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BELMONT RATINGS DROP HEADLINE ...p1, ATW NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 2007 COCKNEY REBEL OFFER ON HOLD EINSTEIN TO MISS STEPHEN FOSTER Accordingto trainer Geoff Huffer, owner Phil GISW Einsten (Brz) (Spend a Buck), who was ex- Cunningham has received a bid of ,10 million for Cock- pected to try his luck on the dirt in Saturday=s GI Ste- ney Rebel (Ire) (Val Royal {Fr}), but he will not consider phen Foster H., will be forced to miss the race after any offers for the dual Clas- suffering a minor injury. The sic winner until after the five-year-old worked five- June 19 G1 St James=s Pal- eighths in :59.40 on the ace S. AWe=ve had lots of main track at Churchill June offers, including a firm bid of 3, but exited the move with ,10 million for him, and a bruised splint bone in his that=s not a bad return on right front leg. AHe worked the 30,000 guineas he cost awesome last week, but he as a yearling,@ Huffer com- just wasn=t right afterwards,@ Cockney Rebel www.bbc.co.uk mented. ANobody=s bought said trainer Helen Pitts. him at the moment and Phil AWe=re probably going to Cunningham doesn=t want to do anything until after give him about three weeks Einstein Equi-Photo Royal Ascot. Cockney Rebel is worth that now and if off and then we=ll bring him he wins the St James=s Palace he=ll be worth more--he back and see what happens.@ Pitts speculated that the won=t devalue. He=s a dual Classic winner so he can injury might have occurred when Einstein lost his rider stand for ,15,000 to ,20,000 at stud whatever hap- while trying to avoid a fallen horse in the May 19 pens. His owner is a sporting man and money is not the GII Dixie S. at Pimlico. AI hadn=t done enough with him main factor.@ Looking ahead to the Royal meeting, in the mornings until we worked him for a deep bone Huffer is hopeful his stable star can once again prevail bruise to come out,@ she explained. Einstein capped a in a rematch with G1 2000 Guineas third Dutch Art three-race winning streak last year with a neck score in (GB) (Medicean {GB}). AHe=s improving all the time and the GI Gulfstream Park Breeders= Cup H. on the grass. you haven=t seen the best of him yet,@ he said. AYou He was sidelined after finishing fourth in the May 6 can never be totally confident and he=s got to run his GI Woodford Reserve Turf Classic at Churchill, but race, but Dutch Art has to catch us up. If he gets beat returned to be take the Mar. 10 GII Mervin H. Muniz Jr. then he gets beat, but I find it hard to think he will. He Memorial H. at Fair Grounds in quickens off a good gallop and then quickens again-- his third start off the 8 1/2- very few horses do that.@ Looking ahead, Huffer re- month layoff. The dark bay vealed Cockney Rebel will target the Aug. 12 G1 Prix was seventh, but beaten just Jacques le Marois at Deauville and the Sept. 29 G1 three lengths, in the Woodford Queen Elizabeth II S. back at Ascot. Reserve prior to his troubled appearance in the Dixie. Over- RUNAWAY GROOM DEAD all, he has five wins from 13 Runaway Groom, the champion career starts and earnings of three-year-old in Canada in $519,082. The starting 1982, was euthanized Friday at highweight in the Foster will be Master Command Master Command (A.P. Indy), Vinery. The stallion, who stood Sherackatthetrack at the Lexington Farm from 1991 who is perfect in three starts until he was pensioned in Febru- this term. The five-year-old comes off a 3 3/4-length ary, was 28. Story p2 victory in the Apr. 21 GIII National Jockey Club H. at Tony Leonard Photo Hawthorne. He has been assigned 123 pounds. www.juddmonte.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/12/07 • PAGE 2 of 4 RUNAWAY GROOM EUTHANIZED Runaway P EDIGREE INSIGHTS Groom (Blushing Groom {Fr}--Yonnie Girl, by Call the Witness) was euthanized Friday at Vinery in Lexington BY ANDREW CAULFIELD due to the infirmities of old age. He was 28. PRIX DU JOCKEY-CLUB-G1, i1,500,000, Chantilly, From the first crop of 6-3, 3yo, c/f, 10f 110ydsT, 2:05.90, gd/sf. European champion 1--sLAWMAN (FR), 128, c, 3, by Invincible Spirit (Ire) Blushing Groom (Fr), the 1st Dam: Laramie, by Gulch grey didn=t race at two, 2nd Dam: Light The Lights (Fr), by Shirley Heights (GB) but won third time out 3rd Dam: Lighted Glory, by Nijinsky II at Keeneland as a three- (i75,000 yrl >05 DEAAUG). O-Claudio Marzocco & year-old. Runner-up in Enrico Ciampi; B-Petra Bloodstock Agency Ltd; the Queen=s Plate, the T-Jean-Marie Beguigne; J-Frankie Dettori; i857,100. Ontario-bred annexed Lifetime Record: 5 starts, 3 wins, 2 places, www.championsgallery.com the Prince of Wales S. i921,400. *1/2 to Latice (Ire) (Inchinor {GB}), Hwt before upsetting the apple cart in the GI Travers S., 3yo at 9.5-11f, G1SW-Fr, GISP-US, $797,007; Satri where his victims included subsequent Horse of the (Ire) (Mujadil), GSW & G1SP-Fr, $228,977. Year Conquistador Cielo and GI Preakness winner Click for the Racing Post chart or the free brisnet.com Aloma=s Ruler. He later won the Breeders= S. on the turf catalogue-style pedigree. at Woodbine and was named Canada=s Champion Three-Year-Old Colt. After an anti-climactic four-year- When people talk about Danzig as a sire of sires, old season, Runaway Groom was retired to El Rancho Danehill takes pride of place, but Shadwell's Green Murrieta in California. He moved to Double Diamond Desert usually comes in a very honourable second. Farm the following year, standing in Florida from 1985 Interestingly, there were some distinct similarities be- through 1990, then was relocated to Vinery, where he tween the two, as both reached the first three in the finished out his stud career. He started off quietly, but 2000 Guineas before dropping down the distance scale Runaway Groom established himself as a versatile sire to win two important six-furlong contests, including the of racehorses, getting champion sprinter Cherokee Run Sprint Cup at Haydock. as well as Grade I-winning millionaire routers Down the Speed was clearly their main asset, even though both Aisle and Wekiva Springs. He has also sired GI Cham- colts had elements of stamina in the bottom half of pagne S. winner The Groom Is Red and record-setting their pedigree. Whereas Danehill's first two dams were miler Najran. Pensioned in February, he has sired 72 daughters of His Majesty and Buckpasser, Green stakes winners to date. His progeny have earned more Desert's were by the Derby-winning Sir Ivor and the than $55 million. Kentucky Derby second Never Bend. Despite their simi- lar profiles, Green Desert has proved the stronger influ- ence for speed, with his mature progeny in Britain and MOVING ??? Ireland having an average winning distance of 7.7 fur- For just a day or forever... longs, compared to Danehill's figure of around nine Call us with your new fax number. furlongs. He's best known in the States as the sire of (732) 747-8060 Grade I winners Sheikh Albadou, Heat Haze and White Heart. Pedigree Insights cont. p3 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 6/12/07 • PAGE 3 of 4 Pedigree Insights cont. Three stabs at seven furlongs established that even There was probably no better example of Green that short distance was beyond Invincible Spirit's best, Desert's propensity for speed than his son Invincible and all seven of his victories came over six. Appropri- Spirit. Theoretically, if ever there was going to be a son ately, his best effort came when he sprang a 25-1 of Green Desert suited to a mile and a quarter, it was surprise to emulate his sire Green Desert in the 2002 going to be Invincible Spirit. He comes from a stam- Haydock Sprint Cup. ina-packed female line, starting with his dam Rafha, The signs are that Invincible Spirit is going to prove a who followed up her victory in the Lingfield Oaks Trial worthy alternative to Green Desert, who is now 24. over 1 7/16 miles with a game victory in the French Even though he began his stallion career at a fee no Oaks. The next dam, Eljazzi, was a daughter of the higher than i10,000, he got off to a flying start last versatile Artaius and the long-winded Border Bounty. year and maintained his momentum so well that his fee Border Bounty excelled with the top miler Petingo, for 2007 rose to i35,000. With 35 first-crop juvenile notably producing the champion sire Pitcairn, whose winners to his credit, Invincible Spirit is clearly very son Ela-Mana-Mou made a big impact as a sire on Brit- adept at passing on the speed and precocity associated ain's long-distance races. Pitcairn's sister Dingle Bay with his male line. became the dam of the top-class stayer Assessor, Green Desert has only once sired a Grade I winner whose stamina stretched to 2 1/2 miles.