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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2014 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here UNTAPABLE UNFLAPPABLE IN DISTAFF CLASSIC CRESCENDO Winchell Thoroughbreds= Untapable (Tapit) put an The Breeders= Cup championship weekend at Santa exclamation mark on a distinguished 2014 campaign Anita will reach its crescendo this evening at 8:35 p.m. with a 1 1/4-length victory in Friday=s GI Longines ET with a field of 14 going postward in the $5-million Breeders= Cup Distaff. The 3-year- GI Breeders= Cup Classic and year- old filly overcame a wide trip to end honors up for grab across the become the second filly after board. The field is dominated by Ashado in 2004 to win the talented sophomores vying for the GI Kentucky Oaks and Distaff in champion 3-year-old title. Morning- the same year. Moments after line favorite Shared Belief (Candy piloting Untapable to victory, Ride {Arg}) is unbeaten in seven trips jockey Rosie Napravnik announced to the post and trainer Jerry she would retire from the saddle Hollendorfer has his eyes fixed Sunday. AShe=s an amazing mare Untapable squarely on the prize. AI just want to to put us on this stage and to Horsephotos win,@ Hollendorfer said. perform like she did,@ said winning Multiple champion Gio Ponti (Tale Horsephotos trainer Steve Asmussen. ARosie and she are a great of the Cat) twice came up on the combination and they have had a tremendous season. losing end to a pair of superstar fillies in the Breeders= Today, definitely makes her a champion and that=s Cup, running second behind Zenyatta (Street Cry {Ire}) enough said.@ Cont. p3 in the 2009 Classic and to Goldikova (Fr) (Anabaa) in the 2010 GI Mile, so trainer Christophe Clement has to MORE CENTS IN THE DIRT MILE be relieved his GI Belmont S. winner Tonalist (Tapit) W C Racing=s Goldencents (Into Mischief) sizzled won=t be facing any of the fairer sex today. AI am a through early fractions and then grittily held off ladies= man, I guess,@ Clement said with a smile. AThis Tapiture (Tapit) down the lane to score a second year we only have to race against the boys, so we=ll see straight victory in the GI Breeders= Cup Dirt Mile at what happens.@ Clement added, AIt would be very, very Santa Anita Friday. The 4-year-old was saddled by nice to win my first Breeders= Cup in the same year [as Leandro Mora, longtime assistant to trainer Doug my first Triple Crown race]. But, it will be tough. It=s a O=Neill, who was banned from this year=s very good race with some very good horses. He=s been championships due to a drug violation. AWhen I saw a wonderful horse to be around and my job is to bring Tapiture coming, I started to sweat,@ Mora admitted. him over there doing and feeling as good as possible ABut Goldencents kept trying and I started to relax. He and he is, so we=ll go from there.@ Saturday Fields p13 wasn=t going to let anyone beat him today.@ Making his final start Friday, Goldencents will take up stud duties next year at Spendthrift Farm. Cont. p5 WHAT A HOOT! Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith=s American-based, globe-trotting Hootenanny (Quality Road) was produced at exactly the right moment in the stretch by Frankie Dettori to lead home a Wesley Ward- trained exacta in the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Turf. Luck of the Kitten (Kitten=s Joy) was a close second after setting a fast pace. Cont. p8 THIS LADY IS A CHAMP Sometimes horses luck into good trips. Sometimes horses are good enough to make their own trips. Sheep Pond Partners= Lady Eli (Divine Park) most definitely falls into the latter category, as the elegant dark bay filly sat the box seat for Irad Ortiz Jr., was gifted a rail rally leaving the quarter pole and put the GI Juvenile Fillies Turf to bed in a matter of strides, accelerating away to leave GI Del Mar Debutante heroine Sunset Glow (Exchange Rate) in the dust. 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Wider still for the run down the backstretch and into the far turn, she rallied wide approaching the quarter pole, hit the front under a full head of steam in upper stretch and stayed on nicely for the victory. Blue-collar Don't Tell Sophia (Congaree), exiting a victory in the GI Juddmonte Spinster S., caboosed the field early on and was forced to cover ground on the final bend. She too was Assistant trainer Scott Blasi leads rolling late, but the Untapable into winner’s circle. wire came too soon Horsephotos for the 6-year-old, who fetched just the upset price when offered at the Keeneland September sale in 2009. AShe was unbelievable today,@ jockey Rosie Napravnik said of Untapable. AShe broke well. The race, when I looked at it on paper, I said it might not set up perfectly, but from the outside post and there=s a lot of horses in between that have speed. But we settled into a good spot, and down the backside I could not have had more confidence. She was just very powerful underneath me, and she started to take me when she was ready to move. I mean, we were wide around the second turn, but I was just sitting on go, and she was waiting on my call. She just ran excellent today.@ Of her decision to retire, Napravnik said, AI=ve been planning the retirement since I found out that I was pregnant. I=m about seven weeks pregnant. My husband Joe and I are going to be starting a family. His career is brand new and thriving, so it=s kind of good timing. He=s going to step into the limelight and I=m going to step out.@ Asked if her decision was permanent, Napravnik said, AIt's indefinite. I=m not thinking about a comeback in 10 months, but I can=t promise to stay off a horse forever.@ The Distaff win completes a magical season for Untapable, who also scored decisive scores in the GI Kentucky Oaks, GI Mother Goose S. and GI Cotillion S. The filly=s lone loss in seven 2014 starts came when she was fifth after a troubled trip in the July 27 GI Haskell Invitational. AShe=s had a great year and she=s a great filly,@ Steve Asmussen said. AWe had faith her. But, we=ve all been to the races, so you never know the outcome. She proved she=s a champion.@ Untapable=s victory capped a big day for the Winchell family, which was represented by GI Breeders= Cup Dirt Mile runner-up Tapiture (Tapit).