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VAUGHAN EMBRACING HIS IRISH RACING FIGURES REVEAL IMPACT OF COVID NEW KENTUCKY HOME The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was laid bare in Irish racing=s 2020 figures, which were revealed by Horse Racing Ireland on Friday. The resilience of owners was a rare bright spot, with ownership remaining static and down just 0.5% in a year where owners largely could not go racing. Owner retention from 2019 to 2020 stood at 73.6%, down 1.5% from the previous year, and the number of racing clubs rose 6%. The number of horses in training in Ireland also rose for the fourth time in five years, and was up 3.3% at 9,248. AThe figures for the numbers of horses-in-training continued to grow year-on-year and this says so much about those involved in racehorse ownership,@ said Brian Kavanagh, chief executive of Horse Racing Ireland. AIt is a testament to their resilience in the face of very challenging circumstances that they continue to stand by the industry and we look forward to a time when we can safely welcome owners--and obviously racegoers--back to Ed Vaughan and War Cross. Click for a video interview our racetracks. Owners= ongoing support is felt across the board with Ed Vaughan | Amy Lanigan and the numbers of horses in racing yards directly reflects on employment levels within the industry and on widespread By Kelsey Riley economic activity in rural Ireland.@ Last summer, in the midst of guiding the best horse he had Racecourse attendance was down 91.1%, and on-course ever trained, Dame Malliot (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}), through betting 89.1%; racing has been staged behind closed doors in a Group 1 campaign, trainer Ed Vaughan announced that he was Ireland since its resumption on June 8 with the exception of a shutting up shop at his Machell Place Stables in Newmarket, small number of fixtures that owners were allowed to attend. citing the economic difficulties of being a smaller trainer in Cont. p5 Britain. Later in the season, the Irish-born Vaughan revealed that he was relocating to America to train from Keeneland IN TDN AMERICA TODAY Racecourse. While the move means Vaughan=s string has shrunk from 25 in ONE LAST APPLE FROM THE COX ORCHARD Newmarket down to seven as he gets started in the U.S., the Chris McGrath looks at the pedigree and origins of Hot Rod Charlie (Oxbow), who returns in Saturday’s GIII Robert B. Lewis S. trainer said he will have access to much larger purses in Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. Kentucky with significantly fewer overhead costs. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 30 JANUARY 2021
Vaughan Embracing His New Kentucky Home cont. from p1 The average purse per race in Kentucky in 2019 was $64,350, and the average annual earnings per starter $31,997. AThe move to America was something that was on my mind for quite a while,@ Vaughan said at Keeneland last week. AThe way the economics of racing are at homeBthe prizemoney, renting yards, the expense of itBit just didn=t make any sense. And I wanted to [move] now rather than having to do it later on because I=d be getting too old later on and it was one of those things that I thought it was a now or never situation. I also thought I had a nice collection of horses to take. We have four maidens we=ve brought over, fast-ground horses that I think will suit America very well.@
THE AMERICAN SCENE HAS ALWAYS FASCINATED ME. I’VE ALWAYS WATCHED A LOT OF RACING FROM THE STATES AND I THINK THERE ARE A LOT MORE OPPORTUNITIES. Ed Vaughan
AYou don=t make a lot out of the day rate [in England]; you have to rent your yard and pay business rates,@ Vaughan added. AEverything is expensive and you get very little out of it when you=re training 25 horses, which is pretty much the bracket we were in. I was fortunate to have some good owners in that 25, but the economics of it are very tough unless you=re winning good races. The only way really to make money out of it is by selling them, but you=re selling your best horses so it=s a Catch 22.@ At Keeneland, Vaughan can pay only for the stalls he needs. AI think it makes a lot more sense here,@ he said. AWe have to pay for the barn while there isn=t any racing on, but it=s significantly less than what your overheads would be in England, and you=re racing for very good prizemoney. You cut your cloth accordingly; if you don=t have a full barn you can rent stalls.@ Additionally, Vaughan said he thinks there are wider opportunities to access quality bloodstock in America. AThe American scene has always fascinated me,@ Vaughan said. AI=ve always watched a lot of racing from the States and followed it and I just think there are a lot more opportunities.@ TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 30 JANUARY 2021
Vaughan Embracing His New Kentucky Home cont. AIt=s very polarized in England and there are very few big players there, and it=s tough if you=re not training for the Juddmontes and those. You have a lot more independently wealthy people [in America], and a lot more of the best horses here go to the sales, a bit like Australia, whereas a lot of the best horses in Europe, I=m afraid, are homebreds and they never Senior Vice President Gary King show up at public auction. I think you have a better opportunity Twitter: @garykingTDN of buying a good horse at the yearling sales here than you would [email protected] probably anywhere in the world.@ + 1.732.320.0975 In addition to Anthony Oppenheimer=s G2 Prix de Pomone and G2 Princess of Wales=s S. victress and triple Group 1-placed International Editor Dame Malliot, Vaughan executed the career of Alan Pickering=s Kelsey Riley G3 Winter Derby winner Robin Hoods Bay (GB) (Motivator {GB}). Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN Meanwhile, Vaughan also developed a good reputation for [email protected] preparing horses to be sold on to other jurisdictions like European Editor Australia, Hong Kong and America, something he said >we had to Emma Berry do to survive.= And while he said he wouldn=t rule out continuing Twitter: @collingsberry to trade horses in his new guise, he is surely looking forward to [email protected] more opportunities to keep his better runners under his thumb. Though Keeneland won=t see racing action until April and Associate International Editor training is restricted to the facility=s training track for the dark Heather Anderson winter months, the backstretch is bustling with humans and Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN horses alike. Just before the sun broke to evaporate the frost Marketing Manager that had been lain down in subzero temperatures the night Alayna Cullen before, Vaughan was overseeing the exercise of Lemon And Twitter: @AlaynaCullen Diem (Carpe Diem), a 4-year-old gelding owned by Phoenix [email protected] Thoroughbreds who he expects will be his first runner in a few weeks= time. The rangy chestnut had previously run three times Contributing Editors for trainer Steve Asmussen, most recently finishing third in a Alan Carasso $28,000 maiden claiming race (purse of $30,000) at Churchill Christina Bossinakis Downs on Nov. 27. Maiden special weight races are being run at Cafe Racing the current Turfway meet for $32,000, with lesser purses Sean Cronin available for maiden claimers at various levels. Maiden special Tom Frary weights at the competitive Keeneland meet last autumn were [email protected] worth $70,000. AWe=ve had [Lemon And Diem] gelded and he=s moved here Irish Correspondent and looks fantastic; he=s a big, lovely looking horse,@ Vaughan Daithi Harvey said. AWe=ll probably take him for a racecourse gallop up to Turfway next week and then it=ll probably be about two weeks Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake after that he should be ready. He=s a big, laid-back character so I Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele want to see how he works up at Turfway and see how much he=ll come on from it and then we=ll make a plan. He looks like he=ll be our first runner, all being well.@ The four horses Vaughan brought across from his Newmarket stable include three owned by Phoenix Thoroughbreds, including the as-yet unraced Lady De Peron (GB) (Kingman {GB}), a 3-year-old half-sister to G3 Round Tower S. winner Capella Sansevero (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) who cost 270,000gns TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 30 JANUARY 2021
Vaughan Embracing His New Kentucky Home cont. She=s still a maiden and she=ll suit over here as well; we=ll at Tattersalls October Book 1. probably start her off in a maiden at Keeneland all being well.@ AShe=s a lovely big filly that I didn=t get to run [in Britain] and I Also for Phoenix is the 4-year-old gelding War Cross (War think she=ll suit over here,@ Vaughan said. Front), a son of the GI E.P. Taylor and G2 Ribblesdale S. winner Miss Chess (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) is another well-bred 3-year-old, Curvy (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) from the family of Classic winners she being a half-sister to last Footstepsinthesand (GB) and year=s G1 Prix de Diane and G1 Power (GB). War Cross ran three Nassau S. winner Fancy Blue (Ire) times in Britain last summer and (Deep Impact {Jpn}) bought by was placed on his two most Phoenix for i220,000 at Arqana recent runs. War Cross was August and races for the Phoenix making his second transatlantic Ladies Syndicate. Miss Chess was flight when returning to his third on debut last July at birthplace, having been sold at Yarmouth before finishing off the Keeneland for $200,000 as a board at Goodwood and yearling. Newmarket over ground that AWar Cross is a horse I=m very likely didn=t suit. excited about,@ Vaughan said. AThe Zoffanys have done really AHe=s a War Front out of Curvy well over here and she=s a neat and his best run was his last run filly who loves fast ground,@ at Wolverhampton, where he Miss Chess, a half-sister to Fancy Blue | racingfotos.com Vaughan said. AShe should have was second [to prior winner won first time out, she jumped the road and was a bit slowly Faisal {GB}] and there was 15 lengths back to third. I think he=ll away and stayed on really well. Hollie Doyle rode her that day be a nice maiden to run up here, he loves fast ground and he=s and she thought she=d won the photo, but it didn=t happen. been gelded since.@ TDN EUROPE • PAGE 5 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 30 JANUARY 2021
Vaughan Embracing His New Kentucky Home cont. Vaughan clearly has plenty to look forward to as winter melts Another that will enjoy fast ground is the 4-year-old gelding into spring in Kentucky. In the meantime, he has been settling in Inhalation (GB) (Bated Breath {GB}). He won shortly after British in Lexington and familiarizing himself with the local fare. racing=s resumption last June at Yarmouth and was placed three AI=ve been to Dudley=s a few times, and I=ve partaken in a few times from a further five runs over seven furlongs last year. glasses of bourbonBnot full ones now, but I=ve had a few glasses AInhalation has only won one race, a small handicap at of bourbon. Yarmouth, but the ground was like a road that day, it was the AThe people here have been wonderful. They=ve been so first day back [at Yarmouth] after Covid and the track hadn=t welcoming, there=s a great expat community some of which I=ve been watered and he really excelled on that,@ Vaughan said. AHe known. People can=t be helpful enough to you; I=m blown away was drawn 13 and Wolverhampton is a very tough, tight track. by the warm welcome they=ve given us while we=ve been here. Hollie [Doyle] had to use him up quite a bit to get there. He=s a It=s fantastic. I=m delighted to be here.@ horse I=m excited about, he=s a Bated Breath and they seem to do very well with a bit of time and fast ground. He=s one I=m looking forward to running up here at Keeneland.@
Irish Racing Figures Reveal Impact Of COVID cont. from p1
Ed and Louis Vaughan in Lexington | Amy Lanigan
Vaughan scooped up the 5-year-old mare Alnaseem (GB) (Shamardal) for 88,000gns at Tattersalls in December after she Horses training on The Curragh | Emma Berry had run fifth, beaten three lengths, in a listed race at Lingfield. Alnaseem won two of her seven starts last year going a mile at the handicap level, and Vaughan said he hopes she will be stakes Prizemoney dipped 23.4% to i50.58-million; however, class in the U.S. prizemoney won by Irish horses in the rest of the world The American import that followers of Vaughan=s stable may (excluding the UK) was up 47.6%. Public auctions were also be most looking for an update on is one of the smaller four- severely impacted by the pandemic, with the calendar riddled legged variety: the trainer=s popular Black Labrador Louis. by date and venue changes, with some sales forced entirely Vaughan reported that Louis has arrived in Lexington in good online and international visitors impacted by quarantines and order and is embracing his new home. travel restrictions. As such, bloodstock sales at public auction AWhen I said I was moving, everyone was saying to me, >well, were down 35.4% to i106.7-million. where is Louis going? Is he going with you?=@ Vaughan said. AThe ALike many other sectors, the Irish horse racing and breeding dog is a bit of a character. Even when I arrived over, everyone industry had a difficult 2020 and while there are some positives, was like, >you're the guy with the Black Labrador. So he's better effectively any comparison with previous years is futile,@ said known than I am, I'm afraid. But it=s great to have him over here, Kavanagh. AThe continued absence of attendances is having a he arrived last week.@ significant impact on racecourses.@ TDN EUROPE • PAGE 6 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 30 JANUARY 2021
Irish Racing Figures cont. AWe acknowledge the hardship endured by on-course bookmakers, Tote, caterers and the many other businesses that CITY LIGHT depend on racecourses and racegoers, and Horse Racing Ireland $ A filly out of Havaianas (Elusive Quality), a daughter of the and the Association of Irish Racecourses are eager to welcome listed-winning and Group 1-placed Flip Flop (Fr) (Zieten) and everyone back once it is deemed appropriate by the a half-sister to the Grade II-winning and Grade I-placed Government.@ Qurbaan (Speightstown). $ City Light, a multiple Group 3-winning and Group 1-placed sprinter by Siyouni (Fr), stands at Haras d=Etreham in 2021 GOFFS LONDON SALE TO RETURN IN 2021 for i7,000. After a hiatus in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Goffs will stage its London Sale on June 14, on the eve of Royal Ascot. A format and location for the boutique horses-in-training and breeding stock sale will be announced early in the flat season. AOur intention is to hold the London Sale on its scheduled date at the start of Royal Ascot week,@ said Goffs Group Chief Friday=s Results: Executive Henry Beeby. ACovid restrictions look set to continue 7th-Lingfield, ,5,300, Novice, 1-29, 3yo, 10f (AWT), 2:07.43, st. further into 2021, and while it is hoped that the vaccine rollout TAMBORRADA (GB) (g, 3, Dubawi {Ire}--Elle Shade {GB}, by and lockdowns should improve by June, we are exploring some Shamardal), off the mark on debut over this course and distance creative alternatives making use of our online platform should it Jan. 4, tracked the leader Clay (GB) (Sixties Icon {GB}) not be feasible to deliver a fully outdoor event. That may result throughout the early stages. Getting the better of that rival in a combination of some live auction activity alongside an approaching the furlong pole, the 2-5 favourite asserted to innovative online offer, and we are looking at a whole range of record an authoritative 3 1/2-length success. The dam is a ideas and options at the moment. daughter of the triple Group 1-winning Elle Danzig (Ger) (Roi AThe London Sale is a truly unique event on the global sales Danzig) whose domestic Classic victories came in the G2 Preis circuit and one that has evolved year on year to offer an der Diana and G2 German 1000 Guineas. That icon was international bloodstock platform and an unrivaled experience responsible for eight black-type performers headed by Elle for all attendees. So, while we are in very different times, our Shade=s full-sister Elle Shadow (Ire), who was a triple Group 3 aim remains the same regardless of format and we look forward winner and runner-up in the G1 Preis der Diana. She is the to working with our London Sale partners to deliver a second dam of the G2 King Edward VII S. scorer Balios (Ire), also spectacular sale this summer before returning to our traditional by Shamardal, and last year=s Listed Chalice S. winner Katara (Fr) setting in 2022.@ (Deep Impact {Jpn}). Elle Shade=s 2-year-old is a daughter of Iffraaj (GB). Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $9,390. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O/B-Godolphin (GB); T-Charlie Appleby.
