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FORT LARNED First Crop Yearlings Sell for up to $117,000 AAAAA SSSSASS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 WWW.BLOODHORSE.COM S S S S S ANNE M. EBERHARDT ANNE M. RUNHAPPY TUNES UP FOR BREEDERS' CUP See page 3 ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Frosted Camp Expected to Announce BC Decision 5 Southern Girl Steps Up in Raven Run 7 Smiling Tiger Colt Tops Barretts 9 Fillies Dominate Arqana Second Session 10 Catch a Glimpse May Not be Done for Season 10 BLOODHORSE DAILY Download the FREE smartphone app PAGE 1 OF 24 Pulpit – African Jade, by Seeking the Gold $25,000 S&N The Breeders’ Farm 859.294.0030 | spendthriftfarm.com RUNHAPPY TUNES UP FOR BREEDERS' CUP By Alicia Wincze-Hughes t @BH_AHughes im McIngvale's reigning cham- Jpion male sprinter Runhappy continued to tune up for the Nov. 4 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (gr. I) at Santa Anita Park, putting in a one- mile work in 1:39 at Keeneland the morning of Oct. 19. While trainer Laura Wohlers originally wanted to work the son of Super Saver wire to wire, the 4-year-old colt was extremely obstinate under exercise rider EBERHARDT ANNE M. Marcus O'Donnell and needed a Runhappy works a mile under exercise rider Marcus O'Donnell good deal of prodding before he ultimately broke off at the three- The antics Runhappy displayed The Ack Ack was also eighths pole. The duo clicked off prior to his work, Wohlers Runhappy's first start since the splits of :13 1/5, :24 3/5, :36 3/5, acknowleged, are "something he Malibu, as he has been plagued :48, 1:00, 1:12 2/5, and 1:25 1/5, with does every day." She said he has this year with bone bruising in his Runhappy looking a bit hot as he become a bit more "stubborn" right front cannon. He has been on came off the track. as he has gotten older. Despite an ambitious catch-up schedule Wohlers also worked Runhappy his tendancy to get distracted, ever since, but Wohlers maintains a mile in 1:38 4/5 Oct. 12 and said Wohlers said the team is not they have not lost faith in what his she was more encouraged this time concerned about the amount of blazing speed can accomplish on a around with how the defending morning training traffic he is going big stage. Breeders' Cup Sprint (gr. I) winner to encounter once he ships to "I do think he will go the (mile) handled the second part of his Santa Anita Oct. 23, citing the colt's distance," Wohlers said. "I would move. success when he captured the have liked to have maybe seen "Our biggest key today was to $300,000 Malibu Stakes (gr. I) there the mile (works) be a bit quicker. get him to pick it up around the last December. We would have liked not to have second turn more, because last In the Dirt Mile, Runhappy will to be rushing him so much, but he week he really didn't," Wohlers said. attempt to earn his first win beyond needed that time off. We'll see how "Last week, he kind of did three- seven furlongs. His only losses in it goes." eighths and then kind of got slower. nine starts have come at a mile and Bred in Kentucky by Wayne, Gray, He's going into a two-turn mile so beyond, with the first being a ninth- and Bryan Lyster, out of the Broken it's important that second turn was place finish in the 2015 Lecomte Vow mare Bella Jolie, Runhappy good, and the second turn he did Stakes (gr. III) and his most recent has won seven of nine starts with in about :23. So that was good. But defeat coming when he finished $1,486,250 in earnings. He was a I'm happy with it. We wanted him to fourth in the $100,000 Ack Ack $200,000 Keeneland September understand this is not just a one- Stakes (gr. III) going eight furlongs sale graduate in 2013. BH turn thing." at Churchill Downs Oct. 1. s Share this story BLOODHORSE DAILY Download the FREE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 PAGE 3 OF 24 smartphone app $500 SIGN-UP BONUS! SAFE AND SECURE. PLAYER FOCUSED. • US-BASED, LICENSED & REGULATED • TOP WAGER PAD, REWARDS & ROI • PREFERRED WAGER PAD FOR 2016 NHC CHAMPION & 3 OF TOP 5 FINISHERS WWW.AMWAGER.COM Download the FREE smartphone app Editorial Staff Editorial Director: John K. Keitt, Jr. BloodHorse Daily Editor: Claire Novak Asst. Daily Editor: Mary Reeder Art Director: Katie Taylor Contributing Writers: Frank Angst, Jeremy Balan, Tom Hall, Evan Hammonds, Eric Mitchell, Ron Mitchell , Erin Shea, Lenny Shulman, Alicia Wincze-Hughes Visuals Director: Anne M. Eberhardt Digital Media Group: Erin Morgan, Kimberly Reeves, Christine Wittmer Corporate Marketing SKIP DICKSTEIN and Advertising Sales and Services Frosted could return to the Breeders' Cup Classic or run in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile Director of Advertising Sales: