 - defeating & Honor Shared Belief A. P. with S. a 104 Beyer

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A total of 19 of the 39 horses in the dispersal went through the ring Tuesday, selling for a gross of $3.777 million and an average of $198,789. AThings seem to be going pretty well,@ Ryan said. AAt this stage of the year, you don=t have as many end users attending or the shopping the sale in the yearling market. Some of the short yearlings I thought they were a little bit light on, but that is the nature of the dispersal. You are the mercy of who is in attendance. By the same token, yearlings that are good physicals are making everybody=s lists and there are money for the quality ones. Overall, we are pleased with how it has gone and the top lots will exceed your expectations.@ --@CDeBernardisTDN

Keeneland Sam-Son Consignment Dominates The Sam-Son Farm Broodmare Dispersal dominated the results dispersal, hammering for $650,000 to Moyglare Stud. A stakes at Keeneland Tuesday, as 21 mares sold for a gross of winner and MGSP, Hip 537 is a half-sister to GSW & GISP Zivo $6,733,000 and an average of $320,619. Gainesway Farm (True Direction). purchased the dispersal=s highest-priced offering when going to AShe was an exceptional-looking filly as well, especially for that $925,000 for Danceforthecause (Giant=s Causeway) (hip 587). sire line@ Ryan said. AShe just had the size, the scope, the depth John Sikura=s Hill >n= Dale Xalapa purchased Deceptive Vision and she is ready to go on training as well. She had the race (A.P. Indy) (hip 598) for $900,000. Danceforthecause was the record and the physical to go along with it, so everything just fell co-top priced lot Tuesday and the dispersal was responsible for into place.@ five of the session=s top 10 offerings. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 7 OF 21 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 13, 2021

pride.@ Whitford admitted the uncertainties caused by the global pandemic were a concern for the operation, but the opportunity to buy into families that have rarely been offered at auction brought out the buyers. AWe thought long and hard about how to disperse the horses,@ Whitford said. AThe family was concerned about the market. They wanted to maximize their value, but they had made the decision to get out of the business. Keeneland January has always been very good to us. It=s a very strong market and we thought we would really stand out in here. We seemed to be able to attract plenty of buyers. Keeneland felt the same way and they agreed to put on the show for us. I think the market is definitely off a little bit, but when you bring mares like these, the families that haven=t been on the open market very often, it Danceforthecause | Keeneland brings everybody out. And the fact that they can bid online and AThere were definitely mixed emotions, but pride was the virtually, makes all the difference.@ main thing for me because these mares have been nurtured by a Ernie Samuel founded Sam-Son Farm nearly five decades ago Canadian operation that competed on the world stage, or at and the Canadian operation has earned 84 Awards, least the North American stage, for many years,@ said longtime including 2019 Owner and Breeder of the Year, and four Eclipse Sam-Son manager Dave Whitford after the last Sam-Son mare Awards, as well as 37 Classic victories and 14 Grade I wins. went through the ring Tuesday night. ASo to think that they AThe family wants me to thank the Keeneland operation,@ came down here to be a big part of people=s future, and to be Whitford said. AWhen we sat down to go over this a couple of valued by those kind of dollars, speaks volumes. There is a lot of months ago, we asked for the stars and they were more than

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Sikura Has Eye for Sam-Son Mares

Deceptive Vision | Keeneland

John Sikura, who purchased Desert Isle (Bernardini) (hip 187) for $1.1 million at the Fasig-Tipton November sale last year, added two more daughters of Canadian champion Eye of the Sphynx () to his broodmare band at Hill >n= Dale at Xalapa from the dispersal of the historic Sam-Son Farm Tuesday at Keeneland. Sikura acquired Deceptive Vision (A.P. Indy) (hip 598) for $900,000 and came back a few hips later to acquire her half-sister Fun in the Desert (Distorted Humor) (hip 637) for $530,000. The 11-year-old Deceptive Vision, who sold in foal to , won the 2014 GII Canadian S. and the 2015 GIII Doubledogdare S. ADeceptive Vision was a very good race mare,@ Sikura said. AShe was in the minority of their runners who left and won here in the U.S., which is an important factor for me. She won the Doubledogdare at Keeneland, she was on the Kentucky Oaks trail. So she was a high-quality race filly. She has a [yearling] War Front filly. If the yearling can run, you have some activity in the family.@ The 10-year-old Fun in the Desert is the dam of Canadian champion 3-year-old filly Desert Ride (Candy Ride {Arg}) and sold Tuesday carrying a full-sibling to that 2019 winner. AFun in the Desert is the dam of an Oaks winner,@ Sikura said of the mare=s appeal. AAnd Distorted Humor is a world-class broodmare sire.@ Eye of the Sphynx, Canada=s champion 3-year-old filly of 2004, is the dam of champion Eye of the Leopard (A.P. Indy), as well as TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 9 OF 21 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 13, 2021

John Sikura | Keeneland

stakes winners Hotep (A.P. Indy). AI bet everything on the one pedigree,@ Sikura said. AThat=s not to take anything away from any of the others, but for me, I found that the most interesting family. The goal is to try to proliferate that pedigree, refresh it, make the success current and, over time, to have many daughters of all three of those mares enter the broodmare band and be successful both on the racetrack and in the commercial sales ring.@ Sikura grew up watching the success of the Sam-Son operation and he said the dispersal was a pivotal opportunity to get into the historic pedigrees. ADispersals are often important momentum shifts,@ Sikura said. AIf you look back at Overbrook and the [Ned] Evans dispersal and many others, there are usually one or more of those offspring who bear significant fruit to the next purchasers. That=s not to say what I bought will be the ones, but history shows that those dispersals, when you have a chance to buy those elite horses and pedigrees that have been distilled over 30 years, the best of the best, it=s a good opportunity. I take a long-term view in the business and adding multiple daughters from a very good family was something that was the goal.@ Sikura continued, AErnie Samuel and the Canadian heritage and growing up knowing how important those families were from a distance, it was an honor to have the opportunity to buy those mares. Growing up, it was something I would never have dreamed of to be able to own those kind.@ Hill >n= Dale was home to a band of Sam-Son mares and Sikura admitted it was special to watch their success over the years. AIt was like having a Hollywood friend,@ he said. ATo see them in the movies and then they call you on the telephone. So watching the success of those pedigrees, the mares and the foals that were on the farm, was rewarding.@ @JessMartiniTDN

HIS L ATEST BOOK QUALITY IS OFF THE CHARTS! MEDAGLIA D’ORO His best crop so far race this year $150,000 S&N – and an even better-bred crop is now being foaled. According to Blood-Horse MarketWatch, it’s the best-bred crop by any stallion since back in 2007. 2021

#20201 sire by yearling average

His2019 best-bred crop ever are foals

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Gainesway Strikes for Danceforthecause

Say the Word | Michael Burns

Grade I producer Danceforthecause (Giant=s Causeway) was the second mare of the day to reach $925,000 when selling to Gainesway Farm as Hip 587 from the Sam-Son Farm broodmare dispersal. MGSW Regal Glory (Animal Kingdom) (Hip 403) brought the same price at the start of the session as part of the dispersal of the Estate of Paul Pompa, Jr. The unraced Danceforthecause=s first foal was GI Turf S. winner Say the Word (More Than Ready) and her next foal was GII Canadian S. victor Rideforthecause (Candy Ride {Arg}). She did not produce foals in 2017 or 2018, but had a Distorted Humor filly in 2019 and a Street Sense filly in 2020. The 10-year-old mare is currently in foal to Twirling Candy. Hailing from a deep Sam-Son family, Danceforthecause is a full-sister to SW Grand Style. Her second dam is Horse of the Year (Danzig), who is the dam of Canadian champion and Grade I winner Dancethruthedawn (Mr.