4th-Wolverhampton, ,5,300, Novice, 1-29, 3yo, f, 8f 142y (AWT), 1:49.82, st. KESTENNA (GB) (f, 3, Pride of Dubai {Aus}--Lamyaa {GB}, by Arcano {Ire}), an encouraging second on debut over a mile at Lingfield Jan. 16, broke professionally this time despite being the widest drawn to track the leader Lightning Lou (Ire) (Brazen Beau {Aus}). Taking that rival=s measure turning for home, the 100-30 second favourite was driven out to score by three lengths. The dam, who has the 2-year-old colt Likeawind (GB) (Highland Reel {Ire}) and a yearling filly by Gleneagles (Ire), is a half-sister to three black-type performers headed by the G2 Goldene Peitsche winner Electric Beat (GB) (Shinko Forest {Ire}) and to the dam of the G3 Curragh S. and GIII Senorita S. scorer Photo courtesy Goffs TDN EUROPE • PAGE 7 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 30 JANUARY 2021
4th-Wolverhampton cont. ARAUG. Lifetime Record: GSP-Fr, 5-2-2-1, i48,496. Video, Treasuring (GB) (Havana Gold {Ire}). Sales history: 28,000gns sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Wlg >18 TATFOA; i95,000 Ylg >19 GOFOR. Lifetime Record: O-Ecurie de Montlahuc; B-Sunderland Holding Inc, Mme Hilary 2-1-1-0, $6,092. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Erculiani & SCA Elevage de Tourgeville (FR); T-Francis-Henri O-Mr M Alqatami & Mr K M Al-Mudhaf; B-The Pocock Family Graffard. (GB); T-John Gosden. 4th-Chantilly, i25,000, Mdn, 1-29, 3yo, c/g, 8f (AWT), 1:40.87, st. LONGVILLERS (FR) (c, 3, Le Havre {Ire}--Lady Meydan {Fr} {SW-Fr, $103,613}, by American Post {GB}), third on debut over 9 1/2 furlongs at Deauville last month, broke best but was Friday=s Results: reined back to track the leading trio early. Tanking his way back 1st-Chantilly, i28,000, Cond, 1-29, 3yo, 8f (AWT), 1:38.66, st. to the front approaching the final furlong, the 2-1 second favourite readily asserted to score by 1 1/2 lengths from the HOMERYAN (FR) (c, 3, Sea the Stars {Ire}--Roxelana {Fr}, Red dead-heating Abelard F (Ire) (Belardo {Ire}) and Super Super Ransom), last seen finishing runner-up in the G3 Prix Thomas Sonic (Fr) (Territories {Ire}). The useful dam, who has also Bryon at Saint-Cloud in October, was able to get a lead produced the G3 Prix des Reservoirs runner-up Montviette (Fr) throughout the early stages but was always travelling too by Le Havre, is a daughter of the listed-placed Open Offer (GB) strongly and cruised to the head of affairs passing two out. (Cadeaux Genereux {GB}). She is in turn a half to the G2 Coaxed clear by Boudot from there, the 1-5 favourite hit the line Ribblesdale S. scorer Flying Cloud (Ire) (Storming Home {GB}) without any hint of stress to score by 4 1/2 lengths from Wilbur from the family of the multiple Australian Group 1-winning (Fr) (Sommerabend {GB}). The dam, whose 2-year-old filly is by champion 2-year-old colt and sire Pierro (Aus) (Lonhro {Aus}). Al Wukair (Ire), is a half-sister to The Aga Khan=s G1 Prix Marcel Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-1, i15,800. Video, sponsored by Boussac winner and G1 Prix de Diane runner-up Rosanara (Fr) Fasig-Tipton. O-Gerard Augustin-Normand; B-Franklin Finance S A (FR); (Sinndar {Ire}) from the family of the dual Group 2-winning sire T-Yann Barberot. Rajsaman (Fr) (Linamix {Fr}). Sales history: 125,000 Ylg >19
Godolphin homebred Tamborrada (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) goes two-for-two at Lingfield on Friday | racingfotos.com TDN EUROPE • PAGE 8 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 30 JANUARY 2021
ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: Dark Between Stars (GB), f, 3, Dark Angel (Ire)--Dahama (GB), by Green Desert. Chantilly, 1-29, 8f (AWT), 1:40.71. B-Al Asayl Bloodstock Ltd (GB). *1/2 to Al Thakhira (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), GSW-Eng, $152,256. Friday's Results: Diction (Fr), f, 3, Lawman (Fr)--Saying (SW-Fr), by Giant=s HRH PRINCE SALMAN BIN HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA CUP Causeway. Chantilly, 1-29, 8f (AWT), 1:40.71. B-Wertheimer & (NBT), BHD15,000 (,29,063/i32,852/US$39,894), 3yo/up, Frere (FR). *Full to Dicton (GB), GSW & G1SP-Fr, $592,478. 2000mT, 1:59.72, gd. 1--NEW SHOW (IRE), 126, g, 6, New Approach (Ire)--Music Show (Ire) (Hwt. 3yo Filly-Eng at 7-9.5f, G1SW-Eng, G1SP-Fr & Ire, $534,324), by Noverre. (90,000gns RNA Ylg '16 TATOCT; 140,000gns RNA HRA '18 TATJUL; 130,000gns HRA '19 TATJUL). O-Victorious; B-Rabbah Bloodstock Ltd; T-Hesham Al Haddad; J-David Egan; BHD9,000. Lifetime Record: 14-6-1-1, $66,043. IN AUSTRALIA: 2--Desert Lion (GB), 126, g, 5, Lope de Vega (Ire)--Sorella Bella Mubariz (GB), g, 5, Dansili (GB)--Could It Be (Ire), by Galileo (Ire), by Clodovil (Ire). (32,000gns HRA '19 TATAUT). (Ire). Canterbury, 1-29, Hcp. (,28k/i32k), 1900mT, 2:00.30. BHD3,000. B-Al Shahania Stud. *40,000gns HRA '19 TATAUT. 3--Litigator (Ire), 126, c, 4, Elzaam (Aus)--Lady Elsie (GB), by Singspiel (Ire). (i12,000 RNA Wlg '17 GOFNOV; i15,000 Ylg IN BAHRAIN: '18 TISEP; 7,500gns HRA '19 TATMAY). BHD1,800. Byline (GB), g, 4, Muhaarar (GB)--Lauren Louise (GB), by Tagula Margins: NO, 1, NK. VIDEO (Ire). Sakhir, 1-29, Stewards' Cup (NBT), 1600mT, 1:35.77. B-Toby Barker. *1/2 to Bogart (GB) (Bahamian Bounty {GB}), SW-Eng, $559,873; Blaine (GB) (Avonbridge {GB}), GSW-Eng, $346,315; and Legal Attack (GB) (Shalaa {Ire}), GSP-Fr. **140,000 Ylg '18 TATOCT; 110,000gns HRA '20 TATAUT. Ole Kirk Returns To Action VIDEO New Show (Ire), g, 6, New Approach (Ire). See 'Middle East.' Inglis Classic Will Be A Green Zone
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Saturday, Kenilworth, South Africa, post time: 4:15 p.m. MAJORCA S. PRESENTED BY CAPE RACING-G1, R500,000, 3yo/up, f/m, 1600mT SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT 1 10 Clouds Unfold (SAf) What A Winter (SAf) Domeyer Bass-Robinson 132 2 1 Silvano’s Pride (SAf) Silvano (Ger) Ferraris Snaith 132 3 9 Pretty Young Thing (SAf) Jackson (SAf) Cheyne Crawford 132 4 4 Sing Out Loud (SAf) Dynasty (SAf) Marcus Crawford 132 5 2 Kelpie (SAf) Dynasty (SAf) De Melo Crawford 132 6 8 Third Runway (SAf) Gimmethegreenlight (Aus) Winnaar Kotzen 132 7 6 Indi Anna (SAf) Master Of My Fate (SAf) Lerena Muscutt 132 8 7 Helen’s Ideal (SAf) Ideal World Cele Stewart 132 9 11 Icon Princess (SAf) Where’s That Tiger Kennedy Stewart 132 10 3 Captain’s Ransom (SAf) Captain Al (SAf) Fourie Snaith 121 11 5 Chat Ching (SAf) Duke Of Marmalade (Ire) Van Niekerk Bass-Robinson 121
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READY FOR 'PRIME' TIME IN THE HOLY BULL THIS SIDE UP: ONE 'TDN Rising Star' Prime Factor (Quality Road), a blowout maiden winner sprinting on debut at Gulfstream Dec. 12, heads LAST APPLE FROM straight to the big leagues in Saturday's GIII Holy Bull S. THE COX ORCHARD The WinStar Farm and CHC Inc. colorbearer, a $900,000 Keeneland September yearling, worked a bullet five furlongs in :59 4/5 (1/13) at Todd Pletcher's Palm Beach Downs base Jan. 23 in preparation of his two-turn debut. Prime Factor is out of a half-sister to fellow 'Rising Stars' Speightster (Speightstown) and West Coast Swing (Gone West) as well as SW Paiota Falls (Kris S.). His second dam Dance Swiftly is a full-sister to Canadian Horse of the Year and U.S. Eclipse Award winner Dance Smartly. AIt=s kind of that time of year where you have to see where you are,@ Pletcher said. AHe was brilliant in his debut and has trained sharply since then. We kind of considered going into an allowance race, but that never materialized. It=s always a big step to go from maiden race against winners, giving up experience, but he can hopefully overcome it.@ Cont. p8
Hot Rod Charlie galloping at Santa Anita last month | Horsephotos IN TDN EUROPE TODAY by Chris McGrath VAUGHAN EMBRACING HIS NEW KENTUCKY HOME How aptly we talk of our walk of life as the Turf. Because Former Newmarket-based trainer Ed Vaughan is preparing raising a horse is just like raising a lawn. Take a microscope out to have his first American runners from his new base at Keeneland. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. there, if you like, but no human being has actually seen grass grow. Yet one morning toward the end of winter, the birdsong sounds different and you realize you left your coat on the peg without thinking about it. And you look at that lawn and, no argument, it's time to take the mower out of its stable. That moment remains a long way off, for many, but Saturday all can share a cheering sense that the vital forces of Nature are perceptibly astir in the sophomore class of 2021. Because both coasts, in their southernmost exposure, provide comfortingly familiar staging posts on a journey that we resume in growing hope, through the striving of science, that our world may be slowly settling back on its axis by the first Saturday in May. Gosh, it certainly seems an age since Tiz the Law (Constitution) and Thousand Words (Pioneerof the Nile) respectively won the GIII Holy Bull S. and GIII Robert B. Lewis S. The unprecedented detours on the Triple Crown trail, in the meantime, have taught us afresh how the cyclical challenges we set the adolescent Thoroughbred, long enshrined in the calendar, assist horsemen from one generation to the next in consistent measurement of the breed. Cont. p3 PUBLISHER & CEO Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected]
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Cont. from p1 It's not just individual racehorses that come under examination, after all. Each resembles the blades of grass that together make up the lawn. For many of us, the interest lies in the way their roots are entwined--and what that can teach us for future cultivation. All families evolve through the same, patient rhythms; through horsemen responding to the prompts of Nature. Sometimes these harmonies yield lush, seamless swathes; but there are also occasions when some sparse or choked tangle of briar will nourish a blossom as sudden and brilliant as it appears unexpected. In both cases, the underlying, seasonal processes are just the same. Take two horses whose contrasting antecedents bring them similar opportunity in these races. The Courtlandt Farms homebred Greatest Honour (Tapit), who represents the Shug McGaughey barn at Gulfstream, could be named a feasible Classic type when still in the womb. Two of his first four dams are Broodmares of the Year, and the family has duly been seeded by such venerable distaff influences as Street Cry (Ire), Deputy Minister and Blushing Groom (Fr). Hot Rod Charlie (Oxbow), on the other hand, made $17,000 as a short yearling. In the two years since, however, it has become feasible to recognize a born aristocrat in the horse reappearing at Santa Anita. Cont. p4
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This Side Up cont. knowing himself doomed by illness, Cox staged his second He owes that transformation, however, to exactly the same dispersal in 2018. It was deeply poignant for everyone involved, diligence, patience and expertise that first created the line but he was the kind of gentleman who wanted to leave tracing from Best in Show now to Greatest Honour. In fact, Hot everything shipshape for his family. At Keeneland that Rod Charlie is the final bequest of a man who--with the help of November, 20 head of horse made $3.7 million--including those storied farms, Claiborne and Hermitage--was perhaps the $240,000 from WinStar for Indian Miss (with an Into Mischief most accomplished small breeder of his generation. cover). Cont. p5 Edward A. Cox, Jr. operated what we nowadays call a boutique program. Yet he was co-breeder of Woodman (Mr Prospector); partner in Swale (Seattle Slew); and breeder of Marquetry (Conquistador Cielo) and star European miler Shaadi (Danzig). His Turf career comprised two cycles, with a hiatus between 1998 and 2006. Soon after his comeback he sent Bill Landes, the long-serving Hermitage manager, over to the January Sale to give $250,000 for Glacken's Girl (Smoke Glacken), who had won her only two starts as a juvenile. Cox sent her to Indian Charlie; and the resulting filly, Indian Miss, to veteran Chicago trainer James DeVito. Indian Miss showed ability but also had to be retired after only two starts, because of a chip in her knee. Cox would have culled her for $10,000, but nobody had more than $5,000 so he experimented with matings that wouldn't necessarily have occurred to everybody: Eskenderaya, for instance, in her second year; Oxbow in her fifth. Mitole clinched his championship in the 2019 Breeders' Cup Sprint Her son by Eskendereya made just $20,000 as a yearling. Then, Horsephotos TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 19 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 30, 2021
