WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 2012 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here WALTER HAEFNER DIES HOLLYWOOD WILDCAT DEAD AT 22 Moyglare Stud supremo Walter Haefner has died in Champion Hollywood Wildcat (Kris S.--Miss his native Switzerland, aged 101. A memorial service Wildcatter, by Mr. Prospector) died at Roseglade Farms for his life and times will be held in Ireland at a later in Kentucky June 23. According to Dr. Patrick Ford, the date. Born in Zurich in 1910, the renowned 22-year-old mare, who was in foal to Kitten=s Joy, businessman and philanthropist, who set up the famed succumbed to complictions stemming from cancer. AWe Irish stud farm in 1962, will all miss her bred such luminaries as terribly, as she was Refuse To Bend (Ire) always a pleasure to (Sadler=s Wells), Casual be around,@ said Irving Conquest (Ire) (Hernando Cowan. Campaigned {Fr}), Trusted Partner by Irving and his late (Affirmed) and Dress To wife Marjorie Cowan Thrill (Ire) (Danehill). One and trained by Neil of the pioneers of Drysdale, the the dark international competition, bay won GIII Sorority Haefner was rewarded by S. at two before the victory of Go and Go adding wins in the (Ire) (Be My Guest) in the GI Hollywood and 1990 GI Belmont S. and Del Mar Oaks the by Additional Risk (Ire) following summer. 1993 BC Distaff: Hollywood Wildcat (rail) (Ahonoora {GB}) in the She concluded her Breeders’ Cup Photo inaugural Hong Kong sophomore season Moyglare Stud’s Walter Haefner Bowl. Last week, the with a nose victory over champion Paseana in the businessinsider.com black, white and red silks 1993 GI Breeders= Cup Distaff which earned her a were carried to success 3-year-old championship. At four, she added wins in at Royal Ascot by Princess Highway (Street Cry {Ire}) in the GI Gamely H. and GI Lady=s Secret H. and retired the G2 Ribblesdale S. and are due to be sported by a after a sole start at five, a win in the Little Brianne S. leading contender in Sunday=s G1 Irish Derby in cont. p3 Speaking of Which (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}). Having started out as an amateur rider, Haefner collected the Fegentri Champion Amateur Championship in 1963 and quickly established his name in breeding circles after setting up a longstanding partnership with Stan Cosgrove, who managed the County Kildare establishment beginning in 1967. In 1982, Moyglare was the breeder of a Classic winner in the Irish Derby hero Assert (Ire), which was followed a year later by the Japan Cup success of the G2 Ribblesdale S. heroine, Moyglare Stud’s mare Stanerra (Ire). Princess Highway Racing Post Photo Nineteen years later, Media Puzzle (Theatrical {Ire}) added another major overseas prize to the Maynooth-based operation=s tally when capturing the G1 Melbourne Cup. cont. p3 In This Issue Time Off For Alternation 60 Broad St., Suite 100 MGSW Alternation (Distorted Humor) will be given some time off before Red Bank, NJ 07701 resuming in August, according to trainer Donnie von Hemel. Page 3 (732) 747-8060 (732) 747-8955 (fax) www.thoroughbreddailynews.com www.thetdn.com Barry Weisbord, co-publisher [email protected] Sue Finley, co-publisher [email protected] Editorial [email protected] Jessica Martini, Editor-in-Chief Alan Carasso, Managing Editor Marie Kizenko, Senior Editor Christina Bossinakis, Senior Editor Lucas Marquardt, Features Editor Steve Sherack, Racing Editor Brian DiDonato, Racing Analyst/Soc. Media Dir. 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Coverage page 3 (atw) [email protected] Gregg Casillo, DB Administrator, Programming [email protected] Marketing Oppenheim Re-examines Ascot Gary King, Marketing Manager This week, TDN columnist Bill Oppenheim gives a run down of the [email protected] Royal meeting’s top three owners: Sheikh Mohammed’s Team Darley, TDN Newmarket Bureau: Cafe Racing Coolmore and Juddmonte’s Prince Khalid Abdullah. Also on the list again [email protected] Sean Cronin this year was The Queen, who ranked at number 10. Begins page 4 Tom Frary TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/27/12 • PAGE 3 of 7 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Hollywood Wildcat cont. from p1 A winner of 12 of 21 lifetime starts and $1,432,160, Hollywood Wildcat proved herself just as valuable at stud, producing GI Breeders= Cup Mile hero and fellow millionaire War Chant (Danzig); Group 2 winner and multiple Group 1/ Grade I placed Ivan Denisovich (Ire) (Danehill) and MSW & MGSP Ministers Wild Cat (Deputy Minister); and SW & GSP Double Cat (Storm Cat). She was also responsible for Group 3-placed Shintoh (Giant=s Causeway). Haefner cont. from p1 Also an Honorary Turf Club member in Ireland and the benefactor of organisations such as RACE and the Equine Centre, Haefner was responsible for supporting the G1 Moyglare Stud S., which will be staged for the 40th time in 2012. His daughter, Eva-Maria Bucher Haefner, recently announced the sponsorship of a series of breeders= awards for winning fillies and mares in Ireland this year called the AMoyglare 50.