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Prospector) and GSW Dance With Ravens (A.P. Indy). ARight off the bat, her produce has been phenomenal,@ said Gainesway=s Alex Solis, II. AThe first foal is a Grade I winner, the second foal is a Grade II winner. It is the family of Smart Strike and, of course, her second dam is Dance Smartly.@ As for the price, Solis said, ABeing 10-years-old and the dam of a Grade I winner, you know you are going to have to be in this range or even more.@ --@CDeBernardisTDN

Schoenthal Continues Determined Buying Matt Dorman continued to build his burgeoning elite broodmare band during the Keeneland January sale, with trainer Phil Schoenthal purchasing five mares on behalf of Dorman=s Maryland-based Determined Stud. Leading the way was Southern Ring (Speightstown) (hip 452), a 9-year-old mare from Southern Ring | Keeneland the Sam-Son Farm dispersal purchased for $875,000. The she kind of checked all of the boxes for what Matt is trying to multiple graded stakes winner, a daughter of Seeking the Ring do.@ (Seeking the Gold) and granddaughter of Radiant Ring (), Of the mare=s final price tag, Schoenthal added, AWe had to sold Tuesday in foal to Into Mischief. stretch beyond the budget of what we had thought we would AMatt has been wanting to buy a variety of top sires and a lot have to spend, but obviously that=s what you have to do when of the Speightstown mares are average size at best. [Southern you are looking for these kind of horses. The opportunity to buy Ring] was a really big, strong Speightstown mare,@ Schoenthal into some of these Sam-Son families obviously is a unique said. AThey really like the two foals she has on the ground. She is opportunity especially for someone who is trying to start off a in foal to Into Mischief and she was a graded runner herself, so

TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 12 OF 21 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 13, 2021 broodmare band. So it all worked to his advantage today.@ Schoenthal took advantage of the January=s sales other marquee dispersal a few hips later when going to $320,000 to acquire Sustained (War Front) (hip 463) from the Estate of the late Paul Pompa, Jr. The 11-year-old mare, dam of graded winner Turned Aside (American Pharoah), is in foal to Connect. AThere were probably more higher-quality mares in the sale than there would have been in years past. So it provides opportunity that way,@ Schoenthal said of the dispersals. Also Tuesday, Determined Stud purchased Fluffhead (Animal Kingdom) (hip 631) for $165,000; Forecast (Malibu Moon) (hip 632) for $190,000; and Off Topic (Street Sense) (hip 762) for $570,000. Dorman founded Credible Behavioral Health, a provider of electronic records for mental health, and sold the company over the summer. He purchased a farm in his native Maryland and has been steadily building his broodmare band since the November breeding stock sales. He purchased four mares--led by the $1.1-million Desert Isle (Bernardini)--at the Fasig-Tipton November sale, and a further 14--led by the $800,000 Style and Grace (Curlin)--at Keeneland November. AI think he is taking the approach that opportunities to upgrade are what he wants,@ Schoenthal said. AI believe he will keep his broodmare band at a tidy number in that 15-20 range. That might mean we will take a couple next year and put them back through the sale and just turn them over, always trying to add to the top and take from the bottom.@ @JessMartiniTDN

City of Light Foals Prove Popular

Hip 660 | Keeneland Foals from the first crop of City of Light were very popular during the November sales and continued to be in demand as short yearlings in the January sale. A filly by the Lane=s End stallion was the day=s highest-priced yearling, summoning TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 13 OF 21 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 13, 2021

$400,000 from Larry Best=s OXO Equine (Hip 660). AShe was a star physical,@ said Lane=s End=s Allaire Ryan, who consigned the filly. AShe showed herself with a lot of class every time she came out. She was shown over 200 times over 2 1/2 days, which is pretty remarkable. For a young horse to have that kind of constitution is pretty cool. She has a good family as well, so she has appeal from a residual standpoint. Bred by Baumann Stables, Aaron Sones and Eric Crawford, Hip 660 is out of the Bernardini mare I=ll Show Me, who is a half- sister to champion Proud Spell (Proud Citizen), dam of SW Indian Spell (Indian Charlie). A total of seven of City of Light=s offspring have gone through the ring thus far at Keeneland for a total of $1.233 million and an average of $174,714. AWe have been super happy with the City of Lights,@ Ryan said. Beautiful Lover | Sarah Andrew AHe has been a very consistent stallions with what he throws. When the physicals are as good as they are by him, the breeders $650,000 and selling the day=s top-priced short yearling colt (hip are fortunate when they bring them to the market.@ 418), a son of Speightstown, for $270,000. --@CDeBernardisTDN Part of the dispersal of the Estate of Paul Pompa, Jr., the 5- year-old Beautiful Lover won the 2019 Boiling Springs S. and was Moyglare Buys and Sells second in the GII Hillsborough S. and GIII WinStar Matchmaker S. in 2020 for trainer Chad Brown. The half-sister to graded Eva Maria Bucher-Haefner=s Moyglare Stud was active on both winner Zivo (True Direction) will remain in training. sides of the sheets Tuesday at Keeneland, buying the AShe=ll go down to Payson Park tomorrow morning and go to racing/broodmare prospect Beautiful Lover (Arch) (hip 537) for TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 14 OF 21 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 13, 2021