This Side Up cont. and showed due toughness and class when sixth, first and What a great buy that turned out to be. For the colt by second in his Triple Crown series. But that stuff is obviously far Eskendereya was none other than Mitole, who had disappeared too worthy for the commercial guys, and Dennis O'Neill was able after winning a couple of stakes the previous year. His to get the colt for $110,000. subsequent return and championship campaign saw Indian Miss A tolerable yield, no doubt, through eight months--but Feld return to the same sale, this time round, to be cashed in to OXO deserved better yet for his acuity. Because he not only found a Equine for $1.9 million. half-brother to an imminent champion for just $17,000; he also Her value had been enhanced, moreover, just a couple of days sold on a potential Derby horse. Cont. p6 previously by a revelatory performance from her Oxbow 2-year-old. This had been the very last horse sold by Cox. As a weanling, he had been so immature that Landes urged his patron to give him extra time. But time, finite for us all, soon became a scant resource. Around Christmas, though Cox was still sounding pretty good, he called and said: "Landes, get him sold." Landes felt the horse was just beginning to turn round when they took him over to Fasig that February, but it took the astute eye of Bob Feld to pick him out of Jim Herbener's consignment. And by the time the rangy, maturing colt was pinhooked through Small Batch Sales in the same ring that October, he was a half-brother to a champion. In a sane world, Oxbow should have appealed as the icing on the cake: the perfect foil for two dams confined to an aggregate Medina Spirit (red cap) was second to 'TDN Rising Star' four starts. He's by Awesome Again out of a sister to Tiznow, Life Is Good in the Sham | Benoit TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 6 OF 19 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 30, 2021
This Side Up cont. By the same token, his breeder Gail Rice has already shown For this, of course, is Hot Rod Charlie. He took four attempts to that you don't need big-money mares or matings to produce a break his maiden, but had just been learning the game on turf good one, having bred 2020 GI Ashland S. winner Speech (Mr and/or in sprints. Fitted with Speaker) out of a $7,500 dam. At blinkers, he then stepped up for the other end of the scale, the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile however, this field also contains and, though dismissed at 94-1, 'TDN Rising Star' Roman made his challenge a good deal Centurian (Empire Maker), more smoothly than Essential whose family is full of such Quality (Tapit) and was only run familiar Phipps names as second down late by the eventual dam Finder's Fee (Storm Cat). He champion. duly cost $550,000 as a yearling True, one of his principal and, much like Greatest Honour opponents in this race had to on the opposite shore, seems squint upwards to see even Hot equivalent to an ancient and Rod Charlie on their first beautifully manicured arboretum, relative to some of hammer prices. Medina Spirit these exotic new blooms. (Protonico) made just $1,000 as Roman Centurian | Benoit But all these families, to thrive, a short yearling; nor did he seem need to have been tended with much more eligible for the Baffert barn, when returned to OBS the same devotion and flair. And actually Medina Spirit has as a 2-year-old and realizing $35,000 for pinhooker Christy some pretty noble roots: his third dam is a half-sister to High Whitman. Yet his first two starts have proved that even the Yield (Storm Cat) out of a half-sister to Paul Mellon's charming big-money horses must need this trainer more than he needs Forest Flower (Green Forest), a 2-year-old champion filly in big-money horses. Britain out of a Classic-placed Nijinsky mare. Cont. p7
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This Side Up cont. As it happens, High Yield made his first sophomore start in this same race, then still known as the Santa Catalina S., finishing second. How surprised his co-owner would have been, to discover that the prize would someday bear his own name. But none of these things happen overnight. Lewis helped to make Baffert; and maybe having High Yield on the page is helping Baffert make Medina Spirit.
Hot Rod Charlie (inside)| Breeders' Cup/Eclipse Sportswire As ever, we seek regeneration both among the horses themselves and also in their owners and breeders. Hot Rod Charlie's enthusiastic ownership group, for instance, includes five recent graduates of the Brown University football team. They will be encouraged that "Chuck" still looked green on hitting the front at the Breeders' Cup, even with all that grounding. On the other hand, it may prove that he will need plenty of help from Oxbow to adapt his speedy family to Classic racing. Whatever happens, let's celebrate him first and foremost as a last bequest. Landes already feels blessed that Mitole carved so apt a memorial to Cox, but for Hot Rod Charlie to stay on the Derby trail would represent a wonderful codicil. Testament, too, to his own skill--something that warrants stressing, given how it is exceeded only by his modesty and humor. Familiar attributes, those, in many who have contributed most to the communal, evolving lore of horsemanship; attributes, that is, that accrue naturally when you're daily dealing with a charge as captivating, and exasperating, as the Thoroughbred. Landes always knew that this backward, goofy weanling was going to end up turning himself round. On his late patron's behalf, then, let's borrow the formula by which he would very occasionally, in his understated way, indicate satisfaction: "Landes, you raised a good horse." TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 8 OF 19 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 30, 2021
Holy Bull cont. from p1 impressive, come-from-behind maiden victory over track and trip at fourth asking Dec. 26. He was also a strong third in a key maiden special weight at Belmont last fall, featuring subsequent 'Rising Star' and jaw-dropping Smarty Jones S. winner Caddo River (Hard Spun). AHe=s developed a lot,@ trainer Shug McGaughey said. AI was just sitting there thinking if, through the winter and spring, he keeps going in that direction, he=ll be good.@ The Holy Bull's lone graded winner Sittin On Go (Brody's Cause) (GIII Iroquois S.) looks to get back on track following disappointing efforts in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Nov. 6 and GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. last time Nov. 28. The Holy Bull carries 10-4-2-1 qualifying points on the road to the GI Kentucky Derby.
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The 16-time Gulfstream Championship Meet training © Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. champion will also tighten the girth on Repole Stable and St. This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or by any Elias Stable=s Amount (Curlin), a 5 3/4-length winner on debut means, electronic or mechanical, without prior written permission after getting bumped at the start going seven furlongs at of the copyright owner, MediaVista. Information as to the American races, race results and earnings was obtained from Gulfstream Dec. 26. results charts published by The Jockey Club Information Services Greatest Honour (Tapit) was given the 5-2 nod on the and utilized here with their permission. morning-line after overcoming a good deal of early trouble in an TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 9 OF 19 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 30, 2021
BAFFERT SHOOTS FOR RECORD NINTH ROBERT B. LEWIS VICTORY
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Hall of Famer Bob Baffert will have two shots at adding to his growing record with a potential ninth win in Saturday's GIII Robert B. Lewis S. at Santa Anita. The improving $1-million Keeneland September graduate Spielberg (Union Rags), MGISP as a juvenile, posted a hard-fought, breakthrough nose victory in the GII Los Alamitos Futurity last time Dec. 19. The runner-up that day The Great One (Nyquist), meanwhile, returned with a flashy, 14-length maiden victory for trainer Doug O'Neill last weekend, good for a 92 Beyer Speed Figure. Baffert will also saddle Medina Spirit (Protonico), who cut his highly regarded unbeaten stablemate and 'TDN Rising Star' Life Is Good (Into Mischief)'s margin of victory to just 3/4 of a length second time out in the GIII Sham S. Jan. 2. Medina Spirit, the morning-line favorite at 5-2, has been assigned the rail while Spielberg drew widest of all in post eight. Cont. p9 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 10 OF 19 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 30, 2021
Robert Lewis cont. WHO DO YOU 'LIKE' IN THE SWALE? AI don=t like being stuck inside, and on the outside, you lose ground, but I think we=ll learn more about both horses,@ Baffert said. ARight now, we=re just trying to figure out their styles and how good they are. They=ll start separating themselves. Until they go a mile and an eighth, that=s when you=ll really know.@ O'Neill will also be represented by a pair of promising sophomores in this deep contest, headed by last out GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile longshot runner-up at 94-1 Hot Rod Charlie (Oxbow). The half-brother to champion sprinter Mitole (Eskendereya) previously earned his diploma in game fashion by a neck locally at fourth asking. O'Neill's other charge Wipe the Slate (Nyquist) tries two turns for the first time. A well-beaten second behind the aforementioned Life Is Good first out Nov. 22, he took a big step forward with a strong maiden win going seven furlongs in Arcadia last time Dec. 26. Likeable | Sarah Andrew Roman Centurian (Empire Maker) received the 'TDN Rising Star' nod following a visually impressive, come-from-behind A last out runaway stakes winner will meet a pair of promising maiden tally at second asking over course and distance last time maiden winners in Saturday's GIII Claiborne Farm Swale S. going Jan. 3. The $550,000 Keeneland September yearling was seven furlongs at Gulfstream. previously fourth, beaten 12 1/4 lengths, behind Life Is Good Save a forgettable trip to the post losing his rider at the start in and Wipe the Slate at Del Mar. the Jean Lafitte S. at Delta last November, Drain the Clock The Robert B. Lewis carries 10-4-2-1 qualifying points on the (Maclean's Music) has done no wrong in three other attempts, road to the GI Kentucky Derby. headed by a runaway, front-running tally in Gulfstream's six-furlong Limehouse S. Jan. 2. AThe Swale is a good opportunity to stretch him out an eighth BOOKMARK of a mile more. We feel like it=s a race that=s his for the taking,@ http://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/getLatest.php trainer Saffie Joseph, Jr. said. AHis last race was a breakthrough to download the latest edition of the TDN each day. race. We always thought a lot of him.@ Cont. p11 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 11 OF 19 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 30, 2021
The rail-drawn Likeable (Frosted) earned a trip to the yearling at Keeneland in the fall of 2019, sold for $5,000 the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile following an 8 1/4-length maiden following season at OBS in July. breaker at Belmont going a mile second out Sept. 19. The bay, AShe=s always doing better every day, and that=s happened however, could do no better than 13th after pressing a hot pace from the very first day that she came to the barn. When she while making his two turn debut at the Championships in came to us and started training and working and get condition, Lexington most recently Nov. 6. she was doing better,@ Gonzalez added. AWhen we put her in AWe kind of threw him to the wolves in the Breeders= Cup. He company, she did better. Whatever we ask her to do, she did went too fast early on,@ trainer Todd Pletcher said. AWe=ve better. She=s passed every test.@ regrouped since then and he=s been training well. We feel like Competitive Speed has breezed twice at Gulfstream West backing up to seven furlongs will be a good distance for him.@ since the Glitter Woman, including a half-mile in :48.40 Jan. 16, By George (Into Mischief) impressively handled his business on third-fastest of 18 horses. debut for Christophe Clement over sharp next out winner Too AIt was a little bit faster than I wanted, but she came back Boss (El Padrino) at Aqueduct Dec. 19. Irad Ortiz, Jr. has the call good. The next day she ate everything and she was happy,@ on the 2-1 morning-line favorite. Gonzalez said. AShe=s coming into the race really well.@ Shadwell Stable homebred Zaajel (Street Sense) enters the Forward Gal off a 7 1/4-length maiden special weight romp 'COMPETITIVE' AFFAIR IN FORWARD GAL going seven panels at Gulfstream Dec. 20. AShe was very impressive in her debut and she=s trained great since then,@ Todd Pletcher said. AIdeally, I=d kind of like to run her in an allowance race, but we don=t really have an option at the moment. Considering how well she ran at the distance and over the surface here, we=ll give it a try. The seven furlongs was no problem in her debut.@ Also one to watch is Coach Jer's Joy (Palace), who earned the top spot over a field that included Competitive Speed in the aforementioned Gulfstream West maiden Oct. 31. Trained by Saffie Joseph, Jr., the chestnut will be joined by freshly anointed Eclipse award winning rider, Irad Ortiz, Jr.