Scott Carling. Regional Sales Managers: Shirley Dievert, Kristi Heasley, Ellen Lambertus, Amanda Ramey FROSTED CAMP EXPECTED TO Classified Sales: Catherine Johnston ANNOUNCE BC DECISION Chief Copywriter: Paul Gregory By Alicia Wincze-Hughes Operations t Creative Services: Lisa G. Coots (Director), Forrest F. Begley, @BH_AHughes Kerry Howe, Claudia Summers, David Young Technology: Courtney V. Bearse (Director), Alan Johnson rainer Kiaran McLaughlin wasn't ready to confirm TOct. 19 which Breeders' Cup race Godolphin Rac- Published by Blood-Horse LLC ing's Frosted would start in. President, Publisher and Chief Executive Officer: John K. Keitt, Jr. He did say the 4-year-old son of Tapit continues Board of Directors: James L. Gagliano, Carl Hamilton, Ian D. Highet, Stuart S. Janney III, Dan Metzger, Rosendo Parra, Dr. J. David to march toward either goal in good order. His latest Richardson progession was a six-furlong work in 1:11 at Greentree Contact Us Training Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Editorial: 859-276-6770 McLaughlin said the team will likely announce a Advertising: 859-276-6847 decision Oct. 20 whether Frosted will run the Breeders' Publisher: 859-276-6888 Cup Classic (gr. I) Nov. 5 at Santa Anita Park or the Editorial: [email protected] Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (gr. I) Nov. 4. Though he Publisher: [email protected] wouldn't indicate which race he is personally leaning Advertising: [email protected] [email protected] toward, McLaughlin reiterated his concern about the General: Dirt Mile being a two-turn test. Published by Blood-Horse, LLC "It's just a short run to the first turn and you can get into traffic," McLaughlin said. "That's my concern, but it's not my call. We'll do whatever the boss (Sheikh Mohammed) wants to do. Frosted posted his fifth move since finishing third in the $600,000 Woodward Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga Race Course Sept. 3. While he would have to run back to his Whitney Stakes (gr. I) and Mohegan Sun Metropolitan Handicap (gr. I) form to challenge champion California Chrome in the Classic, McLaughlin likes the spacing coming into the Breeders' Cup. "He's doing great and with the 60 days (going into the Classic), you can tell his energy level is very high," McLaughlin said. BH s Share this story BLOODHORSE DAILY Download the FREE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 PAGE 5 OF 24 smartphone app DEAL INKED FOR 'CHROME,' gotten to be moreso," Duncan Taylor said. "I told them STANDARDBRED TRIXTON if there is a Standardbred stallion that comes available, By Eric Mitchell we would be interested in being a partner, if it makes economic sense." t @BH_EMitchell Gulotta expressed his interest in buying into artners in 2014 Horse of the Year California Chrome California Chrome and offered to sell a share in Phave diversified their racing interests by offering a Trixton to close the deal. Taylor was intrigued share in the multiple grade I-winning star in exchange because both Trixton's sire, Muscle Hill, and his for the opportunity to buy into 2014 Hambletonian win- grandsire, Muscles Yankee, were also Hambletonian ner Trixton. winners. The Hambletonian is harness racing's most The deal came about when Michael Gulotta, who prestigious race. owns and stands Trixton at his Deo Volente Farms in There was another connection as well. Taylor later New Jersey, expressed interest in buying a share of discovered that his father once owned Trixton's dam, California Chrome to agent Ernie Martinez. Emilie Cas El. About a year and a half ago, Martinez was involved Gulotta bought a California Chrome share owned by in a deal with the Taylor brothers, who own and operate the horse's majority owner and breeder Perry Martin. Taylor Made Farm near Nicholasville, Ky., to purchase The share purchased in Trixton is co-owned by Martin a now 3-year-old pacer named Travel Playlist. The colt and Taylor Made Stallions, and will provide each partner was the first Standardbred the Taylors owned since with one breeding. Though Standardbreds allow their father, who owned harness horses as well as artificial insemination, a stallion's book is limited to a Thoroughbreds, died in 2003. maximum of 140 mares. Taylor Made is family-run business started by Joe This kind of deal, involving two different breeds, Taylor in 1976 and is now run by brothers Duncan, is a first for Taylor Made and Gulotta, who has been Chris, Ben, Frank, and Mark. an owner in harness racing for more than 25 years When Martinez got Gulotta and Duncan Taylor— and is an executive board member of New Jersey's chief executive officer of Taylor Made—together, the Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association.