[trainer] Christophe Clement,@ said Moyglare=s Fiona Craig. December. If we can keep selling well and reinvesting, that AHopefully, she=ll run later this year.@ makes a bit of sense. At least Eva thinks it makes a bit of sense Moyglare Stud has had success buying racing/broodmare and I agree with her.@ prospects and continuing their racing careers before adding Craig admitted travel restrictions had made the trip to them to the broodmare band. The operation purchased Keeneland an adventure, but she called the trip a success. Celestine (Scat Daddy) for $2.55 million at the 2016 Keeneland AWe sold well and we bought well,@ she said. AIt was a bit of November sale and the filly went on to add another graded race jumping through hoops to get into America at the moment, but to her resume the following season. Discreet Marq (Discreet Eva was able to come, so that was great. She came and I came Cat), a $2.4-million purchase at the 2014 Fasig-Tipton November and we had a great few days here.@@JessMartiniTDN sale, added a pair of Grade I placings and a Grade III victory in the Moyglare colors. Craig is hopeful Beautiful Lover fits the mold. AHer form is good and she vetted very well,@ Craig said. AShe has loads of size and scope and she is by Arch from a solid American family full of winners. It=s a hard-knocking pedigree. She looks like she has a bit of racing left in her. We will see. If she hasn=t, then we will breed her.@ Of the filly=s final price tag, Craig added, AWe would have liked to buy her for a little bit less, but there was a lot of interest in her because she was a big, pretty mare. , when you go in after those, even though the market may not seem KEENELAND JANUARY SALE that strong, there are always plenty of people for good horses. TUESDAY’S TOP MARES And she was very good-looking.@ HIP NAME STATUS PRICE ($) Hip 418, consigned by Padraig Campion=s Blandford Stud and 403 Regal Glory racing/b=mare prospect 925,000 purchased by E.B.S., is out of Sansibar Jewel (Street Cry {Ire}), a (5, Animal Kingdom--Mary=s Follies, by More Than Ready) daughter of group winner Irresistible Jewel (Ire) (Danehill) and a Consignor: Lane=s End, Agent for the Complete full-sister to group winner Princess Highway. After opening her Dispersal of the Estate of Paul Pompa, Jr. career in Ireland, Sansibar Jewel was sent stateside and made Purchaser: White Birch Farm three starts without success in New York for Clement. 587 Danceforthecause i/f Twirling Candy 925,000 AWe brought the mare over from Ireland,@ Craig said. AShe (10, Giant=s CausewayBDancethruthestorm, by Thunder Gulch) didn=t do much at the races, but we put her in foal to Consignor: Sam-Son Farm (Broodmare Dispersal) Speightstown--she is a big rangy mare--and we got a lovely foal. Purchaser: Gainesway Farm If he had been a filly, we would have kept her, but because he 598 Deceptive Vision i/f War Front 900,000 was a colt, he went to the sale. And he sold very well.@ (10, A.P. Indy--Eye of the Sphynx, by Smart Strike) Moyglare currently has seven broodmares based in the U.S. Consignor: Sam-Son Farm (Broodmare Dispersal) with a basic plan to sell colts and keep fillies. Purchaser: Hill >n= Dale at Xalapa AWe are trying to do that in Europe as well, but the sales 452 Southern Ring i/f Into Mischief 875,000 schedule has been a little upended by COVID,@ Craig said. AI (9, Speightstown--Seeking the Ring, by Seeking the Gold) think everything we have planned for this year has been put on Consignor: Sam-Son Farm (Broodmare Dispersal) hold and we=ll just have to think about it again next year. We Purchaser: Phil Schoenthal, Agent for Determined Stud have too many horses at the moment--so we sold three and got 537 Beautiful Lover racing/b=mare prospect 650,000 one. If we can keep doing that, then it works well. We sold a (5, Arch--American Skipper, by Quiet American) nice mare in November and we sold a nice mare at Tattersalls in Consignor: Lane=s End, Agent for the Complete TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 15 OF 21 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 13, 2021

Dispersal of the Estate of Paul Pompa, Jr. Purchaser: Moyglare Stud Farm Ltd.

TUESDAY’S TOP SHORT YEARLINGS HIP SEX SIRE | DAM PRICE ($) 660 filly City of Light--I=ll Show Me 400,000 Breeder: Baumann Stables, Aaron Sones & Eric Crawford (Ky) = Consignor: Lane s End, Agent KEENELAND JANUARY -- TUESDAY Purchaser: Oxo Equine LLC SHORT YEARLINGS B 418 colt Speightstown Sansibar Jewel 270,000 HIP SEX SIRE DAM PRICE ($) Breeder: Moyglare Stud Farm (Ky) 488 filly Not This Time Unusual Strike 125,000 Consignor: Blandford Stud (Padriag Campion), Agent B-Paul Pruett & Lindsay Syler (La) Purchaser: E. B. S. Consigned by Eaton Sales, agent 649 colt Uncle Mo--Heat Street 235,000 Purchased by Pat Neary Breeder: Aaron Sones (Ky) Pat Pruett purchased Unusual Strike, in foal to Star Guitar, for Consignor: Paramount Sales, Agent IV $15,000 at the 2018 Keeneland November sale. That in utero Purchaser: Jeff Amorello colt sold for $50,000 at last year=s Equine Sales Louisiana 686 filly Speightstown--Kinsey 230,000 Yearling Sale. The 16-year-old mare was bred to El Deal in 2020. Breeder: Royal Oak Farm & WinStar Farm (Ky) Consignor: Royal Oak Farm (Damian & 627 colt Violence Fay Na Na 135,000 Braxton Lynch), Agent B-Greathouse Equine & Glencrest Farm (Ky) Purchaser: Patrice Miller, EQB Inc., Agent Consigned by Four Star Sales, agent 580 colt City of Light--Create a Dream 200,000 Purchased by Sallusto & Albina, Breeder: St. Elias Stables (Fr) agents for Rock Brothers Breeding = Consignor: Lane s End, Agent Fay Na Na, originally purchased by the late David Greathouse Purchaser: West Bloodstock and his son Deuce for $90,000 at the 2012 Keeneland September sale, never raced and sold for $1,200 at the 2014 = The following yearling was accidentally omitted from Monday s Keeneland November sale. The mare returned to the family toppers. We regret the error: when John Greathouse purchased her privately. Her Unified colt sold for $450,000 at last year=s Keeneland September sale. 275 colt Maclean=s MusicBHeavenly Tap 200,000 Breeder: James D. Spry (Ky) 706 colt Twirling Candy Lonestar Angel 200,000 > = Consignor: Hill n Dale Sales Agency, Agent for the B-Blue Star Racing & 4M Ranch (La) Dispersal of Spray Family Farm Consigned by 4M Ranch, Agent IV Purchaser: Sand Hill Stables Purchased by Wallace Ave Bloodstock In a celestial match made in heaven, Dex Comardelle=s Blue Star Racing purchased Lonestar Angel, with this foal in utero, for Follow the TDN staff on Twitter $30,000 at the 2019 Keeneland November sale. Lonestar Angel Thoroughbred Daily News was bred to Breaking Lucky, who previously stood at Comardell=s Scott, Louisiana farm, in 2020. @kelseynrileyTDN @BDiDonatoTDN @SteveSherackTDN

@JessMartiniTDN @CDeBernardisTDN @suefinley 696 colt Malibu Moon Leaveminthedust 100,000 @EquinealTDN @HLAndersonTDN @garykingTDN B-Dr Jerry Bilinski (NY) @MKane49 @thorntontd @JBiancaTDN Consigned by Stuart Morris, agent Purchased by Wallace Ave Bloodstock @SarahKAndrew @CBossTDN Jerry Bilinski purchased Leaveminthedust, with this foal in utero, for $55,000 from the Estate of William Graham at the 2019 Keeneland November sale. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 16 OF 21 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 13, 2021