Competitive Speed | Ryan Thompson
John Minchello=s Competitive Speed (Competitive Edge) will put her three-race win streak on the line when she makes her debut in graded company Saturday in the GIII Forward Gal S. at Gulfstream Park. AThis is going to be a big test, but I think she can make it,@ trainer Javier Gonzalez said. AShe=s doing good and she is one of those horses that is never going to make you look bad,@ he added. AI think she=s going to run a very good race.@ Competitive Speed, sixth facing open maidens in the Gulfstream West slop Oct. 31, graduated by 1 1/2 lengths against $25,000 maiden claimers at Gulfstream West Nov. 12, beating a pair of next-out winners in the process. Shipped to Gulfstream for her next start Dec. 6, the chestnut came from off the pace to take a starter optional claimer by 4 1/2 lengths, then stepped up to add the 6 1/2-furlong Glitter Woman S. Jan. 2. Competitive Speed, who failed to meet her reserve as a TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 12 OF 19 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 30, 2021
WHITE FROST LOOKS TO STAY UNBEATEN NEVER SURPRISED LOOKS TO REMAIN ON TURF IN SWEETEST CHANT by Alan Carasso PERFECT IN KITTEN'S JOY
White Frost | Coglianese Gainesway Stable's White Frost (Candy Ride {Arg}), impressive Never Surprised | Chelsea Durand in winning her turf and two-turn debuts to close out her Never Surprised (Constitution) looks to take his perfect record freshman campaign, rates a slight edge in what appears to be a to three-for-three Saturday as he tries graded company for the wide-open renewal of the GIII Sweetest Chant S. Saturday at first time in the GIII Kitten's Joy S. A decisive debut winner Gulfstream Park. sprinting on the turf at Aqueduct Nov. 8, the $200,000 KEESEP A debut fourth to $1-million KEESEP yearling Zainalarab (War buy wired the field when stretching out to two turns next out in Front) at Belmont Sept. 18, the homebred was a distant second that venue's Central Park S. 20 days later. Bred on the same in the slop Oct. 31 before parlaying a perfect, ground-saving trip Constitution--Tiznow cross as MGISW Tiz the Law, the bay is into a a 1 1/4-length graduation at Aqueduct Nov. 21. The form favored in this sophomore bow and has three-time Eclipse of that race was franked when runner-up Lijana (Hard Spun) winner Irad Ortiz in the irons. graduated with authority at the Fair Grounds in her next start Kentucky Pharoah (American Pharoah) is not undefeated in Jan. 16. his career, but he is perfect on the grass. Off the board in his Director's Cut (Exaggerator), a maiden winner and stakes- first two attempts on dirt in Kentucky last fall, the Calumet placed over this course at two, was acquired by Gary Barber late homebred graduated by 3 3/4 lengths when switched to the turf last season, but was a well-beaten fifth to Plum Ali (First in Hallandale Dec. 19. The chestnut repeated with a dominant Samurai) in the GII Miss Grillo S. Oct. 4. The bay raced with first- score in Gulfstream's Dania Beach S. next out Jan. 2. time Lasix in a Jan. 10 allowance and sat a very wide trip, It's a Gamble (English Channel) also exits the Dania Beach, finishing 1 1/2 lengths adrift of Mia Martini (Not This Time) while covering an additional 32 feet (about 3 1/2 lengths) in a where he finished fifth last time. A debut winner sprinting on compact field, according to Trakus. the Saratoga lawn in August, the bay was fourth in the Con Lima (Commissioner) is also unbeaten in her two tries on Nownownow S. at Monmouth Oct. 4 and could only manage the grass, a 5 1/4-length thrashing of a Dec. 12 allowance ahead seventh in Belmont's Awad S. on yielding ground Oct. 31. The of a 3 1/4-length defeat of Honey Pants (Cairo Prince) in the New York-bred captured a six-panel turf event at Aqueduct local Ginger Brew S. Jan. 2. Both of those successes were Dec. 4 prior to the Dania Beach. achieved in front-running fashion, but rating tactics in a field that appears loaded with speed could go a long way here. Domain Express (Kitten's Joy) represents the Chad Brown stable, successful in this event each year from 2012-2017, and comes out of a visually impressive four-length maiden victory against decidedly easier at Tampa Dec. 5.
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NY FAVORITES, TOP SIRE LINES HEAD TO "When you watch him race and you watch him go head-to-head with Maximum Security, that's what they do. They go out there EMPIRE STATE and they just try to keep a high speed the first half of the race and slow down the least. King for a Day was the much better horse that day. He beat Maximum Security by a length. "Uncle Mos have done really well at getting out there early with early speed in dirt races and carrying it through the finish. I think that's something at which he's going to do well, bringing that into the program in New York." King for a Day's dam, Ubetwereven (French Deputy), has consistently produced winners for Red Oak Stable. "King for a Day was bred and raced by Red Oak Stable," said Leak. "They owned the mare, and she's produced three stakes winners for them. They've got a very deep family history of breeding horses in Florida, Kentucky and now in New York. They're very committed to this stallion, making sure that he gets Click here to play video the right horses to start off properly as a young stallion." by Diana Pikulski In fact, Ubetwereven was featured by TDN in June 2019 and The New York State Thoroughbred Breeding and Development was coined 'the gift that keeps on giving.' Rick Sacco, Red Oak's Fund's incentive and rewards program continues to drive new racing and operations manager, told TDN, "I bought the mare interest and investment in New York stallions, particularly those privately for Mr. Brunetti about 15 years ago off of Irv Cowan in whose pedigrees fit the race conditions and surfaces of the New Kentucky. We were looking to upgrade and Mr. Cowan was York Racing Association. Sons of champions and horses that looking to cut back and sell some mares. I just loved her were popular and successful in New York are debuting at stud physically and loved French Deputy. She is a mare with a lot of and coming with significant mare bookings generated in part by bone, good conformation and just looked the part. the buyers' market at the breeding stock sales during the past "King for a Day is her third stakes winner. We've had Ima three months. Jersey Girl and Feel That Fire, who is the dam of Mind Control, a Rick Burke's Irish Hill Century Farm, established by his multiple graded stakes winner of over $1 million. King for a Day ancestors in 1883, is located in Stillwater. In partnership with is her first stakes winner since we moved our mares to Michael Lischin and Anya Sheckley's Dutchess Views Farm, Irish Kentucky." Hill will stand six stallions in 2021 including New York's leading Ubetwereven has produced seven winners from nine foals of sire, Big Brown (Boundary), and New York's leading sire of racing age. Three of those winners have captured black-type 2-year-olds, War Dancer (War Front). events. She'll be bred back to Uncle Mo this year. Cont. p14 New to stud in 2021 and new to the roster at Irish Hill are King for a Day (Uncle Mo) and Lookin At Lee (Lookin At Lucky). "King for a Day arrived in late December, and that was a big day for us and for breeders in New York," said Irish Hill Century Farm stallion manager Bill Leak. "Being a son of Uncle Mo, who currently has three of the top four 2-year-old sires in the country, is definitely a big plus. He's going to provide a lot of good opportunities for New York breeders." King for a Day is owned by Red Oak Stable and was trained by Todd Pletcher. Earning $260,550 in seven starts, King for a Day had three wins, a second and a third. He beat Maximum Security (New Year's Day) in the Pegasus S. at Monmouth Park but ran into traffic in the GI Haskell S. four weeks later, finishing fifth. High-cruising speed is a term that has been used to describe the running style of King for a Day and that of his sire, Uncle Mo. "With King for a Day, it's that high-cruising speed that stands King for a Day defeated Maximum Security in Monmouth's Pegasus Sarah Andrew out. That is what King for a Day really excelled at," said Leak. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 14 OF 19 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 30, 2021
NY Favorites, Top Sire Lines Head to Empire State cont. (Tapit), Girvin (Tale of Ekati), Practical Joke (Into Mischief) and "King for a Day's conformation, I think, is very similar to Uncle others in that talented field. Mo. He stands over a lot of ground. He's got a lot of leg, a little "It was so exciting and special," said Lee Levinson. "Since Risen bit of a shorter back--something that we've been seeing lately, Star (Secretariat) [in 1988], no horse that started in the that has been proven to show that high-cruising speed ability," Kentucky Derby from post position one before Lookin At Lee had said Leak. finished in the top three." "We've been fortunate and lucky enough to have had our The Levinsons bought Lookin At Lee as a yearling for $70,000 hands on a few Uncle Mos," said Sacco. "And King for a Day is at the first horse sale they ever attended. definitely one of the big, good-looking ones." "He was in Book 1 at Keeneland," said Levinson. "We liked the Leak reports that King for a Day has been very well received by way he looked and we liked that his family on both sides has New York breeders. proven winners. We would have paid more." "They see an opportunity here for him to bring things to their As for what Lookin At Lee brings as a young sire, Levinson said mares that maybe they haven't seen before, or they have seen his soundness and health while being consistently competitive at before and were able to capitalize on," said Leak. "He's a total that level of racing throughout his career stands out most outcross through his first four lines. So, there are opportunities dramatically. His pedigree on both sides is a close second. for breeders to breed all sorts of mares to him. Uncle Mo and his "After the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, he went on and competed sons have been very successful with multiple different lines of in exclusively graded stakes for his 3-year-old campaign, racing breeding." in eight graded stakes over five Continued Sacco: "Red Oak will months," said Leak. "He's a very be supporting King for a Day durable horse, and I think that's with at least 12 mares as of one thing he brings to the New today and that number could York program--durability--as rise to 15. Some have been well as a high performance recently retired from the track, a level." couple are from our Kentucky "The New York breeders' division, some are recently program is one of the better purchased and we will be ones," said Levinson. "And with attending the upcoming a horse like him who stayed so February Fasig-Tipton Kentucky healthy, ran in all three Triple Sale." Crown races and had no leg Sacco added, "Red Oak looks issues through these long forward to participating in every campaigns, we thought he could Lookin At Lee was second in the 2017 Kentucky Derby | Coady facet of the lucrative New York- really make a name for himself bred program. There is benefit in owning a stallion in New York in New York." and receiving stallion awards, breeders' awards and rich New Lookin At Lee was bred in Kentucky by Ray Hanson and is out York-bred restricted race and stakes programs offered to of a Langfuhr mare, Langara Lass. His sire, Classic-winning Lookin owners." At Lucky, is also the sire of five-time Grade I winner Accelerate Also new to Irish Hill and Dutchess Views is Lookin At Lee. The and Kentucky Derby winner Country House, who are both at 2017 GI Kentucky Derby runner-up (from post one at odds of stud. 33-1) to Always Dreaming (Bodemeister) earned $1,343,188 for "It took 23 years of Mr. Hanson breeding this family and L and N Racing, a four-way partnership composed of Lee, Andy refining it to get to this point where he got Lookin At Lee," said and Michael Levinson, and Don Nelson. The winner of the Ellis Leak. "Not only did he get Lookin At Lee, but he also got his Park Juvenile S. at two and the Downs At Albuquerque H. at age half-brother, Blended Citizen [Proud Citizen], who's a multiple five--trained throughout his career by Hall of Famer Steve Grade III stakes winner, and also his half-sister Battlefield Angel Asmussen-- was fourth in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Santa [Proud Citizen], who produced Manny Wah [Will Take Charge], Anita. who ran in the Breeders' Cup Sprint this year." In the first leg of the Triple Crown, Lookin At Lee beat Classic Manny Wah won the Duncan F. Kenner S. his first time out in Empire (Pioneerof the Nile), to whom he was runner up twice as 2021, bringing his lifetime earnings to $501,888. a 2-year-old, as well as Battle of Midway (Smart Strike), Tapwrit Cont. p15 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 15 OF 19 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 30, 2021
NY Favorites, Top Sire Lines Head to Empire State cont. said Friday morning. AIt=s like everybody=s giving him credit, "Lookin At Lee's conformation is very classic. Durability is what loving him or whatever. But Arkansas people kind of already you see when you see him," said Leak. "He stands up straight. thought that he was a champion, regardless, and it=s kind of like He's got good feet, good bones. He's got a great shoulder, a nice the rest of world got to see what we=ve been thinking for three back, and a good motor to go with it." years.@ At Irish Hill, breeders are showing interest in Lookin At Lee and Among the gelding=s 2020 Oaklawn starts, he took the Hot the Levinsons have sent a number of mares to the farm. Springs S. last March--winning for a record fourth consecutive "We're expecting a lot of good support for Lookin At Lee," said year--and a record third GIII Count Fleet Sprint H. in April. Leak. "The Levinsons bought mares in the breeding stock sales Moquett confirmed Friday that the 8-year-old, who is this season that are here and that are going to be foaling and currently in training at Oaklawn, will target a similar path in bred back to Lookin At Lee. We've also gotten good support 2021 as to his championship season, beginning Mar. 13 with the from the local breeders already committing mares to Lookin At Hot Springs S. Whitmore=s major spring objective, according to Lee." Moquett, is again the GIII Count Fleet Sprint H., which will be As for the 7-year-old's adjustment to life on the farm, he contested Apr. 10. Both races are at six furlongs. appears calm and confident. AStill the plan,@ Moquett said. AHe=s going to run a mile and a "Lookin At Lee is really easy to be around. He's got a great half at Oaklawn [this winter].@ personality," said Leak. "He's a very smart horse who is willing to be a participant in whatever it is you want him to do." Added Asmussen: "He's a lovely horse. He's a talented, sound AMERICAN-BRED TRIO FEATURES IN SAUDI horse that will be a good addition to the New York breeding program." CUP PREP by Alan Carasso
WHITMORE TO MAKE 2021 DEBUT IN HOT SPRINGS S.