@ Extreme Horsepower... In 1957 Haefner became one of the first in Switzerland to import an IBM system for business use, which led to his 1964 creation of Automation Center A.G., a computer services company in Zurich. In 1976 he expanded operations to the United States and later merged his company with Russell Artzt's and Charles Wang's Computer Associates in 1987. He owned AMAG Automobil- und Motoren, a highly successful Swiss automobile dealership chain. RACETRACK ROUND-UP Time Off For Alternation Pin Oak Stable=s Alternation (Distorted Humor), fifth behind Ron the Greek (Full Mandate) in his latest start in the June 16 GI Stephen Foster H., is not expected to return to competition until August, trainer Donnie Von Hemel confirmed Monday. The dark bay, who kicked off the season with four consecutive wins, including the Apr. 14 GII Oaklawn H. and GIII Pimlico Special May 18, will stay in light training at Arlington Park. According to Von Hemel, last year=s winner of the GII Peter Pan S. is expected to return in Aug. 11 Governor=s Cup at Remington Park. AWe=ll take a little bit of a breather through the summer, start back there, and then look to something in New York, maybe the [GI] Jockey Club Gold Cup [Oct. 1], to see if we=re going to the Breeders= Cup [at Santa Anita Nov. 2-3] with him,@ Von Hemel told Daily Racing Form. In related news, stablemate Caleb=s Posse (Posse) was sent to a Kentucky farm following a narrow second-place finish behind Shackleford (Forestry) in the May 28 GI Metropolitan H. The dual Grade I winner is unlikely to return to racing action until late summer. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/27/12 • PAGE 4 of 7 • thoroughbreddailynews.com ROLE REVERSALS Every time a major European Classic or race meeting comes around, we=re used to reading how once again Coolmore and Ballydoyle dominate the headlines.But last week saw a welcome resurgence by Team Darley, as Sheikh Mohammed and his immediate family (wife Princess Haya, son and heir Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed) won a total of six races at Royal Ascot to lead the overall standings, with combined earnings of ,673,362 (roughly $1,050,000). By contrast, Ballydoyle won just two: the G1 Prince of Wales=s S., with So You Think (High Chaparral) for the Coolmore team, and the G3 Jersey S., with the filly Ishvana (Holy Roman Emperor) for Aidan=s missus, Annemarie. Sheikh Mohammed=s team was boosted by three of the five wins recorded by the week=s leading trainer, John Gosden, and two of the three wins for new wunderkind sire New Approach. Gosden=s three Maktoum wins were all for Princess Haya: G2 Windsor Forest S. (4yo+ fillies/mares, 1 mile) winner Joviality (Cape Cross); decisive G3 Albany S. (2-year-old fillies, 6 furlongs) winner Newfangled (New Approach); and Duke of Edinburgh H. (4yo+, 1 1/2m) winner Camborne (Doyen). Gosden also saddled G1 Coronation S. (3-year-old fillies, 1 mile) winner Fallen For You (Dansili) for Philippa Duncan=s Normandie Stud, and Wolferton H. (Listed, 4yo+, 10 furlongs) winner Gatewood (Galileo) for George Strawbridge as part of Gosden=s blockbuster Friday treble kicked off by Newfangled. Saeed bin Suroor saddled two winners for Sheikh Mohammed=s Godolphin operation: Colour Vision (Rainbow Quest) in Thursday=s G1 Ascot Gold Cup (4yo+, 2 1/2 miles)--in which they had the Exacta, as the Mahmoud al-Zarooni trained Opinion Poll (Halling) ran second--and Tha=Ir (New Approach), winner of Saturday=s seven-furlong Listed Chesham S. The Mark Johnston-trained Fennell Bay (Dubawi) won the 12-furlong King George V H. (3-year-olds) for Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed. In all, Famille Sheikh Mohammed recorded six wins and another six placings at the meet. Big turnaround for their team, at the world=s greatest week of racing. Prince Khalid Abdullah was number three on the Royal Ascot owners= list, according to figures compiled by the Racing Post and published in their Sunday, June 24 edition, with two winners--Frankel and Sea Moon-- and three seconds.