Kentucky Sires cont. from p1 ludicrously overvalued. Certainly it's not hard to identify the winners and losers from these opening skirmishes. When their first crop came under the hammer, in 2019, Runhappy was second in the yearling averages and Not This Time 10th. This time round, their places were precisely transposed. Obviously they experienced contrasting fortunes with their first runners. But we should remember that the yearling sales remain very unfocused. A lot of people crave social media buzz for sprint winners at Keeneland in April, and that may be useful at Fasig-Tipton in July. But the freshmen's championship continues to develop through the year. With so much juvenile prize money loaded into later races, often round a second turn, it ends up being a pretty valid signpost. In the preceding intake, for instance, American Pharoah and Constitution finished first and second as freshmen, and again Nyquist | Darley with their second crop. On the other hand, their class also This lot, in contrast, will have a fourth crop of juveniles on the included Daredevil, who has made his famous leap from 17th to track by the time yearlings conceived this spring come under the fourth. So there will be bargains to be found, above all in a year hammer. As we remarked in the last installment of the series, when cuts are being made across the roster. you'd like to think that would sooner be considered an Because even a yearling by champion freshman NYQUIST advantage. But we've pondered this whole situation often (Uncle Mo--Seeking Gabrielle by Forestry) was worth less in enough, and will spare you another sermon. For present 2020 than its predecessor in 2019, his average slipping from purposes, we must simply note how candidly the commercial $236,318 to $165,773 (still top of the class). Okay, so his market admits its fickleness. All you have to do is measure the principal earner Vequist didn't bank her GI Breeders' Cup losses registered by nearly all stallions between their first and Juvenile Fillies earnings until after the yearling sales, but that second crop of yearlings--very often, even when their first does just show how weirdly the business functions. runners have excelled. Nyquist himself, of course, sealed Uncle Mo's freshman laurels Sometimes a stallion isn't permitted even a fleeting chance to by emulating his championship success at the same meeting. At show what his stock might do on the track. In this intake that stage--having received the customary, consecutive fee cuts California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) found so little sales traction as his first crop neared the track--Uncle Mo was promptly able with his first crop that he was exported before he had a single runner. The way he promptly collapsed in the yearling averages, from fifth with his first crop to 21st this time round, shows how artificially we glaze narrow a window for the making of a stallion's reputation. A lot of the time, clearly, everything depends on enough people feeling invested in propping up an unproven brand. (Nor is it just the stallion farms themselves. We in the media are as guilty as anyone, always lavishing the oxygen of publicity on "exciting" new sires). In this particular cycle, the decline in the value of a second crop has been steepened by the intervention of a pandemic. But we shouldn't flatter ourselves that things are usually much different. Even in so jittery a marketplace, it's nuts that Not This Time should be unique in Kentucky, in this group, in having advanced the value of his second crop. There are only two explanations for this. One is that every single other stallion must be pronounced Nyquist winning the Kentucky Derby | Coady an overnight failure. The other is that first-crop yearlings are TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 17 OF 21 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 13, 2021 to triple his fee to $75,000. Now, with three sons in the top four of the freshman's table, he looks a bona fide elite stallion at $175,000. How far will Nyquist follow in his sire's path? Well, Darley has duly hiked him to $75,000 for 2021, albeit having in his case hitherto maintained his opening fee of $40,000. He stands on a very different farm from his sire, and there was a corresponding difference in his initial footprint. Uncle Mo had no fewer than 73 juvenile starters in his debut crop, of which 28 won. With 17 winners from 45 starters, Nyquist's ratio was virtually identical. But what has set Uncle Mo apart is his ability to maintain percentages, in quality, along with all his quantity. He had seven black-type winners that first campaign, compared with two for Nyquist in 2020. Nonetheless Nyquist made sure of a bull's-eye with both that managed to hit the stakes board, so matching his Not This Time | Jon Siegel sire by immediately coming up with two elite winners. The other is Gretzky The Great, who won a Canadian Grade I on turf. Mo-nopoly at the top of the freshmen's table, third by prize Now his sophomores must consolidate. On the track, Nyquist money, but clear top by winners with no fewer than 28 from did so in the ultimate fashion by winning the GI Kentucky just 54 starters. Matching Uncle Mo's tally, in fact, which we just Derby--in contrast to his sire, who left his stamina unproven in a noted required 73 starters. fitful campaign at three--albeit subsequently losing his way. The As already remarked, Not This Time bucked the trend by graded stakes quality around his second dam is largely in improving the value of his stock between first and second crops: juvenile racing, but Nyquist is out a half-sister to the mother of a 47 yearlings sold, from 59 into the ring, achieved an average of very durable type in GI Met Mile winner Sahara Sky (Pleasant $113,822--exceeded only by Nyquist, and up from $67,352 for Tap); and three other siblings managed 203 starts between his 63 sales of 90 offered in his first crop. them! His flagbearer was the charismatic Princess Noor, the $1.35 The shape of Nyquist's family will appeal to anyone inclined to million OBS April stunner sadly retired with a soft-tissue injury keep a filly, too. His first two dams are by noted broodmare sires after a thrilling opening streak on the West Coast: a >TDN Rising in Forestry and Seeking The Gold, whose pedigrees are knotted Star=-worthy maiden, the GI Del Mar Debutante and GII together by a name to conjure with in Sequence. She is Chandelier. Forestry's fourth dam, as well as the granddam of Seeking The Not This Time himself was also unable to draw as a sophomore Gold's sire Mr. Prospector. on the Classic influences pervading his pedigree, derailed after Nyquist is not going to lose momentum, with a fourth book in closing to a neck of champion Classic Empire (Pioneerof The the 150s behind him, but nor can he afford to do so at his new Nile) in the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile S. But you know that a fee. It'll be interesting to see how he goes at the 2-year-old horse with a page and physique like this could only have sales, too, as he was rather a disappointment last time round. maintained his progress on the Triple Crown trail. Indeed, he Darley is trumpeting comparisons not just to Uncle Mo, but to must be as precocious a juvenile as served his great sire. Danzig and Tapit, who likewise immediately found two Grade I A brief lull in traffic should be lucrative for those who kept the winners, including at the Breeders' Cup. But let's not get carried faith: 159 mares took advantage of last year's reduction, away. From only 13 starters in 1984, Danzig had 11 winners, following opening books of 145, 129 and 87. (Don't tell me there nine stakes horses and three Grade I winners, including the are people out there actually reading this stuff!) The new fee champion juvenile colt. Two of them made in the podium in the puts Not This Time under a different kind of pressure, but there Derby the following May, as well, so let's just see how we go can't be a young stallion out there so eligible to rise to the from here! challenge: his Breeders' Cup-placed dam has also, of course, Fee hikes naturally make the value "podium" less accessible given us Liam=s Map (Unbridled's Song); while her mother, in and it feels difficult to keep NOT THIS TIME (Giant's Causeway-- turn, owed both sire and grand-dam to Dr Fager's champion Miss Macy Sue by Trippi) up there after his spectacular half-sister Ta Wee. vindication of "gold" at $12,500 a year ago. Taylor Made has Bottom line is that it may feel tough to pay three times last hoisted him to $40,000 for 2021 after he broke the Uncle year's fee, but at least we know that Not This Time produces TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 18 OF 21 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 13, 2021