Scars Are Cool training for the 2019 Travers | Sarah Andrew King Abdulaziz Racetrack in the Saudi capital of Riyadh plays host to the $266,667 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup (King's Cup) Saturday afternoon, a 10-furlong affair that will produce a handful of runners for the second running of the Whitmore taking the GI Breeders' Cup Sprint Breeders' Cup Eclipse Sportswire $20-million Saudi Cup in three weeks' time. Scars Are Cool (Malibu Moon) won three of his 13 starts in the The freshly-minted Eclipse Award winning sprinter Whitmore colors of Sagamore Farm and fetched $175,000 from Saudi (Pleasantly Perfect) will try to add to his seven Oaklawn stakes Arabian interests during the Horses of Racing Age section of the wins this winter, according to part-owner--along with Bob Fasig-Tipton July Sale last summer. The Florida-bred was well- LaPenta and Head of Plains Partners--and trainer Ron Moquett. beaten behind the re-opposing Making Miracles (GB) (Pivotal Whitmore punctuated his 2020 campaign with a dominating {GB}) in the Crown Prince Cup over 2400 meters Dec. 26, but victory in the Nov. 7 GI Breeders= Cup Sprint at Keeneland. dropped back in trip and registered a 3/4-length victory in AI think the reaction that we get from the rest of the people allowance company going a mile Jan. 15 (video). Scars Are Cool kind of mimics how we feel all the time about him,@ Moquett has gate 16 in a field of 18. Cont. p16 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 16 OF 19 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 30, 2021
American-Bred Trio Features in Saudi Cup Prep cont. The 5-year-old mare, a winner at three, is out of GSW The Khalid Mishrif Bin Shanan-owned Gronkowski (Lonhro Washington Bridge (Yankee Gentleman) and is a half-sister to {Aus}) and Axelrod (Warrior's Reward) also landed double-digit Mnasek (Empire Maker), who was runner-up in the Jan. 28 posts in 11 and 14, respectively, as they attempt to earn their U.A.E. 1000 Guineas. way into the Saudi Cup. Runner-up to Justify (Scat Daddy) in the 2018 GI Belmont S., Gronkowski ran Thunder Snow (Ire) (Helmet {Aus}) to a nose in the 2019 G1 Dubai World Cup and finished a LAUREL MOVES SUNDAY CARD TO THURSDAY distant 10th to Maximum Security (New Year's Day) in last year's Due to a winter storm expected to hit the Mid-Atlantic region, Saudi Cup. He is unraced since. Axelrod, winner of the 2018 the Maryland Jockey Club has moved Sunday=s scheduled GIII Indiana Derby and GIII Smarty Jones S., was ninth in the nine-race program at Laurel to Thursday, Feb. 4. Post time 2019 World Cup and was last seen finishing runner-up in the remains 12:25 p.m. Laurel=s network of off-track betting outlets G3 Burj Nahaar S. at Meydan last March. will remain open. Hallaaf (KSA) (Friends Lake) looks the best of the horses bred locally and exits a defeat of the commonly owned Persian Moon (Ire) (Makfi {GB}) in the King Saud Bin Abdulaziz Cup over course and distance Jan. 16. COAL FRONT SIRES FIRST FOAL The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup has a scheduled Spendthrift Farm=s Coal Front (Stay Thirsty--Miner's Secret, by post time of 11 a.m. ET. Click here for live streaming. Mineshaft) sired his first reported foal Jan. 26 when a filly was born at Shade Tree Farm in Ocala, FL. Bred by Tracy Pinchin & Kenneth D=Oyen, the flashy bay filly is out of the Wildcat Heir HALF TO CADDO RIVER AMONG mare Defying Gravity. AThis is a good foal. Nice, big, strong filly with a lot of leg, good SUPPLEMENTS TO FASIG-TIPTON KENTUCKY shoulder and hip. I like her best of the three foals the mare=s had,@ said Bert Pilcher, owner of Shade Tree Farm. AShe was quickly up and quickly nursed, everything was perfect. If I owned the stallion, I=d sure be happy about this foal. I think she=s going to be a knockout yearling.@ Coal Front won eight times from 13 starts, with five of those victories coming in graded stakes, and earned $1,825,280. A $575,000 2-year-old purchase, Coal Front is set to stand his second season for a fee of $5,000 S&N.
Caddo River | Coady Fasig-Tipton has added an additional five supplemental entries, catalogued as hips 665-669, to its 2021 Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale. The sale will be held Feb. 8-9 at Newtown Paddocks near Lexington, Ky., with sessions beginning each day at 10 a.m. Included among the latest supplements are Babybel (Bodemeister, hip 665), a 4-year-old half-sister to 'TDN Rising Star' and recent runaway winner of the Smarty Jones S., Caddo River (Hard Spun). Babybel won at both two and three and is consigned as a broodmare prospect by James M. Herbener, Jr. Another broodmare prospect, this one from the consignment Coal Front | Sarah Andrew of Paramount Sales, is Samandah (Pioneerof the Nile, hip 669). TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 17 OF 19 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 30, 2021
2021 WOODBINE STAKES SCHEDULE RELEASED Purses for all Grade III Stakes races at Woodbine Racetrack will receive a 20% increase to $150,000 this season. Also of note for 2021, Listed races have increased purses to $125,000, boosted from $100,000. AWe are excited to bring back the Pattison Canadian International as part of our world-class stakes schedule for the 2021 Thoroughbred meet at Woodbine Racetrack,@ said Lawson. AThe 2021 stakes schedule includes several significant purse increases, including the GI Natalma and GI Summer, as well as all Grade III stakes. These increases, along with a strong complement of stakes races for all ages, and robust Ontario- bred stakes offerings, will deliver exciting racing, competitive fields, and an abundance of wagering options available on Woodbine=s outstanding live racing product.@ For the complete stakes schedule, visit www.woodbine.com.
Starship Jubilee, winner of the 2020 GI Ricoh Woodbine Mile Michael Burns Woodbine Entertainment unveiled its stakes schedule for the 2021 Thoroughbred racing season at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, set to open Apr. 17 (subject to the latest Ontario Government COVID-19 protocols). ALast year was obviously a challenging year for the industry due to COVID-19,@ said Jim Lawson, CEO, Woodbine Entertainment. AWhile Woodbine Entertainment and the horse SECOND TAMPA PURSE INCREASE KICKS IN FEB. 3 racing industry continue to be impacted, we are hopeful that the Tampa Bay Downs horsemen and horsewomen will benefit pandemic in Ontario improves in the coming months, allowing from another increase in purse money beginning Wednesday. businesses and industries to safely re-open, including our ability The approximate 10% boost will provide a $1,000 increase for to start our 2021 meet as planned on Saturday, Apr. 17.@ all maiden special weight, allowance, claiming and starter races. The 2021 Thoroughbred stakes program will offer more than Peter Berube, the track=s Vice President-General Manager, $16.5 million in purses across 87 stakes and feature a pair of $1 said a double-digit gain in simulcast wagering has more than million events, including the Aug. 22 Queen's Plate, as well as offset a decline in on-track wagering, making the second the Sept. 18 GI Ricoh Woodbine Mile, a Breeders' Cup AWin And increase of the 2020-2021 meeting possible. The track had You're In@ race. The GI Pattison Canadian International, raised purses by approximately 10% Dec. 16. cancelled in 2020 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, will be Tampa Bay Downs is averaging $4.1-million in daily handle on featured on the Woodbine Mile card along with the GII Canadian its product, a 15%t increase from the same period last season. S. The GI Natalma S. and GI Summer S., both designated as On-track wagering has fallen 25%, mostly attributable to the Breeders' Cup AWin And You're In@ races, have each received a effect of COVID-19 on attendance. purse hike in 2021 to $400,000 from $250,000. The Woodbine AOur Thoroughbred signal is among the most popular in the Cares and Ontario Racing Stakes, juvenile Inner Turf stakes country each winter and continues to gain new players, thanks introduced in 2019, will be contested on the same Sunday with to the size of our fields (an average of 8.4 horses a race) and our purses of $125,000 each. outstanding turf program,@ Berube said. AWe are pleased to use The GI Highlander S., with an increased purse of $350,000 (up the increased revenue to support the people who make our from $300,000), also returns after a year hiatus due to the racing competitive and challenging for serious handicappers and pandemic and will be featured on The Queen=s Plate undercard. $2 bettors alike.@ The GI E.P. Taylor S. headlines the Oct. 17 card, serving as the final leg of Woodbine's Ladies of the Lawn Series, which offers $75,000 in bonuses to the top performers based on points FIND US ON FACEBOOK accumulated in the designated graded turf routes for fillies and www.facebook.com/thoroughbreddailynews mares. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 18 OF 19 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 30, 2021
BREAKING LUCKY REPRESENTED BY FIRST FOAL June 4, and end with the 153rd running of the Belmont S. June GSW & MGISP Breaking Lucky (Lookin at Lucky--Shooting 5. Contest players can make win, place, show, exacta, and Party, Sky Classic) was represented by his first foal Jan. 29, a colt trifecta wagers. born at Blue Star Racing in Louisiana. Bred by 4M Ranch and Online registration for the Belmont Stakes Challenge will open Blue Star Racing, the colt is out of Anea (Unbridled=s Song). in May. AIf there is one word that I can use to describe this colt, it Over the course of the 2021 season, NYRA will offer six NYRA would be strong,@ said Blue Star Racing Owner Dex Comardelle. Bets live-money handicapping challenges featuring a $3,000 AHe is nicely put together, has all the right angles, has good buy-in with each event offering cash prizes, a seat in another bone, conformation, and lots of leg! If this first colt is any 2021 $3,000 NYRA Bets contest and two 2022 NHC seats. indication of how the rest of Breaking Lucky=s crop will look, it=s The handicapping challenges will kick off Saturday, Mar. 6 with going to be an exciting year.@ the Gotham Challenge. The GIII Gotham S. provides 50-20-10-5 A four-time winner and millionaire, Breaking Lucky stands at Kentucky Derby qualifying points to the top four finishers. Pleasant Acres Stallions in Florida for $5,000 LFSN. The $3,000 NYRA Bets handicapping challenge series: Saturday, Mar. 6 B Gotham Challenge Saturday, Apr. 3 B Wood Memorial Challenge FASIG-TIPTON REMAINS SPONSOR OF FOUNTAIN Saturday, July 3 B Stars & Stripes Challenge Saturday, Aug. 7 B Whitney Challenge OF YOUTH Saturday, Sept. 4 B Woodward Challenge Fasig-Tipton will remain title sponsor of the $350,000 GII Saturday, Dec. 4 B Cigar Mile Challenge Fountain of Youth S. A prep for the GI Florida Derby and GI Kentucky Derby, the race will be held at Guflfstream Feb. 27. Each Saturday throughout the racing season--with the AFasig-Tipton is delighted to partner with 1/ST Racing once exception of the NYRA Bets challenge series dates and also May again this year to sponsor the Fountain of Youth Stakes,@ 1, May 15, and Nov. 6--NYRA Bets will offer a $300 live-money Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning said. AWe are proud to handicapping challenge. The NYRA Bets $300 live-money sponsor such a prestigious race ahead of our marquee handicapping challenge ($200 live bankroll / $100 prize pool) 2-year-olds-in-training sale at Gulfstream Park on Mar. 31.@ offers cash prizes to the top seven finishers, while players that land eighth through 10th in the standings will receive an entry in next week=s contest ($300 value). NYRA ANNOUNCES '21 HANDICAPPING CHALLENGE SCHEDULE The New York Racing Association, Inc. announced the schedule 1/ST RACING CONTINUES SUPPORT OF JOCKEYS' for the 2021 Handicapping Challenge series, anchored by the GUILD two-day Belmont Stakes Challenge, scheduled for June 4-5. 1/ST RACING will continue its long-term support of the Register for the online contest is available via NYRA Bets. The Jockeys= Guild and its member jockeys. Under the terms of the leaderboard for all of these contests will be posted throughout agreement effective Jan. 1, 2021, each of 1/ST RACING=s venue the day on America=s Day at the Races, the national telecast racetracks will continue to make payments to the Jockeys= Guild produced by NYRA in partnership with FOX Sports. to subsidize health, life and accident insurances, as well as In order to enter and play online, contestants must be short-term and long-term disability benefits for jockeys who are registered NYRA Bets account holders. To learn more, visit members of the Guild and ride at 1/ST RACING racetracks. www.NYRA.com/challenge. A1/ST RACING is pleased to continue supporting the Jockeys= Entrants for the two-day Belmont Stakes Challenge will Guild,@ said Craig Fravel, Chief Executive Officer, 1/ST RACING. compete for one seat to the 2022 Belmont Stakes Challenge, AGuild members compete daily at 1/ST RACING venues and their four seats to the National Handicapping Championship (NHC) safety and well-being is integral to our sport, during and after and two seats to the Breeders= Cup Betting Challenge (BCBC). their careers. 1/ST RACING looks forward to continue working The 2021 Belmont Stakes Challenge has an entry fee of with the Jockeys= Guild to advance and promote safe racing for $10,000, of which $2,500 will go directly to the prize pool, with horse and rider.@ the remaining $7,500 comprising each participants= bankroll. Eligible tournament races at Belmont Park will start Friday, TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 19 OF 19 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 30, 2021
NEW FACILITY FOR FLORIDA'S STORMBORNE HOLTHAUS WINS ECLIPSE 50 CONTEST STALLIONS Mary Holthaus was selected as the winner of the NTRA Eclipse 50 Contest, which asked fans to choose their top 10 favorite Eclipse Awards champions, along with their favorite champion jockey and trainer, from the past 50 years. Holthaus, who resides in Easton, Maryland, was randomly selected from the participants who submitted a ballot. The longtime racing fan won a trip for two to Lexington to spend a day at the races at Keeneland, tour the Four Roses Bourbon Distillery and visit historic Spendthrift Farm. In the same contest, Secretariat was voted number one all- time Eclipse champion. He was followed in the balloting by 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew in second. Champion Zenyatta was third with 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah fourth and two-time Horse of the Year Cigar fifth. Affirmed, winner of the 1978 Triple Crown, was sixth in the rankings followed by Hall of Famers John Henry, Ruffian, Forego, and Backtalk | Sarah Andrew Spectacular Bid completing the top 10. Danielle Dougherty's Stormborne Stallions has opened a new, Hall of Famer Bob Baffert was voted the all-time favorite 65-acre facility near Citra, Fla. The Marion County property will Eclipse Award-winning trainer with Laffit Pincay, Jr. selected as stand five stallions for the upcoming breeding season: Backtalk the top Eclipse Award-winning jockey. (Smarty Jones), Finale (Scat Daddy), Matanzas Inlet (Kitalpha), Rogueish (Into Mischief), and Young Brian (Hard Spun). All five stand for a fee of $2,500 each. AI am very excited about our new location and opening up the stallion shed in 2021,@ said Dougherty. AOur facilities are ideal for the upcoming season with a 24-stall barn for the stallions and a separate wing set up for foaling and mare care.@ Stormborne's new home will focus on stallions, mare care, foaling, and sales prep. Saturday, Santa Anita, post time: 5:30 p.m. EST SAN PASQUAL S.-GII, $200,000, 4yo/up, 1 1/8m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Tizamagician Tiznow MyRaceHorse and Spendthrift Farm LLC Mandella Van Dyke 9-2 2 Idol K Curlin Calvin Nguyen Baltas Saez 9-5 3 King Guillermo K Uncle Mo Victoria's Ranch Avila Cedillo 2-1 4 Express Train K Union Rags C R K Stable LLC Shirreffs Hernandez 2-1 5 Zestful Ghostzapper Shanderella Stables, Glatt, Mark, Haramoto, Danny, Glatt Maldonado 15-1 Haramoto, Doreen and Kawahara, Sheldon
Breeders: 1-Woodford Thoroughbreds, 2-My Meadowview LLC, 3-Carhue Investments, Grouseridge Ltd. &Marengo Investments, 4-Dixiana F arms LLC, 5-Pin Oak Stud, LLC
Saturday, Gulfstream, post time: 4:50 p.m. EST HOLY BULL S.-GIII, $200,000, 3yo, 1 1/16m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Jirafales Social Inclusion OGMA Investments, LLC and Off The Hook LLC Delgado Velazquez 20-1 2 Willy Boi Uncaptured Lea Farms, LLC Engler Alvarado 10-1 3 Papetu K Dialed In Magic Stables LLC Sano Reyes 15-1 4 Amount Curlin Repole Stable and St. Elias Stable Pletcher Saez 6-1 5 Tarantino K Pioneerof the Nile SF Racing LLC, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables, Brisset Zayas 8-1 Stonestreet Stables LLC, Golconda Stables, Siena Farm LLC and Masterson, Robert E. 6 Prime Factor K Quality Road CHC INC. and WinStar Farm LLC Pletcher Ortiz, Jr. 3-1 7 Greatest Honour Tapit Courtlandt Farms McGaughey III Ortiz 5-2 8 Sittin On Go K Brody's Cause Albaugh Family Stables LLC Romans Lanerie 5-1 9 Awesome Gerry K Liam's Map Fanelli, John, Cash is King LLC, LC Racing LLC, Joseph, Jr. Gaffalione 8-1 Braverman, Paul and Pinch, Timothy
Breeders: 1-Off The Hook Partners LLC, 2-Ocala Stud & William J. Terrell, 3-Almar Farm LLC, 4-Claiborne Farm & Adele B. Dilschneider, 5-Fred W. Hertrich III & John D. Fielding, 6-Two Hearts Farm LLC, 7-Courtlandt Farm, 8-Wynnstay LLC, 9-John Liviakis
Saturday, Gulfstream, post time: 1:10 p.m. EST KITTEN'S JOY S.-GIII, $100,000, 3yo, 1mT PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Chess's Dream Jess's Dream Dubb, Michael, Bouchey, Steven, Bethlehem Maker Gaffalione 8-1 Stables LLC and Bishop, Chester A. 2 It's a Gamble English Channel Mr. Amore Stable Breen Saez 9-2 3 Original Quality Road Eric Fein Terranova II Velazquez 5-1 4 Sigiloso Khozan Gelfenstein Farm Sano Zayas 10-1 5 Chao K Noble Mission (GB) Mad Dog Racing Stable Joseph, Jr. Ortiz 12-1 6 Never Surprised K Constitution Repole Stable Pletcher Ortiz, Jr. 9-5 7 Kentucky Pharoah American Pharoah Calumet Farm Sisterson Leparoux 5-2
Breeders: 1-Loren Nichols, 2-Ron Lombardi, 3-Peter E. Blum Thoroughbreds, LLC, 4-Brent Fernung, Crystal Fernung &Mike Sebastian Sr., 5-Kinga Farm & W. S. Farish, 6-Golden Pedigree LLC, 7-Calumet Farm Saturday, Gulfstream, post time: 2:10 p.m. EST CLAIBORNE FARM SWALE S.-GIII, $100,000, 3yo, 7f PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Likeable K Frosted Repole Stable, St. Elias Stable and Stonestreet Pletcher Saez 3-1 Stables LLC 2 King's Ovation K Not This Time West Point Thoroughbreds and Peacock Stable Romans Lanerie 12-1 3 Ultimate Badger K Commissioner Bakke, Jim and Isbister, Gerald Romans Ortiz 10-1 4 Poppy's Pride Khozan Stonehedge LLC Yates Rios 4-1 5 Drain the Clock Maclean's Music Slam Dunk Racing, Madaket Stables LLC, Wonder Joseph, Jr. Zayas 5-2 Stables and Nentwig, Michael 6 By George K Into Mischief Jump Sucker Stable, Claiborne Farm and Clement Ortiz, Jr. 2-1 Dilschneider, Adele B.
Breeders: 1-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC, 2-Roxanne Martin Stable Inc., 3-Erv Woolsey & Ralph Kinder, 4-Stonehedge LLC, 5-Nick Cosato, 6-H. Allen Poindexter
Saturday, Gulfstream, post time: 3:46 p.m. EST FORWARD GAL S.-GIII, $100,000, 3yo, f, 7f PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Wholebodemeister Bodemeister Sabana Farm Avila Zayas 10-1 2 Three Tipsy Chix Medaglia d'Oro Anita Ebert Racing LLC Wilkes Leparoux 5-1 3 Competitive Speed K Competitive Edge John C. Minchello Gonzalez Reyes 8-1 4 Queen Arella K Speightster J Stables LLC Rodriguez Alvarado 20-1 5 Dial to Win Dialed In Sea Gull Capital Hills Lopez 20-1 6 Lady Traveler K Quality Road West Point Thoroughbreds, Ballantyne, John A., Romans Lanerie 4-1 Freeman, William T. and Valdes, Michael 7 Zaajel Street Sense Shadwell Stable Pletcher Saez 7-5 8 Coach Jer's Joy Palace Legacy Racing LLC Joseph, Jr. Ortiz, Jr. 9-2
Breeders: 1-Sabana Farm, 2-Anita Cauley Breeding LLC, 3-White Fox Farm, 4-WinStar Farm, LLC, 5-Seagull Capital LLC, 6-Hidden Brook Farm, Candy Meadows LLC &Chris Swann, 7-Shadwell Farm, LLC, 8-Rebecca Farms, LLC
Saturday, Gulfstream, post time: 4:18 p.m. EST SWEETEST CHANT S.-GIII, $100,000, 3yo, f, 1mT PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Queen of the Green K Summer Front NBS Stable Arnett Lanerie 15-1 2 Honey Pants K Cairo Prince Bakke, Jim and Isbister, Gerald Clement Ortiz, Jr. 3-1 3 Candace O K Declaration of War River Oak Farm Motion Ortiz 12-1 4 Con Lima K Commissioner Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Graffeo, Joseph F., Pletcher Lopez 5-2 Del Toro, Eric Nikolaus and Johnson, Troy 5 White Frost Candy Ride (Arg) Gainesway Stable Mott Alvarado 9-2 6 Domain Expertise K Kitten's Joy Klaravich Stables, Inc. Brown Gaffalione 5-1 7 Lionessofbrittany Anchor Down Klesaris, Steve, Hibiscus Stables LLC and Klesaris Zayas 10-1 Dig That Mine, LLC 8 Director's Cut Exaggerator Gary Barber Casse Saez 6-1
Breeders: 1-Brereton C. Jones, 2-Betz/Lamantia/J. Betz, 3-Crosshaven Bloodstock, 4-Lisa Kuhlmann, 5-Gainesway Thoroughbreds Ltd., 6-J D Stuart, Mueller Farms, Inc. & Kenneth L. & Sarah K. Ramsey, 7-Farm III Enterprises LLC, 8-WinStar Farm, LLC Saturday, Santa Anita, post time: 6:30 p.m. EST ROBERT B. LEWIS S.-GIII, $100,000, 3yo, 1 1/16m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Medina Spirit Protonico Zedan Racing Stables Inc Baffert Cedillo 5-2 2 Rombauer Twirling Candy Fradkin, John and Fradkin, Diane McCarthy Smith 8-1 3 Parnelli K Quality Road C R K Stable LLC Shirreffs Rispoli 12-1 4 Hot Rod Charlie Oxbow Roadrunner Racing, Boat Racing, LLC and O'Neill Rosario 3-1 Strauss, William 5 Roman Centurian K Empire Maker Don Alberto Stable and Qatar Racing Limited Callaghan Hernandez 8-1 6 Waspirant Union Rags Wygod, Martin J., Wygod, Pam and Lessee Shirreffs Gonzalez 20-1 7 Wipe the Slate K Nyquist Reddam Racing LLC O'Neill Gutierrez 4-1 8 Spielberg K Union Rags SF Racing LLC, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables, Baffert Prat 7-2 Golconda Stables, Siena Farm LLC and Masterson, Robert E.
Breeders: 1-Gail Rice, 2-John Fradkin & Diane Fradkin, 3-Gainesway Thoroughbreds Ltd., 4-Edward A. Cox Jr., 5-Don Alberto Corporation, 6-Wygod Equine, LLC, 7-Brookfield Stud, 8-G. Watts Humphrey Jr.