Laoban | Sarah Andrew Outwork | Sarah Andrew runners. If you pay as much or more for any of the stallions The third son of Uncle Mo to assist his habit of making a flying previously appraised in this series, your priority can only be the start-as runner, sire and now sire of sires--was already at sales ring rather than the racetrack. And Not This Time now has WinStar. Indeed, OUTWORK (Uncle Mo--Nonna Mia by Empire both of those bases covered. Maker) had carried his sire's standard as the first winner of his The shock runner-up in the freshmen's championship, dividing first crop, over 4.5 furlongs at Keeneland in April. That proved to Nyquist and Not This Time, was LAOBAN (Uncle Mo-- be Outwork's only juvenile start and he disappeared for good Chattertown by Speightstown), who has been drafted onto the after the Derby, but only after stretching out to win the GI WinStar roster at $25,000 after starting his career in New York Wood Memorial. at $7,500. That looked a porous race for the level and a better guide to His 13 winners from 36 starters included five black-type his merit is the way he had made Destin (Giant's Causeway) horses, notably fairytale GI Alcibiades winner Simply Ravishing work for the GII Tampa Bay Derby. But his eligibility for stud was and GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. winner Keepmeinmind, wh underpinned by his dam, a Grade I-placed three-parts sister to a placed at the Breeders' Cup as a maiden. That was straight out flourishing young stallion in Cairo Prince (Pioneerof The Nile). of his sire's playbook. Laoban's only win, after repeatedly picking Sure enough, Outwork has started very well with 19 winners up scraps in other good races, was when appearing to steal the from 48 starters including two at stakes level. (One of these, GII Jim Dandy on the lead at 27-1. Outadore, then ran third in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf). As such, nobody could sensibly propose that Laoban hinted at As such, he is a good example of the nonsensical behavior of elite caliber on the track and for now it all feels a little baffling. purchasers. His first crop of yearlings averaged $84,234 (for 66 But his second dam was a very productive juvenile in sold of a bumper 88 offering). While managing fourth in the Florida-bred sprints, while her sister produced hard-knocking freshmen's table, however, he saw his second crop halved in Grade I winner I'm A Chatterbox (Munnings). And Laoban has value for a yield of $39,987, albeit for a good ratio of 41 sales already had an 11-length debut winner at Aqueduct (NY-breds) from 50. since the turn of the year, so maybe he's a genuine freak. He's While again making allowances for its depressed condition this been priced strictly for believers, but he's the only New York year, that's a fairly dismal commentary on the infidelity of the stallion to sire a Grade I winner at the first attempt and commercial market. Auspiciously, however, the word was out partnership support at his new base will no doubt send his sufficiently last winter for his book to soar back to 160, having numbers rocketing. opened with 168, 137 and 102, so it looks as though his true In the meantime he has a solid enough base in the Empire reward can be a sustainable stud career. He duly holds his fee at State, having followed a debut book of 122 with 91, 72 and 67 $15,000. mares. If he keeps going, those should yield some good paydays. Darley hosted both the most expensive stallions in this intake. His first crop had sold respectably (27 of 43 at $30,537) while no But whereas Nyquist has been hiked from $40,000 to $75,000, fewer than 20 of 21 yearlings were processed this time round, FROSTED (Tapit--Fast Cookie by ) has taken with the news out, at $35,656. consecutive cuts from $50,000, to $40,000 last year and now to TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 19 OF 21 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 13, 2021

Frosted | Darley Runhappy | Sarah Andrew

$25,000. tale, to this point. He made a sensational sales debut, finding a Doubtless that partly reflects the deep freeze in the wider new home for as many as 59 of the 68 yearlings into the ring economy, which in turn contributed to a relatively trying time at from his first crop at a fantastic yield of $227,000. He also had a the sales for Frosted's second crop. His first yearlings had $475,000 2-year-old in a tricky market at OBS March. But then certainly worked that big opening fee very efficiently, 67 sales things went uncomfortably quiet. (of 94 offered) realizing $223,365, but this time round--between He did eventually muster nine juvenile winners from 40 the pandemic and the infantile attention span of the market--he starters, albeit without a single stakes placing. The vendors of 66 sank to $67,371 for 52 sales (74 into the ring). members of Runhappy's second crop, who must have been In the meantime, however, his 2-year-olds had actually sold at congratulating themselves on their foresight last winter, were a parallel rate and in a far higher ratio than those of his duly dismayed to sell 45 at just $35,760. flourishing studmate Nyquist. And that endorsement of his Hardly what was bargained for, given that Runhappy's forte stock's athleticism was followed by a perfectly respectable start was pure speed--as measured by a stakes record in the GI King's on the track, fifth in the prize money table with 16 scorers from Bishop and a track record in the GI Breeders' Cup Sprint. 58 starters headed by GII Golden Rod winner and >TDN Rising Admittedly there is limited depth to his family, but maybe Star= Travel Column. It was as a 4-year-old, after all, that Frosted patience will be rewarded. Though Runhappy was an posted his signature 123 Beyer explosion in the GI Met Mile-- eight-length debut winner at two, that wasn't until Dec. 28. We albeit he had come to hand early enough to win the Wood should also remember how freakish his speed appeared, in the Memorial on his way to a supporting role in two legs of the son of a Derby winner who was himself out of an A.P. Indy mare, Triple Crown won by American Pharoah (Pioneerof The Nile), so perhaps Runhappy's stock will only really begin to smile as while arguably often stretching beyond his optimal distance. sophomores. Expect his first sophomores to give Frosted new momentum. Certainly breeders have been given every incentive to keep Already since the turn of the year he has had a third graded the faith, at the new fee. And we wish the horse well, in stakes player, and he has that solid genetic bedrock too: his dam principle, because his brilliant sales debut surely owed is a Grade II-winning half-sister by broodmare sire icon Deputy something to the restraint governing his opening books (all four Minister to the same farm's under-rated sire Midshipman in the 120s) and so reminded everyone that there's nothing (Unbridled's Song). There will be no breaks in the action, as he remotely "commercial" about the industrial numbers thrown at received 157 guests last spring after opening books of 156, 152 new sires elsewhere. and 144. The bottom line is that Frosted is no less eligible to The concluding part of this instalment in our series will appear excel now than when he started, but you can get to him at half in Tuesday=s edition, featuring the likes of, among others, the fee. Upstart, Speightster, Air Force Blue, Exaggerator, Tourist, The most conspicuous hit in this intake has been taken by Flintshire and Brody=s Cause, along with our "value podium." RUNHAPPY (Super Saver--Bella Jolie by Broken Vow), down to $10,000 from $25,000 at Claiborne. His has been a bewildering TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 20 OF 21 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 13, 2021