Saturday, Aqueduct, post time: 1:50 p.m. EST TOBOGGAN S.-GIII, $150,000, 4yo/up, 7f PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY ML 1 Pete's Play Call K Munnings Michael Dubb Rodriguez Vargas, Jr. 9-5 2 Drafted Field Commission Misty Hollow Farm Duggan Davis 12-1 3 Share the Ride K Candy Ride (Arg) Silvino Ramirez Arriaga Franco 8-5 4 Stan the Man K Broken Vow Long Lake Stable LLC Terranova II Cancel 5-2 5 American Power Power Broker Goldfarb, Sanford J., Goldfarb, Irwin & Atras Carmouche 5-1 Estate of Ira Davis
Breeders: 1-Mr. & Mrs. Charles McGinnes, 2-John Foster, Barbara Hooker & Field Commission Partnership, 3-Dixiana Farms LLC, 4-Emma Quinn, Dermot Quinn, Scott Pierce & Debbie Pierce, 5-Gary & Mary West Stables, Inc. Sunday, Sam Houston Race Park, post time: 6:32 p.m. EST HOUSTON LADIES CLASSIC S.-GIII, $300,000, 4yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 Motion Emotion K Take Charge Indy MyRacehorse.com and Spendthrift Farm LLC Asmussen Mena 116 2 Jeweled Princess K Cairo Prince Walking L Thoroughbreds, LLC McPeek Gutierrez 118 3 Ujjayi Smarty Jones T. L. Wise Maker Hernandez 116 4 Lady Apple K Curlin Phoenix Thoroughbred III, Ltd. Asmussen Elliott 120 5 Figure It Out Paynter Joel Politi Amoss Luzzi 123 6 Shes Our Fastest Oratory Norman, Mark and Norman Stables LLC Gelner Eikleberry 118 7 Letruska Super Saver St. George Stable LLC Gutierrez Castanon 123
Breeders: 1-WinStar Farm, LLC, 2-Mary Reynolds, 3-T L Wise, 4-KatieRich Farms, 5-Alex Lieblong & JoAnn Lieblong, 6-Euerka Thoroughbred Farm, 7-St George Stables
Sunday, Sam Houston Race Park, post time: 7:07 p.m. EST JOHN B. CONNALLY TURF CUP S.-GIII, $200,000, 4yo/up, 1 1/2mT PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY WT 1 Celerity City Zip Cundiff Racing, LLC Cundiff Diego 116 2 Signalman General Quarters Lewis, Tommie M., Crabtree, Steve, Demaree, Dean, David A. McPeek Gutierrez 120 Bernsen, LLC and Chambers, Jim 3 Ajourneytofreedom K Hard Spun Paradise Farms Corp. and Staudacher, David Maker Castanon 118 4 Tenfold Curlin Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC Asmussen Elliott 116 5 Conviction Trade K Exchange Rate Paradise Farms Corp. and Staudacher, David Maker Hernandez 118 6 Marzo K Medaglia d'Oro Three Diamonds Farm Maker Jimenez 116 7 Tut's Revenge Eskendereya Claim To Fame Stable Stuart Eikleberry 120 8 Changi Giant Oak Jeanne Marie Dolan Dolan Hamilton 116 9 Vettori Kin (Brz) Vettori (Ire) Alistar Fyfe Stidham Mena 116 10 Spooky Channel English Channel Terry Hamilton Lynch Leparoux 120 11 Strong Tide English Channel Penny S. Lauer Lauer Doyle 123 12 Henley's Joy Kitten's Joy Bloom Racing Stable LLC Asmussen Carroll 116
Breeders: 1-Winfield Farm, 2-Monticule, 3-Pursuit of Success LLC, 4-Winchell Thoroughbreds, LLC, 5-John D. Gunther, 6-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC, 7-Lane Thoroughbreds LLC, 8-Al Ulwelling & Bill Ulwelling, 9-Haras Old Friends LTDA, 10-Calumet Farm, 11-Michael E. Lauer & Penny S. Lauer, 12-Kenneth L. Ramsey & Sarah K. Ramsey SIRE LISTS Sponsored by
2020 Leading Sires of 3YOS for stallions standing in North America through Thursday, January 28 Earnings represent worldwide figures, stud fees listed are 2020 fees. Rank Stallion BTW BTH GSW GSH G1SW G1SH Starters Wnrs Highest Earner Earnings 1 Into Mischief 11 27 4 12 2 3 139 74 7,170,000 13,404,150 (2005) by Harlan's Holiday Crops: 9 Stands: Spendthrift Farm KY Fee: $225,000 Authentic 2 Uncle Mo 12 18 10 17 -- 4 127 72 406,400 6,734,754 (2008) by Indian Charlie Crops: 6 Stands: Ashford Stud KY Fee: $175,000 Modernist 3 American Pharoah 9 13 5 10 1 3 109 48 937,143 5,561,012 (2012) by Pioneerof the Nile Crops: 2 Stands: Ashford Stud KY Fee: $100,000 Danon Pharaoh (JPN) 4 Constitution 5 10 2 6 1 3 90 43 2,388,300 5,404,321 (2011) by Tapit Crops: 2 Stands: WinStar Farm KY Fee: $85,000 Tiz the Law 5 Munnings 6 11 4 7 -- 3 103 61 500,400 4,288,353 (2006) by Speightstown Crops: 7 Stands: Ashford Stud KY Fee: $40,000 Bonny South 6 Daredevil 2 2 2 2 2 2 52 26 1,791,820 3,814,976 (2012) by More Than Ready Crops: 2 Stands: Lane's End Farm KY Fee: $25,000 Swiss Skydiver 7 Speightstown 7 10 5 7 2 3 74 42 506,328 3,605,655 (1998) by Gone West Crops: 13 Stands: WinStar Farm KY Fee: $90,000 Full Flat 8 Curlin 3 10 2 9 1 1 79 46 335,627 3,502,106 (2004) by Smart Strike Crops: 9 Stands: Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa KY Fee: $175,000 Curlin's Voyage 9 I'll Have Another ------70 43 450,228 3,449,181 (2009) by Flower Alley Crops: 5 Stands: Ocean Breeze Ranch CA Fee: $10,000 Mangan (JPN) 10 Tapiture 5 12 1 3 -- 1 96 58 508,940 3,252,451 (2011) by Tapit Crops: 2 Stands: Darby Dan Farm KY Fee: $10,000 Jesus' Team 11 Liam's Map 5 7 3 4 1 2 77 38 502,800 2,913,634 (2011) by Unbridled's Song Crops: 2 Stands: Lane's End Farm KY Fee: $30,000 Rushie 12 Tapit 3 12 2 8 -- 1 67 29 340,169 2,693,249 (2001) by Pulpit Crops: 13 Stands: Gainesway Farm KY Fee: $185,000 American Seed 13 Tonalist 2 8 2 5 -- -- 70 39 291,965 2,684,547 (2011) by Tapit Crops: 2 Stands: Lane's End Farm KY Fee: $12,500 Tonalist's Shape 14 Lookin At Lucky 4 7 2 3 -- -- 60 33 816,600 2,672,430 (2007) by Smart Strike Crops: 7 Stands: Ashford Stud KY Fee: $20,000 Wells Bayou 15 Bernardini 3 4 1 3 -- 1 69 28 642,829 2,661,361 (2003) by A.P. Indy Crops: 11 Stands: Darley KY Fee: $35,000 Art Collector
FOR ALL TDN SIRE LISTSBINCLUDING INDIVIDUAL CROP-YEAR REPORTS--VISIT WWW.THETDN.COM/TDN-SIRE-STATS/ SATURDAY=S RACING INSIGHTS Steve Asmussen saddles another pricey firster in Happy Romance (Runhappy), a $435,000 OBSAPR purchase after a :21 By Christie DeBernardis flat breeze. TJCIS PPs Sponsored by Alex Nichols Agency
PLETCHER, BROWN SADDLE INTRIGUING FIRSTERS 7th-GP, $50K, Msw, 3yo, 1 1/16m, 2:44p.m. Chad Brown unveils Christine and Phil Hatfield's ARISTON (Flatter) in this event. The $500,000 FTSAUG buy is a full to GSW Plainsman and a half to GSP Liam (Liam's Map). Their dam is a half to MGSW Southdale (Street Cry {Ire}). Todd Pletcher also saddles an interesting first timer in Avenue (Quality Road). Out of GSP Magic Union (Dixie Union), the $450,000 KEESEP acquisition is a half to GSP Tizamagician (Tiznow). TJCIS PPs
EXPENSIVE MEDAG DEBUTS IN N.Y. 9th-AQU, $80K, Msw, 4yo/up, 1m, 4:25 p.m. DJ Stable and Cash is King went to $900,000 to acquire FIVE TOOL PLAYER (Medaglia d'Oro) at the 2019 OBS March Sale after he breezed in :10 flat and he makes his belated debut Saturday, Oaklawn Park, post time: 4:06p.m. EDT here. The dark bay is out of GSP Rashnaa (Tapit). TJCIS PPs MARTHA WASHINGTON S., $200,000, 3yo, f, 1m PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML 1 Joy's Rocket Anthony's Cross Santana Asmussen 5-2 2 Novel Squall Violence Vazquez Ortiz 15-1 3 Coach Commissioner Geroux Cox 7-5 4 Will's Secret Will Take Charge Court Stewart 6-1 5 Lady Lilly Nyquist Cabrera Asmussen 9-2 6 Sylvia Q Violence Garcia Bauer 5-1
IN ORDER OF PURSE: 4th-Oaklawn, $85,000, Alw, 1-29, (NW3L), 4yo/up, f/m, 6f, Five Tool Player | Photos by Z 1:10.14, ft, 3 lengths. CASUAL (f, 4, Curlin--Lady Tak {MGISW, $1,160,782}, by STEWART UNVEILS PRICEY CANDY RIDE Mutakddim) earned a 90 Beyer Speed Figure when debuting a 7th-FG, $50K, Msw, 3yo, 6f, 5:04p.m. track-and-trip winner here last April, and doubled up in a China Horse Club and WinStar Farm's SCREENPLAY (Candy Churchill optional claimer in May. She was a distant sixth behind Ride {Arg}) makes his career bow in this spot for Dallas Stewart. a jaw-dropping performance by newly crowned champion The $490,000 KEESEP buy's second dam is champion Sweet Gamine (Into Mischief) in the GI Acorn S. at Belmont June 20, Catomine (Storm Cat), who is a daughter of SW & GISP Sweet and a well-beaten fifth in the Runhappy Audubon Oaks at Ellis in Life (Kris S.) and a full-sister to MGISW millionaire Life is Sweet. August. Cont. p2 TDN NORTH AMERICAN • PAGE 2 OF 6 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 30, 2021
Casual cont. 8th-Oaklawn, $85,000, Alw, 1-29, (NW3L), 4yo/up, 1 1/16m, Improving a bit off of a brief freshening to be third with some 1:44.72, ft, nose. traffic trouble at Churchill back in allowance company Nov. 26, THE SOUND (c, 4, Hard Spun--Catch the Moment, by Casual was most recently fourth in the two-turn She's All In S. at Unbridled), whose Eclipse-winning trainer saddled impressive Remington Dec. 18. Away as the 2-1 second choice behind even- Smarty Jones S. winner Caddo River (Hard Spun) here a week money Lady Rocket (Tale of the Cat), the chestnut traveled in earlier, kicked off his 4-year-old season with a narrow victory at third behind a pair of duelers through splits of :22.08 and :45.31. a short price. Second to subsequent GII San Antonio S. runner- Jockey Ricardo Santana, Jr. gave a confident peek back at the up Idol (Curlin) going seven panels at Churchill Sept. 26, the dark top of the stretch, and his mount leveled off in midstretch to bay went one better at Belmont on Halloween. He earned a power away and provide her pilot with his 1500th career win. strong 104 Beyer Speed Figure for airing in a one-mile Aqueduct Lady Rocket moved into a non-threatening second late. The allowance Nov. 29, and was pounded down to 1-5 here sporting winner is half to A Shin Spartan (Zensational), SW & MGSP-Jpn, plenty of promise but less experience than a fairly salty-looking $1,234,624; and to the SW dam of brilliant GISW sprinter cast of competitors. Breaking outward at the start and bumping Volatile (Violence). She has a yearling half-brother by Maclean's with a foe, The Sound tugged his way keenly to the lead to dole Music and her MGISW dam was bred to Curlin for 2021. For out splits of :23.07, :46.66 and 1:11.77. He drifted out and more on Casual's pedigree, see A Leading 'Lady' For Sikura, Hill appeared to brush with challenger Mo Mosa (Uncle Mo) in 'n' Dale. Lifetime Record: 7-3-0-1, $154,325. Click for the midstretch, but righted the ship and fought back when headed Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. to come out on the right side of a tight photo. Cont. p3 O-Hill 'n' Dale Equine Holdings, Inc. (J. G. Sikura) and Stretch Run Ventures, LLC; B-Hill 'n' Dale Equine Holdings, Inc & Stretch Run Ventures, LLC (KY); T-Steven M. Asmussen.