OwnerView. AEach month=s conference will cover a topic that is relevant to Thoroughbred ownership and, when possible, coincides with what is happening in the Thoroughbred industry at that time of year.@ The first panel of the series, sponsored by Keeneland, will RALPH BISZANTZ PASSES AWAY AT 78 cover the economics of racehorse ownership. Panelists are by Bill Finley George Bolton, owner; Maggi Moss, owner; Sarah Reeves, Retired trainer Ralph Biszantz passed away Tuesday in Ocala, attorney and member, Stoll Keenon Ogden; and Jen Shah, tax Florida after a brief battle with melanoma. Biszantz was 78. director, Dean Dorton. The panel will be moderated by Mike His death was confirmed by his brother, owner and breeder Penna of Radio Network. Gary Biszantz. There is no registration fee for the live or recorded virtual "He was living in Ocala and he had a couple of ex-race horses conference series, but registration is required. For more that he took care of," Gary Biszantz said. information about the owner conference series, including the "The cancer came on him pretty quickly. It only took about schedule of panels and registration, visit three months and the melanoma spread through his lungs. It ownerview.com/event/conference or contact Gary Falter at was a sad way to go, but he wasn't in a lot of pain. It was a quiet [email protected]. ending." According to Equibase records, Biszantz started his training career in 1978 and competed in both Northern and Southern California and in Florida. His last starters came at Tampa Bay DERBY MUSEUM GIVES AWAY VIRTUAL TOURS Downs in 2012. The Kentucky Derby Museum will be awarding 40 teachers and "He retired when he did because he got discouraged because their classrooms free virtual field trips. In a typical year, the he could never get the kind of horses that he wanted," Biszantz museum hosts field trips for over 15,000 students, but the said. "He never got that quality horse. He trained a little bit for pandemic has forced the cancellation of in-person tours. To me and we had a good run together. He was good at what he enter the contest, teachers need to fill out the online form. did." Kentucky Derby Museum will choose at random, 20 local Biszantz said his brother made many a friend at the racetrack. teachers from Kentucky and southern Indiana area, and 20 "He had a lot of friends and a lot of guys knew him," Biszantz teachers from across the country. said. "He was around a long time. He got his license that same The giveaway has been made possible through donations to day that Richard Mandella got his license. They walked out of the city-wide Give for Good Louisville campaign this past fall the office at Santa Anita on the same day with their trainer's which benefitted a number of local non-profit organizations. licenses. The guys all know him. Any trainer in America who has been around will say, 'Oh, I knew Ralph Biszantz.' He was a character. He loved the game. He loved the sport. It was his whole life." " " "

TOC SERIES GOES VIRTUAL IN 2021 The 2021 Thoroughbred Owners Conference will be held as a series of free virtual panels, OwnerView announced Tuesday. Hosted by The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association and presented by Bessemer Trust, Dean Dorton, and Stoll Keenon Ogden, the conference series will be held the first Tuesday of each month starting Mar. 2. AThis new format for 2021 enables us to offer informative, educational and enjoyable panels on Thoroughbred ownership to anyone interested from the convenience of wherever they happen to be,@ said Gary Falter, project manager for TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 21 OF 21 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 13, 2021

QUEEN=S PLATE SCHEDULED FOR AUG. 22

Woodbine | Michael Burns

The 162nd running of the $1-million Queen=s Plate, the first jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown, will be held Sunday, Aug. 22 at Woodbine, Woodbine Entertainment announced Tuesday. Contested annually to showcase Canada=s finest 3-year-old , the Queen=s Plate is one of the country=s premier sporting events and North America=s oldest continuously run stakes horse race. Held at the end of June in past years, the Queen's Plate was moved to late summer in 2020 and run Sept. 12 without spectators due to the COVID-19 pandemic. One-eyed champion (Dramedy) scored a dominant victory in the race, which produced the third highest wagering handle in its history. "While it is clear the impact of COVID-19 will continue to be felt into the new year, we are optimistic that this timing for the Queen's Plate could give us the best opportunity to welcome guests back at Woodbine Racetrack for the most exciting event on the Canadian horse racing calendar," said Jim Lawson, President and CEO of Woodbine Entertainment. "We look forward to the 2021 racing season and the opportunity to restore the Queen's Plate as one of the top social events in ." Details regarding attendance and ticket sales will be announced in the coming months, along with Woodbine's full schedule for the 2021 meet, which is expected to begin Saturday, Apr. 17.

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Leading Active Sire List for stallions standing in North America through Monday, January 11, 2021 Earnings represent worldwide figures, stud fees listed are 2020 fees. Rank Stallion BTW BTH GSW GSH G1SW G1SH Starters Wnrs Highest Earner Earnings 1 Tapit 138 268 86 167 27 56 1174 873 4,791,677 163,112,962 (2001) by Pulpit FYR: 2006 Crops: 14 Stands: Gainesway Farm KY Fee: $185,000 Testa Matta 2 Distorted Humor 153 270 65 123 17 36 1337 1012 3,728,170 140,408,368 (1993) by Forty Niner FYR: 2000 Crops: 20 Stands: WinStar Farm KY Fee: Private Drosselmeyer 3 Malibu Moon 124 233 49 106 17 37 1529 1107 2,612,516 129,528,578 (1997) by A.P. Indy FYR: 2001 Crops: 19 Stands: Spendthrift Farm KY Fee: $35,000 Orb 4 Medaglia d'Oro 121 201 60 117 22 46 1105 713 6,606,224 126,780,462 (1999) by El Prado (Ire) FYR: 2006 Crops: 14 Stands: Darley KY Fee: $150,000 Golden Sixty (AUS) 5 More Than Ready 122 235 46 99 11 29 1495 1084 3,139,765 125,324,286 (1997) by Southern Halo FYR: 2002 Crops: 18 Stands: WinStar Farm KY Fee: $65,000 Roy H 6 Tale of the Cat 81 184 29 66 7 21 1539 1157 6,169,800 119,804,078 (1994) by Storm Cat FYR: 2000 Crops: 20 Stands: Ashford Stud KY Fee: $12,500 7 Speightstown 118 188 57 100 19 41 974 747 3,225,656 117,311,117 (1998) by FYR: 2006 Crops: 14 Stands: WinStar Farm KY Fee: $90,000 Mozu Superflare 8 Candy Ride (Arg) 91 152 46 85 16 35 1060 755 15,988,500 115,230,239 (1999) by Ride the Rails FYR: 2006 Crops: 14 Stands: Lane's End Farm KY Fee: $75,000 Gun Runner 9 Kitten's Joy 102 184 49 96 14 33 1234 878 4,777,480 114,575,759 (2001) by El Prado (Ire) FYR: 2007 Crops: 13 Stands: Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa KY Fee: $60,000 Hawkbill 10 Stormy Atlantic 103 175 42 71 7 20 1279 929 2,212,580 97,205,643 (1994) by Storm Cat FYR: 2000 Crops: 20 Stands: Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa KY Fee: $10,000 Stormy Liberal 11 Curlin 72 134 35 84 11 26 695 505 4,803,125 89,536,144 (2004) by Smart Strike FYR: 2010 Crops: 10 Stands: Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa KY Fee: $175k Vino Rosso 12 Ghostzapper 79 130 42 70 12 23 772 573 3,859,311 85,471,416 (2000) by FYR: 2007 Crops: 13 Stands: Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa KY Fee: $85,000 13 Into Mischief 84 158 35 76 8 22 775 557 7,201,200 85,004,136 (2005) by Harlan's Holiday FYR: 2010 Crops: 10 Stands: Spendthrift Farm KY Fee: $225,000 Authentic 14 Hard Spun 61 128 30 65 10 16 897 611 1,994,460 83,187,336 (2004) by Danzig FYR: 2009 Crops: 11 Stands: Darley KY Fee: $35,000 Wicked Strong 15 Broken Vow 77 153 26 50 5 13 1062 824 1,909,823 77,318,822 (1997) by Unbridled FYR: 2003 Crops: 17 Stands: Pin Oak Stud KY Fee: $20,000 Unbridled Belle