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8th-OP cont. The winner is full to Smooth Roller, GISW, $261,810; and half to Elite Alex (Afleet Alex), GSP, $106,000. He has a 2-year-old half-sister by Honor Code and his dam was breed to Frosted for 2021. Sales history: $300,000 Ylg '18 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 4-3-1-0, $155,100. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. SECOND-CROP STARTERS TO WATCH: SATURDAY, JANUARY 30 O-Shortleaf Stable, Inc.; B-John R. Cummins (KY); T-Brad H. Cox. 2020 Stud Fees Listed Air Force Blue (War Front), Ashford Stud, $10,000 178 foals of racing age/18 winners/0 black-type winners 8th-Laurel, $47,586, Alw (NW1X)/Opt. Clm ($62,500), 1-29, 3yo, 7-Gulfstream, Msw 1 1/16mT, King of Dreams, 15-1 f, 1m, 1:39.43, ft, 4 lengths. $105,000 RNA KEE SEP yrl; $180,000 OBS APR 2yo JOURNEYTOTHEMOON (f, 3, Tourist--Moon Meeting Too, by Malibu Moon) belied 11-1 odds when defeating a trio of next- Anchor Down (Tapit), Gainesway Farm, $5,000 out winners sprinting here Nov. 21, and was second behind a 90 foals of racing age/10 winners/0 black-type winners dominant winner attempting two turns as the favorite Jan. 8. 8-Tampa Bay Downs, Msw 1mT, Gilded Asset, 20-1 Installed the 5-2 second choice trying an intermediate trip, the $15,000 FTK OCT yrl; $25,000 OBS OPN 2yo dark bay was outsprinted early and sat second last along the 10-Gulfstream, $100K GIII Sweetest Chant S., 1mT, fence. She squeezed through a seam and inched closer heading Lionessofbrittany, 10-1 for home, spun widest for the stretch drive and cruised past foes $25,000 OBS APR 2yo under confident handling to dominate by a wrapped-up four lengths. Targe (Will Take Charge) completed the exacta. The Bradester (Lion Heart), Valor Farm, $3,000 winner has a 2-year-old half-sister by Palace Malice and a 42 foals of racing age/1 winner/0 black-type winners yearling half-brother by Mo Town. Her dam was bred to 4-Sam Houston Race, $75K Darby's Daughter Division of the Collected for 2021. Sales history: $35,000 Wlg '18 KEENOV; Clarence Scharbauer, Jr. Texas Stallion S., 5 1/2f, Cosmetology, $45,000 RNA 2yo '20 OBSAPR. Lifetime Record: 3-2-1-0, 6-1 $55,560. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored 6-Sam Houston Race, $75K My Dandy Division of the Clarence by Fasig-Tipton. Scharbauer, Jr. Texas Stallion S., 5 1/2f, Policy Limit, 20-1 O-Best A Luck Farm LLC, Cal Lin Racing & Alexander R. $7,500 TTA MIX yrl; $39,000 RNA TTA YHR 2yo Levengood; B-Jory Sherman & Don Blowe (KY); T-Michael J. Trombetta. Brody's Cause (Giant's Causeway), Spendthrift Farm, $5,000 141 foals of racing age/7 winners/2 black-type winners 11-Gulfstream, $200K GIII Holy Bull S., 1 1/16m, Sittin On Go, 9th-Gulfstream, $40,000, Alw (NW1$X)/Opt. Clm ($75,000), 5-1 1-29, 3yo, f, 5fT, :55.35, fm, 1 1/2 lengths. $65,000 KEE NOV wnl; $62,000 RNA KEE SEP yrl FOUZIA (f, 3, Sky Mesa--Lil White Dove, by Indian Charlie) broke through third out when switched to the grass going this California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit), Arrow Stud distance in August, and picked up black-type when third in the 196 foals of racing age/15 winners/0 black-type winners Untapable S. at Kentucky Downs Sept. 15. She was fourth in a 7-Gulfstream, Msw 1 1/16mT, Chrome Republic, 20-1 spot just like this on New Year's Day, and was 4-1 while donning 7-Laurel, Aoc 1m, Da Chrome, 20-1 blinkers for the first time here. Zipping right out to the front like $60,000 RNA KEE JAN wnl; $13,000 EAS MAY 2yo she did both in her graduation win and stakes placing, the dark bay doled out splits of :21.52 and :43.89 and kept finding to score by 1 1/2 lengths from Can't Buy Love (Twirling Candy). The winner's dam's produced a Liam's Map filly in 2019 before selling for $6,500 to Korean interests that November in foal to Tapwrit. Lifetime Record: SP, 6-2-0-2, $92,400. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O-Peter Vegso; B-Vegso Racing Stable (KY); T-Saffie A. Joseph, Jr. Well-bred Casual (Curlin) returns to winning ways.. TDN NORTH AMERICAN • PAGE 4 OF 6 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 30, 2021
Cinco Charlie (Indian Charlie), Spendthrift Farm, $5,000 Nyquist (Uncle Mo), Darley, $75,000 101 foals of racing age/16 winners/1 black-type winner 214 foals of racing age/22 winners/2 black-type winners 2-Oaklawn, Wmc 6f, Five Dreams, 3-1 5-Oaklawn, $200K Martha Washington S., 1m, Lady Lilly, 9-2 $280,000 KEE SEP yrl Exaggerator (Curlin), WinStar Farm, $15,000 7-Santa Anita, $100K GIII Robert B. Lewis S., 1 1/16m, Wipe the 249 foals of racing age/17 winners/0 black-type winners Slate, 4-1 7-Gulfstream, Msw 1 1/16mT, Crew Dragon, 3-1 $60,000 FTK FEB wnl; $125,000 KEE SEP yrl; $175,000 OBS OPN $110,000 KEE SEP yrl 2yo 10-Gulfstream, $100K GIII Sweetest Chant S., 1mT, Director's Cut, 6-1 Protonico (Giant's Causeway), Castleton Lyons, $5,000 $34,000 RNA FTK OCT yrl 49 foals of racing age/3 winners/0 black-type winners 7-Oaklawn, Wmc 6f, Filly Ray Cyrus, 20-1 7-Santa Anita, $100K GIII Robert B. Lewis S., 1 1/16m, Medina $10,000 KEE SEP yrl Spirit, 5-2
Frosted (Tapit), Darley, $25,000 $1,000 OBS WIN wnl; $35,000 OBS OPN 2yo 238 foals of racing age/18 winners/1 black-type winner 5-Charles Town, Msw 4 1/2f, Frosted White Face, 10-1 Runhappy (Super Saver), Claiborne Farm, $10,000 $300,000 RNA KEE NOV wnl; $200,000 RNA KEE SEP yrl; $9,000 199 foals of racing age/13 winners/0 black-type winners OBS APR 2yo 7-Fair Grounds, Msw 6f, Happy Romance, 8-1 6-Gulfstream, $100K GIII Claiborne Farm Swale S., 7f, Likeable, $200,000 FTK OCT yrl; $435,000 OBS APR 2yo 3-1 $350,000 KEE SEP yrl Shalaa (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), Haras de Bouquetot, $15,000 218 foals of racing age/21 winners/0 black-type winners Jess's Dream (Curlin), Ocala Stud, $4,000 3-Gulfstream, Msw 5fT, My Sea Cottage (Ire), 6-1 130 foals of racing age/9 winners/0 black-type winners RNA GOF NOV wnl; i60,000 GOF OR yrl 4-Gulfstream, $100K GIII Kitten's Joy S., 1mT, Chess's Dream, 8-1 $20,000 OBS WIN wnl; $25,000 FTK JUL yrl Social Inclusion (Pioneerof the Nile), Diamond B Farm, $5,000 5-Charles Town, Msw 4 1/2f, Golden Answer, 4-1 61 foals of racing age/4 winners/0 black-type winners 5-Charles Town, Msw 4 1/2f, Jess's Reserve, 8-1 11-Gulfstream, $200K GIII Holy Bull S., 1 1/16m, Jirafales, 20-1 $25,000 OBS APR 2yo 3-Gulfstream, Msw 5fT, Palemma, 20-1 Speightster (Speightstown), WinStar Farm, $10,000 $11,000 OBS WIN wnl; $5,000 OBS OPN 2yo 228 foals of racing age/20 winners/2 black-type winners
9-Gulfstream, $100K GIII Forward Gal S., 7f, Queen Arella, 20-1 Laoban (Uncle Mo), WinStar Farm, $25,000 $1,000 FTK OCT yrl; $475,000 RNA KEE HRA 2yo 138 foals of racing age/17 winners/3 black-type winners 1-Aqueduct, Msw 1m, Elegant Laoban, 12-1 $14,000 RNA KEE NOV wnl; $10,000 OBS OCT yrl; $17,000 RNA Tamarando (Bertrando), Harris Farms, $2,500 EAS MAY 2yo 33 foals of racing age/0 winners/0 black-type winners 1-Santa Anita, Msw 6f, Feeling Flush, 6-1 Mshawish (Medaglia d'Oro), Taylor Made Farm, $7,500 $7,000 NCA AUG yrl 133 foals of racing age/16 winners/0 black-type winners 3-Gulfstream, Msw 5fT, Golden Spoke, 8-1 Tourist (Tiznow), WinStar Farm, $5,000 $30,000 KEE SEP yrl 156 foals of racing age/17 winners/0 black-type winners 7-Turfway, Aoc 6f, Igloo, 8-5 10-Sam Houston Race, Msw 1mT, Tiebreak, 9-2 $9,000 FTK OCT yrl; $40,000 EAS MAY 2yo $10,000 FTK OCT yrl; $8,000 OBS OPN 2yo
Not This Time (Giant's Causeway), Taylor Made Farm, $40,000 Upstart (Flatter), Airdrie Stud, $10,000 203 foals of racing age/29 winners/4 black-type winners 167 foals of racing age/21 winners/0 black-type winners 6-Gulfstream, $100K GIII Claiborne Farm Swale S., 7f, King's 3-Gulfstream, Msw 5fT, Wora, 5-2 Ovation, 12-1 $195,000 KEE NOV wnl; $510,000 FTS AUG yrl $100,000 KEE NOV wnl; $100,000 KEE SEP yrl; $200,000 OBS APR 2yo
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Vancouver (Aus) (Medaglia d'Oro), Coolmore Australia lengths. **Horse of the Year, Ch. 2yo, Ch. Stayer & MSW-Kor. 146 foals of racing age/15 winners/1 black-type winner ***$37,000 RNA Ylg '16 KEESEP. 7-Gulfstream, Msw 1 1/16mT, Van Dusen (GB), 30-1 52,000gns TAT FOA wnl; 90,000gns TAT OCT yrl; $20,000 OBS APR 2yo
ALLOWANCE RESULTS: 7th-Oaklawn, $84,000, 1-29, (NW1X), 4yo/up, 1 1/16m, 1:45.03, ft, 1 length. BEAVER HAT (c, 4, Istan--Beret {SW & GSP, $251,251}, by Royal IN SOUTH KOREA: Academy) Lifetime Record: 15-3-4-2, $155,116. O/B-Nancy Sirius A, c, 3, Malibu Moon--Honest Cause, by Giant's Vanier & Lyda Williamson (KY); T-Brian Williamson. *1/2 to Kepi Causeway. Seoul, 1-29, Hcp., 1700m. B-Kathie Maybee & Rose (Strategic Mission), MSW, $384,822. Creek Farm (KY). *Won by 10 lengths. **$47,000 RNA Wlg '18 KEENOV; $40,000 Ylg '19 FTKOCT. 7th-Sam Houston Race, $37,000, (S), 1-28, (NW2L), 4yo/up, 6f, 1:11.96, ft, 3/4 length. Victor Moon, f, 3, Malibu Moon--Long Approach (GSP, FULL TRIGGER (g, 4, My Golden Song--Dixie Wheat, by Cien $183,451), by Broad Brush. Seoul, 1-29, Hcp., 1200m. Fuegos) Lifetime Record: 5-2-0-1, $46,345. O-Michael J. & Linda B-Stonehaven Steadings (KY). *1ST-TIME STARTER. **$67,000 Mazoch; B-Nat M. Kieffer (TX); T-Austin Gustafson. Ylg '19 KEESEP; $45,000 2yo '20 OBSJUN. 8th-Sam Houston Race, $37,000, 1-28, (NW1X), 4yo/up, f/m, 1mT, 1:38.32, fm, 1 1/2 lengths. Legend Day, c, 3, Race Day--Sakra, by Buddha. Seoul, 1-29, Hcp., GOOD FIGHT (f, 4, Afleet Alex--Gospel Girl, by Holy Bull) 1200m. B-Terry Phillips (IN). *Won for the fourth time in five Lifetime Record: 9-4-1-1, $63,259. O-Claiming Game Racing; starts. **$4,200 Ylg '19 KEEJAN; $17,000 Ylg '19 FTKOCT. B-Rustlewood Farm, Inc. (FL); T-Karl Broberg. *$70,000 Ylg '18 Aker's Dream, c, 4, Discreet Cat--Lady Guiseppina (Ire), by Duke KEESEP. **1/2 to Happy Farm (Ghostzapper), GSW, $466,888. of Marmalade (Ire). Busan, 1-29, Hcp., 1200m. B-Godolphin, Jamie Corbett & EV Racing (NY). *$2,500 Wlg '17 KEENOV; $19,000 RNA 2yo '19 FTMMAY. ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: Drivehappy, c, 3, Runhappy--Entrustment (GSP), by Forestry. Cupid Guy, g, 5, Jimmy Creed--She's Extreme (MSP, $159,746), Sam Houston Race, 1-28, 6 1/2f, 1:17.93. B-Siena Farms LLC by Unbridled's Song. Seoul, 1-29, Hcp., 1200m. B-Spendthrift (KY). Farm LLC (KY). *$25,000 Ylg '17 FTKOCT. Humpty Grumpty, c, 4, Midshipman--Shesagrumptoo (MSW, Moonhak Chief, h, 6, Pioneerof the Nile--Talullah Lula $453,005), by Luftikus. Charles Town, 1-28, (S), 7f, 1:29.68. (Broodmare of the Year-Kor, GSP-US), by Old Trieste. Seoul, B-O'Sullivan Farms (WV). *1/2 to Grumpelstiltskin (Successful 1-29, Hcp., 2000m. B-White Fox Farm (KY). *Won by six Appeal), SW, $232,828. TDN NORTH AMERICAN • PAGE 6 OF 6 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JANUARY 30, 2021
Chaching Bling, g, 4, Too Much Bling--Derheart, by Dehere. Sam ISTAN, Beaver Hat, c, 4, o/o Beret, by Royal Academy. ALW, Houston Race, 1-28, (S), 5 1/2f, 1:06.12. B-Larry S. Huntsinger 1-29, Oaklawn (TX). MIDSHIPMAN, Humpty Grumpty, c, 4, o/o Shesagrumptoo, by Fando, g, 5, Grasshopper--Milkshake, by Kingmambo. Sam Luftikus. MSW, 1-28, Charles Town Houston Race, 1-28, (S), 1mT, 1:39.85. B-W. S. Farish (TX). MY GOLDEN SONG, Full Trigger, g, 4, o/o Dixie Wheat, by Cien *$2,100 Wlg '16 TTAMIX. Fuegos. ALW, 1-28, Sam Houston RUNHAPPY, Drivehappy, c, 3, o/o Entrustment, by Forestry. MSW, 1-28, Sam Houston SKY MESA, Fouzia, f, 3, o/o Lil White Dove, by Indian Charlie. AOC, 1-29, Gulfstream TOO MUCH BLING, Chaching Bling, g, 4, o/o Derheart, by Dehere. MSW, 1-28, Sam Houston TOURIST, Journeytothemoon, f, 3, o/o Moon Meeting Too, by AFLEET ALEX, Good Fight, f, 4, o/o Gospel Girl, by Holy Bull. Malibu Moon. AOC, 1-29, Laurel ALW, 1-28, Sam Houston CURLIN, Casual, f, 4, o/o Lady Tak, by Mutakddim. ALW, 1-29, © Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. Oaklawn This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or by any GRASSHOPPER, Fando, g, 5, o/o Milkshake, by Kingmambo. means, electronic or mechanical, without prior written permission MSW, 1-28, Sam Houston of the copyright owner, MediaVista. Information as to the American races, race results and earnings was obtained from HARD SPUN, The Sound, c, 4, o/o Catch the Moment, by results charts published by The Jockey Club Information Services Unbridled. ALW, 1-29, Oaklawn and utilized here with their permission.
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