FOR ALL TDN SIRE LISTSBINCLUDING INDIVIDUAL CROP-YEAR REPORTS--VISIT WWW.THETDN.COM/TDN-SIRE-STATS/ Saturday, Fair Grounds, post time: 6:49 p.m. EST LECOMTE S.-GIII, $200,000, 3yo, 1 1/16m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 Midnight Bourbon K Tiznow Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC Asmussen Santana, Jr. 122 2 Arabian Prince K Mshawish West Point Thoroughbreds and Sandbrook, William Stewart Hernandez, Jr. 122 3 Beep Beep Tapizar Marylou Whitney Stables Casse Talamo 122 4 Proxy Tapit , LLC Stidham Murrill 122 5 Regular Guy Bernardini Coffeepot Stables Catalano Mena 122 6 Game Day Play Violence Tom R. Durant Calhoun Saez 122 7 Santa Cruiser Dialed In Calumet Farm Desormeaux Graham 122 8 Red N Wild K Bayern Terry Eoff Eoff Carroll 122 9 Manor House Upstart Newtown Anner Stud Farm Stidham Beschizza 122 10 Into Mischief Juddmonte Farms, Inc. Cox Geroux 122 11 Dyn O Mite Goldencents Brad Allshouse Desormeaux Hernandez 122

Breeders: 1-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC, 2-M. Taylor, J. Taylor, BGT LLC,G. E. Saufley & Louis Brooks Ranch LP, 3-Marylou Whitney Stables LLC, 4-Godolphin, 5-Coffee Pot Stable, 6-Tom Durant, 7-Calumet Farm, 8-Lunsford & Sikura Racing, LLC, 9-David Berman, 10-Juddmonte Farms Inc, 11-Thoroughbred Acadiana

Saturday, Fair Grounds, post time: 5:23 p.m. EST LOUISIANA S.-GIII, $125,000, 4yo/up, 1 1/16m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 Grand Luwegee El Corredor Gerard Perron Perron Hernandez 122 2 Captivating Moon Malibu Moon Lothenbach Stables, Inc. Block Bridgmohan 118 3 Silver Prospector K Declaration of War Orr, Ed and Orr, Susie Asmussen Santana, Jr. 124 4 Blackberry Wine Oxbow Calumet Farm Sharp Beschizza 118 5 Indimaaj K Tapit Lea Farms, LLC Engler Talamo 118 6 Title Ready More Than Ready Charles E. Fipke Stewart Hernandez, Jr. 118 7 My Boy Jack K Creative Cause Don't Tell My Wife Stables, Monomoy Stables, LLC and West Point Thoroughbreds Desormeaux Saez 118 8 Wells Bayou K Lookin At Lucky Gasaway, Clint, Gasaway, Lance, Madaket Stables and Wonder Stables Cox Geroux 124 9 Sonneman K Curlin Courtlandt Farms Asmussen Graham 118

Breeders: 1-Gerard Perron, 2-Lothenbach Stables Inc, 3-Hargus Sexton, Sandra Sexton &Silver Fern Farm, LLC, 4-Calumet Farm, 5-Shadwell Farm, LLC, 6-Charles Fipke, 7-Brereton C. Jones, 8-Knowles Bloodstock, Inc., 9-Arnold Zetcher LLC 2--Inawic, 117, f, 3, Wicked Strong--Inaword, by Successful Appeal. O/B-Gulf Haven Farms (LA); T-Ronnie P. Ward. $15,000. 3--Tecate Time, 117, f, 3, (Jpn)--Urge to Splurge, by Successful Appeal. O-Whispering Oaks Farm LLC; B-Carrol J. Castille (LA); T-Steven B. Flint. $7,500. IN ORDER OF PURSE: Margins: 6, 3 1/4, 13 1/4. Odds: 0.40, 41.50, 12.50. LOUISIANA JEWEL S., $75,000, Delta Downs, 1-12, (S), 3yo, f, Also Ran: Streamer, Non Binding, Taylor Avenue. 7 1/2f, 1:34.35, ft. Australasia ran away to a dominant, 8 1/4-length victory on 1--AUSTRALASIA, 117, f, 3, by Sky Kingdom debut Nov. 26 at Fair Grounds and was hammered down to 1st Dam: Ayala Strand, by Tiznow clear favoritism to repeat in this stakes bow. Bobbling a bit a few 2nd Dam: Danzig Island, by Danzig strides from the gate, the dark bay was eager early and traveled 3rd Dam: Angel Island, by Cougar II three deep as part of a four-horse pace vanguard through splits 1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. ($13,000 Ylg '19 KEESEP; $130,000 2yo of :23.49 and :48.52. Taking command outside the three- '20 OBSAPR). O-Jean Etienne Dubois; B-J. Adcock & Hume sixteenths pole, the $130,000 OBS April buy poured it on in the Wornall (LA); T-Brad H. Cox; J-Diego Saenz. $45,000. Lifetime stretch for a sharp score. Inawic, the longest shot in the board, Record: 2-2-0-0, $73,200. held well to be a clear second. The victress has a juvenile El Deal half-sister named I Have a Deal and a yearling half-sister by Iron Fist named Tap Iron First. Her unraced dam was bred to One Liner last spring. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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SECOND-CROP STARTERS TO WATCH: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13 STAKES RESULTS: 2020 Stud Fees Listed MAGNOLIA S., $75,000, Delta Downs, 1-12, (S), 4yo/up, f/m, Flintshire (GB) (Dansili {GB}), Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa, $10,000 1m, 1:41.80, ft. 158 foals of racing age/6 winners/0 black-type winners 1--SAINTS N MUSKETS, 116, m, 6, Musket Man--Laughing Saint, 7-Gulfstream, Msw 7 1/2fT, DANCE WITH DESTINY, 15-1 by Vindication. 1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. ($15,000 Ylg '16 CAN$60,000 CAN SEP yrl ESLYRL). O-Rodney J. Verret; B-J. E. Jumonville Jr. & Bunny 7-Gulfstream, Msw 7 1/2fT, ELLE EST FORTE, 12-1 Jumonville (LA); T-Allen Landry; J-Joe Stokes. $45,000. Lifetime $50,000 KEE SEP yrl Record: 16-5-3-1, $181,365. *1/2 to Laughingsaintssong (Songandaprayer), MSW, $364,510. Ironicus (Distorted Humor), Claiborne Farm, $5,000 2--Sarah's Passion, 116, f, 4, Songandaprayer--My Holy Belle, by 55 foals of racing age/4 winners/1 black-type winner Holy Bull. O/B-Perform Stables Inc. (LA); T-Allen Landry. 7-Gulfstream, Msw 7 1/2fT, SPILL THE TEA, 4-1 $15,000. $50,000 OBS APR 2yo 3--Smok'n Rita, 116, m, 7, Misremembered--Wicked Rita, by Sea of Secrets. O/B-Linda Guidry (LA); T-Connie Mack Guidry. Jess's Dream (Curlin), Ocala Stud, $4,000 $7,500. 130 foals of racing age/8 winners/0 black-type winners Margins: NK, 4 3/4, 2. Odds: 2.30, 7.70, 14.60. 5-Gulfstream, Msw 1mT, ADVENTURE, 5-1 ALLOWANCE RESULTS: Juba (Tapit), Taylor Mountain Farm 8th-Mahoning Valley, $29,000, (S), 1-12, (NW2L), 3yo/up, f/m, 45 foals of racing age/5 winners/1 black-type winner 6f, 1:14.08, ft, 8 1/2 lengths. 5-Charles Town, Msw 4 1/2f, JUBA'S LADY, 5-1 GONNABEGOOD (f, 3, Macho Uno--My Mancita, by Mr. Greeley) Lifetime Record: MSP, 7-2-2-1, $66,380. O/B-Charlie J. Social Inclusion (Pioneerof the Nile), Diamond B Farm Williams LLC (OH); T-Silvano M. Gonzalez. *Full to More Than 61 foals of racing age/4 winners/0 black-type winners Good, SW, $237,695. 5-Gulfstream, Msw 1mT, QUINTO SOL, 30-1 $30,000 RNA OBS OPN 2yo

Speightster (Speightstown), WinStar Farm, $10,000 228 foals of racing age/16 winners/2 black-type winners 1-Mahoning Valley, Msw 5 1/2f, BUCKEYE BLING, 5-1 $27,000 KEE SEP yrl

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ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: MUSKET MAN, Saints N Muskets, m, 6, o/o Laughing Saint, by Isolation, f, 3, Guilt Trip--Bella Moneta (MSP, $182,359), by Vindication. Magnolia S., 1-12, Delta Downs Max's Pal. Delta Downs, 1-12, (S), 6 1/2f, 1:23.28. B-Jason Hall, SKY KINGDOM, Australasia, f, 3, o/o Ayala Strand, by Tiznow. BCS Thoroughbreds, & Louis J. Eymard II (LA). *1/2 to Big Bella Louisiana Jewel S., 1-12, Delta Downs Brown (Big Brown), SP, $272,205. SKY KINGDOM, Kingdom Diamond, g, 4, o/o Doris' Diamond, by Everymothersprayer, f, 3, Kantharos--Brilliant Sunshine (MSP, Monarchos. MSW, 1-12, Mahoning Valley $185,550), by Smarty Jones. Parx Racing, 1-12, (S), 6f, 1:14.60. B-Newell Thoroughbreds, Ltd (PA). *1/2 to Precious (Fed Biz), SW, $101,100. UPCOMING MAJOR Fricka, f, 3, Mobil--Echt, by . Mahoning Valley, NORTH AMERICAN STAKES 1-12, (S), 5 1/2f, 1:08.60. B-Mapleton Thoroughbred Farm Date Race Track (OH). *1/2 to Authentic Cowtown (Cowtown Cat), MSP, Jan. 16 GIII Lecomte S. Fair Grounds $160,825. GIII Louisiana S. Fair Grounds Kingdom Diamond, g, 4, Sky Kingdom--Doris' Diamond, by Jan. 18 GIII Megahertz S. Santa Anita Monarchos. Mahoning Valley, 1-12, (S), 6f, 1:15.51. B-Smokin Jan. 23 GI Pegasus World Cup Gulfstream GI Pegasus World Cup Turf Gulfstream C LLC (OH). *$6,000 Wlg '17 KEENOV. **1ST-TIME STARTER. GII Inside Information S. Gulfstream GIII S. Gulfstream GIII W. L. McKnight S. Gulfstream GIII Fred W. Hooper S. Gulfstream GIII Palos Verdes S. Santa Anita Jan. 30 GII San Marcos S. Santa Anita GII San Pasqual S. Santa Anita GIII Robert B. Lewis S. Santa Anita GIII Holy Bull S. Gulfstream GIII Swale S. Gulfstream Australasia (Sky Kingdom) stays perfect with an GIII Forward Gal S. Gulfstream open-lengths romp in the Louisiana Jewel S. at Delta GIII Kitten’s Joy S. Gulfstream GIII Sweetest Chant S. Gulfstream GIII Toboggan S. Aqueduct Jan. 31 GIII Houston Ladies’ Classic S. Sam Houston GIII John B. Connally Turf Cup Sam Houston Feb. 6 GIII Sam F. Davis S. Tampa Bay GIII Tampa Bay S. Tampa Bay GIII Hillsborough S. Tampa Bay GIII Las Virgenes S. Santa Anita GIII Thunder Road S. Santa Anita GIII Withers S. Aqueduct GUILT TRIP, Isolation, f, 3, o/o Bella Moneta, by Max's Pal. MSW, GIII Suwannee River S. Gulfstream Feb. 7 GII San Vicente S. Santa Anita 1-12, Delta Downs GIII Sweet Life S. Santa Anita KANTHAROS, Everymothersprayer, f, 3, o/o Brilliant Sunshine, by Smarty Jones. MSW, 1-12, Parx Racing Click here to access the TDN graded stakes calendar. MACHO UNO, Gonnabegood, f, 3, o/o My Mancita, by Mr. Greeley. ALW, 1-12, Mahoning Valley MOBIL, Fricka, f, 3, o/o Echt, by Fusaichi Pegasus. MSW, 1-12, Mahoning Valley